[ATTENDED: June 25, 2026] Comedy Bang! Bang!
I enjoyed Comedy Bang! Bang! when it was on TV (2012-2016). I know I didn’t see all of the episodes. I mostly saw the ones with Reggie Watts (and a few with Weird Al). I didn’t know it was a podcast because I don’t really listen to podcasts. But I was shocked to find out that it had been a podcast since 2009–I didn’t even think podcasts existed for that long.
Since I didn’t know this had been a podcast, I genuinely didn’t know what to expect at this show. I knew Paul F. Tompkins would be there (which is 90% of why I wanted to go). And when we were talking to someone before the show, he told us it was a live taping of the podcast with special guests. I assumed that the special guests would be local comedians–completely forgetting that the show is a parody of talk shows.
And so, we were given a sibling, a theater critic and a foreign exchange student as the guests.
But first was the balcony report. (which had the audience going crazy chanting TBR! It was then that we realized that people there knew this show way better than we did.
So I had gotten us seats in the middle. But they were tight and crowded, so we snuck to the back where there were comfy open seats–note to self if you eve go back to the Miller, unless you need a close up of the stage, choose the back couple of rows. And this way we kind of felt like the outsiders we were. (more…)
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