MotorboatJones

I'd like to hear a Ben Schwartz-Marisa Wompler episode.

Yeah, that was odd. The best parts of the appearance were the Man in the Moon stories, which were clearly told from the point of view Bob Zmuda and not some hacky comic/lounge singer. Would anyone believe that Tony Clifton would have the kind of stroke to offer Jim Carrey the lead in the movie?

I understand and appreciate the role that the Tony Clifton character played in Andy Kaufman's comedy, but I never found Clifton's act itself to be very entertaining or funny. To be honest, I never thought you were supposed to find him entertaining or funny -- that was part of the bit. Clifton's appearance on CBB didn't really change my mind. I haven't seen Clifton's current stage show, so I don't want to be too quick to judge, but it always seemed to me that a big part of the gimmick was the pushing of audience buttons. Clifton's appearance on CBB seemed to be so divorced from that button pushing that I questioned why Zmuda continues to trot out the character, at least in the context of CBB, so many years after Kaufman's death.

Wait... You can talk during the What Am I Thinking theme song? WTF?

Tig's told the story a number of times, so she chose not to go into it in depth on this podcast. So for anyone who doesn't know the significance of having Taylor Dane on the show, I recommend listening to this first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st4opohRZ_A

Thanks to this show, I can't get Jepsen out of my head. It's only the "...and all the other boys" part though.

It's a mini-episode. Normally those are really short and just announce the next movie and provide a little background. If you're bothered by that, just skip it and wait until next week for the Godzilla episode. Personally, I like the extra content in the mini-episode. It was a really solid interview.

Ha! I was kidding, but you're right -- they do actually bill her as Amber Lamps in the movie.

Who plays Amber Lamps in Bad Ass?

Great interview.

Very funny ep, but also a bit of a train wreck. If Samberg wasn't promoting a movie, I wonder if Scott would have sat on the episode for a while and recorded an intro explaining what went wrong like he did for the Ed Helms and Will Forte episodes. BTW, it you listen back, there's a point where Andy starts making fun of how Adam acted during the press junket for Happy Endings while Adam is still in character. This seems to be the point when Adam starts to abandon the character.

Wow. That's terrible. The element of suspense feels like it has been completely removed and the bits intended to be comedic are ham-fisted and out of place. Also, are we expected to believe that the mother checking out the room with her son didn't hear any of the chaos and destruction outside until the ship was right outside her window?

Only Soft Talkerman would revive the old Dickie Goodman bit.

I just saw posters for the Comedy Bang Bang TV Show in Manhattan on the corner or Church Street and Chambers Street. Pics are attached. Well done!

I greatly enjoyed this episode. However, the Saul Goodman segment was kind of odd. I love Bob Odenkirk and I love Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad, but it didn't sound like B.O. doing S.G. on this episode. He wasn't quite animated enough or something. It sounded more like a Robert Evans impression. Still a great episode. It just threw me off a bit.

Only Gillian can make social anxiety adorable.

So is it official? Do we have to wait an extra week?

This movie begs to be a HDTGM pick. It's inexplicable. It's as if someone thought "We have the music of the Beatles and we have the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. That's all we need for a hit movie." Here are some high(low)lights: The movie has no spoken dialogue. In fact, the only person who talks in the movie is George Burns who provides some narration. The movie has basically no plot. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees play a band that makes it big in Pepperland. Mean Mr. Mustard steals some kind of magical instruments from Pepperland and dsitributes them to different villains. The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton have to retrieve them. They do. When they are retrieving the last instrument, well, I won't spoil it. Nah, I guess I will... When they are retrieving the last instrument, Peter Frampton's girlfriend, Strawberry Fields, gets knocked down during a struggle and falls to her death. Everybody mourns. Then Billy Preston (because they couldn't get a real Beatle) shows up, sings "Get Back" and brings her back to life. For some reason, the producers felt they needed to shoehorn every song from the Beatles's Sgt Pepper album into the storyline. The problem? The songs of Sgt. Pepper have no connecting story. It's pretty hamfisted. Also, some of the performances are truly nutty. For instance, Steve Martin plays one of the "villains" in possession of Pepperland's instruments. He plays some kind of plastic surgeon who taps people on the head with a littel hammer and instantly transforms them. He performs Maxwell's Silver Hammer, which, other than the chorus seems to have nothing to do with his scene. He also performs it in full 70s "Wild and Crazy Guy" mode with really strange phrasing and spastic movement. It's really, really bad, but watchably bad.