Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast · Earwolf and Scott Aukerman

A Four Tampon Polycule (D’Arcy Carden, Carl Tart, Erin Keif)

·1 hr 12 min·4 clips

Deep dive into TV show history and how it launched careers through generosity.

Comedy Bang Bang is Scott Aukerman's long-running comedy podcast known for blending celebrity interviews with long-form improvisational character work. This episode opens with Aukerman introducing the show's theme as performed by the fictional Mr. Senior Jr. III — a joke about the confusing succession of characters with that name. The first guest is D'Arcy Carden, who had a recurring role on the Comedy Bang Bang television show in its early seasons and later became widely known as Janet on The Good Place. Aukerman describes her character in The Good Place as the villainous cyborg, Janet, which Carden finds delightful. The two quickly fall into comfortable banter about their decade-long friendship and their shared history with the CBB television show. Carden reflects warmly on the show's culture of giving jobs to friends without requiring auditions, which she says made her feel at home when she moved from New York to Los Angeles and was worried the move was a mistake. She describes having appeared in three separate episodes as three different characters before landing her recurring role. The conversation also touches on D'Arcy's new Hulu show and an HGTV show called Wild Vacation Rentals. There is considerable tangential comedy about Joe Cocker's You Can Leave Your Hat On, a particularly memorable high school dance show performance, and the general horniness of teenage girls at school talent events. After the celebrity interview segment, the episode introduces the episode's improv characters: an entrepreneur and a British nobleman, setting up the longer improvisational back half of the show. Carl Tart and Erin Keif play roles in the character-driven portion of the episode, though the celebrity guest segment does not introduce them in detail.

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