JulyDiaz 2797 Posted June 8, 2015 Paul F. Tompkins welcomes you and yours, including families, back to Spontaneanation! This week Paul’s special guest is singer-songwriter Aimee Mann! They chat about the thing Aimee desires that she is most ashamed of desiring, accepting that other people have opinions of their own, and Aimee’s response to a therapist telling her to talk to her younger self. Paul is then joined by his pals from his show No, You Shut Up!, improvisers Ted Michaels, Michael Oosterom, and Colleen Smith, to improvise a story set at the Underwear Department at Macy’s. As always, the glorious Eban Schletter scores it all on piano! Share this post Link to post
FaceLikeThunder 2114 Posted June 8, 2015 Lol gather 'round the laptop! 2 Share this post Link to post
FaceLikeThunder 2114 Posted June 8, 2015 Goshdarnit Paul you're really letting us canucks have it! Canadian baby name book: Ian of course. Is that a pun that Ian is at the end of Canadian or is that actually a thing! Share this post Link to post
FaceLikeThunder 2114 Posted June 8, 2015 How dare you paint me into a stereotype! Share this post Link to post
souprman 10477 Posted June 8, 2015 haven't listened yet, but more Colleen Smith! oh it's a good day. 3 Share this post Link to post
souprman 10477 Posted June 8, 2015 Thank god it's Monday. holy shit Luke, your gonna hit a cool G this week. i'll help by starting a stupid argument with you. okay, here goes. PFT? more like PTSD! hmmm, I'll have to work on it. 1 Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 8, 2015 holy shit Luke, your gonna hit a cool G this week. i'll help by starting a stupid argument with you. okay, here goes. PFT? more like PTSD! hmmm, I'll have to work on it. More like PTSF:PTSD:SUV 6 Share this post Link to post
Shannon 2953 Posted June 8, 2015 Dolores' ad was TOO SAD. I felt legitimately upset for her. I hope Mitch gets out of that coma soon p.s. after re-listening to all the eps this weekend I want someone who makes supercuts to make a supercut of all the things Paul says to almost every guest like... - You are not on trial here - SHUT UP FOR A SECOND - Ignorance of the law... There are more that my brain is forgetting, but I know I can't be the only one who loves a running gag like this 9 Share this post Link to post
souprman 10477 Posted June 8, 2015 More like PTSF:PTSD:SUV I generally avoid saying this, but LOL. Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 8, 2015 I generally avoid saying this, but LOL. Your pointing out how close to 1K I am literally made me say, "I have wasted a great deal of my life." 1 Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 8, 2015 Dolores' ad was TOO SAD. I felt legitimately upset for her. I hope Mitch gets out of that coma soon I can't believe this, but I too have found myself emotionally connected. When it wasn't resolved by the end I actually was upset. DAMN YOU PFT!!! (also, maybe Mad-Men of the world, pay attention to how to get us to pay attention to advertising) 1 Share this post Link to post
souprman 10477 Posted June 8, 2015 Your pointing out how close to 1K I am literally made me say, "I have wasted a great deal of my life." I do apologize. No judgement here, clearly. 1 Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 8, 2015 I do apologize. No judgement here, clearly. BUT NOW THAT I SEE HOW CLOSE I AM! FUCK IT! CLOUD 9!!! 1 Share this post Link to post
denimgremlin 1179 Posted June 8, 2015 Dolores' ad was TOO SAD. I felt legitimately upset for her. I hope Mitch gets out of that coma soon p.s. after re-listening to all the eps this weekend I want someone who makes supercuts to make a supercut of all the things Paul says to almost every guest like... - You are not on trial here - SHUT UP FOR A SECOND - Ignorance of the law... There are more that my brain is forgetting, but I know I can't be the only one who loves a running gag like this I don't know if he's said it on Spontaneanation yet but I've always loved "You're being willfully obtuse." 4 Share this post Link to post
denimgremlin 1179 Posted June 8, 2015 haven't listened yet, but more Colleen Smith! oh it's a good day. she's fantastic, she's the best at coming up with weird specific things that are so funny like the Buzzfeed list vs. video thing. 2 Share this post Link to post
Kickpuncher 5012 Posted June 8, 2015 Your pointing out how close to 1K I am literally made me say, "I have wasted a great deal of my life." Oh, hi. - SHUT UP FOR A SECOND This is my favorite. Colleen was especially funny here. She is in the small club of people who are genuinely funny and also have a voice that just makes me want to laugh anyway. 3 Share this post Link to post
Cameron H. 23786 Posted June 9, 2015 I'm sawry Paul, but I don't know what you're talking aboot... I'm pretty sure you're just Americanizing pinyada, eh. I heard you saying the Canadian pronunciation was wrong and I was like, "Pardon?" EDITED TO ADD: My apologies for my temper, eh. I didn't mean to jump down your throat. It was unbecoming... 2 Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 9, 2015 Oh, hi. This is my favorite. Colleen was especially funny here. She is in the small club of people who are genuinely funny and also have a voice that just makes me want to laugh anyway. You are the 2K1 of our hearts. Share this post Link to post
