Mark Lashley notes the rise of fan podcasts within the comedy community by discussing Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman's U Talkin' U2 To Me, and the ways in which performances of fandom are complicated by the hosts' celebrity and industry connections.
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Tags: Adam Scott, fandom, Kumail Nanjiani, podcast, podcasting, Scott Aukerman, The X-Files Files, U Talkin' U2 To Me?, U2, WTF With Marc Maron
Posted in Columns, The Podcast Review | Comments Off on “We Know More About You Than You’d Like”: Podcasts and High-Status Fandom
Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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Tags: ABC, Arrested Development, Brady Bunch, cultural memory, Full House, Fuller House, Mad Men, Netflix, nostalgia, reboot, reruns, television, The Muppets, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Wet Hot American Summer
Posted in Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Moving Into a Fuller House: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time
The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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Tags: Andy Daly, Chris Hardwick, comedy, Comedy Bang Bang, comedy television, Marc Maron, Nerdist, Paul F. Tompkins, Pete Holmes, podcast, podcasting, television, The Joe Rogan Experience, TV, WTF With Marc Maron
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: The Influence of Comedy Podcasts on TV Narrative, Production, and Cross-Promotion
