Anybody else about to give up hope that The Bonfire would be a good O&A successor?

15  2016-05-13 by TacoTrots

Things looked great at the start, but for me, The Bonfire has become about as easy to regularly skip as Bennington.

I still love Dan, but I think I have a lot of fatigue when it comes to Ol' Steamrollin' Jay. (The show should probably be renamed "Big Jay's Junior High Sexy Talk with dan soder".)

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Hey [male caller] where you from? Ah bechta got big hogs down there, just creaming through that sweet sweet pussy.

Hey [female caller], betcha oil up them titties for some TFing, just churning through inches of dick like a woodchipper. [Dan soder girl voice] yah, yah yah yah.

Hey Dan we are cookin ass today, great show

I feel like I'm actually listening to the show.

He does these impressions

" ..ole over here "

Actual transcript

Tsss...yeah what is that where bury trannies or sumpthin

That's not bad.. for you

What do you think about that Jacob?

Fuck Jacob! No one in the listening audience gives a fuck already.

So pretty much just The SDR Show with Dan Soder instead of Ralph Sutton?

Except Dan Soder doesnt tell obvious lies about the quality and quantity of girls he gets, nor does he wish it was always 1987

Dan: I bet he's got a giant [character trait] hog! Jay: He's got that [character trait] confidence! Dan: He's swingin that [character trait] dick all over the place.

Rinse repeat

More boooosh fir the gooooooosh, 'n' gnaaaash fir the gaaaaaash

I gave up a while ago. I still like both guys, and I really really wanted to like their show, but I just can't. Awful callers, too much sex schtick, and Soder is just too happy to be there. He's funny and quick, but jesus dude you don't have to run with every single thing anyone says.

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Like a Labrador puppy

im in the same boat, comedians are funny short term but they don't have the radio instincts to make a compelling show, 85 percent of the callers should be hung up on within seconds yet theyre strung along forever....and yes. they need a young Opie, maybe even....a sam roberts

They need a Larry David to stop they're flow and turn the mirror on them.

When asked "you ever give a girl a Vancouver Pepperoni Polish?"

"No. Why would I do that? I don't even know what that is."

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So many dirty girls call in, those attention hoes should be hung up on the first time they mention they are just as dirty as men

I've never heard the bonfire but that comment perfectly sums up everything I'd assume it was. And I hate to say it, but I don't think there will ever be another O&A. At least not on the radio.

I called it right from the beginnings. Its missing something. Love both these guys and love los but the show lacks something.

I remember when you called it and I doubted you.

Now I'm all embarrassed.

😔

Validation. Ty. The show feels like Sam Roberts' Show on steroids. Im sure this analogy is not relatable bc no one listens to SRS show.

I recently started because I've found myself unemployed the last several week. Also I'm gay. Sam isn't that bad.

I SAID IT ALSO. Tell me I did a good job too pops. Everybody told me I'm a poo poo head because I don't like hearing people agree about everything.

Of course, I do apologize.

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Good because I was ready to (ง •̀_•́)ง

Oh no!

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They're just too far up each other's asses is what it is. They have a grand old time getting stoned and making each other laugh off the air, and figured it would be just as fun and funny on the air. It's not. Maybe for them, but it just doesn't work for anyone who isn't them.

Works for me, but I just listen to it in the background while playing ps4. Maybe it's better for smokers than drinkers? I assume most of you are self-hating alcoholics.

I hate others too, not just myself

O&J&Soder is a better show than Big Jay & Soder. That's so wrong and fucked up it makes my brain hurt.

I don't see how anybody with a functioning frontal lobe could share that opinion. At least Big Jay and Soder are capable of riffing with each other, even if it's mostly about flaccid dicks and tittyfucking.

True, but Soder shines so much more on O&J. And Jimmy's at least still Jimmy. What should be one positive complementing another positive for a net double positive (cocksuckas) on Bonfire, somehow for some crazy reason results in a net negative. As I said it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense and is a real shame.

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Big jay is the anchor holding this show down, he is funny but him and his man voice girlfriend are so obsessed with sex, and getting dirty pictures it's annoying. As soon as I hear a callers a woman I skip thru it , it's just women being like " hahah I suck dicks and like it" and big jay being like " u do sweet heart ? Send us your asshole "

As soon as I hear a callers a woman I skip thru it , it's just women being like " hahah I suck dicks and like it" and big jay being like " u do sweet heart ? Send us your asshole "

Haha. That is 100% accurate.