KajusX 1807 Posted June 9, 2015 btw, guys, I attended Paul's comedy special recording this past Saturday for Crying and Driving. Got to sit in the front row! Paul came out and warmed up the audience before the special, and I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of crowd work/ interaction and whatnot. But just in case he asked if we liked any of his characters, I swear I locked and loaded 'Mitch and Dolores' and repeated it to myself a number of times because I figured it'd be a little bit of a deep cut, it'd be two characters for the price of one, and they're relatively new to Paul's character stable, keeping it fresh. Sadly, no character questions were asked, although PFT being PFT, there are some great voices sprinkled into all of his bits. 4 Share this post Link to post
Kickpuncher 5012 Posted June 9, 2015 Got to sit in the front row! Glad to hear it wasn't a waste of time! 3 Share this post Link to post
JacobCrites 4977 Posted June 9, 2015 PFT always manages to tap into a pet peeve that we share. Blatantly mispronouncing Spanish words/names just kills me. HOW DO SOCCER COMMENTATORS CONSISTENTLY MISPRONOUNCE MIGUEL AND VELASQUEZ? THEY'RE BOTH LIKE TOP 5 MOST COMMON SOCCER PLAYER NAMES! Loved hearing the No You Shut Up crew; the NYC stuff was particularly great, culminating with swearing to fuhgeddaboutit on the Bible. I do think the sound-effects-for-scene-transitions is proving to be less of a fun-hindrance and more of a hindrance-hindrance to the improvisers. There's always at least two moments in every podcast where someone's initiation gets butchered/denied because they hit flashforward when they meant to flashback, and the sounds are so similar that you can tell people often have a tough time remembering when the scene is supposed to take place. That can be fun if it's surprising or AHEM spontaneous, but it's more of a bummer if it happens every single time. I wonder if PFT would consider trying an ep where they do the ASSSCAT/Improv4Humans model of just saying "cut-to" or simply jumping to a new scene (which one of the improvisers did in this episode out of instinct). I know on paper it would seemingly take away from the Old-Timey Radio Show vibe the show has, but I think it would be an interesting experiment. 1 Share this post Link to post
Lukas Holmes 2287 Posted June 9, 2015 Dolores' ad was TOO SAD. I felt legitimately upset for her. I hope Mitch gets out of that coma soon p.s. after re-listening to all the eps this weekend I want someone who makes supercuts to make a supercut of all the things Paul says to almost every guest like... - You are not on trial here - SHUT UP FOR A SECOND - Ignorance of the law... There are more that my brain is forgetting, but I know I can't be the only one who loves a running gag like this There was an episode of, I want to say CBB, a couple of years back where it was a huge group and people started talking over each other and you can hear PFT say, sort of off-mic, "Let's all talk at once!" and for some reason that made me laugh so hard. 3 Share this post Link to post
souprman 10477 Posted June 9, 2015 PFT always manages to tap into a pet peeve that we share. Blatantly mispronouncing Spanish words/names just kills me. HOW DO SOCCER COMMENTATORS CONSISTENTLY MISPRONOUNCE MIGUEL AND VELASQUEZ? THEY'RE BOTH LIKE TOP 5 MOST COMMON SOCCER PLAYER NAMES! Loved hearing the No You Shut Up crew; the NYC stuff was particularly great, culminating with swearing to fuhgeddaboutit on the Bible. I do think the sound-effects-for-scene-transitions is proving to be less of a fun-hindrance and more of a hindrance-hindrance to the improvisers. There's always at least two moments in every podcast where someone's initiation gets butchered/denied because they hit flashforward when they meant to flashback, and the sounds are so similar that you can tell people often have a tough time remembering when the scene is supposed to take place. That can be fun if it's surprising or AHEM spontaneous, but it's more of a bummer if it happens every single time. I wonder if PFT would consider trying an ep where they do the ASSSCAT/Improv4Humans model of just saying "cut-to" or simply jumping to a new scene (which one of the improvisers did in this episode out of instinct). I know on paper it would seemingly take away from the Old-Timey Radio Show vibe the show has, but I think it would be an interesting experiment. I've had these thoughts as well. But I kinda want to see how they're doing with it around ep #75. I feel like this ep is good example of the method of transition train-wrecking things a bit, but then them finding a clever way out and back to tying it together. But I totally get what you're saying and would second the motion for them to try alternatives just to see what happens. Share this post Link to post
