dude, are you fucking kidding me? nick lowe on WTF monday.
i thought this week's comedy bang bang was like the epitome of peoples' complaints about it. you start out with 2 guests who are clever and engaging in weird al and todd glass, and then you fuck it up by throwing in some lady doing an awful impersonation of liza minelli. first off, the impersonation was like, a stock impersonation. it was exactly the same thing anyone who's ever heard her speak would do. secondly, what's the point of doing a liza minelli impersonation in 2012? also, i feel like they've played would you rather almost every week since they joined with funny or die. i think would you rather is probably the worst game they play, simply because it requires the guests to understand what's going on and be clever enough to ask leading questions. and it also requires scott aukerman to come up with a clever response. there's just too many ways for it to get boring, and it usually does. at least with something like what am i thinking or dead or alive or hollywood facts, there's usually humor in the guest not getting the bit, or aukerman is in enough control to make it funny himself. anyway, there's 500 words about that.
i had to drop you made it weird. something about pete holmes overlaughing about everything and just generally being a bad interviewer was too much. his overlaughing reminded me of jesse thorn on jordan jesse go. i think pete holmes was getting some interesting guests, but i feel like it could've definitely benefited from some editing down. anyway, so long to that.
maybe i really should start a podcast about podcasts.
