Funhouse regular Joseph Scrimshaw is a lifelong Star Wars fan, expert and host of the Force Center podcast about all things Starwarsian. Bill is a Star Wars agnostic at best. Can these two unlikely allies team up to explain the enduring popularity of the Star Warsiverse? Stay tuned! A deep culture dive with lots of dumb jokes.

Super-popular video essayist Lindsay Ellis is back on Funhouse to talk about her Hugo Award nomination for The Hobbit Duology, which she created with Angelina Meehan. Before Lindsay heads off to Ireland for the ceremony this week, she and Bill -- both fans of the LOTR movies -- chat about this fascinating three-part documentary which explores how the Hobbit movies doomed themselves which each successive choice, plus the disheartening labor issues that further dispirited the production and ultimately hurt the New Zealand film industry. Lovesick elves, weirdly hot dwarves, and goblin management!

Bill talks with drummer Tony Thaxton of the band Motion City Soundtrack, who are gearing up for another reunion tour in 2020. They also chat about Tony's cool new podcast Bizarre Albums, which does brief but deep dives into those strange albums released by pro athletes, actors, fictional characters, and more. The Return of the Return of Bruno!

On the eve of RiffTrax Live: Giant Spider Invasion opening in theaters next week, Bill chats with RiffTrax writer and producer Sean Thomason, a longtime secret weapon in our crusade to make unfunny movies funny. We discuss Sean's early years as country boy in Appalachia, his time as a comic strip writer, his move to Tinseltown, plus the joys and occasional pains of writing for RiffTrax. Lots of inside baseball and wondrous reflections on movies like Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny! All that and more.

The all-culture show! Bill, Brandi and Bryan review all manner of culture, entertainment, and related stuff. High culture and low! Old, new, borrowed, blue! Includes seed art. With Brandi Brown and Bryan Miller.

Comedy legend Andy Kindler is in town for some shows at the Acme Comedy Club, and he drops by Funhouse HQ for a chat. Bill and Brandi talk to Andy about his standup career; his upcoming State of the Industry speech at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal; how he deals with OCD; religion and lack thereof; and his longtime nemesis Ricky Gervais. Plus more YES MORE! With Brandi Brown.

Bill chats with Funhouse producer and fan convention veteran Ken Plume about the state of pop culture fandom in the USA, and how it’s changed over the last few decades. Bonus: Bill tells a long rambling anecdote about a recent experience in the local dog park! Podcast magic.

In this Very Special Episode, Funhouse regular + ace reporter Brandi Brown turns the tables and interviews Bill about all sorts of stuff: growing up in Brooklyn, early days in theater and comedy, pretty much everything else. It might be more than you need to know! Or it might be EXACTLY how much you need to know.

It’s just dudes this episode. Dudes sitting around, giving each other some good-natured manly shit, discussing toxic masculinity. Bill is joined by comedian / podcast regular Bryan Miller and too-long-gone Mike Fotis to chat about what the hell is wrong with men. (And right too. But mostly wrong.) Also a fine selection of horror movies are discussed, including HBO’s reality-scary CHERNOBYL. Finally: a classic film starring young and unbroken Orson Welles. With Bryan Miller and Mike Fotis.

Bill is joined by friends and classic MST3K vets Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl to discuss the super-fun topic of aging! An honest but not particularly serious chat about getting older in the arts & entertainment world, and the world in general. Spoiler: it’s really not that bad. Oww my knees.