Eh, Fran Gillespie also told them to stop doing the show. Granted she's someone who knows both of them better than Bobby Lee seemed to, but it's not like this is a new conceit.

Yeah, I've seen it on HBO since then and past that point it just becomes somewhat repetitive and not all that interesting on a second watch. But I'll watch the first half any day; it shows what scripted comedy with a talented director can be.

There are some excellent comedies that have a ton of improv. I don't necessarily have an issue with it per se - although not having a script means the director can't do much besides point the camera around the people talking. The issue is when you get a movie full of improv where the characters are formless and the…

There are plenty of awful comedies that have been rightfully forgotten. I know because I watched Comedy Central in the late 90s and they would air mediocre comedies from the mid 80s and most of them were terrible.

I believe the Dalai Lama speech is improvised, as is the bizarre, flat scene where Chase hits his ball into the groundskeeper's (Murray's) apartment. I don't know that it's the exemplar of a well-scripted comedy.

Yeah, I like in a traditional CBB when the first guest is someone who is immediately on Scott's wavelength vis a vis silly wordplay and digressions.

Mitchell was also a recurring character on the show.

Haha, maybe that's why I forgot then

Thank you for mentioning this. I heard McWeeney on Doughboys and he plugged this podcast, but I had totally forgotten it. I would like to check it out.

Aukerman said on some Best Of tour episode that he was trying to set up a date to record a Doughboys episode. PFT said 'I don't think I'll ever be invited on'. Couldn't tell if PFT was playing around or not, but I expect we'll see Aukerman on in the nexxt six months.

I'm almost caught up on Doughboys, and I'd heard from a friend that the Bug Mane episode was awful - other than a weird and boring digression about The Matrix at the beginning of his participation in the show, I enjoyed his ridiculousness.

The show used to be a three-hander regularly, but now it seems like the standard is having 4 people in studio, and I think that means the games have to go - there just isn't time for them.

He was a relative bust, but I imagine he took home something like $27 million in NHL salary, less what taxes and escrow ate away. That's a lot of guest spots on Love.

Weirdly I feel like Aukerman has gotten a bit sidelined on his own podcast. Would You Rather? used to be a great opportunity for Aukerman to create competing absurd realities on every show, with his guests' questions kind of 'yes, and'ing him into more ridiculous consequences to each thing he said. He's said in…

The fact that Ryan Whitney was Mitch's childhood bully is too funny to this NHL superfan. I recall a few years back when Whitney was playing out the string with the Edmonton Oilers that some online Oiler fans referred to him as 'Barbaro' because of how finished he looked. The fact that Whitney's online presence…

He's not my favorite either - I think How Did This Get Made? can easily fall into that trap because if you saw the movie, you know what he's yelling about.

My problem with live comedy podcast episodes besides variable sound quality is when the performers can't hear each other. That's happened at a few live CBBs this year and while the episode sound quality is fine, the episode itself is so disjointed that it's unpleasant.

I have heard of this (male and female friend sleeping in the same bed for comfort) happening. I've heard about it in real life and may have read about it on Savage Love at some point? Or on some podcast? So it's a thing for some people, at least.

I didn't think that was the perspective of the sketch. There was no reason to think that guy was amazing, and I believe he admitted to being a 'bitch boy'. It seemed like everyone involved was terrible.

He was joking. I think.