Nobody was listening for the longest time, which was probably a good thing ‘cause we felt like we could just do any kind of comedy we wanted. kind of learned along the way, built a website, put it on iTunes. We just got together and recorded – not even on a computer – on a digital 8-track and didn’t really know what we were doing.
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Gourley: We could record any audio and put full production value to it a lot easier, so it was the perfect medium for us. Just to shoot five minutes was a months-long escapade. Gourley: We took a break, and when I heard this mysterious podcasting was starting to happen, I was like this is perfect for us because we both loved doing audio cassette recording improv when we were little and that sort of thing.Ĭarter: Filming is so hard. But it wasn’t until afterward that we made that clear, and people were like, “Oh, I would have loved to taken it over!” and it was like, “Oh, well.” But we let somebody else take over in kind of the vein of The Dukes of Hazzard when they didn’t wanna pay the two original guys. So, we just took three episodes and then killed the characters.Ĭarter: An idea we had before we killed the characters was, “What if we let somebody else take over?”Ĭarter: Oh yeah, yeah. Gourley: Yeah, but it got so heavy in production values … we could have kept going, but we ended up killing the characters ‘cause it was too much work to do.
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Have you ever heard of that movie Megaforce? It’s based on that. Right around the time that started, we were all kind of making movies together, so we collaborated specifically for Channel 101 on Ultraforce, a retro futuristic action spectacular.Ĭarter: Very much in the vein of a Stephen J. We were in on the early days of Channel 101. Gourley: Even before that though, kind of. When did you guys start writing comedy together? Then, we’d hang out and watch World War II movies together. We’d do like three legs in a day, three round trips. We had this ridiculous job where we were paid – this is gonna sound really weird – but a bunch of us were paid to fly first class because some company found a loophole where they could earn more frequent flier points doing these flights, so they’d pay people like us fifty dollars a round trip to fly to Las Vegas or San Francisco. Gourley: That was when we met, and it wasn’t until he moved out here and joined the group in LA that we started hanging out. Gourley: I don’t think I realized that.Ĭarter: Yeah, it was the West Coast tournament, so Bakersfield, Los Angeles, San Diego…Ĭarter: …Portland and Kansas City, for some reason. Jeremy Carter: It was a West Coast tournament, and for some reason, Kansas City was invited. We met at a tournament in San Jose, like a comedy tournament. He was doing it in Kansas City, Missouri, and I was doing it in LA. Matt Gourley: We were in a comedy group called ComedySportz. How did you guys meet each other originally? We discussed the new album, future Superego plans, and how Matt Gourley came into the possession of Waco cult leader David Koresh’s guitar.
I recently had the chance to chat with Gourley, Carter, McConville, and musician James Bladon, who did an oustanding job of turning the gang’s funny songs into authentic-sounding country tunes. With Superego currently on hiatus, the gang is releasing a musical comedy album today called Mount Us More from their fictional outlaw country-rock band The Journeymen (led by Superego characters Shunt McGuppin and Mutt Taylor). Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Jason Sudeikis, and Dan Harmon to name a few. The show, which added members Mark McConville and Jeff Crocker early on, has developed a cult following since it began in 2006 and began attracting big-name guests from the comedy world like Paul F. There’s no shortage of great comedy podcasts these days, but one of the funniest ones going is Superego, an improvised audio sketch show created by Matt Gourley and Jeremy Carter.
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