Tag: podcasts

Christmas Invades Halloween in an Instant-Classic Episode of ‘With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus’

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Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins’ chemistry has been perfected on countless Comedy Bang Bang recordings and live appearances together. They’re two of the podcasting world’s most ubiquitous, beloved, and consistently funny comic geniuses and their collaborations as a foul-mouthed, suspiciously […]

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Episode #180: Judah Friedlander

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Judah Friedlander may be best known for playing TV writer Frank Rossitano on the hit NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but Judah has been making his appearance felt on screens big and small, with or without his trademark trucker hats. From his roles in films such as American Splendor, The Wrestler, Wet Hot American Summer, Meet […]

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Episode #179: Jenn McAllister

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Jenn McAllister has 3.1 million subscribers and counting on YouTube (plus another 1.9 million on Instagram and 2 million on Twitter), where she documents her life as jennxpenn. Jenn started uploading videos to YouTube when she was 12. At 16, she signed a deal with Awesomeness TV, then moved from Bucks County Pennsylvania to Los […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Jo Firestone and Manolo Moreno’s ‘Dr. Gameshow’

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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]

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Inside the Comedy Podcast Boom with Jimmy Pardo

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Jimmy Pardo is feeling himself. “I’m now at a point where I’m like, ‘This is who I am. If you like what I’m doing, great. Get on board. If you don’t like it, there’s a lot of other things out there for you.’” The former Conan warm-up comic and host of the long-running podcast Never […]

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Episode #178: Mark Feuerstein

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Mark Feuerstein co-created, produces and stars in the new CBS sitcom 9JKL, which is loosely based on his real-life experience moving back to NYC to live next to his parents and brother while starring for eight seasons on the USA drama Royal Pains. Feuerstein began acting as a student and classmate of mine at Princeton […]

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The Two Worlds of Tawny Newsome

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Career-wise, comedian, actor, and musician Tawny Newsome is having a very diverse year. She’s a recurring standout guest on some of comedy’s best podcasts, starred in Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, can currently be seen on BET’s The Comedy Get Down, and is wrapping up a music tour with Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls, a band whose […]

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Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson Are on a Mission

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When standup comic Corinne Fisher’s boyfriend waited for her to buy his lunch at Panera Bread and then promptly dumped her, her heartbreak became oddly fortunate. It inspired the idea for her podcast, Guys We Fucked, which she hosts with her comedy partner, Krystyna Hutchinson. With the subtitle “The Anti Slut-Shaming podcast,” episodes of GWF […]

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Episode #177: Guys We F@#ked: Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson

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Comedians, writers and actors Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson co-host the incredibly successful podcast Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast which now has more than 200 episodes talking to comedians, porn stars, and more, a worldwide audience of more than a million listeners. They’ve taken their show on the road to comedy clubs, theaters, TED Talks and festivals. […]

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Marabel May Offers Uniquely Worthless Advice on Matrimony in ‘The Complete Wedding’

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Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. As readers of this column are well aware, I am something of a crazed super-fan of The Complete Woman, Amanda Lund’s podcast-miniseries masterpiece take on the fascinatingly anti-feminist, anti-woman, anti-human advice manuals of Marabel Morgan, a mostly forgotten figure today but […]

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