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The Comedy Button: Episode 117 Mar 07, 2014

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If each of us could swap lives with one of our fellow castmates for a day, who would we pick? Well, the answer to that is: How badly does everyone want to experience Ryan's presumed cartoon-character lifestyle? And how much do we want to bang each other's girlfriends? This is kind of awkward now. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

The Comedy Button: Episode 116 Feb 28, 2014

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This week, amid our stories of accidental racism and Chris Farley sightings, one Comedy Button cast member unveils his grand plan for creating a home cockpit chair. Just in case you didn't know, that's not even a single full step shy of owning a race car bed. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

The Comedy Button: Episode 115 Feb 21, 2014

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What happens when two nerdy white guys (one of them nine feet tall) visit the ancestral homeland of video games and samurai -- Japan itself -- and decide that it would be a great idea to get into bathroom hijinks at an anime cafe? Yeah, it's even worse than you think. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville, with special guest Mitch Dyer.

The Comedy Button: Episode 114 Feb 15, 2014

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We watch some stupid commercials, steer clear of Seattle's horse cops, take a ride on the Reading Railroad, have some excellent spa adventures, witness a shootout, Hulk out at a cabbie stricken with Uber-envy, freak out about corporations, hear more about Anthony's love life, leave our porn out for the maintenance guy, obsess over Wikipedia way too much, play Minecraft for grown-ups, praise our role models, and have a serious herp-chat. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

The Comedy Button: Episode 113 Feb 07, 2014

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On this week's extra-awesome episode, Adventures of Pete & Pete star Danny Tamberelli returns with his on-sceen big brother Mike Maronna in tow, we hear some behind-the-scenes tales of Grand Theft Auto V, Ryan and Mike have an OK Q*bert love affair, Mike tells us what it was like to teach Bill Clinton how to use the Internet, we hear some fun Home Alone set stories, we hear even more Pete & Pete stories, everyone recalls their He-Man memories, we drop some hot hip-hop voiceovers, Max and Mike nerd out over their mutual love of Dragon Ball Z, and Danny and Mike answer some listener email. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville, with special guests Michael Maronna and Danny Tamberelli.

The Comedy Button: Episode 112 Jan 31, 2014

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It's another three-man show, wherein Scott hates his birthday, we recall the first video games we ever played, Ryan delves into the contents of his MP3 player, proxy servers are cool, our stupid hobbies make us feel older than we are, we (occasionally) question our lots in life, the revelation of Santa Claus and wrestling being (spoilers) fake drove our kid selves mad, getting friend-zoned is your own stupid fault, we examine the peculiar difficulties of the late '90s, we talk all about pants, we take refuge in an imaginary zombie apocalypse, a 35-year-old virgin asks us for some love advice, and we reveal our comedic influences. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, and Ryan Scott.

The Comedy Button: Episode 111 Jan 25, 2014

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This week, Anthony is dating a 23-year-old, we take a trip to the Bone Zone, the great California drought has us doing nothing differently whatsoever, Max grows up a little bit more, Tata Massage takes its face-slapping operations international, rap is for insane people, politically correct people don't care about you, Anthony misses San Francisco, Scarlett Johansson loves her Sodastream, we don't understand where countries are, we remember some of our most rage-filled moments, Ryan hacked some pay phones, Brian made a ninja movie, Max is actually a permanent man-child, and we all say something nice about Ryan. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

The Comedy Button: Episode 110 Jan 17, 2014

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With half the cast MIA, it's down to Brian, Scott, and the guy who doesn't talk to discuss the Star Wars canon re-org, Ryan's extracurricular activities, Brian's month of sobriety, Scott's big gay wedding, continuing to get old, pie filling for lunch, the origin of our show's name, Brian's triple-platinum album, the aftermath of Scott's new pop culture show, and Dungeons & Dragons. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, and Ryan Scott.

The Comedy Button: Episode 109 Jan 10, 2014

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After a way-longer-than-we-planned-for holiday break, we're back in 2014 to talk about the real-world problems that occasionally happen, Anthony's love for Rust, "Ryan Scott," Brian's latest awful airline story (and his subsequent tales from New Jersey), Anthony's quest to be totally radical at 31, eating healthy because we're old, Anthony's dad's newfound tolerance for humanity, Max's big tragedy lever pull, Ryan vs. the MMA, the worst college professor ever, bashing fine art, dire YouTube predictions, and Brian's r-word resolution. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, Anthony Gallegos, Ryan Scott, and Max Scoville.

The Comedy Button: Episode 108 Dec 20, 2013

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We're joined by a couple of awesome IGN editors to talk about life as an extra in the movie biz, Ryan's new Ranger Smith look, Midwestern values, the horrors of Culver's, BuzzFeed's terrible ideas for Christmas pumpkins, the 1994 Academy Awards, the art of manscaping, amazing listener emails with terrible endings, banging out with dead bodies in the house, and the importance of referential humor. Starring Scott Bromley, Brian Altano, and Ryan Scott, with special guests Andrew Goldfarb and Marty Sliva.

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