NNF Guests You'd Like To Hear

[KeithTalent]

The show is so successful now that I imagine a lot of comics would be willing to do it. It'd be great exposure to an audience of people who "get it" and genuinely love comedy.

I can see why The Gang would want to stick to people they know well. You don't want to risk some stranger clunking everything up. But I'm guessing Pardo has worked with basically everybody in the world, and knows who's funny in the moment vs. who wouldn't be able to keep up.

Anyway who cares, this is just a thread for makin' wishes


I'd like to hear Bill Burr on the show. That guy is a stitch, and he seems naturally funny.

Also, some females. Jen Kirkman, Jackie Kashian, Esther Ku, somebody.

[J.B.]

Yeah, Jackie Kashian.

Also... I can't figure out why, but I love the eps with Gilmartin - not a new one, but one I'd like to hear... again.

[aenemaTron]

I think the existence of this thread is OK, but in the old NNF thread, requests for particular guests never went over well. I guess the best I can say is, don't expect Jimmy to even look at it. The rule has always been "friends," not "people he's worked with" and he doesn't need to be told who he's friends with.

However, if you would like to fantasize about Kevin McDonald or Santa Claus being on NNF then I am all for it.

[Berliner]

This is a bad idea if you ask me. What makes that show work is that the people know each other well enough to be able to shit on each other. I don't wanna hear something where Jimmy sucks up to the guest.

[KeithTalent]

Well I'd figure most comedians can take a joke from the Shooter. I wouldn't suggest having Jamie Foxx on the show.

And while Burr seems to mostly hang out back east, there are lots of awesome UCB regulars who haven't been on the show yet. I'm sure Jimmy and Wheels know most of them.

Why in god's name wouldn't this thread's existence be ok. I could have gone in the NNF thread and tried to tell them what to do, but instead I made a different thread so that people can just talk about things. Message boards are for talking right

[ericluxury]

Pardo was on an episode of Dork Forest, Jackie Kashian's podcast. So if you are looking to hear them interact, there is a place for it.

I agree with Tron, etc. that requesting guests for friendly chat is a bit weird, but when Jimmy mentions a comic I like in a way that makes me think they are friends or friendly, I do get excited that they might be on the show. So far Greg Fitzsimmons is the main person that I'd like to hear with Pardo. However, I doubt either will be a guest on each other's show.

People Jimmy has mentioned in friendly way who might be great guests are: Andy Kindler, Kennedy of MTV fame, Patton, Tom Wilson and Chip Pope. If none of those happen, that'd work too. He's got a pretty big list of regulars now.


Keith, I think that you might have a mistaken idea of all comedians being friends. I imagine the UCB is a friendlier place than most clubs, but not everyone who performs there hangs out with each other, I'd guess.

[KeithTalent]

Oh man Kindler would be fantastic

[SailRacer]

I don't think it's bad idea as such. I do agree with Berliner that the familiarity of the guests with Jimmy is part of what makes the show great. But we don't know who Jimmy knows. I had no idea Jimmy knew Rob Cordry, and he was great on the show. I think suggestions are fine, but we do need to keep Berliner's point in mind.

[Itslikeimsayin]

Whichever performers are Jimmy's golf buddies. I'd love more stories from the links.

[KeithTalent]

Why do we need to keep Berliner's point in mind

If I want to hear fuckin' Nancy Pelosi on the show that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. What is the problem? Is Jimmy gonna punch me in the face for talking about it?

[aenemaTron]

No, but people are coming from the assumption that this was created to actually propose possible guests.

[SailRacer]

Why do we need to keep Berliner's point in mind

If I want to hear fuckin' Nancy Pelosi on the show that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. What is the problem? Is Jimmy gonna punch me in the face for talking about it?

No. But his point that part of what makes the show great is Jimmy's familiarity with the guest, is a valid one.

I'm not saying not to make suggestions. More that we just shouldn't get our panties knotted if they're not on. I'm sure Jimmy and Matt have a good feel for what will work well on the show.

[dan telfer]

I'd love to hear more of Jimmy's friends in "the industry" so to speak who aren't necessarily stand-up comics. I have yet to be disappointed in a guest and would love if Jimmy had on, say, a good writer friend of his that a lot of folks might not know about.

[Berliner]

I think what we are trying to say is that Jimmy should be more outgoing and try to make more friends.

[ProfessorShutYoMouth]

Why do we need to keep Berliner's point in mind

If I want to hear fuckin' Nancy Pelosi on the show that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. What is the problem? Is Jimmy gonna punch me in the face for talking about it?

Jimmy has Internet bodyguards who protect him from such things I think. They are the message board equivalent of a 300 lb Russian steel worker so be careful. They will punch you with words.

As for a guest I would like to hear on the show, as much as Jimmy talks about Andrew Koenig's "wacknut beliefs" I'd love to have him in the circle of mics proper so he could share those beliefs, and Jimmy could make fun of them.

Hilarity would in fact ensue.

[KeithTalent]

The title asks who you would like to hear, not who you demand to hear

And then, because I expected this reaction, I said "this is just a thread for makin' wishes" in the body of the post

What more should I have done, exactly?

[SailRacer]

Nothing man. I was just trying to help make that point that it was a wishlist.

[KeithTalent]

Jimmy has Internet bodyguards who protect him from such things I think. They are the message board equivalent of a 300 lb Russian steel worker so be careful. They will punch you with words.

As for a guest I would like to hear on the show, as much as Jimmy talks about Andrew Koenig's "wacknut beliefs" I'd love to have him in the circle of mics proper so he could share those beliefs, and Jimmy could make fun of them.

Hilarity would in fact ensue.

Maybe Andrew and Elwood could have a freak-off. The hippie triathlon - hacky-sack, frisbee golf, unicycling. Try to find out who believes in the wackiest new age nonsense ("I believe in pyramid power!" "Once a week I use crystals to cleanse the evil spirits from my dreamcatcher!") A tie-dye fashion show.

[J.B.]

As long as this is a thread that Jimmy will never ever read, I'll feel free to ask this:

Is anyone else slightly annoyed by the way he ends the show now with "...on the Primo!" instead of the old "...on the Podcast!" I have no good reason why this should get on my nerves, but it does...

[ProfessorShutYoMouth]

The title asks who you would like to hear, not who you demand to hear

And then, because I expected this reaction, I said "this is just a thread for makin' wishes" in the body of the post

What more should I have done, exactly?

There are limits to free speech, you bastard.