Never Not Funny Season 10

[Darryl]

On another subject: This may be the closest thing to Matt's ridiculous delicious sounding BurgerZa idea yet.



From here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...food-marketing

[bao]

This was a truly great episode. Reminded me of Todd Levin and Mike Sweeney's first eps; they fit in great.

Exactly. While I would never carp about returning guests (for fear of being Dice's Lady'd by Jimmy), I thought Levin and Sweeney's episodes were among the three best of the last five seasons, and I quietly cross my fingers every monday for their return. Same will go for Fink until he comes back.

And as long as we're on the subject ... like all hardcore NNF fans, I especially love the episodes with the Old Guard (Pat, Aukerman, PFT, Gilmartin, Siegel, Danielle, etc), and they are almost always my favorites of any given season, but I really respect Jimmy and Matt for changing up the guests and bringing in new, somewhat "outside" people on a regular basis. Not only does it work out well, with a few exceptions, but it keeps us from being overexposed to our favorite guests (a subject of an unnecessarily high amount of debate lately). Thus, even when individual episodes don't go so well, I keep my mouth shut because I understand and respect the bigger picture. Also because I have total faith that they know when a show did not go so well.

Also, I think one of the main reasons that the Old Guard work out so well is because Matt is generally much more involved when they are on, and the triangulation between the three just works better than a dialogue. Jimmy is great one-on-one with the guests, but is even funnier when he's bouncing off of all five people in the room.

Also, Jimmy using the fact that the guy from Steely Dan played with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs as evidence that Steely Dan was soulful only solidifies the argument that Jimmy Pardo is, indeed, the whitest man alive. And I mean that in the complimentary ...

[ImAScooby]

Exactly. While I would never carp about returning guests (for fear of being Dice's Lady'd by Jimmy), I thought Levin and Sweeney's episodes were among the three best of the last five seasons, and I quietly cross my fingers every monday for their return. Same will go for Fink until he comes back.

And as long as we're on the subject ... like all hardcore NNF fans, I especially love the episodes with the Old Guard (Pat, Aukerman, PFT, Gilmartin, Siegel, Danielle, etc), and they are almost always my favorites of any given season, but I really respect Jimmy and Matt for changing up the guests and bringing in new, somewhat "outside" people on a regular basis. Not only does it work out well, with a few exceptions, but it keeps us from being overexposed to our favorite guests (a subject of an unnecessarily high amount of debate lately). Thus, even when individual episodes don't go so well, I keep my mouth shut because I understand and respect the bigger picture. Also because I have total faith that they know when a show did not go so well.

Also, I think one of the main reasons that the Old Guard work out so well is because Matt is generally much more involved when they are on, and the triangulation between the three just works better than a dialogue. Jimmy is great one-on-one with the guests, but is even funnier when he's bouncing off of all five people in the room.

Also, Jimmy using the fact that the guy from Steely Dan played with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs as evidence that Steely Dan was soulful only solidifies the argument that Jimmy Pardo is, indeed, the whitest man alive. And I mean that in the complimentary ...

I couldn't agree with this post more.

[ImAScooby]

I think this is an instance where exact transcript on Never Not Notes would come in handy, as opposed to my regular method of smartass commentary in the guise of helpfulness.

Man, what would be boring. Keep doing what you're doing! We like the smartass commentary!

[Monty]

I'm sure you guys all know about this, but just in case...

I was surprised to hear a discussion of a Mr. Peepers movie and no mention of the recent Mr. Peepers Movie Script that's a retelling of Being There.

[DocSportello]

I agree with bao's post also.

Also bring back Todd Levin.

[Crunchbird]

With any other trashy early-80s singer this would almost seem like pure Pardo-bait, but I'm pretty sure I've heard him shit on Twisted Sister multiple times before . . . .

Dee Snider Does Broadway

And the answer is, "Yes, yes it is as bad as you think."

[ImAScooby]

Dee Snider was great in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure lip-syncing on the hood of that car!

[BrainRotMenacer]

There are two mentions of Reelin' in the Years for episode 402 with Rob Corddry. It could be there.

EDIT: By mentions I meant on this forum. I listened to the episode by skipping through by a minute or two and I didn't hear it.

[slothborn]

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[misscritta]

I would never get anything done if that was hanging anywhere near me. I can't stop staring at Jon Hamm. He's even handsome in cartoon form.

[BillBrasky]

It's funny that Hugh mentioned a "Mr. Peepers" movie in this episode, because someone wrote a fake Mr. Peepers movie script (modeled on the movie "Being There") and it's been getting some press recently:

http://splitsider.com/2012/04/the-my...eepers-script/

Edit: Dammit, what's going on lately? I open this thread and it goes to the NEXT to the last page in the thread instead of the last page.
Sorry, I didn't see there was a page 30.

[isoS]

I don't know when that Mr. Peepers story broke, but we recorded this episode way back on April 15th.

[Monty]

It looks like the first time people were talking about it was the SF Weekly article on April 17.

[Darryl]

It looks like the first time people were talking about it was the SF Weekly article on April 17.

Oh no! Does this mean there is now a Never Not Funny "Bad Idea" curse?

Off to create a new icon for Never Not Notes.

[JPSpaulding]

If anyone wants to see the bonus I got with Dan's amazing artwork, here it is. I didn't post it before, because I don't want to seem like I'm showing off, but I thought people here might be interested in seeing it. Centerpiece of my apartment!

Fixed.

And Hugh Fink was a delight. Also I love the name "Jimmy Pardo Needs Jokes" rolls off the tongue and most importantly it has Jimmy's name in the title. My only fear is the edit monster this show is going to have to deal with....

[ImAScooby]

Cartoon Janet Varney will be in my nightmares tonight.

[slothborn]

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[ImAScooby]

I forgive Sarah. I donated to Earwolf and she, Howard, and Kulap thanked me during one of the Who Charted episodes. I got this funny little certificate for "excellence in podcast support" in the mail signed by the three of them, too. That's the nice thing about podcasts. It takes a relatively small amount of money and/or unhealthy obsession to get noticed.

You are pretty much the opposite of an anonymous donor.

[Crunchbird]

Speaking of Cartoon Janet Varney, I'm bummed that in her episode it never came up that she's providing the lead voice in Nickelodeon's mega-merchandised follow-up series to Avatar: The Last Airbender, with additional voices on the show provided by another NNF favorite, Maria Bamford. It's called The Legend of Korra, if anyone wants to check it out . . . full episodes watchable on the Nick site.

Here's hoping it leads to many years of employment, and many more of residual checks.