Former 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 […]
Continue ReadingAunty Donna is an Australian sketch comedy group that includes no aunts and no Donnas, but instead one Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane. They burst onto the comedy scene Down Under with their first show in 2012 at Melbourne’s comedy and fringe festivals. They produced a new show each year since, taking […]
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 ReadingThe McElroy brothers — Justin, Travis, and Griffin — started their first family podcast in 2010 as a way of keeping in touch while living in different states. My Brother, My Brother and Me is a comedy advice podcast which skews heavily towards the comedy. “The McElroy Brothers are not experts, and their advice should […]
Continue ReadingEddie Pepitone has been called “The Bitter Buddha,” which also is the title of the 2012 documentary about the comedian, a New Yorker by birth who has called Los Angeles his home for the better part of the 21st century since landing a role in the hit movie, Old School. You’ve seen and heard him in many […]
Continue ReadingAt 94, comedy legend Norman Lear is just now joining the podcast fray with his own talk show, “All of the Above,” which debuted today on PodcastOne. Lear’s first episode welcomed guest Amy Poehler to talk about her upcoming movie with Will Ferrell, The House. Paul Hipp not only wrote the song for Lear’s podcast […]
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