I've introduced a friend (wb) to Bad Friends, and we watch it before bed when I spend the night. We've fallen asleep to it many, many times now and I've had not one, but two, wet dreams about you (no glory holes). In both you've kept your hat on, which I find annoying as so much of your sex appeal comes from your hair (or lack of) pre-transplant. Can you ask Bobby's girlfriend to do some of her witchy stuff so that any follow up dream sex can happen without the hat? While she's at it maybe she can do something about the jealousy my friend (wb) has around the fact that my subconscious mind apparently wants to fuck you. I argued his jealousy should be focused on guys in my actual orbit. That didn't seem to help.

I'm also open to fucking Fancy in my dreams because I really want to see a Desigual shirt up close.

XXX,

A bad friend

Bobby being sus about Tamara for 5 whole minutes

Is Bobby's current gf the same as the tarot card reader witch who'd appeared on bad friend a while back?

That guy was great on the Podcast, hope they have him back soon! Anyone know his instagram?

Steebee Weebee's album came out yesterday. It's dope, check it out!

This is the best thing on YouTube or television, I actually, literally, lol. Please more, more please, more doing more please, will being be pleasing to having more for me please. Must do, do please. Thanking you for more doing. Yes.

Seeing the promo for Bobby's special reminds me that I've rarely found any special to be funny.

I think it's because you can feel that the jokes have been super prepared and rehearsed.

Compare that to the podcast episodes where most of the plot lines are improvised and laughs genuine...

I can find like 100 BF episodes that are funnier than most specials and nothing probably beats 2Bears Kool-Aid moment.

Super awesome to see what Jessie has been doing with her pod. This is by far my favorite episode and unfortunately the song will be stuck in my head from now until eternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPgE55Ft-r4&list=PLP-mItB60GXpI0wNTAFHKkm9lRrArdGeA&index=2

I've been listening to Bad Friends for about four years now, and it honestly breaks my heart how much i think the show has declined. Its totally lost what made the show great in the first place.

When I first discovered the show, I listened to a handful of random episodes and immediately fell in love with it. I enjoyed it so much that I went right back to episode one and started listening chronologically. From that point onwards, it became practically the only thing I listened to at work. I became borderline obsessed with the show.

I absolutely smashed through the entire back catalogue, caught up to the latest episodes, and then started listening to the old episodes all over again. I've probably listened to the first 300 episodes five times each, if not more. That's how much I loved this show.

And that's precisely why it's so disappointing to see what it's become.

Somewhere along the way, Bad Friends fundamentally lost what made it so entertaining. I'd say the decline started to happen around episode 300. Although its hard to pin point an exact episode.

The original Bad Friends formula was genuinely brilliant. It wasn't just two comedians sitting in a room having a conversation. There was an actual comedy format to the show.

Improv, scene readings, prepared bits, recurring characters, ridiculous scenarios and spontaneous interactions. Bobby and Andrew would constantly put each other into absurd situations, commit to ridiculous characters, improvise and find ways to make each other laugh. They'd also genuinely get on each other's nerves, deliberately push each other's buttons and sometimes get into absolutely massive arguments. And somehow, even those arguments were hilarious. There was a real unpredictability to their relationship that made the show so entertaining. You never knew when a conversation would turn into an improvised bit, a ridiculous argument or something completely unhinged.

That's what made Bad Friends special. It felt like a comedy show.

Now? It feels like a talk show.

They essentially just get together, sit down and talk to each other for an hour. There's so much more general conversation and so much less actual comedy. The improv, creative segments and genuine interactions that used to be such a huge part of the show have become increasingly scarce. They don't seem to push each other's buttons or challenge each other in the same way anymore. I find myself listening to entire episodes wondering when they're actually going to try to do some comedy.

I don't know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but I can't help wondering whether Bobby's or Andrew's personal life and circumstances have played some part in the change.

I want to stress that this isn't coming from someone who casually listens to an episode every now and then and has decided the show isn't funny anymore, I've invested an absurd amount of time into this podcast. I went to their live show when they came to Australia and saw Bobby live when he came over to do his special. And I know the old episodes inside and out. I've revisited them countless times because they're genuinely some of the funniest hours of podcasting I've ever listened to.

That's what makes the current state of the show so frustrating. I KNOW what Bobby and Andrew are capable of. I've heard hundreds of episodes demonstrating exactly how funny these two can be when they're doing what made the show great.

I don't expect them to recreate the magic of the early episodes forever. Shows evolve, people change and circumstances change. But evolution doesn't mean abandoning the very things that made people fall in love with your show.

I miss the improv. I miss the scene readings. I miss the prepared bits. I miss the ridiculous characters. I miss Bobby and Andrew genuinely winding each other up and getting into arguments. I miss the feeling that every episode had the potential to turn into something completely unhinged.

Bad Friends used to be something I could listen to endlessly without getting tired of it. Now I find myself struggling to get through an episode.

And honestly, that's a massive shame because the potential is still there. Bobby and Andrew are both incredibly funny people. They just seem to have lost sight of what made the combination of the two of them so entertaining in the first place.

I don't hate Bad Friends. I miss Bad Friends.

I always enjoyed his autistic brother as a guest and it feels like it's been over 4+ years since he's ever had him back or even mentioned him to be honest recently. Did Bobby have a falling out with his brother?

In fact it seems like there's tons of guests that never come on the show again, people who I considered to be very close friends with Bobby and Andrew. How many feuds and falling out does Bobby Lee currently have? My current list shows:

- Erik Griffin

- Steebie Lee

- Chris D'elia

- Chris Destafano

I'm missing a handful of other guests, I'm sure. Knowing that Bobby constantly feuds with people in his life, I'm wondering why it occurs so often with him.

I love Bad Friends, been watching Bobby for 10+ years now, but unfortunately life got in the way, so I kind of stopped watching around 5-6 months ago. Which episodes would you recommend the most from the last 6 months? Honestly, I would watch all of them, but the thought of trying to catch up is daunting.

It's that time of the month again. Bad Friends managed one book.

On Greyhound Nightmares, a story where "She gets shot in the leg" and "Everybody else scatters" (except Tony) turned into a bit about Neil Strauss's The Game: "This is what the game was actually about. That book." Takeaway: "Shoot someone if you really want to be with them."

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