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When Hüsker Dü covered the classic Byrds song “Eight Miles High,” it was the first time that casual listeners were able to understand what the band was trying to do, because they were able to compare and contrast the clean sounding, popular song to the distorted, faster version the Dü put out. Suddenly the Minnesota band’s sound made sense and was more coherent and pleasing to the ear, which helped paved the way for their fanbase to multiply. The Wits recurring sketch “Mad Men Show” is John Moe’s “Eight Miles High” – when a Mad Man says “I have a problem with my brain feelings,” and when the Peggy Olson explains that she now works at her “own idea factory” (spoiler), a casual listener can understand how Moe and his writers Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Alison Agosti, and Lauren McGuire manipulate English to make it incredibly funny, mostly with taking things to their literal extreme, ignoring the definite article, while utilizing proper and effective sketch comedy beats. Michael Ian Black fit right into the show that works like a warped and much funnier Prairie Home Companion, where he continued to prove he’s at his best when playing anyone with any authority, notably as a dad telling his son that babies really do come from storks, or as a snob-hating slob cop. Black and Newman’s duet on a theme song for Michael Ian Black: Frontier Dentist, and the ad copy for Hemingway Pizza are two of the funnier things you will hear from a podcast this year.

Thanks, Splitsider!

Hey! I was on my buddy Jensen Karp’s podcast and you can listen to it!

Writer/comedienne/potential heartbreaker Alison Agosti joins Jensen and Matty to talk about her Twitter mystery (not a mystery) life, UCB, her music Tumblr, The Champs podcast (and kind of repeating Twin Shadow), Lil Bub, v/h/s, Tiny Fuppets, Drake & Dawn Richards’ “Where Were You,” Mantis Shrimp, Margaret, how we were late on Paris, Darren Brown & The Misfits and many other things you should know about.