That is many of the calls. It's so corny, and I like both guys. Really thought they would be a solid listening option, were for a while. I haven't bothered listening to them, it's just so cringe. Maybe they will evolve and take their show more seriously. How many times can you play up the radio bit with the golf chick host and how hot she is. These niggas are stuck in a time loop.

Those earlier shows had a lot of promise. Shame that they have plateaued. They cater to simpletons. Last thing, calling your listeners campers, very gay. Just call them listeners or audience.

Sounds like the show has passed you by!

Crack Corner with Christine was pretty good, I thought. But I'm completely agreed that every female (and 90% of male) callers are garbage. Big Jay even once said on the air that he likes to have females call in and validate his sex obsession, because it makes him feel good.

Still, the sex talk was pretty reined in for awhile until the very last one with Vos.

Big jay is a needy man.

Big Jay nostalgia hour, I hate how he takes FOREVER to tell a (good) story, like he has to keep prefacing everything, backtracking, uhg get to the point you eyebrow-plucking, hair gel fatso!

Prefaces each preface with another preface, 5 kicks deep into his Inception story-world, someone tries to add on, and he's like "let me just finish this real quick..."

i think he can be very funny, but jay is an embarrassing douche. watch the fuckin intro to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9nRuXmtTM remember whenever you laugh at something he says, he's dressed like a 13 year old Korn fan and smirking

He straddles NSYNC and ICP

It's like someone molested him in the back of a CD store in the early 2000s.

Its like a GameStop manager bred with a Meineke mechanic and then raised the boy on a diet of Baconators and Mr Pibb

lol

i told him we had a limp biscuit in the back room hehhh hehhh

Dan and Jay are too happy, and too many women call in. Cunts ruin everything with their twatiness.

But they are hilarious, they want to talk about sex and how naughty they can be.

I kind of agree. It's almost like--oh shit--they need an Opie. There I said it, now I have to go lay down.

yep, i only listen to about a dozen episodes, and most of the time i was wishing someone was steering that ship away from jerking off over nudes sent to them by women or talking about penises. I remember when Brad criticized them for talking too much about sex, it was hilarious yet 100% true.

Brad saw through these two almost immediately.

eeeww fuck I forgot about the nudes.. What the fuck was the point of that bit.. Imagine management listening to that bit.. Can you imagine how much they regretted the contracts they gave these idiots

and then Dan and Jay wonder why management thought they needed a writer and pre-planned bits

They goofed on that idea.. What a pair of dicks.. And I actually like soder.. I think soder looks up to jay and goes along with him.. No idea why

Because hes got more years in comedy and that is how respect generally goes in the community, but Jay always stomps all over everyone else's jokes it gets old. Your a funny guy but your not a fucking philosopher the only one who looks up to you is sitting next to you, you glove wearing moron and I swear to god every time he tells me all about the video he is about to show me I die inside.

They just wanna see floppy house wife tits

That wasn't Brad's real criticism at all. He just stumbled onto it accidentally.

Dave Smith would make an alright Opie, hes not riff heavy and isnt funny in the same way. People already hate him.

When he's riffing Big Jay is one of the quickest and funniest guys around. When he's telling a story he turns into a doddering grandpa that gets bogged down in meaningless minutiae. Someone is giving him bad advice because lately he seems to constantly repeat the same bad stories while prefacing that the fans love it and don't care when they retell stories.

Agreed about Jay, when it comes to off-the-cuff riffing, he rivals Norton for quickness. But when he's telling a story, my god is it meandering. It's even worse on LOS where in addition to the doddering, you've got three other guys trying to get lines in, so it just prolongs the story even further and makes any punchline or payoff less satisfying.

The only person who rivals Norton in off the cuff quickness is Artie. Period.

No my favorite comic is quicker than yours.

Sniff

"And let me just say" fuck sakes big jay stop painting the fucking picture.

Yeah im really tired of it, i listened to Dan on 3 different shows this week, his latest appearance in ykwd and in O&J, both shows were great. So in this dan soder high i decided to listen to the bonfire to keep it going.

What i got was about one hour of "hot steamy sexy time" talk about fucking hotel staff or trying to fuck them, piledrived into the ground by big Jay.

I give up.

Honestly, I've never been too impressed by any of the Legion of Skanks hosts. While Jay and the other guy (the one not called Luis J Gomez) have moments of brilliance, they are few and far between.

I think that if Dan Soder was paired with a clone of Opie in 1995 (someone willing to push boundaries, who thoroughly understands radio and takes the time to prepare content for the show), it could be the next big show in radio.

fuck it, have Dan and Sam do a show. Sam actually gives a shit and preps.

this right here is the long con money maker.

