I don't know if it's the mood I'm in, or the actual state of the world, but just every song I listen to today doesn't inspire me at all. So, I decided to embrace instead the other stuff I've been doing: consuming new comedy. There is so much great comedy happening right now, it's like some kind of wave that will seriously be historically important soon enough. prepare to be bored by my writing (serious about comedy, ugh) and wowed by the content.

Scharpling & Wurster - "Timmy von Trimble"

The Best Show on WFMU (tonight at 8!) has long since found its niche and now is able to fully realise its world, there's a huge wealth of this stuff, and they're still finding new elements to it. If I could commit the time, I would chart the mythology of these interviews, because they overlap and reference themselves and now the show is a universe in and of itself. And where most of the hilarity (for me, at least) comes from is this attention to detail. It's the constant play of Wurster making a general statement with a subtle error in it, and Scharpling picking up on it, asking about, and finding another layer. Marvelous. [Buy Hippy Justice] [subscribe to the Best Show podcast]

The Distractions - "Banana"

So simple, clear, elegant. This could be in a sketch comedy textbook, which I'm sure, heavens, is being written, because it plays by the rules and yet excels. The Distractions are constantly doing this; taking something so standard and just writing it so perfectly, that it becomes so far from standard, and so much closer to great. The most important prop is the dvd case. [more]

Adam and Dave - "Toronto Vacation"

A totally different, yet equally engaging aesthetic. It's like different comedy tastebuds. Eventually, these two will make a feature, and it will be powerful, excessive, hard to watch but impossible to stop. [more]