Podcasts about pulp comics

April 10-17, 1999 This week Ken wades through a dog related false alarm emergency as he welcomes returning guest Erin Judge and first time guest Jenny Chalikian who have a brand new live record out called "Romantic Comedy: Live! at the Ripped Boddice" Ken, Erin and Jenny discuss Star Trek, Discovery, Xena, the greatness of Jeri Ryan, Star Trek Voyager, hating a Doug Henning future, being gay, gay icons, Hercules, watching TV with your very conservative family, shows shot in New Zealand, Hong Kong action, representation on TV, Dawson's Creek, growing up in Texas, Ken's history with Richard Roundtree, the is Xena butch or not debate, how Jeri Ryan's ex-husband's bad behavior gave us Obama, femme'd out TV stars, Evil Dead The Series, Cynthia Rothrock's greatness, kids who's sketch show was All That, SNL, SNICK, the power of 90s Comedy Central, Are You Being Served?, Alias, why Jennifer Garner always deserves better, Tom Green, Futurama, Family Guy, the post-Simpsons prime time animated world, how Heaven is America, Millenium, X-Files, Walker Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris' syndicated editorial newspaper column, The Awful Truth, Ally McBeal, how television teaches women you either have powerful careers OR a love life but not both, Highlander: The Series, Becker, whatever the hell JAG was, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, loving monsters and loving weeks but not always monsters of the week, how insane people generally are, Laura Kightlinger, Pulp Comics, Kathy Griffith, The Nanny, the Massachusetts factual inacuracies of Dawson's Creek, the double standard of teacher/student relationships dynamics, Delacatessan, Norm, Dr. Quinn, the bizarre-ness of the streaming business model, Irish Wish, Strangers with Candy, Spin City, Just Shoot Me, The Drew Carey Show, nostalgia for Scared Straight, Sabrina the Teenager Witch, Ben Savage working out his family issues via Boy Meets World, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pini's Pizza Place and wishing you could google who somebody is right in front of you because they are clearly famous but you have no idea who they are. 

Can the Aeronauts explain the X-men villains The Brood? Who is The Moon Man? Email us your questions at wordballoonspod@gmail.com

On this episode, we discuss a wide array of topics, including: ·         Brad tests his new soundboard, and is way too excited about it ·         The Posideon Adventure and The Towering Inferno ·         The acting oeuvre of O.J. Simpson ·         Sean watches 80 for Brady, starring Guy Fieri ·         The greatness of Marshawn Lynch ·         Bubblegum Crisis, Gunsmith Cats, and You're Under Arrest! ·         Faces of Death ·         Renting insane movies way too young ·         Maniac and noted cool dude Joe Spinell ·         Jack Nicholson gets emotional talking Roger Corman ·         Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You To Death ·         Victoria Jackson and SNL featured players from the early 90's ·         Brad doesn't like The Walkmen ·         Laura Kightlinger and Pulp Comics ·         The Voices of Comedy Central ·         In Treatment ·         Adam Scott on Tell Me You Love Me ·         Strange Luck with D.B. Sweeney   Website: www.queenvenerator.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenvenerator/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/queenvenerator Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/queenvenerator/  

November 24-30, 1990 This week Ken welcomes the hilarious, smart and fantastic writer, comedian and host of "TV, I Say with Ashley Ray", Ashley Ray. Ken and Ashley discuss being in Columbia, lack of Spanish language skills, watching foreign TV vs keeping up with American shows, Good Day LA, CTV, Canadians getting shows before the US, Ashley's birthday, growing up in Central Time, being born in Dallas, Rockford IL,  revisiting stuff from the 1990s, TVLand, Nick at Nite, Designing Women, Golden Girls, Network family sitcoms, The Goldbergs, Abbot Elementary, single cam vs multi cam sitcoms, Wonder Years, Growing Pains, non-people who have had TV credits before Ken, Malibu cigarettes, Linda Evans, Dynasty, made for TV movies, Tricks of the Trade, Your Mother Wears Army Boots, the legacy of The Cosby Show, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Lisa Bonet's eternal ultra fame, A Different World,  Kindergarten Cop, Chic Jeans, K-Mart ads, back to school shopping, the debut of Law and Order, Carol and Company, comedy anthologies, Kroll Show, The Wonder Years neighborhood in Burbank, In Living Color, seeing only the highs and now the lows of a sketch comedy show, the greatness of Nora Dunn, The Motown 30 What's Going On special, when Damon Wayans got himself fired from SNL, Ken's excited tangents, Ashley's favorite sketch show of all time, The Tracy Ullman Show, Rags to Riches, Big Brother Jake, Descending Angel, Jean Smart, George Carlin, The Ben Stiller Show, Charles and Diana, 52 Pick-Up, the teen suicide episode of Growing Pains, A My Name is Alex, the sad evolution of Ricky Schroeder, stand up specials, Def Comedy Jam, Pulp Comics, Shop Til You Drop, Premium Blend, Six Ladies Laughing, Andrea Martin, Lifetime Television for Women, TV trivia hosted by Alan Thicke, Arsenio Hall replacing Mud Wrestling, The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, watching TV shows with your friends in them, Babes, making fun of your stars in the title of your show, thirtysomething, not revisiting shows you hated, Quantum Leap, Jack Kerouac, historical figures from your own lifetime being depicted by actors on fictional TV shows, "Obama" on Legends of Tomorrow, how beatniks are just hippies, Family Matters, watching all of Sex in the City for the first time during the pandemic, making sure you do the reading so you know all the cultural references and having heavy reality TV as your comfort shows. 

