If you listened to Episode 13 than you know that we love Crank and Crank 2. Next week we have an extra special treat for you when Brian Taylor, co-writer/director of the Crank films, joins us to revisit all our favorite Chev Chelios moments. Our challenge for the listeners this week is to design a poster for either Crank film and the winner will have their poster sent to Brian. Sound good? Join us next week for the latest in our How Did This Get Made? Director’s Series!

Ed O’Neill, the beloved American actor from Married With Children and Modern Family, sits down and chats with Kevin Pollak.

Today’s Comedy Bang Bang is the total insider experience! Do you want sizzling hot entertainment news about your favorite podcasts and bands? You’ll get it! Are you interested in what it’s like to be on the hottest drama on television? Bob Odenkirk will tell you all about it! Do you want to know everything there is to know about both property management and assassinations? First time guest Paul Luzak is here and he isn’t holding back, so throw away your newspapers, magazines, and encyclopedias and get all the info you’ll ever need on Comedy Bang Bang! It’s historical, informational, and erotic!

Usually after a vacation, you’d invite your friends over to look at pictures from the trip. Seeing as that is impossible for a number of reasons, here we have a monologue regarding Bob’s travels: A travelogue if you will.

Ronna & Beverly talk with Barbara Vinick, author of “Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World”, and ring in the new year six days after it arrived by revealing the resolutions they made…for each other.

Saturday Night Live is such an institution that it’s hard to know which myths are true. Enter legendary cast member Laraine Newman who joins us on Sklarbro Country to show off her comedy hipness, delight us with her stories from New York, and suffer through a split scrotum with us. Plus we have a guest who combines our love of athletics and law: Gary Less, publicist for Joseph Amendola, lawyer for Jerry Sandusky. Now go punch a waterfall, but check before you put on your waterfall punching gloves!

Mark Duplass joined us for this week’s Totally Laime and his awesomeness was enough to make the heavens clap! Mark is an actor, film maker, musician, parent, foodie, and he’s come prepared with hilarious stories of meeting fans, interesting theories about marijuana, and great advice for giving advice. It’s enough to make you yell “The League fucking rules, dude!” Enjoy!

If you spent the past month singing Christmas Carols, than there is a good chance that you’ve been infected by one of the many music-based disorders from which Bob suffers. Thank you Ben for your letter. Ben, huh…that reminds me of a song…

This week’s improv4humans is brought to you by skirt steak, martian invasions, and bad parenting. More accurately, it is brought to you by Curtis Gwinn, Sean Conroy, and Brett Gelman who join Matt Besser to relive childhood tragedies and lost love all for the sake of comedy.  As always, follow @MattBesser to tweet your suggestions and visit Bobby Matthews and Dragoon to hear more music like the stuff you heard today.

It’s not often we get a guest with David Wain’s level of expertise. As the son of a broadcaster (and a hit maker himself) he brings some real gravitas to Entertainment Weekly’s Top Singles of 2011 Chart. As the director of such hits and cult classics as Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer, David offers up a unique perspective on EW’s Worst Movies of 2011 Chart. And as a former gambler he plays a round of Chart Roulette that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. But don’t get him started on politics!

Well, late is better than never! With Bob out on the road he couldn’t share this New Year’s Eve poem until after the fact. I think we can all forgive him, considering the circumstances.

Would it be cheating if I just copy-and-pasted a dictionary definition of “cheating” as the episode description, embellishing it with specifics about this show? No? In that case: Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, esp. in a game (like bicycling, which our guest Michael Creed knows all about) or examination. That’s nuts!

If you’ve had the misfortune of being imprinted with Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, than please join us as we journey through the boring yet endlessly confusing relationship of Bella and Edward. Doug Benson is our guest of honor and together we try out hardest to understand this love story that has captivated the tweens of the nation. Does Doug love this movie? You’ll have to listen to find out!

If you Googled “A funny podcast to start 2012” than you’re in the right place! And before you go Googling “Who are the guests?” I’ll tell you: Andy Richter and Werner Herzog! And instead of using Google to find out if they play Would You Rather?, what Andy is doing to get in shape, or how Werner’s war on nature is going, just give this episode a listen and you’ll get your answers!

If you think Affirmation Nation would go on hold for Bob to celebrate the holidays, than you are mistaken! Today Bob calls in with an update on his holiday activity and the fuel he is using to keep them going, if you know what I mean.

