COMEDY 365 AT EDINBURGH 2008 - PROGRAMME 1

Ah, Edinburgh in August: warm audiences, damp weather, cheap alcohol, full bellies, empty houses, expensive accommodation, invisible producers, all-too-visible promoters, camaraderie, break-ups, breakdowns, crippling debt, and enough flyers left in boxes and bins at the very end to make an environmentalist weep.

It’s time for Fringe and, deep down, we all love it. And, although 404 Funny isn’t up there doing a show this year, we do have some fantastic performances in the archive from Comedy 365’s two years at the planet’s biggest arts festival.

All this week, we’re back in 2008, when Comedy 365 was part of PBH’s Free Fringe at Dragonfly, a bar just west of Grassmarket, halfway up West Port.

On today’s show, in order of appearance:

STE PORTER
Ste will be MCing at The Slaughterhouse and Lenny's Bar and Smoke Grill in Liverpool on Friday and Saturday nights throughout August 2010. For details of these and other show dates, plus ticket availability, click here.

TOM WATERACRE
Pegabovine are on infinite hiatus and Tom himself has been fairly quiet of late, which probably means he’s up to something. Be the first on your block to know by clicking here.

GIRL & DEAN
Sarah (Dean) won’t be at Edinburgh this year – the reason behind this may be because she “hates downhill more than uphill” or it may just because she’s up to something with her significant other, who just happens to be that aforementioned Wateracre chap. Jessica Ransom, however, will be, with her one-woman show Ransom’s Million (Pleasance Cellar, 16.45, Aug 4th-30th, not 16th or 23rd).

JAY FOREMAN
Fresh from two consecutive appearances in the Musical Comedy Awards final, Jay will be showcasing some of the material from his second CD in Pretend You’re Happy (Underbelly Delhi Belly, 13.40, Aug 5th-29th, not 18th).

PAUL CONNEELY
Continues to appear as a guest compere at The Funny Side…of Covent Garden.

JAMES SHAKESHAFT
Has, along with David LE Davis, written and appeared in Hung Out for Channel Four’s Comedy Lab, and the first six Dr Answers podcasts are still available for download right here at 404 Funny.

NICK HELM
After two years of appearing in mixed-bill shows, Nick will this year be making his solo debut at Edinburgh in a show entitled Keep Hold of the Gold (Downstairs at the Tron, 15.40, Aug 5th-29th, not 18th).

JAKE YAPP
Jake’s not at Edinburgh this year but, thanks to the BBC Trust, has been given a stay of execution on 6 Music, where he continues to contribute to Sean Keaveney’s breakfast show. We’re also betting he’ll be approached to be a talking head on those Morons of 2010 round-up shows on TV towards the end of the year that will probably be repeated nightly through until April 2011. He'll hopefully find some time to do some more podcasts for 404 Funny too – but for the time being have a listen to the best of his previous two series, The Jake Yapp Podcast and Jake Yapp’s Little Bits.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/EDINBURGH2008edit1.mp3

All acts recorded live at Sex Tips for Pandas, which was hosted by and co-produced with Sowerby & Luff, except Paul Conneely, who was recorded as part of his Edinburgh 2008 one-man show A Beginner’s Guide to Happiness at Holyrood Too@Faith.

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 16 - TRACKS

Today sees the last edition of The 404 Special before the programme takes a well-oiled summer break – but rest assured, it will be back in September.

For the time being, please be assured that we’ve saved the very worst until last.

Your culprits, in descending order:

ROB BALDER FEATURING JANNY It Had to Be You
RAYMOND & SCUM The Classiest Song In The World
TI TRA LI MEDIA The Toilet Song
STUCKEY & MURRAY Taking a Dump at Work
ROBERT LUND I Peed in the Pool
JEFF KORNBERG Damn
CHUB CREEK MUSIC In Barefeet We Slid
STEVE GOODIE Brown Booger
KEN TURETZKY Her Shit Don’t Stink
BOB RICCI Little Poop Scoop
MUSICOLOR Pumps on Parade

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special16_eq.mp3

Got a favourite track from this or the previous 15 shows? Email us.

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Or are you a very sick and twisted composer of comedy songs yourself, utterly bitter at the lack of respect your art has received from the mainstream media? We feel your pain. Email us links to some of your tracks and if we like ‘em, we’ll stick ‘em out on the show and put you on the 404 Special Passenger List. You’ll feel at home here.

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 15 - TRACKS

404 Funny would like to sincerely apologise for the lack of last week's edition of The 404 Special. This was due to the show's host, Richard Cray, being jailed for seven days for knocking off a policeman's helmet. But let's face it, it could have been a lot worse...like that time when he was held in contempt of Courts. Quite how a chain of furniture stores that was going into administration could ever have prosecuted him under human rights law in the first place, nobody knows...

