In his The Andy Daly Podcast Project presentation (don’t worry if you can’t keep the name straight in your head, neither can Daly), Gardner is a cross between Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, if both men had active contempt for the sanctity of human life. The character is a relic of an older, cheesier, more geriatric conception of Hollywood and show-business, a product of an age where the cast and crew of game shows made a point of getting high and drunk during lunch to liven things up, and just to be on the safe side, why not get high and drunk before taping as well?Ĭhip Gardner reminds me of the simultaneously loving and scathing burlesques of old-school show-business found on SCTV. Now I’m going to highlight an equally hilarious episode featuring one of Daly’s most demented and evil characters, Chip Gardner: game show host, former street fighter, Satanist and perpetual contender for the honorary, deeply meaningless title of Mayor of Hollywood. In a previous entry in this column, I highlighted an episode featuring the Sha Na Na-worshipping human throwback Hot Dog, one of the sweeter and more innocent of Daly’s characters, in the sense that he does not seem to be pure evil. The premise of the mini-series is that Daly and fellow Earwolf all-star Matt Gourley received a bag of cassettes containing pilots for a series of different potential podcasts from characters Daly played on Comedy Bang Bang, onstage or on his terrific comedy album Nine Sweaters, which feels like a prequel to The Andy Daly Podcast Project, albeit at a fraction of the length. So now seems like a perfect time to revisit another standout episode of The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project, a pre-Howl mini-series Daly created to help promote the first season of Review.
Tompkins and Lauren Lapkus, no Comedy Bang Bang favorite has created as many characters Earwolf cultists have fallen in love with as Daly. But McNeil has an awful lot of competition. Review catapulted intrepid host Forrest McNeil into the privileged position of reigning as the best, and deepest, character in what I like to think of as the Andy Dalyverse (which overlaps tremendously with the Comedy Bang Bangverse). No, Daly will be just fine, and hopefully he’ll find other roles that suit his talent as perfectly as Review does.
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I took comfort in knowing that the future undoubtedly holds a crazy excess of opportunities for a beloved comic genius like Daly and that the years ahead will not be full of unsuccessful auditions and lengthy periods of unemployment.
As a fan of both Review and star Andy Daly, I was bummed that Review wouldn’t make it the requisite six seasons and a movie, but there is a lot to be said for quitting at the top of your game. Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time.Ĭomedy Central announced a few months back that it was renewing the impressively bleak cult sensation Review With Forrest McNeil for an abbreviated third season.
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