Genre Comedy Updates Weekly | Language English Length 60–300 minutes | |
Hosted by Kevin PorterDemi Adejuyigbe Theme music composed by Sam PhilipsCarole King | ||
Gilmore Guys is an audio podcast established in 2014, following Kevin T. Porter and Demi Adejuyigbe as they watch every episode of the television series Gilmore Girls. The show represents two points of view, as Kevin is a longtime Gilmore Girls fan and Demi is watching it for the first time. The podcast also features interviews (dubbed 'Gilmore Gabs') with the members of the Gilmore Girls cast and crew, including Milo Ventimiglia, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn, Liza Weil, Liz Torres, Keiko Agena, David Sutcliffe and more. The Gilmore Guys also perform live shows, having taken the podcast on several tours around the United States. In January 2017 they began commenting on Bunheads, another series by Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
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History
On September 17, 2014, Kevin tweeted the below, to which Demi replied, expressing interest.
Wanna start a podcast where we go through every episode of Gilmore Girls called Gilmore Guys. Who wants to co-host / be a guest?
— Kevin T. Porter (@KevinTPorter)
Prior to beginning the podcast together, Kevin and Demi had previously met and corresponded (primarily through mutual friends, attendance at live screenings and UCB shows), but Episode 1 of their podcast was the first time they had recorded content together. In June 2015, the guys were invited to take part in the ATX Festival in Austin, Texas. They performed two live shows, and worked the red carpet for the Gilmore Girls panel, interviewing cast members as they arrived. Since the ATX Festival, the guys have performed live shows in LA, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Toronto and Dallas.The live shows also contain musical numbers, and audience Q&A.
In August 2015, Gilmore Guys was picked up by the HeadGum podcast network.
On October 19, 2015, they released an "Emergency Podcast" after news broke on TVLine that Netflix planned to revive the series for 4 90-minute movies. Since the revival was announced, Kevin and Demi appeared in several different media to discuss the ramifications of the announcement, including an article written for The Guardian by Adejuyigbe, and an interview segment on NPR.
Bunhead Bros
A year into the podcast, Porter and Adejuyigbe announced their intention to cover the Palladino show Bunheads upon completing all of the episodes of Gilmore Girls. This new series began in January 2017, under the moniker "Bunhead Bros" but still released through the Gilmore Guys podcast.
Recognition
On December 7, 2015, The Hundreds included Gilmore Guys on their list of the ten "Best Podcasts of 2015". In January 2016, the podcast was nominated for a Shorty Award in the category of Best Podcast.
Up Network
The duo has appeared as "Gilmore Guys" for short segments of commentary about Gilmore Girls on the UP television network
Pop Goes the Culture
This segment contains a supercut of all of the pop-culture references from the episode (which Gilmore Girls was famous for), after which the hosts discuss the varied, and sometimes far-out references. The supercut is regularly over a minute long.
Netflix Synopsis
The Guys read out the Netflix synopsis of the episode and discuss how well they summarise the episode and whether or not they include spoilers for new viewers.
Fashion Report
The Guys begin and end their fashion report with a unified "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion!". Each episode, this segment involves the guys breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly of what the characters wore.
Original WB Promos
The Guys occasionally play Gilmore Girls promos which ran on The WB and CW when the show was on the air (most of them done by the WB's voice announcer, Hal Douglas), creating comedic commentary on the tonal shift between the promos which spoiled episodes and had a tone which did not match that of the show itself. They also play radio promos when available.
Twitter Q&A
The Guys take select questions from Twitter and Facebook (and from the audience at live shows) and answer and discuss them. Before recording each episode of the podcast, they "open the floor" to questions across social media for this segment.
Demi sings a "Twitter Q&A" jingle to open the segment.
Television Without Pity
Beginning in their coverage of season 5, the Guys read and discuss comments from the now-defunct Television Without Pity, also referred to as TWoP, which continues to maintain their forums, including one for Gilmore Girls, in archived form. These comments were all posted at the time that episodes originally aired. Occasionally, Kevin will come across comments that he posted, and either he or Demi will read them on air. To open the segment, the Guys play clips from popular songs or films and replace words from the songs with either "TWoP" or "Television Without Pity".
Rating the Episode
At the end of each podcast episode, Kevin, Demi, and their guest assign the Gilmore Girls episode a rating (typically on a scale of 1 to 10). The rating standard is usually a humorous object or idea from the episode, such as "Wal-Mart Employee of the Month Plaques".
*Overall Ratings factor in Kevin, Demi, and their guests' ratings for each episode.
Where You Tweet, I Will Follow
Kevin and Demi give guests the opportunity to plug their upcoming projects, performances, and social media accounts. The guys will also plug their own social media accounts. Starting in their coverage of the fifth season of Gilmore Girls, in keeping with the pop culture theme of the show, the Guys and their guest each also give a "pop culture plug" where they plug a TV show, movie, album or book they are enjoying. Where You Tweet, I Will Follow is the only recurring segment to be included in the Gilmore Gabs episodes as well as the standard review episodes.
Each episode concludes with the guys and their guest singing along to Where You Lead (the theme from Gilmore Girls).
Gilmore Girls Episode Reviews
Episode Reviews encompass the typical Gilmore Guys podcast episodes. They involve Kevin, Demi, and their guest watching an episode of Gilmore Girls and then discussing it together. For a brief period in the beginning (episodes 10, 12, and 14) of the podcast they discussed two back-to-back episodes, but this idea was soon disbanded as it made the podcast episodes too long.
In April 2015, Gilmore Guys performed their first live show, dubbed Gilmore Guys Live: A Stars Hollow Town Meeting, at the UCB Sunset theater, with Jessica St. Clair as their guest. They also took part in the 2015 ATX Television Festival in Austin, TX, performing two live shows at The Highball with guests Stacey Oristano, Sarah Ramos and Keiko Agena. They have performed consistently sold-out live shows in cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Toronto and Boston as well as recording episodes in the studio.
Gilmore Gabs
Starting in March 2015, Gilmore Guys started including interviews with people involved with making Gilmore Girls. These differ from the typical episodes, in that they do not discuss a particular Gilmore Girls episode. The Scott Patterson episode garnered a lot of attention, not only because it featured a main star of the show, but because Scott mentioned "talks" of a Gilmore Girls reunion movie.
I don’t want to mislead the fans. I will say this, there are talks going on at the moment. I can’t really go into any details, but there is some activity. I’m hopeful, and I’m in. I think it would be a big event, and I think it would be a great fan celebration.
— Scott Patterson
Special Episodes
The Guys will occasionally release special episodes, which they typically use to respond to the various emails and voicemails left by fans, as well as to take live calls. These episodes are called Gilmail Guys.
Following Edward Herrmann's death on December 31, 2014, Gilmore Guys released a tribute episode which highlighted his contributions to the show.
The guys did a live show called "Live in NYC - The Lost Scripts" in which the guys performed scripts they had written based on Gilmore Girls characters. The scripts featured many inside jokes from the TV show and the podcast and featured a surprise appearance by Wayne Wilcox, who played the character Marty on Gilmore Girls.
Visual Companions
Beginning with episode 4.16, Gilmore Guys started releasing Visual Companions for their live episodes. These videos contain images from the "Fashion Report" segment, and any videos included in the show.
Episode 5.07 (recorded live at UCB Sunset) was released in video format on YouTube as well as the traditional audio format.
A Year in the Life
* This rating has been excluded from the average calculation.
** Demi's rating standard, "jawns", for episode 5.04 comes from a term in the Philadelphian vernacular, which essentially replaces or joins a noun.
† Rating normalized to a scale of 10 for average calculation.