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
lots of other fun merch here but:https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/joe-pera/products/joe-pera-new-looks-for-the-modern-man-poster
― “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
lol perfect opening line
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
about 50% of the time my girl gets home, i shuffle over slackshouldered and say "Hullo"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
lol
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
I hadn't realised he's coming to the UK in a few months! The Glasgow evening show is sold out already, but there's a Sunday afternoon matinee, which maybe feels even more appropriate.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
I see devvvine mentioned it just a few posts ago in December actually, but I totally missed it.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
Yay!
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 11 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
in a very random twist of fate i ended up showing him around my workplace while he was in the uk. was extremely lovely!
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:51 (ten months ago) link
The deep regret where you discover that a favourite/loved band just played nearby without you knowing? Crushing case of this when I saw too late that Joe Pera came to the UK. Managed to get a lovely embroidered t-shirt though.
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:52 (ten months ago) link
He even went on NTS
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:53 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZ449A--kA
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:23 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2023 03:13 (seven months ago) link
incredible drip
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 October 2023 04:01 (seven months ago) link