I am enjoying the Kasper Hauser podcast greatly. When I saw the titles, I worried it would be kinda played out and lame (Captain Kirk? Really? Wacky items on restaurant menu? Lawyer commericials? Hitler jokes?) But they’re all smart and funny with deliberate, bizarre vocabulary. Then I was like: “Who am *I* to worry about something being played out? What am I, the Minister of What Is Hip”? Then I laughed at their lawyer commercial. Then I desperately wanted to BE Kasper Hauser. So badly! Make it happen, world! Almost half of their episodes are the probably-easy-to-produce “Wedding Announcements” but they’re all funny, so why not? WHY NOT? I LOVE IT.
Maybe everyone already knows about Kasper Hauser.
Maybe they’re played out and considered hack, like Airplane! That can’t be, right?
On my iTunes now:
Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
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Jan 24th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
HOW ARE YOU’RE CATS WILL HINES????
Jan 24th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Will, you laugh at everything. I don’t buy this internal monologue jazz at all
Jan 26th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Hey will… I produce the show, and really appreciate the kind words.
I’ve performed in a lot of sketch festivals with my own sketch group, and seen many many many groups when I was working with SF Sketchfest, and I think KH are the best in the country. Sincerely.
Definitely the wedding announcements fall under the “easy to produce” category… they had written a bunch, so I just had them read them. I live in LA and they live in SF, so they were sort of my cache of stuff to use. We’re recording more stuff soon, I think.
Anyway, they have a book out called SkyMaul that’s really wonderful and not to be missed. http://www.skymaul.com
Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Nice job, Jesse!
Jan 27th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I got my dad “SkyMaul” for Christmas. There’s a copy in the box office if you haven’t paged through it already. SO fucking funny.
Jan 30th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I love Kasper Hauser. Their fake craigslist postings on their website made me shit funny bones.