I relistened to the infamous bestiality episode recently and man, is that a treasure trove. It's also the first episode recorded after the birth of Besser's daughter and the one where Lauren Lapkus seems to get legitimately pissed at Brandon Johnson's comment about not dating "improv girls." Plus Paul Rust!

That might have been my biggest laugh of the episode, realizing that Sean and Hayes put their heads together and came up with "What kind of small business would you own?"

But they just did Spont!

The Podmass holiday deprived us of the chance to discuss the almost too-perfect casting of John Gemberling as Roger Ailes on Hard Nation. I don't know if it's a compliment to say someone was born to play an oozing, soulless sex offender for laughs, but if anybody was, it's Gemberling.

I would gladly sign off on Adam Scott, Will Hines and Jessica McKenna as a recurring CBB squad, ala the Titans of Comedy or the Sanz/Schwarz coupling.

It's not great listening, but it's also not as brutal as I expected it to be. Pauly isn't so much combative as he is confused. I wound up feeling kind of bad for him. It didn't help anything that the pre-guest segments were similarly strange and disjointed.

I find them immensely hilarious but I can absolutely see why others wouldn’t. Their schtick is grounded in the kind of sneering, “everything is bullshit” irony-flogging that usually turns me right off. It’s the type of comedy that infuriates me if it’s not handled by real experts. At this point I feel like Sean and…

Speaking of both of those topics, I finally went back and listened to the infamous Pauly Shore episode last week. It was just about as uncomfortable as advertised, but I did appreciate that they gave semi-sincere props to Engineer Cody for salvaging the interview by playing whipping boy.

Their description of the Native American wall-climbing guy being introduced via hasty ADR was dazzling. I do enjoy when their real-life fanboy indignation bleeds into their schtick.

Sean's been on improv4humans a couple of times and played along quite nicely, but I feel like that was before the "Sean" character was fully established.

I was amused to hear about Lauren Lapkus being weirded out by people wanting to eat her hair because of a Hollywood Handbook ad, though.

Every time Herzog or Cake Boss or even Ice-T makes the news, I wince on behalf of PFT's mentions.

I suspect Cage would go too goofy with it, but Michael Shannon as Klaus Kinski is the rightest thing I have ever heard.

Everyone's disbelief that this was a 2016 movie was the best running joke of the episode.

Scott-Todd is such a consistently energizing pairing. I wonder if the drummer business would be more or less hilarious for someone who hadn’t heard “Staind Glass” already. It was good to have Matt Besser back on the show too. Felt like he hadn’t been on for a while. His CBB characters have a way of starting out…

Not that I would ever want anything to mess with the delicate dynamic of Hollywood Handbook, but if Sean and Hayes were ever forced to add a permanent third host, I would not shed a tear to see Julie Klausner land the gig. Nobody gets those guys better than she does.

Loved this week’s Spontaneanation. Kristian Brunn has yet to fail me as a delightful podcast guest, and he even did a great job jumping into one of the best-constructed improvs in the show’s recent run. For my money, though, the funniest moment of the episode was the split second of dead air after Eban Schletter…

It is really him, but it's a small role that he doesn't bring anything in particular to other than a crazed expression. The movie, though, is fantastic. Larry Cohen's masterpiece, if you ask me.

I will not stand for any dismissal of Kaufman's turn as a homicidally possessed NYC cop in God Told Me To.

The Batman ‘66 comics rank alongside the Art Baltazar/Franco canon as the comics my 6-year-old re-reads most frequently. Kids love that West magic.