Talking with Kevin McDonald, the John Lennon of Comedy

Best known as one of the founding members of the avant-garde sketch group Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald recently celebrated an anniversary. His podcast Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show — which blends sketch, interviews, and live music — just hit its one-year mark. In the past year McDonald has played host to the best […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: A Very Supernatural ‘Beautiful/Anonymous’

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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HBO Orders Four Specials from ‘2 Dope Queens’ Hosts Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson

2 Dope Queens hosts Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson are heading to HBO. The network announced today that it’s ordered four hourlong specials from the podcasting duo, which are expected to debut sometime next year. “We are so stoked to be partnering with HBO for these specials,” Williams said on the news. “Excited to add […]

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On Tour with Tony Hinchcliffe

If you ask Tony Hinchcliffe how things are going he’ll likely sum it up this way: “It’s a wild time to be a comedian doing real standup and podcasting at the same time.” The album version of his One Shot special recently dropped, he’s currently just a few nights into his headlining run with the […]

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Episode #166: Natalie Morales

Natalie Morales is an actress best known for her supporting roles in sitcoms such as Parks and Recreation, Trophy Wife, Girls, and The Grinder. She’s also done drama with White Collar, and action-adventure with The Middleman. She directed a webseries for Funny or Die about James Joyce’s Love Letters, and you can currently see her on […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Tiffany Haddish Arrives in ‘Dumb People Town’

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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The First-Ever Episode of ‘Comedy Death-Ray’ Is an Embryonic Look at a Future Comedy Institution

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Comedy Bang Bang recently celebrated its 500th episode with a star-studded extravaganza befitting such an auspicious milestone. Over the course of 500 episodes, host Scott Aukerman and his guests have created a sprawling universe of in-jokes, running jokes, crazy characters and […]

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Episode #165: Nate Bargatze

Nate Bargatze is Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedian, and Bargatze has the Tonight Show credits to back that up. Nate also has gone on tour with Fallon, multiple tours to entertain the troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and has two hit comedy albums to boot: Yelled At By A Clown and Full Time Magic. Those […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Jessica Williams on ‘Fresh 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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Hear from comedians performing at Just For Laughs Montreal in 2017

OK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. But that’s a start! Each of these fine, funny folks regales me (and now you) with inspirational stories about how they started in comedy, where they’ve […]

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