Plop of The Week: You Made It Weird #83
A few days late sharing last week’s podcast episode pick, but here it goes. Pete Holmes has really settled into his Nerdist show, You Made It Weird. His live episodes veer from the regular “let’s get into it” format but it’s always a chance for Holmes and a group of interesting folk to try to make each other laugh. Or in the case of this San Francisco episode, make each other really uncomfortable. Here’s my write-up for the Splitsider “Week In Comedy Podcasts” round-up:
A live Pete Holmes podcast sees him switching from intimate offbeat interviewer to a slightly neurotic and energetic panel host. It’s a fun change of pace, especially considering the oddball collection of guests at the San Francisco fest show. Holmes lays the fun groundwork from the get go with a great list of fake inappropriate video game titles. Eric Andre’s yelling impersonation of Holmes kicks off the guest portion and then Holmes and Andre get into a serious obnoxious-off. Next, Jackie Kashian shows up and they all end up trading mistaken facts and sad confessions, keeping things weird and awkward. Holmes and Jon Glaser are a great juxtaposition of approaches, with Holmes’ talkative riffing mixing greatly with Glaser’s deadpan obnoxiousness. The specific Holmes-Glaser joint awkwardness is a live episode treat, and, boy, it lasts for a long time. A thoughtful Gelman shows up after the great awkwardness and Holmes kicks back into serious interview mode. Holmes self-satisfaction with his test balloon jokes is always a treat and his ability to let the guests go, keeping things loose and definitely weird. Gelman and Andre even manage to squeeze in a bit of live podcast awkwardness of their own. There’s not a lot of structure other than audience being treated to a great group of comedians sitting around trying to make each other laugh, starting and stopping into a lot of conversational traffic jams and maybe learning a little about each other along the way. It’s all pretty messy but that’s okay. As Pete notes, it is definitely the weirdest, most uncomfortable episode yet, which is a great thing.
Here’s the list of other episode picks for last week from the rest of the Splitsider podcast crew:
Beginnings #63 - Chris Gethard
Doug Loves Movies - Brody Stevens, Bert Kreischer, and Ari Shaffir
Gelmania XI – Paul Scheer
You Made It Weird #83 “Live From SF Outside Lands” – Eric Andre, Jackie Kashian, Jon Glaser and Brett Gelman
Throwing Shade #45
Here’s The Thing #24 – Fred Armisen
Harmontown #8 “Cleft in Twain!”
Fitzdog Radio – Judd Apatow
