Episodes

  • Thomas Middleditch, Big Dipper, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Alyssa Limperis

    Thomas Middleditch, Big Dipper, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Alyssa Limperis
    Jan 9 2020
    Live from the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles CA, Kevin welcomes guests Thomas Middleditch, Big Dipper, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Alyssa Limperis for a night of sketch, stories, interviews, music, and more. Recorded July 8th 2019. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Hari Kondabolu and Benji Hughes

    Hari Kondabolu and Benji Hughes
    Jan 9 2020
    Live from Charlotte NC, Kevin welcomes guests Hari Kondabolu and Benji Hughes for a night of sketch, stories, interviews, music, and more. Recorded September 26 2019 at the Duke Energy Theater, Charlotte NC as part of the Queen City Comedy Experience. Special Thanks to Blumenthal Performing Arts and Queen City Podcast Network. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Weird Al Yankovic, Tim Heidecker, Paul F. Tompkins, and D'Arcy Carden

    Weird Al Yankovic, Tim Heidecker, Paul F. Tompkins, and D'Arcy Carden
    Nov 26 2018
    Live from the Lyric Hyperion in LA, Kevin welcomes guests Weird Al Yankovic, Tim Heidecker, Paul F. Tompkins, and D'Arcy Carden for a night of sketch, stories, interviews, music, and more. Recorded August 31 2018. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Lucky Yates

    Lucky Yates
    Mar 7 2018
    Live from Dad's Garage in Atlanta, Georgia! Kevin invites his fake son "Blevin" to announce the podcast so they can finally spend some quality time together. Kevin loves Blevin. But if there's one thing he loves more than Blevin, it's Atlanta. In fact, he loves Atlanta so much that he also invites his fake girlfriend onstage to sing a song about it! Later, Kevin performs a brand new sketch about a CEO who wants you to shred everything...but it's not because there's something wrong...it's just that...he wants you to shred everything. And then, he sits down with Archer's Lucky Yates for an interview that inadvertently becomes a debate about whether The Goonies is a good movie or not. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 mins
  • Todd Barry, Judah Friedlander, and Natalie Prass

    Todd Barry, Judah Friedlander, and Natalie Prass
    Feb 14 2018
    At long last, your favorite physical comedian, Kevin McDonald, has returned to his audio podcast! And he’s brought Judah Friedlander, Todd Barry, and Musical Guest Natalie Prass with him. But first, Kevin gives listeners a sneak peak at his joke-writing process (5:40), sings a comedy about writing a comedy song because he's out of ideas (8:15), and performs a brand new sketch about a miserable man and the death of his wife from a sustained, minor, annoying pain (11:15). And for the main course! Kevin sits down with Judah & Todd to talk about their Netflix specials, bombing onstage and on TV, the origin of Judah’s style and onstage persona, and whether Todd was meant to be a phone prank comic (22:03). And after, musical guest Natalie Prass performs a three-song mini-concert (1:03:30)! Special Thanks to sketch performers Hallie Haas & Maggie Widdoes! Recorded live at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY for the Brooklyn Podcast Festival! --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • "Rock Opera" (w/ Ben Gibbard)

    "Rock Opera" (w/ Ben Gibbard)
    Oct 23 2017
    Forever Dog Presents: Kevin McDonald’s Rock Opera! The year is 1991. Kevin is living in Toronto working on a small little HBO show called Kids In The Hall. He’s also in a toxic relationship with a woman named Cheater, who regularly cheats on him. But Kevin is aware of this devastating truth and does what any logical person would do in this situation: he asks Cheater to marry him (9:01). Dave Foley, future star of A Bugs Life (played by Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard), pleads with Kevin to not marry Cheater (13:00). Meanwhile, a Texas producer hired by Lorne Michaels books Kevin & Dave on the Joan Rivers Show (15:30), whisking him away to the Big Apple just before Cheater says they shouldn’t get married (16:55). Kevin is despondent, but Dave drags him out of bed for a raucous night on the town (20:47) — a night that involves copious amounts of alcohol, an AIDS benefit, more cheating, and an ambiguous moral (22:30). After the opera, Kevin interviews Ben Gibbard (41:11) and invites him to play a two-song acoustic set to close the night: Teardrop Windows (57:00) and Such Great Heights (59:48). Crank the volume, slip into your most expensive outfit, and tap along to the pulsing rhythm of Kevin McDonald’s Rock Opera, which in this short time, has already been lauded as “the best podcast rock opera of the week." CAST Kevin: Kevin McDonald Dave Foley: Ben Gibbard Announcer/Keyboards: Ron Hippe Cheater: Christine Riippi NY Woman/Joan Rivers: Sarah Hanchar Texas Producer/Men at Benefit: Paul Levy Guitar: Jan Ciganik Recorded live at Unexpected Productions in Seattle Sound Engineering by William Smith, HatchBack LLC --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Sasheer Zamata, 5j Barrow, and Josh Gondelman

    Sasheer Zamata, 5j Barrow, and Josh Gondelman
    Sep 7 2017
    Kevin is back with an all new episode of Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show, and this time, unpublished author and part-time lifeguard Art Fiddle (Josh Gondelman) is announcing. That might not mean anything to you, but trust me -- Art Fiddle is a big get! After putting some of his patented "unpublished author, part-time lifeguard spin" on the show's opening, Kevin explains what it means to make a living as a "noise maker." He then performs an original song that eulogizes all of his dead comedy premises, accompanied by musical guest, 5j Barrow. Sasheer Zamata joins Kevin for an original #sketch and then sits down for an interview about the #Trekkie origins of her name, her experience on #SNL, "Government Camp" in Indiana, being a Celebrity Ambassador for the Women's Rights Project at the #ACLU, and oh so much more! Kevin tells the 17th best "Scott Thompson is crazy" story. And last, but certainly not least (!), 5j Barrow closes out the show with an electric three song set! Recorded live at Union Hall in Brooklyn NY. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Andy Richter, Aimee Mann, Dana Gould, and Mark McKinney

    Andy Richter, Aimee Mann, Dana Gould, and Mark McKinney
    Aug 24 2017
    Live from Largo at the Coronet in LA! Kevin welcomes Andy Richter (Conan), Dana Gould, special guest Mark McKinney (Kids in the Hall), & musical guest Aimee Mann onto the podcast. Except, uh oh... Embarrassing... Kevin can't even get his own beloved sketch "Backdraft Part 2" performed past the objections of his guests, friends, and guardian angel. Are the walls closing in? Nah..... In place of the sketch, Kevin loses himself in a reflective moment, standing on stage before a sell out crowd, wearing a plastic firefighter's helmet. He also sings a song about telling a story about masturbation. And then he tells a story about masturbation. The one that he sang about. This is, of course, after The Announcer (Dana Gould) is peeled apart like an onion, his various secret agendas laid bare. The Big Man. Casual Italian Dining. Sexual exploration. Identity theft. Professional rivalries. The Announcer is a piece of work. And this description has been proceeding in reverse chronological order. Moving forward... Kevin conducts a can't-miss interview with Andy Richter. Kevin digs into Andy's comedy roots, family background, and brief but glorious tenure as homecoming king of Yorkville High School in Yorkville, IL. Finally... You get what you really came for... A pair of beautiful songs from Aimee Mann accompanied on violin. Aimee's also nice enough to answer a few stuttering, rambling questions from Kevin. --- Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show is a Forever Dog Podcast: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/kevin-mcdonalds-kevin-mcdonald-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 32 mins