{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"925 News Recap and Comedian Todd Barry","description":"See JL Cauvin and I co Headlining City Winery In Pittsburgh PA on Oct 11 Spend Money on Kevin's Honey!  Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Watch Todd Barry's new stand up special "Domestic Short Hair" New York City-based comedian and actor Todd Barry is widely recognized for his roles as the bongo-playing \u201cThird Conchord\u201d on HBO\u2019s Flight of the Conchords and Mickey Rourke\u2019s deli boss in 2009 Oscar winner The Wrestler and renowned throughout the entertainment industry for his nuanced measured and thoroughly original approach to stand-up. Drawing audience members in with his deadpan self-deprecation and ability to pile punchline upon punchline his decidedly low-key stage persona belies a deeply intelligent often biting occasionally absurdist worldview one lauded by discerning fans who seek a fresh yet honest update to traditional observation and social commentary. Boasting multiple stand-up appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman Late Night with Conan O\u2019Brien Jimmy Kimmel Live! and two Comedy Central Presents specials and his latest one hour Comedy Central special Super Crazy. Todd\u2019s resume also includes such hit TV shows as Louie Delocated Bored to Death Tim and Eric Chappelle\u2019s Show Sex and the City and even Sesame Street. Among his additional feature-film highlights are Todd Phillips\u2019s Road Trip Louis CK\u2019s Pootie Tang and Mitch Hedberg\u2019s Los Enchiladas. You can see him soon at Sigourney Weaver's right hand man in Amy Heckerling's Vamps and as Paul Rudd's co-worker in David Wain's Wanderlust. Internationally he has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Montreal\u2019s Just For Laughs Festival the Vancouver International Comedy Festival and Kilkenny Ireland\u2019s Cat Laughs Festival. Todd has been heard on both The Howard Stern Show and The Bob & Tom Show and his albums Medium Energy Falling Off the Bone and From Heaven are available from Comedy Central Records Amazon and iTunes. He has earned the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival\u2019s Jury Award praise from Ricky Gervais as one of the best comedians of 2009 and accolades from The Onion\u2019s A.V. Club which declared Medium Energy one of the best comedy albums of the decade. Todd was the subject of a recent New York Times Arts section cover story which referred to him as a \u201cmaster of standup\u201d and noted \u201cwhen it comes to live performance few comics are more consistently funny.\u201d In April 2013 the Todd Barry Podcast debuted. It reached #1 on the iT \u201cComedy savants revere this Conan and Letterman veteran\u2019s hushed singsong sarcasm.\u201d \u2013 Entertainment Weekly \u201cPiercing blinding slaying violating wit.\u201d \u2013 NPR \u201cInfuses his observational comedy with a wonderfully individual disdain.\u201d \u2013 The Times of London \u201cHe doesn't suffer fools and fortunately for his comedy his definition of \u2018fool\u2019 doesn't discriminate.\u201d \u2013 Pitchfork.com \u201cAcerbic wit deadpan delivery and wickedly smart punchlines.\u201d \u2013 Time Out New York \u201cBarry is so beautifully arid he is positively parched.\u201d \u2013 London Evening Standard \u201cThe success lies with the delivery and in his ability to seamlessly merge ad-libbed material with his prepared schtick.\u201d \u2013 The Age Melbourne Pete on YouTube Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"