-Comedy Central 
The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We're here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. Also, we'll keep you posted on the offerings from 
ROGER: Pop culture curator Jake Fogelnest changed his podcast up a bit last week when the legendary comedy duo Cheech and Chong found their way into the studio. In deference to their stature, the entire episode featured (audio of the) video clips either from their impressive oeuvre, or from bits inspired by them. The episode works as a fun auditory primer on the world's most famous stoner comedians, and anytime Fogelnest sounds genuinely surprised at a factoid, it feels a lot more educational than any hour of Radiolab could be. Over the course of the episode, it turns out that Cheech's claim that both himself and Chong belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a very valid one, and throughout their careers, they've collaborated with or at the very least received flattering and retrospectively funny fan mail from various walks of celebrity. The fact that Chong in particular is a deft raconteur is frosting on the pot brownie. 
This week humorist David Sedaris has a new book out called 
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Owning a 1980s cult classic comedy sci-fi action movie on DVD can be fun, but owning a copy of that same movie on a Criterion Collection DVD can be even more fun, especially if your idea of fun is having pretty DVD cases lined up on your shelf. This week the Criterion Collection adds the 1984 Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez-starring Repo Man to its catalog, and the sweet new restored version of the movie available on 
The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We're here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. Also, we'll keep you posted on the offerings from 
ROGER: Jon Daly and friends ventured off the deep end and decided to record themselves for a little over an hour pretending to be the writing staff of the Johnny Bananas animated series, a show existing in the Entourage universe starring Andrew Dice Clay and Johnny Drama. Entourage is of course the HBO series enjoyed ironically by virtually everyone you know that celebrated the complexities of being rich and attractive while championing the power of aggressive broness, so Daly and Adam Pally – two comedians deft at bro culture mimicry (not an insult!) – were perfectly cast here. It would have been enough for this Rafflecast episode to simply run with the joke of writers possessing misplaced professional jealousy and unjustifiably inflated egos when their occupation consisted of coming up with banana, monkey, and cock ring puns, but it reached another level of hilarity with the fleshing out of the characters in the room throughout the episode, particularly Gil Ozeri's character's shameless sycophantic ladder-climbing reaching more and more shameful rungs, and the constant harassment thrown at him for getting his start in the business as the janitor on Big Bang Theory and being Jim Parsons' personal whipping boy. 
There’s guides to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and then there’s more specific and complete guides to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This new two-volume collection, titled Monty Python's Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References from Two Sheds Jackson to Zambesi probably falls under the latter category, even if it's only because that name makes the collection sound very important. The 
One new release in books this week is 
A lot of people ask stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman about when she’s going to have a baby, even though she doesn’t have any interest in doing so. In order to better explain herself, she's written a book about it. In her new book 
-Improvisational force of nature Jonathan Winters passed away at 87, and we
ROGER: It doesn't really seem fair that bigshots like Alec Baldwin and Jeff Garlin can just swoop into the podcast world and scoop up famous guests to appear on their shows every other week. On the other hand, we get almost ninety minutes of the media-weary Zach Galifianakis out of character in a one-on-one interview. Garlin exhibited a purposely relaxed demeanor towards talking to his friend and "favorite comedian," which put Galifianakis at ease to be his own funny self, and to share some things that he legitimately finds mind-bending/interesting. Garlin probably doesn't get enough credit for knowing how to edit himself because of the loose feel to the live show – just a few minutes after he threw out an obscure piece of Honeymooners trivia, Galifanakis's anecdote about Brody Stevens involving UFOs must have triggered the 
Carol Burnett's new memoir Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story comes out this week and is now available as 
-Season four of Arrested Development 
The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We're here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. Also, we'll keep you posted on the offerings from 
JAMES: Radiolab isn't typically a comedy podcast, but this short episode was all about Chicago-based improvisers T.J. & Dave (T.J. Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi). They are the scariest improvisers ever, as many people know. If you haven't been to iO Chicago to see them, or to their monthly show at Barrow Street in New York, go. There's also a documentary about them called Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (made by Alex Karpovsky of Girls fame, notably), so named because so many people who see the show really doubt it could be improvised. But watching improv on a screen, even great people like when Bravo picked up 
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