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Oh hello celebrity guests2/29/2024 ![]() ![]() It’s a take on the cold case murder genre, but unlike earlier parodies like The Onion’s A Very Fatal Murder, Oh, Hello doesn’t try to wring dry every possible joke on the form. ![]() With Oh, Hello: the P’dcast - pronounced “pid-cast” - we finally have a parody podcast that doesn’t need to dress itself up in clown shoes. As the discourse around podcasting broadens past cliché jokes about mattress ads, it’s welcoming in a more complex and nuanced set of references that become richer with meaning the more we pull on them. So it feels odd that only now the medium is reaching its “inside baseball” stage. Clearly, Mulaney was apprehensive about the joke as well, as he wanted the former SNL head writer to take any potential grief the comedians might get for the crass comment.Podcasting has long been an insular community where it seems all the creators are fans and all the fans are creators. It certainly pokes fun at the frontman’s sex symbol persona and reputation, and not everyone is always game for that. It’s actually a pretty funny joke, but I’m not surprised the rock star didn’t go for it. So mothers lock up your daughters and daughters lock up your mothers.’ And he listened, and he went ‘Nah I don’t like that.’ And I actually remember I made Seth Meyers read that one. I remember we had a joke when Mick Jagger hosted that was ‘Hey everyone I’m Mick Jagger. In true Mulaney fashion, he was quick to recall a specific instance with Mick Jagger, who did not like one of his monologue ideas. During the interview, the stand-up comedian was asked what jokes he had that were shut down by the celebrity guests when he was an SNL writer. Mulaney was a guest on Hot Ones, a talk show where he ate increasingly spicy wings while answering questions about his career. ![]()
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