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Cum Town Podcast

Started by Large Noise, July 08, 2016, 12:14:34 AM

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Old Nehamkin

While we're recommending leftist podcasts, I've recently been very much enjoying Michael and Us - it started off as a retrospective of Michael Moore's career from the perspective of two Canadian guys who followed what I imagine is a pretty common path of idolising Moore as teenagers then becoming increasingly disillusioned with his brand of liberal activism as the Obama years and the subsequent dawn of Trump unfolded. The show has since evolved into a more general format that mainly focuses on political/satirical media from the Bush era - from The Daily Show to Idiocracy to Team America - while also talking about contemporary politics and going down various tenuously linked pop culture rabbit holes when the mood takes them. Its in a similar region to Chapo in terms of perspective and conedic bent, but a bit more subdued and deadpan. Highly recommended.

Sin Agog

I feel like I'm missing a dimension or five here by only being extremely online insofar as I downsteal a bunch of shit.

Dog Botherer

Quote from: Old Nehamkin on July 01, 2020, 10:57:42 PM

i've listened to a couple of eps, their West Wing and Ricky Gervais episodes particularly. didn't blow me away but i'll dip back in if they're covering something else that catches my eye. think i follow both the hosts on twitter actually.

amputeeporn

Last two episodes of Cum Town with them all back in a room have been huge improvements over the slog that Zoom podding/corona talk was. Most recent 'Taste of Coke Zero' had some real crackers in - as well as Nick discussing in detail that weird Hamsterdam-like place in Seattle where it seems the private police force has started to shoot people just like the real cops, which is interesting and bizarre and, being the ultimate contrarian, Nick resists being contrary, and comes through with an actual good take on it all.

Dying to see Gymkata...

marquis_de_sad

Quote from: amputeeporn on July 02, 2020, 09:19:51 PM

Dying to see Gymkata...

They watched Gymkata on Best of the Worst, if you can't be bothered to sit through the whole thing.

Jack Allison is an absolute wank. Constantly made passive-aggressive remarks about Michael Che (the first black head writer on SNL) on twitter then when Che fired back on his social media Allison wrote a whole article about how he was being bullied. Again, can't fault his politics but the holier-than-thou act is a bit rich for a guy who charges hundreds of dollars for seminars on how to be a successful late night writer when his career has crashed and burned. And worst of all - he was boring on Doughboys.

Ornlu

Worse still, he's one of those that won't even capitalise his 'I's.

Dog Botherer

michael che is clearly a prick, in fairness

JamesTC

Listening to an old episode last night and was in fits of giggles. Stav was talking about how sexy he thinks Rebecca Black is, how it is fine because she is of age now and Nick's interruption to Adam was just so perfect.

Adam: You know who is hot now? The baby from...
Nick: ...Dinosaurs

spaghetamine



I'm not irony-poisoned enough to wear this in public but for some reason this is my favourite bit of cum town merch

PlasticTom

Quote from: JamesTC on July 08, 2020, 01:41:06 PM
Listening to an old episode last night and was in fits of giggles. Stav was talking about how sexy he thinks Rebecca Black is, how it is fine because she is of age now and Nick's interruption to Adam was just so perfect.

Adam: You know who is hot now? The baby from...
Nick: ...Dinosaurs

Can you remember which one that was? I've been working my way through some old ones. They are basically endlessly relistenable

Oz Oz Alice

As a result of lurking on this forum I've started listening to this podcast and registered pretty much entirely to give my thanks. I'm not sure I'd have believed anyone who told me "You're going to spend a lot of lockdown listening to a podcast which is composed mostly of jokes about Chinese people and sucking your dad's cock" but this is what has happened.

JamesTC

Quote from: PlasticTom on July 14, 2020, 05:39:45 PM
Can you remember which one that was? I've been working my way through some old ones. They are basically endlessly relistenable

Just went back and flicked through the last few I listened to. It is Episode 33 and the conversation starts around the 34:40. I'd misremembered as it was Brandon Wardell and not Adam in the conversation.

spaghetamine

After a bit of a dead run, there's been some great episodes lately, particularly enjoyed this bit

Famous Mortimer

Quote from: Carpool Dragon on July 04, 2020, 07:22:23 PM
Jack Allison is an absolute wank. Constantly made passive-aggressive remarks about Michael Che (the first black head writer on SNL) on twitter then when Che fired back on his social media Allison wrote a whole article about how he was being bullied. Again, can't fault his politics but the holier-than-thou act is a bit rich for a guy who charges hundreds of dollars for seminars on how to be a successful late night writer when his career has crashed and burned. And worst of all - he was boring on Doughboys.
Do you pay any attention to how Che bullies and belittles people on social media, at all? Also - the difference in reach between the head writer on a network TV show and a podcast host is enormous, and it started because Allison quite rightly thought SNL was toothless shite.

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on August 25, 2020, 03:25:23 PM
Do you pay any attention to how Che bullies and belittles people on social media, at all? Also - the difference in reach between the head writer on a network TV show and a podcast host is enormous, and it started because Allison quite rightly thought SNL was toothless shite.
It's ALWAYS been toothless shite. And no I didn't pay attention because I don't care that much. I also think it's ridiculous for a grown man to claim he's being cyberbullied by another grown man but that's just me.

