yeah they basically cracked the code on making a perfect show
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
it's absolutely among the best things on right now. Jo Firestone doesn't get enough love.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:04 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGLBRoVl-mY
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:11 (two years ago) link
(i once brought doughnuts to a job interview)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:12 (two years ago) link
one more, kind of impressed he's been doing this bit for over ten yearshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMTye8xfLQ
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:22 (two years ago) link
I kinda don’t like watching old clips of his from before the show where his character is fully formed.
― Spottie, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I was watching some old Conner O'Malley thing where he briefly showed up as a character (a not terribly un-Joe Pera-esque character, admittedly) and it weirded me out a little.
― A Living Mancave (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 January 2022 12:09 (two years ago) link
Jo's new special on Peacock where she has old people doing standup is very sweet.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
ok yall wanna get freaked out check out :50 in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVf3us5c4g
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
^^ I saw that with the big disclaimers at the beginning, and I dunno. Still feels in character.
I mean, "Joe Pera" is a schoolteacher, so he has to have a college degree. And in the same way he thought it would be a good idea to recreate Rat Race, I could see an even younger "Joe Pera" doing that act.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
ultimately I don't think Joe Pera and "Joe Pera" are all that different - no more than say Nathan Fielder in Nathan for You or some of Tim Heidecker's various characters...still it's weird to hear him doing a different voice
but I guess that is the appeal of the show, the characters feel three-dimensional and real. I like the fact that Pera isn't used as a punching bag the way most comedy shows would. the way his students & neighbors treat him feels very authentic to me. he's this boring dork but ultimately people like him even if they don't really want to get to know him
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
so great that that exists.
im sure ive posted before that there are jokes i remember from seeing him at western ny open mics around this time that popped up in s1 of the show. its amazing how once he figured his character out he just stuck to it and ran with it. i still remember the feeling of seeing him at an open mic at some awful upstate bar and listening to all the macho badboy maron-wannabe standup dudes all roasting him amongst each other, "what is with this mr rogers guy, is he stupid?" etc, and i was like "this guy is obviously the funniest person in this room by a factor of 1000"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
the bit he did on Conan where he mocks up some Christmas card from the future including his "very tall sons" and proceeds to just show it to just one person in the audience is really great
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
There are quite a few less than flattering descriptors I can think of for Marc Maron but, uh, "macho" is not one of them.
<3 <3 Joe Pera though, still need to catch up on S3
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
i guess i was using "macho" more in terms of that kind of comic-as-gunslinger, "traditional standup uber alles", anyone doing anything weird is "cheating" mindset that he used to be very hung up on (less so in recent years as he's softened, but certainly 10 years ago)
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 20 January 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
Oh I get that descriptor, for sure, Pera is such a wonderful exception to that. Maron just spends so much time dwelling in and displaying his insecurities that it's hard to think of him the macho type.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
Joe Pera's on VCR Party Live RIGHT NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnu5F6MT14I
― ernestp, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
hello melinda!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
Okay I am binging this wonderful show. but! Two episodes from S2 are missing from the Adult Swim website. “Joe Pera teaches you to play piano” and “Joe Pera Has a Surprise for You”. The last one is crustal for the rest of the season (I saw it on a plane’s inflight entertainment center before I saw the rat of the season LOL.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
I’m watching S3 and I’m starting to think there is a Werner Herzog documentary vibe? The drone episode with the interview with the astronaut and the watching the sunrise guy. Also the solo cello music in that episode is very Ernst Reijsiger.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
he's gonna be on tour soon! all over the Midwest! I'm from the Midwest!! He's coming to Green Bay!!! shit, I might see him three times!!!!
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
Officially cancelled "for now" :(
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
oh no!!! what a bummer. this show was amazing and I am pretty sure there won't be anything else like it on TV for a long long time
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Can’t wait for the live show later this month.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
Adult Swim must have realized they had a good show and panicked.
― Chris L, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
heartbroken
― Clay, Thursday, 7 July 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Surely someone will pick this up. Not like it needs a big budget to produce.
― Spottie, Thursday, 7 July 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
it sucks, not just because the show was so great but also because it ran so counter to everything Adult Swim usually did, which I think actually made it a really cool fit for them
― frogbs, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-farewell-screening-with-joe-pera-and-friends-two-day-pass-tickets-383000363397
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
Still pissed there’s apparently no place for a show like this on the zillion streaming services and channels.
