Bebe McPhereson is a comedian, musician and performance artist. 

Starting out her creative journey in Phoenix and rising to prominence in Tucson with the duo Bebe & Serge, she toured Europe before moving to Los Angeles and embarking on a solo career.

Bebe joins Brodie, Gene, Bob, and Libby for a barrage of audience questions and to chat about disgusting bandmates, public access television, getting kicked out of clubs, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, assisting hypnotists, the self-published R. Jermaine Schex romance “Yeltaw,” the old Phoenix club Mason Jar and its notorious owner Franco, Uncle Sku’s Clubhouse, and the late Baby Man.

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(Special thanks to Grayson Gladstone for donating our craft services budget this episode!)

Shakeytown Radio Hour: Ryan McKee and Ron Babcock (1 hr, 45 min)

Gene George is back from paternity leave! Libby Ward is new to the Shakeytown Radio team! Ron Babcock, who was our third-ever guest, returns for a second appearance! Ryan McKee visits from New York for his first Shakeytown Radio interview!

Before their success on the East and West Coasts, Ryan and Ron founded Modest Proposal, a comedy partnership with a magazine and live show, several years ago in Phoenix, Arizona. On this inebriated episode, Ryan talks about his forest service past and MTV.com present. Ron and Ryan recall their semester at sea, joining comedic forces and becoming zinesters, Brodie’s involvement with ModProp, and breaking up the band. Also, embarrassing personal stories about Ron, Ryan, Brodie, and all the romantic partners they fought with, or fought for, or fought over with each other.

Featuring the music of Pissed. (RIP Joel) [photo: Profane Existence]
Info about making donations to Joel’s family can be found at RememberingJoelOlson on Facebook.

I found a list of names suitable for your new podcast or comedy group. I am going to release these into the public domain for the greater good.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Yes? And?

Butt Lamaze

The Sound Of My Own Voice

Juggalo Hunt

Exterior Monologue

Liquor in the Front, Podcast (Improv) in Your Ear

A Desperate Cry For Inattention

For those unfamiliar with the Follow the Money Friday concept, the idea is to seek out & support the creative people you follow on the tweetybox/ tumblr/ wobblr/ flpr/rrrr whatever.

Buy a CD or DVD if you have some money to spare. Don’t have a lot? Spend .99c on a song or a joke!  

Broke? As assholes always say, time is money, so take a few precious moments out of your day and and let the world know what you love one person/ project/ feed/ blog/ mp3/comedy show at a time. Listen to a free podcast or watch a webseries. Leave a thoughtful and supportive review! Make an insightful comment on an article someone you follow has written. Send a link to a pal. Tell your favorite tweeter why they are great. You don’t need to spend A DIME… 

…but you should, if you can.

Books

@Finslippy & @mrskennedy, Alice Bradley & Eden Kennedy respecively wrote THIS: 

@Caissie St. Onge wrote a book about a Teenage Vampire, she is no dumby & neither is her book.

Matt @Debenham (also the husband of @Caissie) wrote a collection of short fiction last year that is very, very, very good.

Music (special MO edition!)

Malkah Duprix AKA @Mocoddle AKA “THE CRIMSON FIST” AKA “SATAN’S OKAPI” has an ep that is a DELIGHT and it costs almost zero dollars

Hey! I just found out that wonderful person and POWERFUL music man @CornMo is on twitter, his “The Magic is You” is a MUST OWN. MUST.

M-U-S-T.

Podcasts

@BnAcker & @BenBlacker’s The @ThrillingAdv Hour Podcast

The always stupid-crazy-great @goSuperego podcast

@PFTompkins, @ShakeytownRadio’s favorite comic-maker-man’s not quite eponymous podcast  the @Pod_F_Tompkast 

Comedy

Follow these guys AT LEAST, buy their work, see them live, IF YOU DARE (or live in LA, Chicago, or the places they are touring)

@KyleKinane http://kylekinane.tumblr.com/ Death of the Party

@DanTelfer http://dantelfer.blogspot.com/ Fossil Record

@Braunger http://mattbraunger.com/ Soak Up the Night

1) Build time machine 2) Eat nickel Thrifty ice cream cones until I puke 3) Kill Hitler

In honor of Jen Kirkman’s album Hail to the Freaks. Available in mp3 form here http://amzn.to/iOkiFu or from the fantastic AST Records in Compact Disc form http://bit.ly/lWCE9n  here’s a rebroadcast of her Shakeytown Radio Hour ep. from August 2010.

Enjoy!