C_Larence

https://twitter.com/_larryj_/status/1297182379812036611?s=21

That's a jack allison tweet from 2 days ago. The fact that Michael Che consistently came out worse when going up against him online is hilarious. They're both awful.

peanutbutter

Was surprised by all the burping and whatnot from Nick during that 16 minutes of an episode he was solo recently, I think I always assumed it was Stav doing all of the burping and farting and so on.

bgmnts

For regular listeners of this, is it fair to say that Stavros is actually the best stand up? I'm assuming Nick is the funniest guy on the podcast but Stavros has a few good stand up bits compared to Nick.


peanutbutter

Nick seems to struggle with both stage presence and sticking with a premise beyond the core funny part. It doesn't work so well in standup, like, he's alright but it comes across as though he's putting huge amounts of effort into thinking of bits for it and the return isn't great? It does seem to be remarkably easy to make him lose momentum on a concept

Stav is a natural compere. Have never been too impressed by his own material but he's super likeable; comes across as though he just wants everyone to have a good time and is good at going with the flow of things as a result too. Could do 20 minutes with no material easily.

In terms of doing actual standup oriented material, Adam is probably the best but it's pretty typical Brooklyn based standup shit so doesn't really mesh that well with the audience coming out of cum town.

spaghetamine

Man, I like Nick but his hardcore fanboys seem to be 75% horrible little blackpilled teenagers who think that expressing any kind of empathy is "performative wokeness". I should have known better than to look but the comments sections on the youtube uploads are grim as fuck.

Old Nehamkin

Quote from: peanutbutter on August 26, 2020, 09:37:19 AM
Nick seems to struggle with both stage presence and sticking with a premise beyond the core funny part. It doesn't work so well in standup, like, he's alright but it comes across as though he's putting huge amounts of effort into thinking of bits for it and the return isn't great? It does seem to be remarkably easy to make him lose momentum on a concept

Stav is a natural compere. Have never been too impressed by his own material but he's super likeable; comes across as though he just wants everyone to have a good time and is good at going with the flow of things as a result too. Could do 20 minutes with no material easily.

In terms of doing actual standup oriented material, Adam is probably the best but it's pretty typical Brooklyn based standup shit so doesn't really mesh that well with the audience coming out of cum town.

Stav definitely seems like the one who's most likely to land a special on Comedy Central or Netflix that then immediately gets pulled after some particularly near-the-knuckle Cum Town clip is "unearthed" on Twitter by some axe-grinding hall monitor or another, leading to the inevitable dissolution of the podcast.

Urinal Cake

Red Scare is awful it's pretty clear Bannon chose them because they were an easy mark.
Chapo is really about Felix, Matt and to a lesser extent Virgil. Also their sound quality is bad.
TrueAnon is good stuff. Brace and Liz are cool. I can accept the vocal fry. But somebody needs to tell Young Chomsky to lay off the 90s morning radio sound effects.

Half the reason why Nick's stand up doesn't work is his stage presence - even the video podcasts are hard to watch with how awkward he is. It's like Jim Norton, hilarious on the radio but to have to sit through a special watching him blink excessively and open his eyes too wide is torture (also his jokes are shite but I digress).

peanutbutter

Quote from: Old Nehamkin on August 26, 2020, 10:41:54 AM
Stav definitely seems like the one who's most likely to land a special on Comedy Central or Netflix that then immediately gets pulled after some particularly near-the-knuckle Cum Town clip is "unearthed" on Twitter by some axe-grinding hall monitor or another, leading to the inevitable dissolution of the podcast.
If Stav was as famous as he is now without the Cum Town association he'd probably be getting some offers like that as it is. Could imagine him being a really good kids tv host seeing as how he comes across like a giant kid half the time too.


Quote from: Carpool Dragon on August 26, 2020, 03:02:27 PM
Half the reason why Nick's stand up doesn't work is his stage presence - even the video podcasts are hard to watch with how awkward he is. It's like Jim Norton, hilarious on the radio but to have to sit through a special watching him blink excessively and open his eyes too wide is torture (also his jokes are shite but I digress).
Interesting comparison, I remember Mullen saying one time that he thinks Jim Norton hates him, or doesn't think he's funny, despite hiring him to write for things. I wonder if Norton actually just sees way too much of himself in Mullen on stage.

Think he's generally got where he was at in standup bang on though, he was good enough to just about make a living outta it, and totally incapable of moving up beyond that. I'd bet his best shows were ones where he just totally committed to bombing.

Sin Agog

Adam was a guest on Stavvy Solves Your Problems a couple of days ago, and it seems good so far, but naturally Stav had to disable the dislikes for the episode. https://youtu.be/CyRbJtowy-o?t=2180

Schnapple

This has suddenly been really funny again the past few weeks. Nick's impression of Ben Shapiro in particular, plus the idea of Donald Trump outing Robert De Niro. Just ludicrous stupidity.

amputeeporn

The Bonus episode 'can u paint with all the colors of my ass' was the first I've heard in a while that seemed to BANG from start to finish. Loads of silly gags and everyone having fun. Nick saying that Stav defeated general Custer because he thought his name was General Custard and just took tiny bites out of him tickled me. Also Nick's literal racism dog whistle and Joe Rogan discovering that Chinese people have their own country.

Finally, another run around for the Back To The Future Doc Brown impression, this time telling Marty that they can go back in time and sexually assault women. 'What are they gonna say, a guy from the future did it?!'

'Doc...That's brilliant!'

spaghetamine

As much as I despite the sounds of somebody eating into the microphone, it was truly heartwarming to see how Adam's custom trail mix bought the boys together and made for a great episode

Old Nehamkin

Huge laugh at "Getting Your Dick Sucked Before Christmas."