Anyway, in addition to the seven-day sentence, Richard had to undertake 30 minutes of community service, so here it is: an edition of The 404 Special that takes a look at crime, law-breaking, and other deviant behaviour.

RAYMOND & SCUM My Neighbor
MATT GRIFFO Neighbor
PAUL & STORM Nun Fight
POWER SALAD Wasted Space Oddity
MONEYSHOT COSMONAUTS Hookin’ for Drugs in All the Wrong Places
JONNI MUSIC Palaver in Ramsbottom
TOM SMITH Smash the Frickin’ Fairies
ROBERT LUND Jail
JAY FOREMAN Stealing Food
ROB BALDER Needlessly Noir

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special15_eq.mp3

To make up for the later-than-usual posting of this episode, there'll be another 404 Special later this week. But if you can't live without some funny music in the meantime, why not click through some of the links in our Passenger List on the right-hand side and buy some CDs.

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 14 - TRACKS

This week's edition of The 404 Special is for all you animal lovers out there. Trust me, by the end of the show you'll be well into writing your letters of complaint and gathering together all the unused red paint in the house to throw at us when we collect an award for the show in several months' time.

Unlikely to be approached to strip off as part of a global advertising campaign for PETA for some time are:

PINK STEEL Cock Fight
SEAMONKEY Moo Moo Cow
STUCKEY & MURRAY Unicorn in C Major
TV’s KYLE Sheep in the Morning
LITTLE THOM The Dog Song
JEFF KORNBERG Something That is Fun
POWERED BY SATAN The Scrotum Frog of Lake Titicaca
CHUB CREEK MUSIC Bock Bock I’m A Chicken
ROBERT LUND Hooked Up With a Bigfoot

Seriously, though, be kind to all animals. (Apart from pigeons. They're just a bunch of filthy bastards.)

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special14_eq.mp3

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 13 - TRACKS

Show #13 is most definitely unlucky for some, including certain members of the legal profession, chavs, anyone who's appeared on the current series of BBC1's Cowboy Trap, professional careless drivers, and certain celebrities, as we focus on some of the many individuals most loathed by members of polite society.

Don't shoot the messenger, though - blame the following artistes:

STEVE NEWMAN & FRIENDS Lullaby for Lawyers
NICE PETER 50 Cent is a Pussy
CARLA ULBRICH National Asshole Directory
PAUL & STORM Barry Bonds Press Conference: The Musical
JAY FOREMAN Moon Chavs
AUTOMATIC PILOT Derelict in My Doorway
THE LEGENDARY TEN SECONDS Jerry Builders
THE VOLUME BROTHERS White Van Man
TONY FORTE That’s Just the Fucking Way it is
CHUB CREEK MUSIC Cow
DISLOCATED BONER Country Club Thug
TOM SMITH Still a Nerd

Who or what do you find most intolerable these days? Why not leave us a comment and we'll see if we can find a song about them / it for a future edition of The 404 Special. Vent your spleens by all means...but do be nice about it.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special13_eq.mp3

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 12 - TRACKS

I don't know, last week's 404 Special was all sex, sex, sex...and this week's it's all about the darker side of love.

Yes, today you can find out which of the following artistes would die for your affection, which of them has a partner who's been living on borrowed time since their wedding reception, and what mode of London transport love is most like...and why.

This week's featured songs:

KEN TURETZSKY True Love
THE KILLER KONA BUDS Vagina
BOB RICCI Obsessed
ROBERT LUND Where I’m Keeping You
CHUB CREEK MUSIC I Walked Through A Fart
CARRIE DAHLBY Killing You Softly
JOSH WOODWARD Chainsaw
JAY FOREMAN Chained to a Radiator
JONNI MUSIC The Thing About Love

Madly in love with one or more of these artists? Click on the links in our Passenger List on the right-hand side of this blog and tell them how much they mean to you by buying their CDs.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special12_eq.mp3

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 11 - TRACKS

Warning: This week's 404 Special is filthy and most certainly Not Suitable for the Workplace. (Unless you happen to spend your working hours in a sex shop, brothel, or clip joint, that is. It should be OK to listen to the show in any of those places, as long as you check with your boss, madam, pimp, clients, and colleagues first. A little courtesy always goes a long way...and usually results in a larger tip.)

