Episode #443: Comedy MVPs of 2023 with Jason Zinoman

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman has joined me every year since 2015 for our own traditional December To Remember the year in comedy. On …

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Foodie funnies: James Acaster and Ed Gamble’s podcast Off Menu goes on the road

As it fills the Royal Albert Hall on tour, the comedians’ ‘dream restaurant’ show questions what ingredients a live performance really needs‘I can’t believe this many people like your podcast!” That’s Elis James talking, as he and his pals James Acaste…

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John Robins: ‘I don’t agree with what I wrote when I wasn’t well … But it’s really funny’

Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge – happiness‘There is no greater sorrow,” as Dante had it, “than to recall happiness in times of misery.” If the con…

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