Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. I was such a big fan of The Complete Woman, Amanda Lund’s brilliant satire of 1950s and 1960s-style institutional misogyny and cultural repression, that I not only wrote about it for this column, but I wrote about its sequel Complete Joy as […]
Continue ReadingJacob Smith (@jacobjargon) is a writer, performer, activist, and Libra. He has worked as an intern at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS and was featured as a playwright at the Mizzou New Play Series. Recently, he co-starred with Rachel Tiedemann in Noah and Sofia, a mockumentary which won first place in the True/False […]
Continue ReadingMy prayers have been answered. Nah, not really. I’m not religious. Still. After lauding Jason Gudasz’s Somewhere in Highland Park, we’ve got here the second episode in a series that’s brought to life by Aaron Kee and Brodie Reed, and continues to make me laugh out loud. Check this one…and then go back and watch the […]
Continue ReadingIf you would have told me 30 years ago that I, Dr. Ted Montgomery, would end up as one of the most lauded and influential robotics engineers of the 21st century, it’s possible I wouldn’t have believed you. But here we are! Anyway, enough about me, let’s talk about my latest work. It is with great […]
Continue ReadingPatti Harrison (@Party_Harderson) is a comedian, actor, writer living in Brooklyn. Her television credits include appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Broad City, and TBS’s Search Party. Her work can also be seen on MTV, Comedy Central, Billboard.com, VICELAND, Conde Nast’s The Scene, and Seriously.TV. She can be seen cohosting the monthly live comedy […]
Continue ReadingThe bad doctor trope is one we’ve seen in TV and movies for decades. Airplane, Family Guy, SNL (Will Ferrell’s “…quick call to Beverly”), the list goes on…and on. But have we seen it on the web? Probably, yes. Probably an equally large number of times. What makes Whale Thief’s Doctor Forgets What Bones Are Called feel unique […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. There are certain incontrovertible milestones in podcasting. These include landmarks for the medium like President Obama’s appearance on WTF, Comedy Bang Bang’s 500th episode, Harris Wittels’s final podcast appearances, and that one episode of The Nerdist where Chris Hardwick got way […]
Continue ReadingThank you for visiting the Hayden Panettierium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. I, planetarium director Hayden Panettiere, am delighted to welcome you to our Department of Astrophysics. Former director Neil deGrasse Tyson has taken a full-time position trolling nerds online, and as his successor I […]
Continue Reading@KatieBarsotti is a writer and performer in Los Angeles. She’s written for McSweeney’s, Reductress, CollegeHumor, the upcoming Woolly magazine, and you if you’d just let her. She and America’s sweetheart, Sam Chapman, have a comedy zine coming out in 2018 called Modern Magic: Spells for the Contemporary Witch. Katie also has a podcast coming out […]
Continue ReadingWe rarely do this: cover something that’s not “of the moment” — and I’m not sure this week’s feature could be any less of the moment. In fact, at three years old, this video is ancient. It’s also so funny and, upon showing it to a friend earlier this week and realizing we’ve never celebrated it […]
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