240 episodes
Obscure with Michael Ian Black Misfit Toys
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
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It's a book club, but funny!
Comedian Michael Ian Black is tackling a great work of literature: Wuthering Heights.
Join Michael's weekly book club as he reads aloud from a classic and asks people like Jen Kirkman, Mike Birbiglia, Michael Showalter, and even his teenage kids to weigh in with their perspectives.
Season 1: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. The book is bleak, but Michael does a lot of accent work.
Season 2: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's alive, and it's just a big buddy. Also, more accent work.
Season 3: Wuthering Heights. It's a love story? Who knows
Season 4: American Tragedy. Also a potential title of this podcast
Support this show and access bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack
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S4 Episode 37 - Hayseeds!
A sibling spat, if not an outright rivalry, is emerging between the Lycurgus Griffiths children over the arrival of the hayseed Clyde
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S4 Episode 36 - This Little Muskrat
It's a maritime adventure on this week's episode of Obscure.
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S4 Episode 35 - In the Shrinking Room
Clyde is assigned to the dregs of the Griffiths Collar Manufacturing Concern.
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S4 Episode 34 - A Literary Do-Si-Do
A little cousin-on-cousin action!
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S4 Episode 33 - With a Norman Wain Anecdote Enclosed
Did Clyde just secure his future? Listen and find out!
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S4 Episode 32 - The 60 Year Old Bellhop
Clyde is about to meet his uncle, Samuel Griffith, who has come to Chicago and is staying at the very club in which Clyde's employ is now secured.
Customer Reviews
Great
I love this podcast and all things MIB. My friend and I text each other funny lines from the episodes all the time. However, I’m begging you to take the music out. There are woodwind and brass melodies jumping all over the place, it’s loud, and I can’t concentrate on the book.
The only way I’d ever read these books
For four years Michael Ian Black has been reading me classic works of literature that I would never have picked up on my own, and I’m forever the better for it. This podcast is simply a delightful way to take a weekly 35-minute pause from the drone of noisy life and just… read… while occasionally learning something cool, often laughing, and always feeling somehow like you’re becoming fast friends with Michael and his, what, two other listeners? I just love this podcast!!
Adorably quirky this is a must listen
This show is worth the listen.
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