Comedy Central adds Chris Distefano, Julian McCullough to podcast roster

Comedy Central is pulling from its talent base to expand its reach in podcasting. On Wednesday, the network announced two new podcasts: Stand-Up w/ Chris Distefano and Your 2 Dads w/ Sean and Julian. DiStefano previously signed an overall deal with the comedy cable channel. The two shows will add to CC’s global podcast network. That platform originally launched in 2017 with The Jim Jefferies Show Podcast. Despite a wealth

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Episode #252: Liza Treyger

Liza Treyger is a New York based stand-up comic by way of Chicago, who grew up in nearby Skokie after immigrating from Russia when she was 3. Treyger has her own Comedy Central half-hour special and album, GLITTERCHEESE, and a more recent half-hour spe…

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Episode #251: Yakov Smirnoff

Yakov Smirnoff got his big break in America thanks to Mitzi Shore, who not only put up the Soviet immigrant in her home behind The Comedy Store in 1977 but also gave Yakov’s father a full-time job, too. Smirnoff himself became a big star during the Rea…

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6 WTF facts from Marc Maron’s 1,000th podcast episode

WTF with Marc Maron put out its 1,000th episode this week. To celebrate, Maron and producer Brendan McDonald talked for over two-and-a-half hours about the origins of WTF, their podcasting processes, and, of course, President Barack Obama. They also answered a good amount of fan mail. There is no guest and, while Maron mentions that they tried to get a guest and the three people they asked said no, there

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Episode #250: Keith And The Girl

Keith Malley and Chemda Khalili began podcasting out of their apartment in Queens in March of 2005, three months before Apple recognized podcasting officially on iTunes. “Keith and The Girl” quickly became one of the most popular podcasts, and by 2011,…

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New Conan O’Brien podcast goes ‘inside Conan’…without Conan

Conan O’Brien expanded his Team Coco content over the weekend with a new behind-the-scenes podcast. Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast debuted last Friday. The new podcast is already number five on the iTunes US comedy podcast rankings as of this writing. Inside Conan is co-hosted by two writers and producers from O’Brien’s half-hour late-night show, Conan. The podcast takes listeners “behind the pompadour” to explore “petty office dramas,” “hot

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Episode #249: Lyric Lewis

A classically trained theater major who grew up in New Orleans and Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Lyric Lewis took her degree from Syracuse and headed straight for Hollywood, where she auditioned for The Groundlings. Over the course of several years, Lewis w…

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Alex Jones on Joe Rogan podcast: “I’m kind of retarded.”

Joe Rogan invited Alex Jones back onto his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, for the 1255th episode—and it got weird. The nearly five-hour podcast live streamed on YouTube and currently has over 1 million views. Clips of the podcast appeared all over social media in real time and people are raising their eyes at the content. The InfoWars host returned to the podcast after his first appearance back in February

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Final Brody Stevens podcast will ‘push positivity’ in live stream today

All Things Comedy is streaming one last episode of the highly celebrated Brody Stevens Podcast Festival of Friendship following the comedian’s passing last week. The broadcast will feature a special rotating panel of comedy friends sharing stories. Previous guests on Festival Of Friendship include Duncan Trussell, Jeffrey Baldinger, and sports legend Alan Jaeger. The podcast was famous for Brody Stevens candidly discussing depression but also baseball, apple cider vinegar and

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Episode #248: Steve Agee

Steve Agee had a bizarre enough life behind the camera before he ever got his first big shot in front of it thanks to Sarah Silverman. Agee edited footage for MTV’s reality shows such as The Real World, then got a job writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live, whe…

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