Episode 158 — Austin Lucas and the Fact Off

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Special musical guest Austin Lucas as well as Jon Snodgrass of Drag the River joins Sean Conroy, John Gemberling, and Gil Ozeri for a Game of Thrones fact off in a musical edition of improv4humans with Matt Besser! Austin & Jon will play some songs that will inspire scenes about a grandfather who shares stories regarding the greatest generation, a wishy washy shoulder angel, and much more! Humans, watch Matt Besser & Rich Fulcher’s Adult Swim infomercial parody “In Search of Miracle Man” November 10th-14th at 4am. Program your DVRs now humans. Be sure to watch many of the stars of improv4humans NBC’s Marry Me & on the new Hulu series Hotwives of Orlando. This is some funny shit and it’s all available now on Hulu Plus. Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual, Matt Besser’s new comedy album at mattbesser.com, and check out Austin Lucas’ music over at www.austinlucasmusic.com!

[saddlebags 581]

gil oZEREEE

[KajusX 1807]

Hi Matt, I have not listened to this episode yet, but I just listened to your Long Shot appearance (great episode!) and I totally heard you on your Parting Shot about musicians not wanting to talk about the meaning of their songs (or their inspirations for the song, etc), as I've noticed with your musical guests that the mileage varies on how much they want to share outside of performing the music itself.

 

I think that's why I LOVED David Bazan's appearance on the show, because not only did the 'giving the finger/atlantis' sketch warrant 10x repeat listens, but it was born out of Bazan being VERY forthcoming about the elements that inspired the song he sang (working a coffee truck; dealing with his dad's boss, etc). Bazan as a whole seemed quite amicable and forthcoming about exposing the nuts and bolts and gears behind his storytelling. And after his song, his story, and i4h's hilarious scene came to a close, I liked Bazan's song even more (and it was already a great song!).

 

Anyway, I just wanted to say I love the musical episodes regardless of how forthcoming the musicians are about their personal journeys in writing their songs, and that those musicians who do hold back the curtain help a great deal in giving you and your talented cohorts topics with which to play. And even when they don't give you much, you guys make it work and knock it out of the park anyway, because fuck yeah you do.

 

yay!

 

EDIT: This episode was amazing.

[KajusX 1807]

JOHN: Oh yeah, that's right, my kid was on that bus!

O: OH! Isn't that charming!

JOHN: That was you?

O: No, it was me!

 

*slow clap*

[Dhezballah 462]

Austin has a fantastic voice.

[Bozos of Basketball 3689]

I really liked this episode. He told me himself.

[robinsbruce 4985]

Damn good episode.

 

Matt, you should totally get Joey Kneiser from Glossary on if you can. I think he would fit in well and his songs are really good.

 

 

[MichaelIanFinnigan 13]

Great episode and Amazing Musical Guest. I'm not usually into folk/punk genre, but Austin you have an incredible voice and love your style! Can't wait to check more of it out! And to Matt, I've always thought you had the best laugh, but you had me dyin from your laugh startin around 37:00.

[JacobCrites 4977]

My new favorite episode. I couldn't handle Conroy's vowel-named family members, and I really related to that game of thrones scene; where people claim to be a fan of some show and then seemingly don't know anything about it.

[Joe Lerini 7329]

That last scene was incredible. I could not stop laughing throughout it. Great improvisers playing terrible improvisers just really hit me hard.

[pdxsean 241]

What a line-up! As always I4H is kicking it out of the park. I guess the Game of Thrones skit would be my "best of" clip from this episode but there was a ton to choose from.

[klemjohansen 748]

Damn Austin made me like a country-ish song. Dammit.

[Shannon 2953]

Ha. Batatoes.

 

Austin's voice is so lovely.

[mikeboxelder 2]

I was at that Asssscat back in September ... I won't name the celebrity, but as they said, she was awful! Her stories were all narcissistic and vain, it was brutal.

 

Oh and before she mentioned "putting the deer out of its misery" with the pocket knife, she had to share that she was wearing her brand new - uber-expensive - Burberry coat which then sadly got ruined from the blood of killing the deer ...

 

Anyway, it was great to hear that the guys on stage felt the same way the audience did about her.

[Zsinjeh 1677]

I'd just like to chime in real quick and say that the comment they read was mine from the Frozen Wogurt episode and thread with the listener story.

 

I wasn't so much implying that he should be arrested for that incident or anything, but more that I hope he realizes (or told that) it's not a necessarily healthy line of thinking to seriously murder someone that slightly annoys you. The "let people know" line was more to send the storyteller a line, or his parents or SO.

Every time there's a school shooting there's a large debate on the appalling state of mental health care in the US and wishing you could have known the signs before that he was depressed or not well. So here comes a guy and calls in to a show and talks about his experience with wanting to murder someone and actually making and bringing the poison to school with him and the notion of talking to him is laughed away.

 

Of course I realize it's me being extremely paranoid and overreacting, and the sketch it turned into was hilarious. Every one of us have been extremely mad at someone at some point, especially as kids. It's just the fact that he actually made a weapon that kept nagging me. You can still send an e-mail asking if he's okay today without it having to become a permanent marker on his record/resume or some sort of arrest for intent-of-crime from years ago.

 

Either way, it was a great episode and sketch. Love the show!

[Kickpuncher 5012]

"Why is everything about dogs with you?" was one of the funniest quick reaction lines I've ever heard in improv.

[saddlebags 581]

"Why is everything about dogs with you?" was one of the funniest quick reaction lines I've ever heard in improv.

 

Only gim-ber-LICKingggg could draw that out of someone naturally. That boy and his dogs.

[saddlebags 581]

Hey Matt--

 

I've spent my whole life hating country music. Well, I guess mainstream country music. The cringe-worthy over the top imagery of military, driving trucks, guns, homophobia, etc is more than I can stand. It's like watching fox news but worse.

 

But your country (alt-country I think you called it???) artists have given me hope for country music. The punk ethos and lyrics but with a telecaster twang--I can dig that.

[Joe Lerini 7329]

"Oh no. Dad's dead."

 

"Let's buttfuck him to life."

[chesterdouglas 291]

Am I the only one who was legitimately impressed with the level of detailed knowledge of Game of Thrones that John Gemberling displayed here?

[BrettMorris 1862]

Am I the only one who was legitimately impressed with the level of detailed knowledge of Game of Thrones that John Gemberling displayed here?

it goes insanely deep. i tried to stump him on lord of the rings stuff once and he knew every piece of expanded universe lore.

[DougKoziol 48]

This is in contention for my favorite episode of the year. I found myself trying to think of dog puns Gemberling could've used during that scene ("doggy-paddle" during the ship sinking).

 

And once again, Matty B introduced me to a new musical obsession. Though I'll warn anyone who's going to look up Austin Lucas on Tumblr, he shares a name with a gay porn star, as I found out the hard way (pun intended).

[JacobCrites 4977]

I've listened to this episode three times already. Everyone's glee at making those awful gagging noises at the end, Gemberling's increasing fury at Ozeri's lack of pop culture knowledge ("WHAT! It's not Star Wars!") just kill me every time.

[saddlebags 581]

Am I the only one who was legitimately impressed with the level of detailed knowledge of Game of Thrones that John Gemberling displayed here?

 

 

I think gemberling actually started to get mad at gil at one point.

[saddlebags 581]

Favorite thing about a gil ozeri appearance: his little kid voice. Kills me. Love how it always gets Besser, too.