TWO-HEADED BEAST: A Storytelling Show, curated by Dave Ross & Jake Weisman!
Original, personal stories from all sorts of weirdos, including authors, professional storytellers, comedians, television personalities and many others!

MARIA BAMFORD
JAY LARSON
JACKIE CLARKE
JULIE COHEN

Hosted by:
DAVE ROSS AND JAKE WEISMAN

Stories
1716 Sunset Blvd
Echo Park, CA
FREE

Friday, March 4 · 10:30pm - 11:30pm
Theatre Asylum - 6322 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles

Created By
Johnny Ramirez, Laura Mannino

Join us for the premier of the all new variety show “First Fridays” at the lovely Theatre Asylum! Stand up, interviews, videos, and more!

Our guests include:
Renee Gauthier - Chelsea Lately
Taylor Negron - Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ron Lynch - Bob’s Burgers
Mary Mack - Last Comic Standing
Animated Short by Mike Hollingsworth - Animator on Life & Times of Tim

Doors Open at 10pm
$10 Admission - BYOB

Join hosts Tyler and David for a night of comedy, movie talk and free beer but not necessarily in that order. Special guests this time around include Jim Bruce (The Paul Goebel Show), Michelle Biloon (Walking with Michelle), James Adomian (Last Comic Standing) and Matt Champagne (Angel, Will & Grace).

March 5th, 2011 8pm
Meltdown Comics
7522 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
$5.00

The brainchild of Scott Bowser and Alex Mesrobian, Red Velvet Comedy brings you the best emerging and established comics. Performers on Red Velvet can be seen on Comedy Central, MTV, Letterman, Adult Swim, HBO, Showtime, and more.

With:
Matt Besser
Ryan Stout
Ali Waller
Johnny Pemberton
Eli Braden

Improv Lab
8162 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046
$5.00

Comedians You Should Know by the Comedians You Should Know - Available on iTunes

http://www.comediansyoushouldknow.com/home.html

Chicago has produced a ton of my favorite comics like Jimmys Pardo & Dore, a Graham Elwood, your Mike Schmidt, a Kyle Kinane and the inimitable Dan Telfer for example(s). Second City AND The Upright Citizen’s Brigade got their start there for Pete’s sake. Like those luminaries (and organizations) the guys who put together the Comedians You Should Know show really ARE comedians you should know.

Marty Derosa, Danny Kallas, Michael Sanchez, Joe Kilgallon, Mike Lebovitz, and Drew Michael are the eponymous Comedians behind Chicago’s own Comedians You Should Know show. They’ve been putting together their show for a couple of years now and have just released a comedy album recorded at the ABSURDLY AWESOMELY NAMED Timothy O’Toole’s pub. Simply put, it’s a taste of their weekly live show.

There’s a lot to like here for the comedy fan. The comedy ranges from the standard observations about sex, race relations, and booze, skittering along from raw observations to dark absurdist ranting and conveys the spirit and flavor of the city that has so many cliched nicknames that you should just go ahead and pick one of your own. Seriously I’m trying really hard here to NOT just run through the ninety SQUILLION monikers for Chicago.

Here’s a nickname for Chicago. America’s middle child. It’s in the middle of the USA, it’s about half as old as the cities in the original colonies. Jesus, no wonder you guys have such a goddam chip on your shoulder. Sure LA and San Fran get all the attention because we’re the cute younger kids. Your big brothers and sisters in NYC, Boston, and Philly made you drink pee once or whatever. You went through that phase where you cut up animals and set things on fire. WE GET IT. How many times do we have to say it: SERIOUSLY you guys are all right. No wonder so many great comics were raised or cut their teeth in Chicago, the city BY DEFINITION is a needy attention whoring middle child, at least you didn’t end up a stripper or god forbid in prison (yet.) Now that that’s out I feel a lot better.

Bottom line: get this via iTunes, it’s priced one penny under $10 the same price as the door for one of the live shows ($5 if you order tickets online). That’s cheap and it supports good DIY comedy. There’s some cussing’ and dick jokes. If you are easily offended and somehow avoided dying of apoplectic shock simply living amongst other human beings all this time there might be some humor that will make your rectum prolapse. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, those that like this sort of comedy will find that this is the sort of comedy they like. If you are in Chicago or the near midwest environs where they have been doing road gigs you should see these comics.

I’d put a link to the iTunes store directly but Apple is too smart for their own good and just incestuously opens up iTunes.

Gene and the mighty Bobcat Goldthwait at SFSketchfest.

Oh Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, when will you learn?