Seth Rogen wants to hear his guests’ one big story for his new podcast Storytime
Storytime With Seth Rogen arrives on October 6 via Stitcher
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Move over, Joe Rogan. There’s a similarly-named celebrity entering the podcast realm. Vulture announced that Seth Rogen is getting his own podcast, Storytime With Seth Rogen, where he’s going to ask both celebrities and normies about their “one big crazy story.”
As Rogen explains in a Q&A with the site, he’ll “ask them if they have any incredible stories they think are entertaining or formative, or just something they’ve wanted to tell for a long time.” He adds, “My pitch is that I will take that story and turn it into a sort of audio documentary. I make it very clear they’re not all funny, and if it’s not a funny story, then I won’t go out of my way to try to add humor to it, you know?”
He teases an episode with Quinta Brunson, who tells Rogen that “at one point, after getting out of a bad relationship, she was going to give up comedy and dedicate herself to being a Jehovah’s Witness. Then one day, on a date with this guy where they’re going to see Inglourious Basterds, she meets Paul Rudd in the theater, whom she’s a huge fan of. He was very nice to her, and she told him about her dream of pursuing comedy; he told her if she was serious about it, she might as well do it.”
The premise of the show does sounds similar to fellow comedy guy Chris Gethard’s podcast Beautiful/Anonymous, which features people telling him a story of their choosing, ranging from a person who survived a mass shooting, to a guy who talked about having a successful career working in animation. (As the title suggests, Gethard has no idea who he’s talking to.) But hey, we could always use more feel-good podcasts that uplift instead of push misinformation, so bring on the stories, Rogen! Storytime arrives via Stitcher on October 6.
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This almost feels unfair. Like, Rogen can get pretty much any movie —at least any comedy with a standard “comedy-sized” budget —greenlit. He’s producing multiple tv shows. Podcasts are one of the few avenues where lesser-known comedians can go to create shit that otherwise wouldn’t get made.Not a real problem, I know. Rogen has a “right” to create his podcast, it will probably be hilarious, and I will probably listen to it.
I dunno, ever since Conan invented podcasting there have been plenty of big-name celebs making shows.
Exactly, that’s one less podcast that Paul F. Tompkins or Paul Scheer can’t do
lol these are exactly the two dudes I had in mind
Won’t somebody think of all the C list comedians out there?
Ouch I like those dudes! But your comment did make me chuckle in thinking about an infomercial where you can pledge to listen to just one podcast a day to support all the poor, starving C-list comedians out there.
I’m having trouble parsing what this means, but PFT should be in everything, all the time.
I wonder if Matt Gorley will be involved.
Isn’t this what people turned on James Franco for? Not staying in his lane? Not sure why Seth Rogen didn’t get a similar backlash, or even what the logic to that backlash was.
Considering how Rogen ruined The Green Hornet and Preacher, he can go fuck himself.
This made me think is there a podcast where a Muppet character interviews people? (Seth Rogen is basically a human/muppet hybrid)
But if it is a podcast, how would you even know it is a Muppet?Miss Piggy wouldn’t have a podcast, Frank Oz would (or whoever does Miss Piggy’s voice now).
His book, Yearbook, should only be listened to. He narrates most of it, and the extended voice cast is wild. Even though I rankle at big name people making podcasts, this will probably be great.