That actually would be perfect.

Yep, after the 4th episode .. It's horrible.. Big jay talking about dicks for 2 hours.. Awful

Are you saying you don't enjoy Big Jay opening a show by talking about Soders body and how hot he is? https://youtu.be/nhxYP4FINIo

I like the Bonfire, but I still miss the meanness O&A had and haven't found a replacement for that besides this sub. Also, I thought Dan was attempting to rein in the nearly-humorless sex talk a bit, but it seems he's resigned himself to it again.

They really should be meaner, at least to some of their callers. I would love if they just started hanging up when some caller is being super boring.

Like everyone else in that circle, he seems to follow Big Jay wherever he goes, whether it's straight off a cliff or not.

Have you listened to "Talking Shit with Jim and Eddie" before Jim Jeffries left? Because that is definitely as mean as old O&A.

I still listen from time to time, and it still gets pretty mean, especially if Chris Wylde is on. There was an episode a few weeks ago where Jason announced he was having a kid and they spent the next hour shitting on how awful he was going to be as a father and how his unborn kid is doomed.

Oh I'm sure it's still mean, it just stopped being 1/100th as funny once Jim left. It feels like an even dumber, even more fratted up version of O&J but with the bottom tier of the Death Squad regulars as guests.

I agree...that's why I only listen occassionally now, if I actually have the time (I usually don't), or someone good is on, like Lachlan Patterson.

I'm with you. I still like it overall, but I find myself skipping around once Jay starts his sex talk. So I skip around A LOT. There's really funny moments where they're riffing about something, but then Jay always ruins it by trying to get callers to send naked pics or having the staff google porn. I don't think he realizes how boring it is for everyone. It's hack too. Dan needs to talk to him about how much it is holding the show back.

You guys didn't like when they spent an hour getting manicures and pedicures and acting like it was torture?

I did. 4 episodes after the Chet Hanks one.

That was the golden age of the show, it's odd how few and far the laughs are on the bonfire now. Just them watching youtube videos and shitting on washed-up celebrities again would be so much better than interacting with their dumb callers. The live shows from Moon Tower were just awful as well, but pretty much all shows that are intended to be conversational suck live.

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You make great points and all but I'm sorry whenever I hear or read Moontower in a sentence I can't help but think of Fez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTcPi0I_HRY

They should have more guests to break it up a bit. The episode with Attell and Dipaolo was hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsuq9_MPHNY

Yes, i listened to this one and agree, it was really funny

No.

Nah, I'll pass, but you boys have fun.

Me, too. I sensed a tremor in the Force when I first saw their lame sourfaced photo, with Big Jay's hair chopped off and the finger-gloves gone.

The thing I really hate about the bonfire is how jay tries to shoehorn his dumb, unfunny, uninteresting, ugly girlfriend into every episode. Nobody tunes in to hear from a bitch nobody. Like he's trying to make her become a third mic of some sorts. I also hate how he mentions "come on Comedy Central, let's start paying her" anytime she looks up something on the internet for them. Complete, shameless pandering. He does this on every other show he's on as well, dragging his boring cunt along and shoehorning. Dude Is clueless to this and he'll even deny that shit. The other guys he does shows with have to be hating this on the under but probably won't tell him shit. He also tries to bring on unfunny fucks just because they're his friends like sal vulcano. ANY show he's been on with jay is painfully unfunny, he adds nothing funny whatsoever. But jay insist that we love him just cause he's his friend. Just cause he's on a shitty show nobody watches (practical jokers), he gotta glue his fat lips to his asshole. I'm done with anything big jay related now cause he does this shit to no end now.

I hope those of you who swore up and down that the Bonfire was going to be the next big hit are feeling very dumb right now. And I am glad for your sadness.

ill take the hit

They are gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out

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Seems like Jacob and Merc Face Andy are always around, and of course, Christine is still there in-studio 100% of the time (to do her stupid laugh and hear Jay CONSTANTLY mention her in his sex tales).

There was also a period where Mike Finoia was in-studio a lot, but that may have petered out.

I loved it up until there was six consecutive shows where they tried to get Jacob laid for the entire show and I gave up. He's like their Bobo but with absolutely nothing interesting him even in a bad way.

What about hearing this for the 400th time?

