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Humorist Will Franken shows why he's San Francisco's Best Alternative to Psychedelic Drugs (SF Bay Guardian) in these relentlessly satirical, unnervingly funny half-hour long episodes.

Things We Did Before Reality Will Franken

    • Comedy
    • 5.0 • 18 Ratings

Humorist Will Franken shows why he's San Francisco's Best Alternative to Psychedelic Drugs (SF Bay Guardian) in these relentlessly satirical, unnervingly funny half-hour long episodes.

    On Behalf Of Full

    On Behalf Of Full

    For Your Chys Only

    Thought Of Train

    The English Reserve

    Cathouse of the Mind

    Good Fences Make Bad Neighbours

    Apostrophising

    Off with Their Heads and in with Our Bins

    Out with The Him and in with The Her

    Little Joe

    Make It Happen

    OBO!

    The Sand Is Always Greener

    Behind the Times with Rory Ginlott

    Scott? Johnson? Barber?

    Make It Happen Again

    Little Julia

    Make Make It Happen Happen

    Twain of Thought

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    • 36 min
    Right Now Comes But Once A Year

    Right Now Comes But Once A Year

    Funny Story: Ilario

    Funny Story: Shkolkamp

    Funny Story: The Law Of The Code

    The First Never Lasts

    Promises, Promises

    D's Not Far From F

    Newsnose Paperpepper

    Wiseguts

    Quantity Is A Quality Unto Itself

    Literally Corner

    PR Not Amused 

    Rain Imam

    A Very Broad Spectrum

    We Have Been A Computer

    Mississippi Deltronica

    Unenagu: "Gravel Threat"

    The Victim Killer

    Ding-Dong! Ouroboros Delivery!

    Days In Days

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    • 37 min
    No. 12

    No. 12

    Introit: The Wild One
    A Visitor Arrives At 817 Cortland Ave.
    "There was a 13-year old. . ."
    He Has His One Thing He Does
    3pm: 2-hr shift
    "Those two are something else."
    The 5 Wounds of R.P.
    No. 9
    No. 18
    "47 is the new 17!"
    No. 12
    Something Other Than No. 12
    "If you come within 50 feet. . ."
    Recessional: One (1) Nation Under God

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    • 31 min
    My Dentist Died :(

    My Dentist Died :(

    Interproximal Stripping

    Baby Teeth

    Pearly Whites at the Pearly Gates

    Interocclusal Registration

    But What About Dental Care?

    12 Year Molar

    Gold Teeth, Yellow Teeth

    Tooth Fairy

    Class I Malocclusion

    Class II Malocclusion

    Class III Malocclusion

    Proper Occlusion

    More Baby Teeth

    Cephalometric Imaging (w/Add. Interproximal
    Stripping)

    The Drill



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    Leonard Gravelin

    Leonard Gravelin

    This is a short song called "Leonard
    Gravelin"



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    • 3 min
    Écoutez-vous? Il est moi, Dieu.

    Écoutez-vous? Il est moi, Dieu.

    Chapitre Un: Je suis un homme
    noir.


    M. Franken reçoit quelques
    messages.

    M. Franken fait un voyage en Angleterre.

    M. Franken va au magasin d'avantage.

    M. Franken visite la station de radio.


    Chapitre Deux: Où sont
    toutes les femmes noires?


    Todd conseille Mike.

    Mike fait un coup de fil à Comcast.

    Mike accueille un visiteur.

    Mike regarde un album de photo.


    Chapitre Trois (la Révision): Je suis une femme
    noire.


    Mlle Harris entend une voix.


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Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

myc001 ,

One of the Very Best Comedy Troupes Ever

And it's only one guy.

Will Franken is Kids In The Hall, Ducks Breath Mystery Theater, Saturday Night Live, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Second City & SCTV, Firesign Theatre, The Committee, Monty Python, Your Show of Shows, Abbott & Costello, Stephen Leacock, Robert Benchley and the Marx Brothers all rolled into one.
That's more than 75 of the best comedians and comedy writers of the last 100 years.

I first knew of Will thru an ad for local comedy here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I started listening to his podcasts immediately and then saw him live several times at The Marsh and the Purple Onion, where actually he pulls off the same type of material LIVE, with only background music and occasional sound effects.

Incredibly impressive as a performer. Audiences walk away stunned. The variety of voices, scenes, plots & twists, thoughts & opinions overwhelm with a range from shocking to delightful.

He holds up a fun-house mirror to society.

A genius of this level is starving to death in NYC right now.
(Please send money so that he start starving in other large cities around the world.)

larbob ,

Remarkably, unusually funny

Brilliant, surreal, boundary-pushing comedy. Will has a keen ear for different speech patterns, which contributes greatly to the characterizations. It's all mixed together with sound effects and music and all is tightly tied together. "Things We Did Before Reality" sets a high standard for comedy podcasts.

miguel fierro ,

i-larious!

Dude, this is great stuff!!

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