I believe you'll find it was Wayne who crashed into the chicken shop. Dwayne woke up in a pickup truck that had crashed into a beef shop.

Loved when they started calling each other on their "student pet peeves" being just an excuse to talk about their own quirks.

I was mildly disappointed that Fred Armisen didn't jump into the Spontaneanation scrum, but as soon as Tawny Newsom changed "expat" into "ex-Pat" any qualms became afterthoughts.

I loved Cake Boss punctuating yet another hilarious Gino digression with, "Oh good, I was worried we hadn't gotten enough Gino time."

You've hit on one of my constant workplace fears, and one that's been realized a couple of times. A few weeks ago the (widow) Howl app updated itself while I was working and apparently went into autoplay once it finished, so my co-workers were treated a few seconds of Dwayne Johnson's account of crashing into a beef…

For the Howl.FM crowd, the debut of Big Grande's The Teacher's Lounge is insanely funny. As much as I loved their dynamic on their With Special Guest appearance, this raises the stakes that much further. I can't get enough of Drew Tarver's adventures as the nation's worst high school basketball coach. And of course…

I re-watched Uncle Buck recently because I loved it as a kid and have always held it up as one of the only John Hughes movies worth a damn. Man, it is not a good movie by any degree, but John Candy is magnificent. The whole thing coasts entirely on his charisma. There are times I could almost swear Hughes is trying to…

See, now that I can do at the drop of the hat. I was actually hoping he'd ask me to rattle off my backwards alphabet because I was prepared for it. But something as basic as counting to 20? It never occurred to me that I'd ever have to do that under duress, so I fucked it up and came off looking like a guilty weirdo.…

Christ, I recently had to do a sobriety test after getting pulled over because I had a headlight out. Even though I'd only had one beer, I was so nervous that I completely blanked on the number "five" while standing on one foot and counting. Fortunately the cop was chill and let me go with a warning, but that just…

Yeah, that's the weakest one in my book. Still good, of course, but Lennon works better with someone to bounce craziness off of him.

I'd been meaning to listen to them before they did the CBB ads but those clinched it. Funny as hell and very much in keeping with the tone of their own show.

The acapella group reminded me of Teacher's Lounge with Big Grande. Both of them started out seeming like the large cast would get unwieldy, but both ended up going nuts in strange and delightful ways.

With Special Guest was pretty fantastic this week, with Lauren teaming up with Matt Newell, James Mastraieni and Ryan Meharry as a struggling acapella group with a tendency to break into song at the slightest excuse. It bears some resemblance to a CBB Solo Bolo, for whatever that's worth to you.

I can see that reaction to Kristian. For me, though, every time he verges on laying it on too thick, he comes through with something genuinely hilarious that gets me right back on his side.

Less relevant for this particular site, but Herschell Gordon Lewis was also a hugely revered figure in the world of direct marketing. He wrote multiple books about the art of writing copy and penned regular columns for direct-mail industry magazines. The first time I stumbled on one of those at a copywriting gig, I…

Personally, I started with the first episode, listened to the next four or five chronologically until I felt I'd gotten the tone and rhythm of the show down, then started hopping around the timeline randomly and listening to new episodes on their release date. That worked well for me.

I've been waiting eagerly for Big Chunky Bubbles to make his CBB Prime debut, as his two live appearances are easily my highlights of the year to date. It was surprising to find BCB in grand form on this episode yet still coming in as arguably the fourth-most entertaining guest. No knock at all on PFT or the…

Oops, I just posted pretty much the same thing. I think Fran Gillespie is my favorite guest so far but they've all been pretty grand.

Speaking of not speaking of Mike Hanford's new podcast, I don't think we've spoken of Mike Hanford's new Questions for Lennon podcast. I wasn't sure if his John Lennon could sustain a solo show, especially with a premise as thin as "John Lennon has an advice show," but I should've known better than to doubt. I've…

Faulkner's original intention for The Sound and The Fury was to signify jumps in time by switching to different colored ink. Clearly Max is the heir apparent to that long-ago literary vision.