― Chris L, Thursday, 1 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
2 day pass sold out instantly but i am gonna go to s2 and s3
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
So that new Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix. It’s a little uncanny.There’s no regional connection between the two as far as I know and I’ve never seen interview footage of Dahmer, but it’s like they found a guy who looks like Joe Pera and told him to “do Joe Pera”. Or Pera’s thing was quietly “do Jeffrey Dahmer” the whole time.
― circa1916, Saturday, 24 September 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.gawker.com/culture/joe-pera-dahmer-netflix-evan-peters
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
If Netflix reads this — they don’t have to do another serial killer show. I have another idea. You know the women who used to appear in the Big Buck Hunter game? They’re all older now, and I’ve reached out to them, and I’ve got them signed on to do a film interpretation of Hamlet. If Netflix reads this, I hope they know that we could do it at a fraction of the price of Dahmer.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 04:54 (one year ago) link
I'm here for whatever this guy's next move is
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
recently I had an old friend - someone I've known since middle school - stay over at my house while in the middle of a 12-day hike from Madison to Sturgeon Bay. I put this show on and he absolutely loved it. He won't stop texting me about it. such a shame nobody has picked it up. I mean how much could it possibly cost to make this show?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
dude knows his Dragonball Z!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIDjehZm40
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
http://www.keweenawreport.com/featured/adult-swim-show-runner-donates-11000-to-clk-schools-music-program/
Good guy Joe Pera, helping out UP music students. Maybe he is more than a larper Yooper after all :)
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 October 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
What a strange headline, "Adult Swim Show-Runner", not like "Adult Swim Star" or "Joe Pera" or whatever.
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 10 October 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
yeah that article is wrong on a number of levels: those weren't "stand-up shows," that was the two day screening of every episode of the show at Bell House. He had the UP teacher onstage with him at the start of S3, seemed like a nice guy.
That was a great experience btw, lots of shop talk and fun being in a crowd of Pera obsessives who clapped at every title card.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
that blog sucks for sure, I am guessing the more legit UP newspapers and TV haven't published the story as fast
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Saw him this past Friday. The music playing over the PA as people were getting seated included the MC5 and the New York Dolls. There were two openers, one of whom was Ryan Dunn who did the music for the show. He was really fun and engaging. The next opener was comedian, and longtime Pera collaborator, Dan Licata (he played the DJ in the "Baba O'Riley" episode) who was decidedly hacky and mediocre. Joe came on, and his entrance music was the Jam's "In The City," which was a pleasant surprise. Joe did a LOT of interacting with the audience, and it wasn't the usual crowd work type of stuff, either. He would ask the audience a question, and then asked people to respond "one at a time" -- which they did. Then he asked us to vote on, for instance, if a squirrel could carry an entire pita chip by itself. The ending of the show was like a slowly deflating balloon, though. I saw Tig Notaro do something similar, where there's a bit sort-of being worked up to, and the performer just kind of riffs hoping they'll hit upon something funny enough to end on. I dunno, maybe Joe was working out half-written material or something -- he brought Ryan and Dan (who was funnier in this bit than in his opening set) back out for the last 10 minutes or so. But overall, a solid and hilarious show. I had never heard Joe swear or talk about sex, so that was weirdly jarring.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
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― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
It does kill me how you can tell which of his jokes are his favorites.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
need to start an accidentally joe pera thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd74F_NrsCQ
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 8 December 2022 06:09 (one year ago) link
I appreciate his enthusiasm. Learning about the ways the gases can be channelled through the house was educational for me.
I don't want to ruin the mood, but I do have an important point to make. The tile work there is less than aesthetically pleasing.
Perhaps Eric could make another video explaining the reasons why the tile was set like that. There may be a very good engineering or architectural reason, and – though my wife hates to hear it – that's sometimes more important than how something looks.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
live shows in london/uk next april
― devvvine, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/josephine-pera-93-unlikely-star-of-grandsons-comedy-videos/article_c042b80a-8f49-552f-b919-649b3a457d54.html
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Finally doing a Sleep Podcast. First ep out Sunday: pic.twitter.com/GtSRyToYKE— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) February 1, 2023
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link