Professor Blastoff, a show in which three comedians discuss science, philosphy, and metaphysics, celebrated a podcasting milestone last week: a 100th episode. For the special installment, hosts Tig Notaro, Kyle Dunnigan, and David Huntsberger, did their first ever live video episode, which you can watch in its entirety above. Now, you finally know what Professor Blastoff looks like.
UCB Theatre founders Matt Besser and Ian Roberts did a special episode of Besser's Earwolf podcast improv4humans today, in which they walk listeners through the theater's philosophy and economics. In response to the recent internet hubbub over the theater's practice of not paying stand-ups, Besser and Roberts use the episode as a forum to explain that they use all the money generated by the theater's popular weekend shows to keep the place running during its less-popular free or cheap weekday shows. Check it out here.
There's a certain level of celebrity at which people don't do the podcast circuit – either because they're too busy or too famous – but Jeff Garlin's new show looks to be changing that, with a roster of guests made up almost entirely of the kinds of big names you rarely see on other podcasts. Debuting today on the Earwolf network, By the Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin is a conversation show recorded in front of a live audience at the Largo Theater in Los Angeles. For a little over a year now, Garlin has been doing these live shows with a different huge guest as his [...]
The Earwolf podcast network is debuting two new shows this week, one from Mr. Show alum Brian Posehn and one from Funny or Die that stars the comedy website's bosses Adam McKay and Owen Burke. Posehn, who wrote for Mr. Show alongside Earwolf founder Scott Aukerman, hosts Nerd Poker, a podcast that brings you along for a weekly Dungeons & Dragons game between Posehn and his friends. McKay and Burke's show, Owen & TJ Read the News, is a monthly podcast in which McKay plays an aspiring rapper/cell phone case salesman named TJ who reports the latest news alongside Owen Burke (playing himself). It's the first new podcast to result from [...]
There are plenty o' podcasts but that doesn't mean there's too many. No really, I'm being serious. Sure there are gaggles of great giggle-inducing shows of comedians chillaxin' but there are certain topics and niches unaddressed. Well, the Earwolf podcast network is about to address many o' those niches with a whole mess of new and newish shows.
Specifically, they are adding three music-related shows, including Shortwave, a sort of WTF for musicians hosted by Grant-Lee Phillips. "Getting into music is a natural extension for us," explained Scott Aukerman. "I have bands on my show all the time, and we all know that musicians and comedians are [...]
Over the past two years, Who Charted? has evolved into not only one of the most fun and entertaining shows on the Earwolf Network but one of the most fun and entertaining shows in the entire world of podcasting. The key to the show's success is the fast and funny chemistry between co-hosts Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack and the way they smoothly integrate their guests into their show's weird world. In addition to his Earwolf show, Howard Kremer has his hand in a wide variety of projects, including writing for TV, doing stand-up, recording special one-off podcasts like Earwolf's Analyze Fish, and rapping. Kremer recently released [...]
Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich's comedy company Earwolf has partnered with the Video Podcast Network to start releasing live video episodes of its most popular shows. Here's Comedy Bang Bang's first video podcast, which was recorded at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend, with guests Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Lake Bell, and Paul Scheer (as sleazebag Hollywood promoter Scott Jeffries). A live Earwolf show (either Who Charted?, How Did This Get Made?, or Comedy Bang Bang) will stream every Thursday at 6PM PST on Earwolf's YouTube channel. Watching podcasts is more exciting than watching radio shows but less exciting than watching TV shows.
The podcast network Earwolf just announced today they're debuting a new show from Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin. Called By the Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin, the biweekly podcast is a series of recordings of onstage longform conversations Jeff Garlin has been holding at the Largo Theater in Los Angeles for about a year now. The first episode drops this Thursday with Larry David as Garlin's guest. The guests on the next two episodes are Lena Dunham and Jeff Tweedy, with conversations between Garlin and Conan O'Brien, J.J. Abrams, Michael Moore, Judd Apatow, Henry Rollins, Sarah Silverman, Mitch Hurwitz, Garry Shandling, and Zach Galifianakis already in the bank and [...]
After ten years, Scott Aukerman announced via Twitter he's ending his influential Los Angeles standup show Comedy Bang! Bang! next month. Aukerman started the standup showcase under the name Comedy Death-Ray at M Bar in Hollywood in 2002 before moving it to the then-new Los Angeles branch of the UCB Theatre in 2005. The Tuesday night show has been a linchpin of the local standup scene since it began and helped define "alternative comedy" in an era in which that term actually meant something, giving an early boost to a whole generation of now-famous standups. The live show spawned a popular podcast and IFC TV series of the name [...]
If you like satellite radio, cheeky Twitter/Tumblr antics, and watching people yell at tweens, then you probably already know who Jake Fogelnest is. If you don’t like any of those things, but you do like podcasts, then you’re gonna wanna figure out who he is real fast because Jake Fogelnest has a brand new podcast debuting this week on the Earwolf network that’s ready to finally be the one thing your picky self actually likes.
I’m not used to describing new podcasts because most podcasts are generally pretty similar to each other (insert host’s name here chats with his/her friends about whatever's on their minds), but comedian/DJ/social media luminary [...]
Comedy Bang Bang experienced a podcasting milestone this week that few other shows have achieved: a 200th episode. Here's full video of the 200th show, released via Earwolf and the Video Podcast Network. Scott Aukerman's guests are Jason Mantzoukas and Andy Daly, who are probably the best guest duo in Comedy Bang Bang history. Here's to 200 more episodes!
Here's a delightful video from Comedy Bang Bang host and Earwolf Podcast Network boss Scott Aukerman, announcing his participation in Adam Carolla's Video Podcast Network (or VPN), which just launched this week and will present fully-produced visual versions of popular podcasts. Earwolf shows like Comedy Bang Bang, Paul Scheer's How Did This Get Made?, and Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack's Who Charted? will be recording live visual episodes for VPN. VPN launches this Friday at the Sundance Film Festival with a live Comedy Bang Bang with guest Paul Scheer set for 5PM PST/8PM EST. Hit the jump for the full schedule of shows (including You Made It Weird and Call Chelsea [...]
Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich's podcast network Earwolf is branching out into TV. Ullrich revealed today in a piece he wrote on the future of podcasting for All Things D that Earwolf, which produces popular shows like Comedy Bang Bang, How Did This Get Made?, and Sklarbro Country, has started a TV production and development company. Not only that, but Earwolf has sold its first script (Ullrich doesn't mention what the project is or to whom it was sold) and is signing a first-look deal with an unspecified cable network. This is huge news for the podcasting industry, as Earwolf is the first podcast network to start up a [...]
Podcasting network Earwolf just launched a new comedy show today, called The Reality Show Show. The program is hosted by Sean Clements, an L.A.-based improviser and Workaholics writer, and Hayes Davenport, a Jeopardy! loser who wrote with Clements on Fox's Allen Gregory, and sees the duo discussing the week in reality TV in each installment. The first episode involves the pair chatting about The X-Factor, Shark Tank, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge, with a Survivor-centric comedy sketch and a short appearance from guest DC Pierson also mixed in. It's been a couple months since Earwolf launched a new comedy show, and The Reality Show Show is a [...]
