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The Sound of Young America is A Radio Show About Things That Are Awesome. I’ve been listening to their podcast for a while and wanted to make sure I mentioned it here..
Recent guests include Merrill Markoe, Patton Oswalt, Dave Attell, Michael Showalter, Matt Walsh, Brian Posehn, Jim Gaffigan, Jonathan Katz, Chris Elliott.. and many more..
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Here’s a new podcast from a couple of very funny Nashville-based comics:
Ultimate Power is probably the sweetest podcast ever. It’s taped in front of a live studio audience in Nashville, Tennessee. Thanks for supporting local comedy!
– Jesse Case and Brad Edwards
DailyComedy.com is a new stand-up comedy website that just officially launched Monday. It features 30-90 second videos and very short, topical blog entries from various professional comics.
If you didn’t watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Comedy Central and the SciFi Network, it was a very funny series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch horribly bad movies. The gimmick of the show was that the man and his robots made a running commentary on the film, making fun of everything happening on screen, ripping the movies’ flaws apart and adding smart-assed dialogue to the film. They’d even rip on the credit roll & make that funnier than most things you’ve ever seen on tv. Hodgson created the series and originally played the stranded smart-ass on screen, but when he decided to leave the show he was replaced by head writer Michael J. Nelson who did a fantastic job for the rest of the shows run. Some of the episodes are available on dvd and as pirated video online.. so if you like The Funny Stuff, get on that.
I tell you all of that because Michael J. Nelson has a brilliant new project called RiffTrax. It’s basically Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary tracks for big famous Hollywood movies like Titanic or The Matrix without the movie.
Thanks to Corey Reppond for pointing this out: LaffLink.com has a lot of video clips of big name comics from their early days of stand-up. Hours of fun! Check out LaffLink.
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