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Its about quiet and dark, not owing anyone an unreasonable amount of money.
But even if your debts are manageable, sometimes you need a little help.
And so it is that a little help is whatDrifting Offprovides.
(The show is also produced by Grant Farsi.)
Say a character is about to die.
Later, he calls upJo Firestone, a frequent collaborator whom podcast fans may know fromDr.
She relates to him a story of having once accidentally poisoned herself with her own pot of soup.
The whole episode runs for around 15 minutes, enough to send you off into the night.
Drifting Offmarks a full circle of sorts.
The animation opened up the opportunity to make a TV show,Joe Pera Talks With You.
The big and the small go together, producing an emotionally affecting stew.
Joe Pera Talks With Youran for three seasonsbefore Adult Swim declined to renew the showlast summer.
At his shows, fans have been telling him they still listen toJoe Pera Talks You to Sleep.
So I felt like I ought to come up with new and more regular material to do it with.
He was speaking from Kansas City, a stop in the latter stages of his winter tour.
Man, its been a blast, said Dann.
Really changes my perspective on all these songs that were just silly little things I wrote in a day.
Someone reached out to me about framing the sheet music for that, he said.
Dann and Pera are very close collaborators, going back well before the Adult Swim animation short.
When we spoke, Pera constantly drew attention to Danns importance to his creative output.
Ryan contributed so much to the soul of the TV show, said Pera.
What Im trying to say is that its been pleasurable to do this podcast because everything is stripped back.
Its just Ryan and I passing ideas back and forth.
Another word Ive often heard used:cozy.
There are worse things to be called, said Pera.
Im just not a fast person … A lot of the comedy I do is at walking pace.
To some extent, the duo prefer the notion of slowness.
Slowness is also about observation, said Dann.
Part of being observational is putting yourself aside and just being immersed in whatever it is youre looking at.
Thats a big part of what were attracted to.
He added, You have to stand still for watch something.
You cant sprint through a zoo, you know?
This makes sense to me.
Peras comedy is typically described as a form of observational humor.
Its an expansively broad category that encompasses a wide swath of comedians perhaps way too many.
But Peras manner of observation is distinct, trending closer to something like meditation.
In the first episode ofDrifting Off, its a simple pot of soup.