On the day that Stan “the man” Lee would have turned 100 years old, these True Believers honor his legacy and revisit the GOAT's highlight reel and cultural impact. AAWA Jon takes a look back at the Pulp characters that paved the way for our modern Superhero dominance, while Charlie looks ahead at all the comic book projects on the horizon in 2023! -Nuff said!

Join Alex and Dustin as they explore the harsh jungles, barren deserts, and floating cities in the dystopian future cartoon, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. 

July 24-30, 1999 This week Ken welcomes comedian, entrepreneur and Woodstock '99 redeemer Jeff MacKinnon to the show. Ken and Jeff discuss Ken's gift shop, trading card Ken Reid, Bradley Cooper's plastic surgery, eyebrows, Ken's fortress, never leaving your house, New Bedford, hippies, CBD oil, The Illuminati at Dallas International Airport, being a sugar kid, addiction, cherry pie, overeating, giving people wedgies as an adult, "shouties", TV Urban Legends, Paul Pfeiffer is not Marilyn Manson, The Newlywed Game "in the butt" incident, Catholic Guilt, naked comedy, The All That Festival, Amanda Bynes, Greg Proops, mental illness, how 1999 was a garbage year for music, Woodstock '94, Kid Rock, MTV, Sha-na-na, The Omega Man, the invention and cycles of nostalgia, The Golden Girls, George Clooney's doodles, teenagers, the invention of rock n roll, evolution, DIY Punk rock culture, The Real World Hawaii, ICP, not getting the joke, why Pulp Comics was Comedy Central's best ever stand up show, The View, how live music performance presentation has changed, the evolution of The Warped Tour, how failure leads to innovation, not pre-ordaining the outcome, being on The Price is Right, Plinko, how Hollywood executives never want to go out on a limb, starting over, finding your creative voice, the world having enough stand up comedians, Set List with Paul Provenza, interactive media, being present in live media, favorite porn stars, sucking dicks, Ally McBeal, The Hundred Greatest Women of Rock n Roll, hatred of I-talians, anti-heroes, maple syrup urine disease, Baby Boom, the new game "Sex, Marry, Adopt", The Original Kings of Comedy and revisiting Home Improvement.

From 2018: Whatever you think you know about the 1930s origins of comic books, be prepared to learn a lot more. In her new book, "DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Pulp Comics," my guest today, Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, takes comics fans on a deep dive into the earliest days of the company we now know as DC Comics, but that started life in February 1935 as National Allied Publications. National Allied was founded by Nicky’s grandfather, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

June 12-18, 1999 Today Ken welcomes author and comedian Erin Judge to the show. Ken and Erin discuss Ken's pop culture "leakage", Ken's esoteric monster hunting knowledge, New England obsessions with scented candles, Brooklyn to Texas, Wellesley College, Freshman Dorm TV viewing, how 1999 was the Year of the Woman on Television, Ally McBeal, Felicity, "Hollywood 60", Buffy The Vampire Slayer, being ignored by footballers, Friday Night Lights, Texas Rape Culture, Comics Come Home, Comedy Central, Pulp Comics, writing packets, Gen X, Waking Life, Slacker culture, Sable, Lisa Loeb, Political Science, how being a music journalist can ruin your love of music, Xena, Lesbians, Evil Dead Hercules, The Simpsons, depressed people who watch depressing things, Designing Women AIDS, The Fashion Awards, Fashion Programming, Sex in the City, when your friends are your true family, eating Brie, class warfare, MTV Video Music Awards, Ken's crush on Alicia Witt, confusing Suddenly Susan with Cybill, Antiques Roadshow, Laura Prepon's hypnotic out of place-ness, Thumb Wars, The Phantom Menace, settling the bathroom bill in 1999, college, Mad About You, Thanksgiving in June, Fraiser, Strangers with Candy, ugging up, Sports Night, Newsradio, Spin City, Teachers taking advantage of dumb teenage boys, Jenna Elfman, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Drew Carey, Who's Line Is it Anyways?, Friends, The Secret of My Success, Jessie, and Ken accidentally dating a Will & Grace character.

