Cum Town Podcast

[amputeeporn]

Yeah, Stav's stand up is good time hype man stuff. These boys have brought me so much joy I know I'll get a kick out of it. Also - they could probably easily fill a big room in London under the Cum Town banner at this stage, and that they're too rubbish to organise it only makes this stupid thing funnier to me.

Edit: what if instead of new page, it was Jew page and-

[iamcoop]

Just out of interest is there a thing remotely comparable to this podcast that's British? As far as I'm aware the whole "dirtbag left" thing seems to be a very specific comedic niche that I don't think translates very well across the pond. I'm just talking rubbish on my phone here and I'm slightly drunk  so will probably try and write something more nuanced in due course but it always makes me smile to myself when I get the bus home, say, after seeing something cerebral and witty at the Northumbria Institute and then I put Cum Town on and listen to Nick Mullen sing a sad song about Barney the Dinosaur being racist to his Chinese dinosaur cleaner and someone else is dropping beeps left right and centre so it sounds like constant N Bombs are being dropped and I'm just sat at the back of the bus laughing so much I think I might actually explode.

Ah this shits boring who cares. Merry Christmas *guitar riff* *gunshot* *808 clap*

[McDead]

SILENCE!

[amputeeporn]

Just out of interest is there a thing remotely comparable to this podcast that's British? As far as I'm aware the whole "dirtbag left" thing seems to be a very specific comedic niche that I don't think translates very well across the pond.

Yeah, I think one of the factors in the show's success is that the sheer size of America makes it economically viable to go unfiltered (in the certain assumption of cancellation*) and gamble that there are just enough weirdoes to make it pay. It's interesting that these shows are all weirdly linked to the ascendency of Trump (was the first Cum Town ep immediately before or after the election?) - perhaps a tacit rejection of certain elements of political correctness and identity politics on the left?

Although I'm certain many here wouldn't sign up to that, maybe better to say that the tone of cultural debate has made it wonderful to hear the most outrageous things said fearlessly, and that there's no way one could really be that fearless here?

*Interesting to see what happened to 'friend of the show' Shane Gillis when he attempted to leave the bubble of dirtbag left podcasts, and how much support his firing seemed to have even on the threads I looked in here.

[Schnapple]

It's interesting, I don't really like consciously 'edgy' or mean-spirited stuff, but I never find Cum Town too trying in that regard. I think the show would be insufferable if it had any element of "Can you believe we're saying this?", but instead, it's as glib about that idea as anything, as well as those who lazily trade on offence. I think the politics of the show and the lads (the fellas) are perfectly fine, Nick has just chosen to die on a particular hill when it comes to his freedom to do bad accents, but most of the humour derives from him being an absurdist, rather than a provocateur. Nick is also one of the few, true 'equal opportunity offenders' I can think of, which means you have to allow for certain material. For example, I find their casual use of the word "bitch" unpleasant every time, but I do not find any of the endless stuff about Adam being gay offensive. His perverted Indian man character makes me slightly upset, but his sleepy, frightened Mexican or shithead Italian dude always has me in hysterics. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Whatever makes this podcast work, it really does make me laugh like nothing else when it's cooking on gas.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

It's interesting that these shows are all weirdly linked to the ascendency of Trump (was the first Cum Town ep immediately before or after the election?) - perhaps a tacit rejection of certain elements of political correctness and identity politics on the left?

Hate to break it to you, but shock jock radio has been around for decades. The new market innovation of the dirtbag left podcasts is aiming their relatability at aggrieved and heavily indebted millennials rather than, like, roofers and mall security guards.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Nick's Foo Fighters cover "I got another confession to make/I fuck kids" got no reaction from the boys but I can't stop laughing at it

[amputeeporn]

Nick's Foo Fighters cover "I got another confession to make/I fuck kids" got no reaction from the boys but I can't stop laughing at it

Keep finding myself nearly accidentally singing it. They're all freshly dumped and depressed again, which likely means the lows will be lower but the highs will be higher for a while.

[C_Larence]

Just started listening from the beginning and can't stop laughing at Autism Powers. Sent it to one friend already who was not impressed. I fear this will be a recurring burden to bear from now on.

[iamcoop]

Just started listening from the beginning and can't stop laughing at Autism Powers. Sent it to one friend already who was not impressed. I fear this will be a recurring burden to bear from now on.

You've made the classic mistake of telling people you actually know in real life that you listen to Cum Town. Best chance from now on is just to keep your head down.

[Carpool Dragon]

You've made the classic mistake of telling people you actually know in real life that you listen to Cum Town. Best chance from now on is just to keep your head down.

Yeah my boyfriend saw it in my iTunes library and asked what it was. I told him it was a comedy podcast where people do impressions of Asians with Down Syndrome. I would've been better off telling him it was porn.

[peanutbutter]

You've made the classic mistake of telling people you actually know in real life that you listen to Cum Town. Best chance from now on is just to keep your head down.

