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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Eugene Mirman Interview: SXSW 2009

Eugene Mirman: SXSW 2009 from poprockcandymountain on Vimeo.

Don’t forget to buy Eugene’s book, “The Will To Whatevs” available at bookstores and also here.

Reno 911 Live from the Largo, LA!

BY MELANIE LEVY
Pop- Rock Candy Mountain

Kerri Kenney- Silver and Thomas Lennon from poprockcandymountain on Vimeo.

Christian Bale’s decree of “Fuck-sake man, you’re amateur.”, rang through my head as I futzed with the new camera I bought to document the Reno 911! Live show. Stickers still on, I went to Largo and met with Kerri Kenney-Silver and Thomas Lennon with my equipment insecurity behind me. I set up the camera without realizing the damn thing didn’t work and I didn’t quite know what the error message that was flickering meant as the aforementioned duo chatted about the live show and new season of Reno 911!, So there you go. Sorry you don’t get to see how hot Niecy Nash looked in a stunning yellow dress or how my hand gets all shaky when Kerri Kenney-Silver sings the praises of panty liners.
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The PRCM Show: Scorching the Earth with Marc Maron

I first spoke with comedy legend Marc Maron in May of last year when I covered The Stand Uppity Tour which featured Maron, Andy Kindler and Eugene Mirman. At the time I was thrilled but nervous about interviewing Maron because of his onstage persona. I was afraid he was going to yell at me.

He didn’t. In fact was one of the nicest, most open and down to earth entertainers that I’ve worked with and that interview is still one of my all time favorites. At the time, Marc Maron was in the midst of a sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- having been left by his wife and was covered by the shadow of an inevitable divorce.

Since then he has partnered up with Sam Seder for a live daily webshow called “The Break Room Live” (Maron v Seder) which airs every day at 3pm central on Air America. The show is amazing and hysterical, Marc sits surrounded by his vices- coffee, nicotine, his blackberry and talks about ideas and ‘isms’ and the state of the collective human consciousness or lack thereof. Meanwhile Sam, who honestly has more political and historical information stored in his brain than any human I’ve seen except maybe James Lipton, shoots Maron the occasional “OK you’re cuckoo” look and sticks closely to facts and figures. What you have is a right brain v. left brain situation that is delightful to behold.

Marc Maron has also created a work- always- in- flux one man show called “Scorching the Earth” which centers around the loss of his wife, the divorce and his feelings of abandonment, betrayal, anger, love and grief. The show has received rave reviews, with audience members actually thanking Maron for the experience. That’s what “Scorching the Earth” is, more so than a stand up routine, it is an experience that the audience shares with Maron and that experience changes as Maron moves through the stages of reconciling what has happened to him.

Over the past several months Marc Maron has become a dear friend of mine. When he found out it was just going to be the two of us doing the show he said, “Well shit Amanda, it’s just going to sound like us talking on the phone!”. But I asked him some hard questions and there are some uncomfortable moments where his voice gets soft and he touches on some of the pain that he’s going through and he drifts through memories that have become metaphors for his life and his relationship with his ex-wife. During this interview you will experience Marc the comedian and Marc the man whose heart is broken, and somewhere in between you will get a taste of “Scorching the Earth”.
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The Molls Show: Audio Interview with Molly McAleer

By AMANDA BRUMFIELD
Senior Editor

Molly McAleer, or Molls as she goes by in internetland, first became famous for her blog Molls She Wrote and then as a video blogger for Gawker Media’s sister site Defamer. It was while working at Defamer that her internet popularity grew and she was eventually discovered by Jill Kushner and Justine Bateman of fm78.tv. They loved what they saw and decided to produce a show that would stay true to Molly as a comedian and as a person. Thus was born The Molls Show.

At 25, Molly has worked for HBO and AOL, Defamer, and now she has her own web show. She, has done stand up all over the country, was a part of a comedy sketch group in her hometown of Boston and has taken classes at the UCB theater in Los Angeles. What’s most amazing about all of this is that Molly’s life and career are really just getting started. There’s no limit to what this girl can do and trust me when I say,

You are going to love her.
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