Scout Durwood grew up in the outskirts of Kansas City with dreams of becoming the next Julia Roberts. Instead, after first playing soccer and then becoming a cabaret singer, Scout’s first major screen credit came in the MTV reality dating stunt, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Durwood shook that off to remain entrenched […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingWhen anger is your artistic medium, sometimes you need to take a little time to just chill. When Lewis Black picked up his phone on a recent weekday morning, I heard a different side of him than what I had become accustomed to. He was measured, calm, and other than the occasional raspy cough, kind […]
Continue ReadingNorm Macdonald is Canada’s most-famous play-by-play golf commentator on Twitter. Of course, you know and love Norm Macdonald even more for his years anchoring Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-1990s, followed by The Norm Show on ABC. He’s also much beloved by David Letterman and many other comedians for the way he […]
Continue ReadingAfter almost a year off the air since Comedy Central abruptly canceled The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore is Black on the Air. That’s the title of Wilmore’s new podcast, announced today by The Ringer as part of its podcast network. Wilmore will kick off his podcast series with guest Norman Lear on May 11. “Larry […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore is launching his very own podcast this week. According to Deadline, Wilmore’s new podcast Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air will debut on The Ringer Podcast Network this Thursday, May 11th. Here’s the official description: Emmy Award — winning producer, actor, and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air, hosting […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. As readers of this column perhaps know by now, I am a fan of podcast episodes that begin pleasantly enough but quickly devolve (or evolve, depending on your perspective) into crazed psychodramas full of tension, veiled and not so veiled […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. As readers of this column perhaps know by now, I am a fan of podcast episodes that begin pleasantly enough but quickly devolve (or evolve, depending on your perspective) into crazed psychodramas full of tension, veiled and not so veiled […]
Continue ReadingFresh off news that his cult hit The Chris Gethard Show is moving to truTV, and following the HBO premiere… MORE
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ris Gethard is going on tour. Gethard announced on Twitter over the weekend that he’s going on a multi-city tour from late May through mid-June, with stops in Vancouver, Portland, Chicago, Toronto, Baltimore, and more along the way. The tour will feature live recordings of Gethard’s podcast Beautiful/Anonymous, and select dates will also feature a […]
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