Talkin' 'bout Jacob...gettin' that sweet, sweet pussy... Talkin' 'bout Jacob....blowin' out backs all night long

To be honest, I am the only person here who would ever say this and I am probably wrong, but Jay and Dan have chemistry that almost works. Dan is funnier than Jay, but takes a back seat because Jays the senior which ends with ether one of there stories cutting each other off. If you put Dave Smith in an Opie like role I could see it getting better, someone there to not necessarily riff endlessly but is funny in a different kinda way. I love the show with less sex talk around, Im not about a prude ill have consensual sex with a dog in a second if it gives me the vibe but it just got old. Less callers more guests. Dan could be the best second mike in the world but Jay might be the worst first mike. They are both talented Dan too talented to host Jay too rambly. I think a Dave Smith could do it, people already hate him it'd work.

Dan could be the best second mike in the world but Jay might be the worst first mike

mic(rophone)

No I mean Mike Finoia. Dan would make a great Mike Finoia, Jay needs to step up his Finoia game.

It's a real one trick pony. Gave up after about 8 episodes.

Yeah, the first few months it was great. But as of late I find myself putting it on as background noise more than anything else. It's just gotten so bland and repetitive with the sex stuff.

About to? That hope ended like 2 months into the Bonfire.

That's still a show?

Yes on Comedy Central radio on SiriusXM.

https://youtu.be/WY5JkmCFqZQ

Wednesday's show is a prime example of The Bonfire's problem. They spent the first hour going on about sex acts with hotel staff, got away from it long enough to bring Vos in and have a little bit of comic talk, only to have Jay bring the sex talk back up to dominate the rest of Vos' appearance.

The Bonfire is fine for what it is. Why do did you expect it to be like O&A? Why do you WANT it to be like O&A? Nothing is going to be the next O&A. It's a different show. Some people on here were thirsty for something to listen to and the first OK-ish new radio show to come along unfairly got the 'next O&A!' label.

And I also seem to remember on this sub that O&A in its final year and a half wasn't going over well. Constant complaining. So shut your yaps.

"Successor" doesn't mean "copy".

I still find it hilarious can easily burn through an episode while at work. They both make me laugh more than most comedians around. The recent episode where they got the gillie suits was probably the best imo.

Yes. Two 35 year old comedians wearing camouflage in a radio studio is comedy gold! It's the funniest bit involvibg costumes since Nigga vs Nazi. They talked about those stupid suits for weeks. They really need to get over their excitement about being on the radio.

I don't care that they were wearing the suits the episode just made me laugh. Take the dildo out of your ass and stop over analyzing radio shows and podcasts.

Shiiiiiiiit. I gave up many months ago. 2 dudes desperately trying to "keep the funny going" I like them individually.

The sex talk is tedious. Only 17 year olds like hearing some randoms fuck story.

Oh man I have been waiting for some one to say this. All fucking sex and toilet humour? I'm not looking for high brow comedy but everything goes to sex talk wtf

Enchanced coverage of Jay and his Yoko Ono chick's predilection for three-ways would really give the show the traction it needs to dethrone all competition.

Soder isn't long for this partnership. His Billions gig is going to pave the way for steady acting work. He's likely the next friend of the show to hit it big.

Jay and his Yoko Ono chick's predilection for three-ways

As if that's some sort of actual achievement in 2016.

I get that it's a big deal in his junior high mind, but I can't see anybody else being impressed or giving a fuck.

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He decided to start copying Louis CK's act instead of Attell's.

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Does he?

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The Bonfire is very funny. I think most of you guys should just move on to something other than comedy. I honestly don't think you guys find ANYTHING funny anymore.

Seriously. I get people's criticisms. Jay's sex stuff does get tiresome, but it's still easily the best thing on SXM and is funnier than most podcasts I listen to.

the show is too high energy. Could use some Jeb Bush to level things out

LOW ENERGY

Terrific!

Ew. That's like hoping for an oily brown piss to be a bleeding weeping ass zits successor. What the fuck is hope? Just face it, it's over. "Hot talk" is dead.

Who the fuck downvoted you?

Maybe they never seen a weeping ass zit, those fuckers are nasty.

Dr. Steve could verify.

Upvoted out of compassion.

Flewuds.

Compassion? What are you a gay? I mean it's okay if you are, but let's take it slow, I don't know if I'm into this yet.

It's horrible

more like borefire and borington. borefire is better of the 2 tho, i cant even make it through 5 min of that borington garbage

Dats fockin clever!

If ya dont like it, dont listen. Its that simple. I love the off the cuff sophomoric humor. Crackle, crackle ya`ll!

Terrific!