The Comedy Button

We do some Urban Dictionary deep-dives, celebrate the oeuvre of Nicolas Cage, share some cool tricks to avoid working, and get a visit from the Brain Cops. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Brian cooks the worst meal of his life, Scott melts his jukebox, Kristin owns the world's newest medieval jug, we reveal the secret origin of our podcast's name, and 4-H gets a Comedy Button makeover. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We have a spirited discussion about our favorite gas station brands and treats (seriously this is what it's come to), imagine the most effective way to fight Ryan as a bird, give mad props to our boy Lanky Kong, and pick out our most favorite old YouTube shows and memes like the geriatric millennials that we are. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Ya...

We decide what our drug nicknames are, explore the local porn forests, learn that Brian's mom was a hard-boiled party detective, and recount the longest lies we've ever kept up. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We examine the carbon footprint of breast implants, have a debate about monkey bread, try to decide which of two crimes are worse, and hear Kristin's best guess at the plot of Superman Returns. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We celebrate the happy-so-far new year with some scheduling changes, learn about the time Scott's wife almost killed him, try to imagine what the worst giant animal would be, and discover way too much about nightmare McDonald's playground equipment. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, and Kristin Van De Yar.

The world suddenly makes a lot more sense when you realize there are no actual adults anywhere up in here, especially when it's five nonsense people trying to imagine which Master of Disguise scene Dana Carvey was filming when 9/11 happened. And that's a wrap on 2021, everyone! Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Kristin had an awesome surprise birthday party, we try to explain NFTs, Max got us a bunch of silly Christmas gifts, and somehow they made like 17 more Home Alone movies that we're just now finding out about. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We imagine an alternate universe where Master P had a popular rap about Final Fantasy, recount how stupid the Death of Superman was, and fondly remember our local teen troublemaking spots. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

There are now so many Marvel movies that we can't remember all of them, so instead of worrying about that malarkey, we try to figure just what the heck a warlock is, and why it's better than a wizard (spoiler: it's not). Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

Scott reveals his big surprise to the world, Ryan doesn't know what's in a bugout bag, the Bromley family ran the world's weirdest camgirl show, and -- a little too late -- we discover a hilariously unfortunate namesake. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We're all Dum-Dums in this episode, as we explain Tootsie Pop superstitions, recount the times we were terrible, experience the longest and most convoluted story Kristin has ever told, and remember the biggest messes we've ever had to clean up. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Kristin shares her hair tips, Scott finds the dumbest reason to visit Party City, we wonder why there aren't more good werewolf movies, and we were all probably that one bad friend at some point. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Kristin tries to figure out TikTok, social media believes all kinds of wrong and stupid things about us, our horoscopes are definitely not a bunch of nonsense, and we wish some sweet toys upon our younger selves. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Welcome to our dystopian hellscape, where a guy ate at Six Flags on the cheap for seven years, and Max crashed a social influencer's debauched birthday party. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We have a very strange conversation about Mummies Alive, wonder about horse treats, try to imagine what sorts of 2010s nostalgia we'll be inundated with in 20 years, and debate traveling through time to talk to ourselves. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

Yep, it's your favorite movie review podcast, the Comedy Button. After talking about Ghostbusters, we workshop ideas for a footlong chicken nugget, debate hot dog burgers vs. burger hot dogs, and learn about Max's Harry Potter panic attack. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

For our extra-special and totally well-planned 10th anniversary episode, we gave Brian and Scott the night off so we could shame some truly terrible parents, make a list of our favorite overhyped cities, plan Ryan's imaginary political campaign, and review all the bad movies that came out four years ago. Starring Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We say way too many words about Pokemon, have our annual monster cereal discussion, divulge everything we know about memes, and guess what Dune is about. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Jared Petty returns to tell us why having a breakthrough case of COVID-19 really sucks and also explain why his stairs collapsed, and then we delve into the wild west of the early Internet. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville, with special guest Jared Petty.

Jared Petty is here to tell us about his new place, shed a tear for his favorite tree, and talk about all kinds of dumb comics and tabletop games and terrible technology. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville, with special guest Jared Petty.

Scott's latest boring white people vacation was at a weird haunted hotel, we discover that there are Yelp reviews of websites, we remember the times we got suckered by targeted ads, and Ryan imagines how he would handle real-life stadium events. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

Kristin tells us about her Hawaiian vacation, we dig deep on Charles Entertainment Cheese, and everyone reveals how they would break up with Ryan. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.

We discuss the oeuvre of Jenna Jameson, discover that we are all Garfield, try to figure out what Miracle Whip is, and figure out what Ryan's stupid quest would be if he were Indiana Jones. Starring Brian Altano, Scott Bromley, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

In this very stupid episode, we make a Dungeons & Dragons alignment chart for fast food restaurants. Starring Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, Max Scoville, and Kristin Van De Yar.