I'm almost certainly gonna buy a weedpranos shirt and have to explain it to people at some point though

[amputeeporn]

I'm almost certainly gonna buy a weedpranos shirt and have to explain it to people at some point though

Smokeweedaboutit!

I got a Thousand Island Stare one. I don't know when I'll ever wear it but it's mainly a monument to one of my favourite, stupidest comedy moments.

[peanutbutter]

Super tempted to get the largest weedpranos one just to give it to stav in March tbh

[Schnapple]

The New York Times refusing to print the name of this stupid podcast in an article about the 'dirtbag left' made my weekend.

[Dusty Substance]

I've never heard an episode of Cum Town but am always on the look/listen out for a new podcast to get into. Are there any particularly good episodes to get into (I've got Stitcher Premium and they're all on there), or is it a slow build to listen to from the start and get used to the style of humour (like Hollywood Handbook, which I still don't get). Any recommended episodes would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

[Carpool Dragon]

Just start from the beginning, the "Home Improvement" era has a lot of good material. I don't know if the premium episodes are on Stitcher but "Bully Town" is a classic.

[peanutbutter]

Yeah just stick with it and you'll probably be enjoying it after about 10 episodes (its not unlistenable beforehand mind, just very thrown together). A lot of the appeal is just the laid back vibe tbh, they repeat jokes and stories an absurd amount.

I'm pretty happy I've a bit of a cum town backlog to go through in the next few weeks. About 20 episodes in all.

[Sin Agog]

My rule with podcasts I sense something special with is hang around until I can tell which similar sounding host is who.  At that point I usually know whether I'm hooked or not.  The pod clicked with me exactly in the middle of Autism Powers, for the record.  Up until then I was torn between placing them as frat bros or disenchanted 40-something suburban N.Y. has-been comedians.  Maybe throw in one of the dead serious episodes from around Cum Town's Suicide Epoch if things all feel too crude and bro'ey at first (which they seem to for pretty much everyone on here who's made a post about wanting to get into them).

Loved all the Charlie Rose stuff in the recent ep.

[VelourSpirit]

The Judds Jeans bit at 17:44 into ep 194 is so stupid it had me laughing so hard

[Dusty Substance]

Autism Powers

That made me properly laugh out loud. Cheers for your responses. I'll give it a try and start from scratch. I need something that isn't The Best Show 24/7 to get into.

[Schnapple]

I started off around episode thirty. I didn't like this show at first, but I persisted based on the odd good bit from Nick and the fact it was generally sort-of refreshing in it's filth. Then I just couldn't stop listening to it. The aforementioned suicide season was really compelling, although they'd never admit to it. A genuine mix of refreshingly earnest discussion amid that episode in which Nick completely freestyles an entire episode of an imaginary crime documentary about the wrestler Chris Benoit. The Stavbot episode is also fucking hilarious, that was one of the first ones that had me on the floor.

[Carpool Dragon]

There's also a good one early on that inexplicably has You Get What You Give by The New Radicals playing in the background for the entire episode.

[Sin Agog]

That made me properly laugh out loud.

Then fuck it, you'll be fine.  Start anywhere.  Sounds like you're already a Cumboy without even knowing it.

[C_Larence]

It's crazy that Autism Powers was within the first ten episodes. Adam coming straight in with the "Do trains make you horny baby?!" line kills me.

I'm slowly making my way through, at about episode 50 of the regulars and listening chronologically to the premiums too so it's going to take me a fair while to catch up. Last thing that made me laugh out loud was Nick saying that a homophone is a word that sounds gay. I'm not sure how he manages to to make obvious, childish jokes funnier than they should be.

[C_Larence]

See also, Stav changing the lyrics of Take My Breath Away to "Suck my dick I'm gay"

[amputeeporn]

Last thing that made me laugh out loud was Nick saying that a homophone is a word that sounds gay. I'm not sure how he manages to to make obvious, childish jokes funnier than they should be.

He's insane for these and, well, for everything. I always remember someone saying the word 'impetus' and him saying immediately it was the spell Harry Potter used to make someone's dick go soft (or something).

In other news - I'm assuming Stav's London dates will not be happening...

[Chollis]

I can recommend Tae Bo, Forbidden Zone and the Chris Benoit ones as good jumping in points. Purely cos that's what I started with and I loved them.

[chveik]

finally tried this, I find it quite funny. cheers

the fake opinion pieces Mullen did are nice too (better than clickhole anyway)

https://thoughtcatalog.com/nicole-mullen/

[amputeeporn]

finally tried this, I find it quite funny. cheers

the fake opinion pieces Mullen did are nice too (better than clickhole anyway)

https://thoughtcatalog.com/nicole-mullen/

Apparently still gets hate mail for the one about not tipping all these years later. I'm not sure if you know but, brilliantly, mad conspiracy theorist hate box Alex Jones did a spital-flecked rant to camera about the 'can we all stop pretending that abortions aren't pleasurable?' one.