Comedy Bang! Bang! is among the biggest comedy podcasts of the past decade, and one in a slew of podcasts to get translated to TV, with 110 episodes of the now canceled IFC television show under its belt. In the video above, Aukerman talks about the experience of adapting his podcast for the small screen.
With more than 500 audio episodes and 110 TV episodes (of its now defunct IFC series), Comedy Bang! Bang! is among the biggest comedy podcasts of the past decade and consistently a Podmass favorite. The show has a great stable of one-off and recurring characters, like Paul F. Tompkins’ Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jason…
With more than 500 audio episodes and 110 TV episodes (of its now defunct IFC series), Comedy Bang! Bang! is among the biggest comedy podcasts of the past decade and consistently a Podmass favorite. The show has featured great comedic talents like Paul F. Tompkins, Aziz Ansari, Chelsea Peretti, and Amy Poehler. We…
With over 500 audio episodes and 110 episodes of the former IFC television show, Comedy Bang! Bang! is among the biggest comedy podcasts of the past decade and consistently a Podmass favorite. In the past, the show has featured some great comedic talents, like Bobby Moynihan, Paul F. Tompkins, Aziz Ansari, Chelsea…
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In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, very few shows rise to the status of being massive crossover hits. More often than not a podcast will find its niche audience and hang on to it for however long the hosts feel like keeping it up. Comedy Bang! Bang! is not one of those podcasts. Having just…
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Minutes into his final Comedy Bang! Bang! appearance, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (Paul F. Tompkins) interrupts his description of a never-produced Broadway show based on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer to ask, “Can anyone be enjoying this?”
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After 110 episodes (and just as many nicknames) Comedy Bang! Bang! is coming to an end on IFC. The TV adaptation of Scott Aukerman’s freewheeling podcast was never a ratings smash, but it nevertheless soldiered on for five seasons, its reserves of creativity and character unstripped by a seemingly perpetual production…
If you’ve laughed at a movie or a TV program in the past 10 years—particularly if that movie or TV program has any connection to the UCB Theatre—then you probably know Brian Huskey. Currently seen as a member of People Of Earth’s alien-abduction support group, Huskey has also made appearances on Veep, Bob’s Burgers, …
How sharper than a turkey’s beak it is to have a thankless audience. But “Mike Colter Wears A Pink Button Up And Black Boots” won’t have that problem. Who could be ungrateful for one last Thanksgiving from a show that loves its holiday episodes like Comedy Bang! Bang! does? That’s doubly true when the show features…
Last week, it was a “Very Special Episode.” This week, it’s a spin-off. (Or at least a backdoor pilot.) As Comedy Bang! Bang! winds down, it appears to be finding even more material to mine out of the traditional multi-camera sitcom. I’ve acknowledged on more than one occasion“Jesse Tyler Ferguson Wears A Brown…
“We don’t have a lot of money for bleeps,” Scott scolds a foul-mouthed guest in tonight’s episode. But in these last few episodes of the series, it feels like Comedy Bang! Bang! is going all out on small production and design elements. Mimicry of talk shows and infotainment has always been CB!B!’s signature, but “Ben…
Comedy Bang! Bang! is no stranger to taking classic sitcom conventions and warping them to fit within the internal “logic” of the show’s world. There’s the ultimate example in “Jesse Tyler Ferguson Wears A Brown Checked Shirt And Stripey Socks,” where Scott is torn between his stereotypical multi-camera sitcom life…