Keeping it up for over half an hour of sheer pleasure this week are:

THE LIMEYBIRDS Hey Nonny
NICE PETER If You Really Love Me

All legs akimbo are:

MONEYSHOT COSMONAUTS I Feel Happy
AIRFERG Why Don’t Hookers Take Food Stamps?
BILL BATES Mars Bar Party
TOM SMITH Pygmalion 2.0
PROJECT SISYPHUS When I See Your Face

And totally full of spunk to give you the most satisfactory climax in podcasting history:

CARL HATMAKER Britney’s Bald As A Cue Ball But I’d Still Do Her
PAUL & STORM The Captain’s Wife’s Lament

Links to all performers are in the right-hand gutter of this blog. (And possibly in that telephone box around the corner from your home too.)

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special11_eq.mp3

ATTENTION: SUBSCRIBERS IN NYC

Here's news of a couple of shows happening in the Big Apple this month that we here at 404 Funny would definitely go and see if we weren't 3,400 miles away.

First off, our good friends Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting have gone and booked another hideously expensive run at the Edinburgh Fringe in August without the merest thought as to how they're going to afford it.

So, if you're in NYC, please help them out by going along to see them at 2010 Sketchfest NYC! at the Upright Citizens Brigade, 307 W. 26th Street, on Thursday June 10th at 11pm.

Alternatively, why not try Mr and Mrs Bruce Vain’s Free Booze & Comedy Hour at the Shetler Theatre on the 12th Floor (!) of 244 W 54th St., which is between 7th & 8th Avenues, this Saturday, June 12th, at 9.30pm. Tickets for the latter show can be had for $8 online from http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/114051 (the booze may be free but the comedy ain't, my friends).

If you're in Cincinnati or Washington DC, please visit the SBJM website for details of shows in late June and throughout July.

And if you can't make it to one of the above shows, you could always donate a dollar or five to their fighting fund here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sbjm/skinny-bitch-jesus-meeting-goes-to-edinburgh. (Gosh, we wish we had friends who gave us that sort of money.)

ALSO...

Liam McEneaney's weekly show Tell Your Friends! has become one of NYC's most talked-about comedy nights - and now it's being made into a movie! Eeek!!

Here's the info:

Tuesday, June 22nd

The Onion Presents:
TELL YOUR FRIENDS! THE CONCERT FILM
at The Bell House
149 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
http://www.thebellhouseny.com/

DOORS: 6:30pm & 9:00pm

HOSTED BY:
Liam McEneaney

WITH:
Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal
Reggie Watts
Christian Finnegan
Leo Allen
Rob Paravonian

AND MUSIC FROM:
A Brief View of the Hudson

Fuck me, that's a lotta BIG names. And you get to whoop as loud as you like on film (but please refrain from doing so during the actual performances unless asked to do so).

Tickets are priced just $5 and are best bought in advance to avoid disappointment.

Buy tickets to the 6:30 show here.
Buy tickets to the 9:00 show here.

LEGAL STUFF: You need to be 18+ to enter and 21+ to drink at this show. So there, you perishin' kids.

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 10 - TRACKS

Well, pull our focus: if it isn't The 404 Special's Film and TV Extravaganza, featuring your favourite stars from both the big and small screen.

Joining Richard Cray above the title are:

THE GREAT LUKE SKI Everybody Get Lost
ROB PARAVONIAN Star’s Partner
JAY FOREMAN Captain Birdseye
DEVO SPICE Bacon 2: Electric Boogaloo
CARLA ULBRICH The Force is the Force
DAVID TANNY Glenn Beck Easy Hang Up
PROJECT SISYPHUS The Saw Song
PAUL & STORM Randy Newman’s Theme from The Passion of the Christ
TOM SMITH Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life
ROBERT LUND Shakespearean Pie

Soundtracks to this podcast are available by clicking the weblinks in The 404 Special Passenger List, which you can find to the right of this post.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special10_eq.mp3

THE 404 SPECIAL - PROGRAMME 9 - TRACKS

On this week's 404 Special, we're looking at the human body...by and large, two specific parts of the human body, as will be painfully evident from the list below:

SUDDEN DEATH Longer
CHUB CREEK MUSIC Gary Has Big Nipples
PINK STEEL More to Love
THE KILLER KONA BUDS Show Me Your Tits
ROBERT LUND 99 Words for Boobs
DEIRDRE FLINT Boob Fairy
COOKIE CUTTER GIRL Goin’ in the Other Direction
TV’s KYLE Break My Face

For more info on any of the above acts - some of whom are comfortable in their skin, some of whom are not - click on their link in The 404 Special Passenger List in the right-hand margin. (That is, if your bum's not too big.)

http://media.libsyn.com/media/funny404/404special09_eq.mp3