PAUL PROVENZA is an extraordinary stand-up comedian, director, writer, creator, and producer, as well as a classically trained TV and film actor, who at 20, became one of the few Americans who played "Romeo" on the British stage. In TV, Paul wrote, produced, and starred in the series "Comics Only" and "Pulp Comics" and was a series regular on "Empty Nest," "The Facts of Life," "Northern Exposure," "Beggars and Choosers," "The West Wing," and co-starred in the critically acclaimed CBS TV movie, "Under the Influence" with Keanu Reeves and Andy Griffith. In the literary world, Random House published his book !Satirists!, with noted art/portrait photographer, Dan Dion. In theater, Paul worked with Steve Martin, starring in his hit play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and directed and co-produced (with Penn Jillette) "The Aristocrats." Paul also co-created Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net which was produced as a TV series in the UK and as a 65 episode order of a web series for Nerdist. Paul also created, The Green Room, a critically acclaimed Showtime series which featured amazing guests like Russell Peters, Ron White, Judd Apatow, Bob Saget, and Jonathan Winters (in his last TV appearance ever).

August 26 - September 1, 1995 Today Ken welcomes writer/comedian Ryan Staples to the show. Ken and Ryan discuss Ken's museum like home, Burger King vs. McDonald's, snake based terror, bag o burgers, Kelly Kapowski, Summer's last hurrah, Ryan's 9th birthday, Are You Afraid of the Dark? marathon, squatting in your own home, Gymkata, why "Pulp Comics" was the greatest stand up show ever, Kids in the Hall, smuggling snacks into a movie theater, Danny Cooksey, hitting on the bass player from Ash, backstage at Roxette, The Simpsons, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, 1986's True Stories, WWF, Summer Slam, Hot Black Boxes, Brian Wilson, when tennis replaces wrestling, Fresh Prince, The biggest event in the history of the world: Alien Autopsy Fact or Fiction, Munsters/Addams Family, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as the Godfather II of awesome movies, Nowhere Man, The Prisoner, Full House, The Greek Extinguisher, Rescue 911, Nielson Families, Ghostbusters II, Bobby Brown, Vigo the Carpathean as Ken's Middle School librarian, the definition of "a clown", The John Larroquette Show, the Mystery of Comedy Product, Drive-In Review with Buzz Killman, John Tesh at Red Rocks, House Guest, Ellen's grudge, Dumb & Dumber, Outside Providence, Ken's memorization of Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Fresh Horses, Newsradio, Mad About You, Clip Shows, TGIF, Family Matters, Ken's hatred of Disney World, TV Nation, Baywatch, Boy Meets World, debating the best Monkee, X-Files, the death of John Candy, and the worst of the 1970s.

Ethan babysits Dad and teaches him about Pulp Comics, Nerd Play, The Flash, Lego video games and some other stuff! Download BabysittingDadS01E01.mp3

36:40 - A rampling morning commute with Brian on an early morning following a rough rain storm. Topics include walking through Third Ward Park to the Passaic train station, working at Kaplan as a proctor, the world spinning backwards, musical Target gift card, Secaucus Junction, no trains to NYC, missing the Long Branch train, Willow Smith's "I Whip My Hair," Richard Cheese, Jimmy Fallon (as Neal Young) and Bruce Springsteen, "Good Morning" alarm on my new cell phone, no 6:00 train to South Amboy, catching up on podcasts, such as Exposed with Kay & Abi, Big Kev's Geek Stuff, The Paranormal View with Geoffrey "Badger" Gould, not posting links anymore - you can look anything up on Google & other search engines, first day since December 26, 2010 without snow on the ground in Northeastern New Jersey, losing my old phone, Amtrak Acela Business Class train, at the mercy of NJ Transit, prepping the day before, Pulp Comics with Jim Breuer, another Amtrak train - Not Brian's Train, flooding in New Jersey, earthquake in Japan, tsunamis in the Pacific Rim, 6:10 Trenton-bound train arrived 9 minutes later, stories with happy endings, 30th anniversary of Morris Goodman's plane crash, completed 5th draft of the script, check out ONSUG.com & Overnightscape Central, Ric Flair. Download File(Right-click or Ctrl+click to save)Theme music: "The Chasing Game" by Friday's Child.