Papa's Basement

RIP to the world's ugliest boy band.

Look at this, I'm going to type an episode summary that actually reflects the contents of the episode. Miracles do happen!

We start the episode with me disclosing the results of an ancestry test that, when you look at my face, aren't exactly shocking. The show then spends a (possibly painfully) long time going over the firing of Gregg "Opie" Hughes from Sirius-XM, scouring from the airwaves the last remnants of the former Opie & Anthony show from the airwaves. For you people into radio comedy, we spend a while talking about how little of it remains. And, to bring the episode home, co-host Tom Daly revels in giving us the video of a former "mean girl" he went to high school with who sinks to incredible, cringe-inducing lows on Facebook live. Every last second of this episode is great, down to the pauses between our words. And clearly my opinion is impartial and unprejudiced. Give it a listen.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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I didn't put the circle on this photo: that was all Brian. (The circle, not the prick. If Brian's actually packing that, I will kill myself. And him, just to be safe.)

The Wizard of Wad, the Godfather of Grindr, Brian Bolte, is leaving DC. For those of you that don't know Brian, he is friend to countless performers in the DC comedy scene and, most importantly as far as I'm concerned, co-host of Papa's Football Podcast. A genuinely good person (believe me, I live to badmouth, and the worst thing I can say about Brian is he has a head of hair like a Puerto Rican teen's armpit), Pete and I helped send him off in style with the help of a ton of other DC comics and recorded the live event, a throwdown at Summers, the venue Brian put on the DC comedy map. Hopefully, it sounds great. If it doesn't, just imagine a bunch of comics trying to fuck the one reasonably attractive waitress while playfully smacking each other in the balls and you have a 90% complete picture of how things went down.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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Classy humor that takes months to fully parse: that's the Papa's Basement way.

I might (or might not) come up with a witty, extended description for this episode after the sixteen burgers I ate this July 4th make their way lower in my digestive system so they're no longer pressing on my lungs, causing my to breathe like a smoker on his deathbed. It's a good one, though: I took my mom (or did she take me?) to Ocean City, MD for a few, magical summer days at the beach. Things went surprisingly well, actually. But there was more than enough that didn't to keep things interesting.

The real treat of the episode is an in-studio visit from Jesse Robinson, a very talented improvisor and impressionist whose wit is on fantastic display for the entire 90 minutes. Please give him a follow and his show, The ProvCast, a listen: You won't regret it. (Unless he befriends you via social media, gets ahold of your credit card numbers and then sinks you into bankruptcy buying single-malt Scotches and Digiorno pizzas. Nothing but the finest for that man!)

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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After 25 years of ambivalence verging on dislike, I actually enjoyed Marc Maron in something. Maybe there's hope for Israel and Palestine after all.

I am one of the few people that actually remembers the original "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling" (or GLOW) from their brief, late-80s cable tv reign. You see, I wanted to watch the WWF. My dad, a Greek immigrant who thought watching men in tights grope each other was "gay" (prove him wrong, science!), would have none of that. And one of the few perks of this country over his sunny homeland was that he could see women semi-dressed on a hundred cable channels. Unwilling to surrender that nicety, the two of us compromised and became a GLOW-viewing household.

And it worked: I got to see wrestling, Dad got to see bony 80s asses, I turned out straight (it was the 80s - you could still root for your kid to do that) and there was even a Married...with Children crossover episode that incorporated my favorite comedy of the era.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm addicted to streaming television and I would have watched Netflix's GLOW if it were an adaption of a Swedish silent film originally viewed by three people because my life options are watching something new or enjoy the suffocation of the real world. But it's nice to have this bit of background as an excuse for the fact I watched the entire ten episodes of GLOW on the Friday night that it was released. If you like comedy, funny podcasts, Netflix or anything else I can list here to get you to give my show a shot, get a'clickin' and enjoy the episode.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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You can practically see Yorick’s skull in the man’s hand!

In a certain sense, Shawn Westfall is the creative father of the Papa's Basement Show cast. Pete Maybe, Chris Lingebach and I have all studied improv at his Unified Scene Theater in DC. True, we have only studied and performed there for the previous year, so maybe he's more like the "creative guy who is now with your mom because she was waiting to leave your dad once you got to college and he'd just settle for you calling him by his first name and not 'asshole,'" but he still deserves some sort of special title. So I went with "improv king" because it seemed understated.

Shawn was kind enough to take time out of his day and enter the Papa's Basement Studio (it's a real place, look it up on Google Maps) and deliver an hour-plus of fantastic, off-the-cuff comedy. I know, it's truly shocking that someone who has done improv for 20-plus years managed to keep a conversation going for 82 minutes, yet here we are. If you're a fan of the show, a fan of Shawn, a fan of funny things or simply want to drown out the slow, sucking sound of our world as it circles the drain, give this latest episode of Papa's Basement a listen (and, if you're in DC, visit the Unified Scene Theater's site and sign up for improv classes!) :DC Comedy Improv in Papa's Basement:

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This episode isn't about literal bombs. So don't go skipping it because you aren't into munitions.

After a few weeks of semi-organized chaos, the Papa's Basement show is back to form with one of those episodes where I barely remember what we discussed, just that it was funny as hell. The episode's name is drawn from a great conversation about a certain behavior women need to avoid in the workplace if they ever want to get ahead in their careers, though. So please give the mother of all bombs a listen.

Please give a Twitter follow to everyone in today's episode: Pete Maybe, Chris Lingebach and the hilarious Tom Daly.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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That, my friends, is the look of "I would rather be in the custody of ISIS than in front of a camera right now."

I had never heard the story of Serene Branson, a CBS reporter who, apparently, had a mild stroke on-air. Co-host Chris Lingebach introduces me to the clip at the top of the show, then channels Serene's spirit flawlessly for the rest of the episode. Is he drunk? On cold pills? Full of narcotic suppositories? Just determined to spite me? You need to listen and find out!

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As a bonus, here is a censored version. Because Chris has a mouth filthier than a Komodo dragon.

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An episode randomly centered around shitty beans deserves shitty art depicting a shitty bean.

Most episodes of a show feature a strong central theme, a foundation, if you will, upon which the rest of the show is built, every piece intricately falling into place. Other times, Chris Lingebach shows up and screams the words "shitty beans" into the microphone 100 times and you call it a day. Oh, and Chris also thought it would be funnier if each and every instance of "shitty beans" were bleeped. Which I then had to do. And it took four hours. So you better like the hell out of this episode. This "shitty bean" of an episode, if you will.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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Don't act like you didn't love this movie.

Co-host Pete and I have been studying improv comedy for the better part of a year now. And, in the world of improv, the most famed theater out there is the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC, which has produced countless famous alumni (Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler and Donald Glover, to name a few). So, a month ago, we decided to take the plunge and make the weekly death march up from DC to jam our wieners into the improv fame fleshlight that was rightfully ours for the fucking.

This episode captures us just a few days before our first trip (we have since attended class and will be talking all about that experience on a later episode). But, if you want to hear two innocent lads brimming with hope as we attempt to make all our dreams come true, you came to the right place. It's no theme from Rocky, but it just might inspire all the same.

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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"What— me bisexual?"

Disgraced former New England Patriot and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his cell last week, the timing of which was odd for a variety of reasons. Despite serving time for one murder, he had actually just beaten a double murder wrap, and was poised to fight his previous conviction. All of that came to an abrupt end when he did.

Still, there are some theories as to why Aaron did it. What theories? Well, you'll have to listen to the episode. But they're good, and the episode is funny. I mean, as funny as content about the suicide of a murderer can get (which is apparently HILARIOUS).

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below the ad). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

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