Steve Agee Weights in on SF Sketchfest

For the better half of the month of January SF Sketchfest will be taking place all over the city of San Francisco with acts like Conan O’Brien, Terry Jones, The Whitest Kids You Know, the cast of Reno 911 and many more.

Our buddy Steve Agee gave us his thoughts on playing the festival this year. (The Benson Interruption with Doug Benson and guests Steve Agee, Scott Aukerman, Michael Ian Black, Graham Elwood and more 9pm @ The Eureka Theater $20) Buy Tickets!

1. Have you played Sketchfest before? I’ve never played Sketchfest before. I was invited up a few years ago but was unable because of prior commitments. This year I begged Janet (Varney) to have me up, and she was kind enough to find a spot for me.

2. What was your experience/ are you excited to play for the first time? I’m really excited. San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on Earth! Also, Doug Benson’s show is one of my favorite shows to do on Earth…So I’ve got like a double boner right now. I’m not implying that I have two dicks and they’re both hard. I’m saying that I’m twice as — oh fuck it, you know what I mean.

3. Who are some of the comics you are most looking forward to seeing? I really can’t wait to see Brain Candy in a theater! It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. I’m also looking forward to seeing Dave Foley…obviously.

I’m also excited to see Reggie Watts, Andy Richter, Dave Koechner and Todd Barry. I’m friends with all four of them, even though Todd Barry will probably tell you that he’s not my friend and he hates me.

For more concert and show dates go to SF Sketchfest.com

The Super Sonic Robot Talk Show with Jeff Clark: Anna Vocino

The Super Sonic Robot Talk Show with Jeff Clark, Pop-Rock Candy Mountain Senior Editor Dos

Episode One: Happy Holidays with Anna Vocino (FREE RADIO) and The Jeff Clark Superstar Robot Band

Anna Vocino answers the hard questions about Comedy Central, living gluten-free and James Earl Jones.

Plus, The Jeff Clark Superstar Robot Band debuts the newest holiday hit, “Christmas With Shawtee.”

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Paul Scheer: Mr. Thursday Night

BY JEFF CLARK
Senior Editor
Pop-Rock Candy Mountain

Every fall TV season, there is the one standout show that everyone is going to be talking about the next day at both the literal and proverbial water cooler. This year, that show is FX’s The League (although “Community” on NBC has finally started to come into it’s own and has had some great episodes recently.)
The League is an ensemble comedy about a group of friends who have a fantasy football league. As someone who picked QB Tom Brady as my first round pick in 2008 only to watch him injure himself in the first game of the season, the ups and downs of fantasy football are real, damn it, and The League recognizes this.
Comic Paul Scheer plays Andre on The League which is reason enough to watch (If you need other reasons: Nick Kroll, Jon Lajoie and the use of great words such as “dick” and “pussy.”).
Scheer is one-third of the comedy ensemble Human Giant, the greatest show MTV fucked up and didn’t know what to do with since “The State.” He’s also had a recurring role as Kenneth’s nemesis “Donny” on 30 Rock and was recently on Parks and Recreations. He’s also a prolific comedy writer and stand up comic and he was recently married — he’s a busy guy. However, he did takes some time from his bust schedule to discuss The League, Harold Ramis and Human Giant, among other things, with Pop-Rock Candy Mountain.

Co-creator Jeff Schaffer has quite a TV pedigree for his connections with “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Is that something that excited you about this project?

Definitely, plus Jeff gives amazing foot rubs.
In the last few years, I’ve been coming from a place where I like to be very hands on in the production of whatever project I’m doing but whenever you get a chance to working with such talented people like Jeff and Jackie Marcus Schaffer all that goes out the window. Their credits are phenomenal and they are incredibly smart and funny people, so it’s been great to learn their style by watching them work.

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Podcast on Podcast: PRCM vs. WTF With Marc Maron

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day - WTF? He’ll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head.

The PRCM Show: Taryn Manning/BoomKat

Taryn has a solo album to be released in the near future and is also a partner in her own clothing line, Born Uniqorn. Updates to follow.

Juliana Hatfield: On Your Mind

BY AMY SHUSTER
Pop- Rock Candy Mountain

When I reminisce about the bevy of “girls with guitars” in the ’90s, there was one musician I related to more than the rest. Juliana Hatfield spoke a more sensitive language than the other angry girl-musicians. It was the dissonance of Hatfield’s sweet voice that appealed to me most as she explored life’s dark corners in all its bittersweet poignancy. Known for her jangly, sparkly guitar, she was a contrarian who wasn’t afraid to tell a magazine that she was still a virgin in her early twenties.

Hatfield now says she thought she was being subversive declaring this in a magazine whose pages were splashed with sexy images. Too bad, nobody quite got her sense of irony.
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