We had some of our favorite guests of 2011 over for a sort of Sklarbro Country New Year’s party. Fortunately we were recording so you can hear as Tiger Woods, Jesse Ventura, Bryant Gumbel, Owen Wilson, Tim Gunn, Bruce Jenner, and all your other favorite citizens socialize and get to know one another. If you live in Sacramento and are still searching for something to do on New Year’s Eve, be sure to pick up tickets to The Sklar Brothers at the Punch Line. Thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported Sklarbro Country in 2011! HENDERSON!

It’s finally here Laimewads! Our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE!!! We gave ourselves a gift for this milestone and his name is DOUG BENSON! He joins us for this magical occasion to talk about nicknames, embarrassing birthday traditions, the complexities of Twitter, weed, and pussy. A great big thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported Totally Laime whether you started at episode 1 or 99! Enjoy!

Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Thank you all for listening to Affirmation Nation this year. You’ve all been really kind!

And now the thrilling conclusion of the Comedy Bang Bang Best of 2011! We’re counting down the top five episodes as chosen by the listeners and throwing in some of your favorite segments and characters like The New Year Chicken, Vampire Jesus, “Deaf Al” Yankovic, Kajagoogoo, and more! Join Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, and special guest Andy Richter on this epic-sode and come back next week for a fresh new 2012 episode of Comedy Bang Bang!

If all you got for Christmas was a dumb snow globe or a dumb daughter, here is your belated present! An hour of improv with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Brian Huskey and your host Matt Besser. From restraining orders to asshole nuns, this episode has enough fun stuff to fill a Wikipedia page (however that works). As always, follow @MattBesser to tweet your suggestions and visit Bobby Matthews and Dragoon to hear more music like the stuff you heard today.

Drew Droege treated us to Glitter in the Garbage for a year here on Earwolf. Now he joins Jeff in The Wolf Den to discuss his life in the south, the mistakes he made as a young artist, the relationship between comedian and businessman, and the fallacy of the “breakout star.” Drew is smart, funny, and his Chloe videos are to die for so enjoy! Thank you to everyone who supported Earwolf and listened to The Wolf Den in 2011. See you next year!

2011 is almost over, so let’s finish it on your faces! Nick Kroll is making his Who Charted? debut this week but between his song remix ideas, his first date stories, and his tales of Fernando I think he’s acquired enough comedy credits to earn another appearance! As it is the end of the year our charts are the Top Songs That Have Inspired Who Charted? and the Top : Movies of 2011 followed by a quick game of Chart Piñata. Thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported Who Charted? this year!

We have a true return to form this episode as Bob debuts yet another of his beautiful poems. Talk about a great belated Christmas present!

A toddler sniffs all of his Christmas presents before opening them and his mom realizes something is wrong. What Tourette’s, OCD, and ADHD look like in a young child.

Just because it’s wintertime doesn’t mean we can’t break for a BEACH PARTY! And by “beach party” I mean a scientific discussion of the nature and existence of water with oceanographer Taylor Semingson. This episode is nuts, from shark attacks to methane farts to whale brains to Saturn’s rings. Enjoy!

If you have a little sister or niece there is a good chance you were forced into seeing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 over the holidays. So that your torture won’t be in vain, we’ve chosen it as our next How Did This Get Made? selection! Help us our by using Eardrop to record a tagline for the movie and you could hear it on next week’s episode. See you then!

As the year winds down, let us revisit some of the highlights from Comedy Bang Bang in 2011. Joined by audience favorite Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman is counting down numbers ten through six of the viewer selected top episodes of the year. Check back in on Thursday to hear which episodes topped the list and we will see you next year at the movies!

All the tinsel and eggnog in the world can’t measure up to a friendly hug when you’re in need. Thank you to all the friends who lent their support to Bob this holiday season.

It’s December, 1943, and we take you live to Hollywoodland, California, for the Apple Sisters Variety Show, sponsored by Buddy’s Bargain Blowout! Enjoy the entire live performance of The Apple Sisters from December 12th, 2011, with appearances from Father Christmas, KXYZ Weatherman Barry O. Metric, and show sponsor Buddy!

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Ronna & Beverly talk to the North Shore’s preeminent “peppy” party planner, Donna Kagan, about how to celebrate the holidays with an Elegant Touch.