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    Good god, if Harris Wittels' or Paul Rust's dog died and he took 2 minutes to be sad about it since it came up organically, this thread would be 6 pages of people wishing him well and being sad about the dog dying...

     

    Unbelievable how much the tone of the comments shifts with different guests

     

    I agree with your sentiment, but I wonder if maybe what made it weird is Tom Green is the kind of guy who's whole routine was being intentionally off putting and playing shit really straight so it was hard to tell if he was being genuine or if this was some kind of weird bit. I dunno, he also has a weird way of speaking that makes it hard to tell if he's fucking with you, like how he kept emphasizing that they were siberian huskys over and over. maybe his years of gotcha comedy have made me suspicious of his true intentions

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    I have yet to listen to this podcast, but I have read both 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' and they are two of the worst books I've ever read. I love Jane Austen, Zombies, Lincoln, AND Vampires, and Seth Grahame-Smith managed to make all of those things incredibly boring. I guess good on him for managing to sell garbage to millions of people, but still, ugh.

     

    I haven't read the books but when he said there was a movie called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I thought they should just book it for HDTGM right then and there. What are the chances that's not going to be terrible?

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    I thought Hansen had been on here before just by how at ease he seemed with everything. But nope, a newbie... and an impressive one at that. I always thought his character was understated on Party Down, so I look forward to checking out Resident Advisors.

     

    yeah he was great! I hope he comes back. I met him years ago I was a PA on this web series thing he acted in, super nice guy in real life, the opposite of a lot of the douchey characters he plays. When you're basically the least important person on set you learn really quickly who the assholes are, he was a cool dude.

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    I like PFT's way of gently, comedically, improvisationally steering the scenes when somebody else might have not picked up on where they were heading, e.g. "I don't know how much longer you're going to be helping her, but I've got to sell my car pretty quickly so that I can pay for my baby's delivery."

     

    sometimes though I think Paul's stand up side fights his improv side and he can be a little scene hoggy, like there was a moment where I believe it was his announcer character asked his police officer character a question and I was like "come on Paul, there's 4 people in this thing, I agree your Irish child cop is very funny but you can't do that". That being said, he's hilarious, It could be a lot worse, and it is his show so, minor issue.

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    I like this episode a lot and I fully expect the usual avalanche of shit whenever anyone expresses a mildly critical opinion, but Alicia Witt's accent is really off putting. I've really loved her work on Justified and Friday Night Lights, but that phony Hollywood diction is sort of the worst. Is it worse than Natasha Lyonne's New Yawwwwwwwk accent? YYYYIIIIIIIT'S close.

     

    well, if that was a "mildly critical opinion" that'd be one thing but all you're expressing is a pointless personal insult of a guest. That's like saying "I love Paul F Tompkins but that gap in his teeth is really ugly, but is it as bad as that HUUUUUUGE gap in Paul Sheer??"

     

    you're being an asshole and trying to hide behind "that's just my opinion man" bullshit, so yeah, I hope you get an avalanche of shit.

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    I vividly remember listening to Farts & Pro 1 on my way to work in the wee hours of the morning years ago. I ride the bus and very rarely give up anything even near a giggle no matter how funny I find it on the bus in the morning, but I'll be damned if it didn't make me laugh quite out loud. I don't have much more to say about it than that except that I will remember that feeling for a long time and Harris was a huge part of it, and his comedic sensibility struck deep with me. I always loved to hear him on anything, or to see him on TV, and he was just...a normal guy. I feel like I lost a friend and it's terrible, I can't imagine how his friends feel right now. I literally just shed a single tear as I wrote this. God dammit.

     

    I have a very fond memory of sitting on the toilet at work listening to F&P 3 and trying harder than anything to hold back my laughter so no one thought I was some maniac who was seemingly in hysterics over his own bowel movements. I eventually just gave in when when Harris said "how's window?" and just sat laughing uncontrollably with my pants around my ankles while the automatic flush sensor went off over and over.

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    Fuck, I don't know whether to feel sorry for you for dreading it all this time or to feel jealous that today might not have felt like a total stomach punch, which is how I felt after (probably naively) thinking he would be OK after that. Addiction, ugh.

     

    As others have said, most of all I feel sick for all of his friends. And I kind of hate to even reduce it to this, but since this is the Earwolf forum, I'll just say that the next couple weeks of podcasts are gonna be real weird and sad.

     

    feel sorry for me i guess. i wish i wasn't a pessimist about this stuff. I've just had a long dark history of drugs and addiction i nmy life and have seen this happen with way to many people, too many of which were good friends. I was pulling for Harris, I really was, and this was and is a gut punch but I know all to well the realities of an addiction like his and how often it can end this way, even when people are making an honest attempt at recovery and trying as hard as they can. that's why I was dreading this, not because I didn't believe he could but because I've learned the hard way just how hard it can be. I don't blame him and I don't think he's weak

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