Recommendations

[ApophaticSean]

Hello All,

I thought I would create a thread for people to post recommendations for obscure movies, tv shows, comedy albums, podcasts, etc. for stuff that may have flown under the very expansive radar of aspecialthing.com. This won't include youtube clips because of the youtube thread that's already going on right now. The recommendations must be comedy related, but not necessarily have to be something based on comedy (for example: a movie that is so bad that it's pretty funny to watch). Links are highly encouraged for descriptions and what not. Try describing the movie/tv show/podcast/album if you don't have a link without trying to spoil too much of the movie. I expect this thread to get pretty nerdy. So please don't hold back. Just thought this would be a good way for people to find new stuff. You can only watch Super High Me and Tim and Eric so many times before you need to start watching something else (not really, but it would be nice to find new things).

Peace,
Sean

[KevinLee]

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[scamboogah]

There are too many rules for this thread...

I recommend keeping an Atlas next to the toilet. After a year, you'll be a Geographic genius and no one will know that you did it all while shitting.

[ApophaticSean]

There are too many rules for this thread...

I recommend keeping an Atlas next to the toilet. After a year, you'll be a Geographic genius and no one will know that you did it all while shitting.

Dude, I only made like one reasonable rule and the rest were just suggestions. I really hope that I wasn't asking too much. Also, thanks for the reading recommendation. I'll be sure to utilize that very clever technique when I decide that I don't understand geography.

[Kon Darp]

Road Stories Podcast

http://murrayvaleriano.com/podcasts.html

I would never have figured out about this podcast if it weren't for some extensive itunes searching (Other listeners like such and such...). I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else.

But it's absolutely fantastic. I takes the ideal form of comedic podcast (a bunch of comedians sitting around and talking) with a bunch of guests, more than any others I've seen. The first episode alone has five comedians.

Guests include Doug Benson, Jackie Kashain, Graham Elwood, Maria Bamford, Hardwick and Phirman, and Jen Kirkman.

I just wish there were more than eight of them. Quality entertainment, though.

[GymShoes]

Ron & Fez anyone? I've had XM for about a year and a half now and I can't get enough Ron & Fez. Yes the name sounds awful, but it's a great show with great guests, and it's really got a unique tone to it.

Ron Bennington, the Ron half, is the guy who hosts "Unmasked" which is a great comedian interview show on XM (there's a thread for it.)

You can find Unmasked and Ron and Fez on audible.com or bitemytorrent.com, and XM of course.

[Liezl]

I recently signed up on a free movie pre-screening site, FilmMetro.com, they seem to offer a fair amount of screenings across the country.

You usually have to show up at least an hour ahead of time to guarantee seating though.

http://www.filmmetro.com/events/

Does anyone else know of any good sites/mailing lists to sign up for screenings?

[Chaza8]

Ron & Fez anyone? I've had XM for about a year and a half now and I can't get enough Ron & Fez. Yes the name sounds awful, but it's a great show with great guests, and it's really got a unique tone to it.

Ron Bennington, the Ron half, is the guy who hosts "Unmasked" which is a great comedian interview show on XM (there's a thread for it.)

You can find Unmasked and Ron and Fez on audible.com or bitemytorrent.com, and XM of course.

I agree with this post, I've been a fan of the show since like 99 or 2000. Unmasked really shows Ron's ability as an interviewer.

[Sean P. OConnor]

why was the bully doing stand up? did he develop a sense of humor, just so he could beat up the kids with senses of humor?

[ChrisCubasATX]

Ron & Fez anyone? I've had XM for about a year and a half now and I can't get enough Ron & Fez. Yes the name sounds awful, but it's a great show with great guests, and it's really got a unique tone to it.

Ron Bennington, the Ron half, is the guy who hosts "Unmasked" which is a great comedian interview show on XM (there's a thread for it.)

You can find Unmasked and Ron and Fez on audible.com or bitemytorrent.com, and XM of course.

I was a big Ron & Fez fan when they were on 102.7 in NY (still got my Big A.S.S. card around here somewhere.) I enjoyed them way more then Opie & Anthony.

I contributed nothing to this thread.

[Umlaut]

The website www.passiveaggressivenotes.com

It's exactly what you think it is, and one of the great internet time wasters.

[JayRunner]

"The Room" is my newest obsession. A 2003 melodrama that was so bad it was later marketed as a dark comedy. Featuring the great Tommy Wiseau who wrote, directed, starred, produced and executive produced it. I know there are monthly screenings in L.A. and I would love to go to yell out lines and throw spoons. It's just so goddamn funny.

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[Famous Police Dog]

this thread is the new sincerity :rolleyes

[FF Woodycooks]

Listening to Doug Benson's "I Love Movies" has lead me to believe that other people beside myself really love the movie "Withnail and I" (namely Odenkirk and Galifianakis... do you need more namedrop cred than that? honestly...). If you think things are funny and have ever experienced something coming to an end, then you will probably like this movie. Liking British things helps. But for real, rent it or watch it online or something. It's my favorite comedic movie.

[drieux]

In the spirit of Scammy's bathroom recommendations: I was a wedding DJ for almost a decade and the only solid bit of advice I can give is if you're going to spend the money on a professional photographer and getting all those pictures, whenever you have company over then remove all other reading material from the shitter and just leave your wedding album. In any other case if you pull it out and try to get somebody to look at it, you'll get the usual, "oh, uhhh...maybe later" reaction. But when they're trapped with it you're guaranteed to get a "wow, your wedding pictures are great!"

[Jerkmonivich]

In the spirit of liking british things, darkplace and alan partridge never seem to get enough love. (Or maybe everyone just got over it?) I've been working my way through the mighty boosh, but I'm not super into it. (It has it's moments.)

[punkdc]

Mike Relm. Seems like a fun thing to see

[pmottaz]

Here-here's to many of these, particularly "Darkplace." "She's got a face like the proverbial."

My recommendation might only qualifies as "obscure" for most US citizens, but enough people haven't seen Canada's "Trailer Park Boys." It's kind of an "Office"-style rip off (fake doc set in a trailer park), but the characters are really funny.

What's fun about it is it's entirely character based humor, and it's slow, but not bad slow. Patient would've been a better word than slow. They build and earn a lot of their laughs like seasoned pros.

They're movie came out recently. It was the first thing I saw (at a screening) and I liked it enough to go for the series on Netflix. Solid.

Here's the teaser for their movie.

[littlegirltree]

"Trailer Park Boys." It's kind of an "Office"-style rip off

TPB's premier air date was in April of 2001 and The UK Office premiered 3 months later. So there's no way that TPB was a rip off of The Office. TPB was really great but went downhill fast. And that movie was an a-bomb-ination.

[pmottaz]

TPB's premier air date was in April of 2001 and The UK Office premiered 3 months later. So there's no way that TPB was a rip off of The Office. TPB was really great but went downhill fast. And that movie was an a-bomb-ination.

Jeebus, I'm getting nailed by the internet police today.

OK, so they came up with it on their own--it was a Christopher Guest rip-off, how's that?

PS--I'm using "rip off" in a non-derogatory way. It felt like the quicker way to say "they talk to the cameras in a fake documentary style" or something.