You guys got me to listen to that podcast for the first time (Doug Loves Movies), just so that I could listen to Elizabeth Shue’s laugh. Good funny podcast. It makes me sad that Elizabeth Shue is in Pirhana 3D though, that was news to me. Made for a very funny podcast though, so it’s okay. At least the downward trajectory of her career led to our amusement. (And hers! What a great laugh).
I’ll also pimp You Look Nice Today.
They aren’t releasing new episodes as often now, but the old ones are so good you’ll be set for awhile catching up.
When you google “I love movies” you get way more porn than you’d expect from what is a fairly innocuous phrase.
Okay, I need to check out I Love Movies. When I heard Doug Benson, I was thinking Doug Stanhope, the unfunny dirtbag who was on The Man Show briefly.
So I’m taking it that the podcast everyone is recommending is actually called “Doug Loves Movies?”
Because there is no podcast called “I Love Movies.”
THat is correct. It used to be known as I Love Movies, but they renamed it for the current season.
Gotcha. Thanks.
I refuse to look at it this way. Well…that’s not the right way to put it. I’d never think of putting it this way. Far from being a harbinger that her career is on a downward trajectory, I tend to look at her doing something like Piranha 3D as a sign that it’s back on the way up. This stupid film, which I really liked, shows her being a badass mom and an actress who has still got it but doesn’t take herself too seriously. I loved that.
This coupled with the fact that she did one of my favorite performances of the year in another film, Don McKay, leads me to assume she’s on the way back. And I won’t have you telling me any different.
So there!
-xtien
WTF with Marc Maron (NSFW listening) isn’t funny per se, but it is a fascinating look at the world of comedy.
Doug Stanhope is funny. You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. The show was not funny, but the gentleman in question in fact is.
Have you seen Hamlet 2? The movie’s just godawful, but Elisabeth Shue playing herself is the absolute highlight. Well, Amy Poehler’s amusing too, but mostly it’s Elisabeth Shue.
People who don’t like DS9 are stupid asshole motherfuckers. STUPID! ASSHOLE! MOOOOOTHEEEERFUUUUUCKEEEERRRSS!!!
Paul F. Thompkins also has his own podcast now, the Pod F. Tompkast, for people who are fans of him on Comedy Death Ray.
I have to thank whoever originally mentioned CDR, because that’s my favorite podcast ever. What’s even better is I heard characters like Huell Howser and Cake Boss on CDR before I even knew they were real people, which lead me to this video of Huell Howser at the US-Mexico border http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBb2p8GHlnE
The Sklar brothers have a podcast - “Sklarboro Country”
Hilarious!
They talk a lot of sports :)
I think that the John Lithgow episode of I Love Movies could be my new favorite.
Holy freaking cow, no kidding. I was grinning like an idiot through most of it (when I wasn’t flat out laughing). I guess I’d been secretly nervous that Lithgow would be lost on the thing, and he totally pwned.
It just made me so happy.
-xtien
From the big applause for Lithgow (I like to imagine he ran a lap around the room) to “this looks like a job for Spy Pope!” to “It seems like one Nathan Lithgow is a good judge of character, mister.” to Doug’s occasional Chris Farley moments of “oh wow remember in that one movie when you did that one thing it was cool!” it was great from start to finish. Best ever.
Natasha Leggario gets worst episode ever. Hooray!
Fascinating podcast, I just started listening and am having a good time going through the backlog.
Your right, they aren’t exactly “funny” (El Chupacabra episodes excepted) but they are interesting.
The latest Smodcast could be the most I’ve laughed at a podcast, maybe the most I’ve laughed at anything, in a good while. As much as Kevin can wear me out with his constant ‘everything immediately needs to be about sex’, he was right on in his imitation of Jim Dale’s Hermione voice. That leading into Kevin and Scott riffing on what recording sessions with Jim Dale were like (“I don’t even think that is Jim Dale.” “Jim 'oo?”) was sublime. And Kevin going off on a complete tangent to a bizarre anti-Susan from Narnia rant was great.
So good.
Sadly, the nerd in me bristled every time they got a Potter fact wrong. Also, Scott should listen to the British audiobooks. Jim Dale is good, but Stephen Fry is phenomenal. And he’ll get to hear the British version, so lines like Fred and George working on ways to ‘keep their peckers up’ don’t get Americanized.
Boing Boing liked Judge John Hodgman. I subscribed but haven’t gotten around to listening to it yet.