This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Taran Killam and Sarah Silverman on ‘HDTGM’

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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Episode #176: Vladimir Caamano

Vladimir Caamano grew up in an immigrant Dominican family in the Bronx to live the American comedy dream. Since breaking out as a New Face in the 2015 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, he has been anointed by Howie Mandel in a televised gala for The CW, co-wrote and starred in an NBC […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Larry Wilmore and Michael Bennett on ‘Black on the Air’

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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Celebrating 20 Years of Comedy Duo Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster

For two decades, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster have proven to be one of the most consistently funny and hardworking teams in comedy. The pair performs their scripted phone calls each week on The Best Show and these segments remain as hilarious as they were when they started. The premise of each bit has Scharpling, […]

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Getting ‘Lady-Like’ with Stephanie Simbari

You may have caught standup Stephanie Simbari on @midnight or in the ensemble of Oxygen’s 2015 reality series Funny Girls, or heard her co-host her popular wellness podcast That’s So Retrograde. The New York native has a lot of projects right now, including a role on Jay Pharoah’s Showtime series White Famous. And now Simbari’s […]

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Ralphie May’s ‘WTF’ Revealed the Smart, Thoughtful, and Sensitive Soul Behind the Big Personality and Big Laughs

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. When Marc Maron began recording interviews in his garage for WTF, he probably never envisioned that the show would eventually become a sort of living, evolving museum of contemporary standup comedy. No, he was probably just trying to figure out what […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Some New (and Semi-New) Podcast Recommendations

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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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Some New (and Semi-New) Podcast Recommendations

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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Jim Carrey and Norm Macdonald Have a Delightful Chat on ‘Norm Macdonald Live’

The latest episode of Norm Macdonald Live dropped today, and if you want to watch Macdonald talk shop with Jim Carrey for over an hour, you’re going to love this one. Near the beginning, Macdonald tells a story about Man on the Moon, but almost better than the story is this exchange that precedes it: […]

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Inside Matt Besser’s Punk Rock Musical Podcast ‘Stolen Idea’

Matt Besser has done all there is to do in comedy, but ask him and he’ll tell you about a life that could have been as a musician. In Stolen Idea, a new punk rock comedy musical that Besser co-created for Stitcher Premium, he gets the chance to live out that fantasy and continue to […]

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