Episode #151: Aunty Donna

Aunty 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 […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Mini Golf Course Drama with ‘Spontaneanation’

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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A Comprehensive Guide to the McElroy Family of Products

The 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 […]

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Episode #150: Eddie Pepitone

Eddie 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 […]

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Norman Lear hosts a podcast now: “All of the Above” on PodcastOne

At 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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Episode #149: Joe DeRosa

Joe DeRosa started his comedy career in the urban rooms of Philadelphia, and not long after he moved to New York City he earned a spot touring with Dave Chappelle. With Bill Burr and Robert Kelly, DeRosa co-wrote and starred in a short film called CHEAT, which they also turned into a book. DeRosa also […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: the “Nugget Power Hour”

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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‘Analyze Phish’ Took a Sharp Turn Towards the Tragic in the Painfully Intense “Hollywood Bowl” Episode

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. When I was a guest on Harris Wittels and Scott Aukerman’s Analyze Phish podcast Harris invited me to be part of the gang when they saw Phish perform at the Hollywood Bowl. I wasn’t able to go due to poverty […]

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The best of Marc Maron’s WTF interviews in book form, “Waiting for the Punch”

If trying to catch up on 800+ episodes of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast seems like too much of a hill to climb, or you just want to fast-forward to the best parts and look at them whenever you want, then you’re in luck. Maron announced he’s excerpting dialogues with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Kevin Hart, […]

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Norman Lear’s Podcast ‘All of the Above’ Premieres Next Week

Veteran television writer, producer, director, and series creator Norman Lear is launching his own podcast next week. According to Deadline, Lear has signed on to host a weekly podcast for PodcastOne called All of the Above with Norman Lear, which will feature cohost Pail Hipp and “cover topics ranging from comedy to family, current events, […]

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