Gina Yashere first came to the attention of Americans in 2007 when she appeared on season five of Last Comic Standing (the first international season, which also featured finalists Amy Schumer, Doug Benson, Lavell Crawford and winner Jon Reep). But Yashere already had plenty of successful experience with comedy contests in her native England, a […]
Continue ReadingDo you remember when McDonald’s used to serve pizza? Why did they stop? How did it taste? There’s now a podcast created specifically to answer these questions, a podcast that brilliantly satirizes investigative journalism and the rising political influence of internet conspiracy theorists. In the first few episodes of Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald’s, […]
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 ReadingNew York’s annual PodFest returns next month, and today the festival announced its full lineup. The festival takes place at The Bell House in Brooklyn from Friday, April 7th through Sunday the 9th and will feature shows like Travon Free and Mike Drucker’s The Room Where It’s Happening, Eugene Mirman’s Hold On, Kevin McDonald’s Kevin […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. There’s something about the intimacy and relatively modesty of the medium of podcasts that encourages obsessiveness and intensity. Podcasters and fans tend to be intense people so it makes sense that the bonds they share are similarly intense. This is […]
Continue ReadingThe child of Afghan immigrants, Fahim Anwar grew up in Seattle, went to the University of Washington and got a job at Boeing in aerospace engineering to make his parents proud. But Anwar had a different dream, and no, I don’t mean the dancing machine Lance Cantstopolis. He took a job in Long Beach so […]
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 co-hosts of Guys We Fucked – the “anti slut-shaming podcast” – have been exploring relationships, sexuality, and gender with… MORE
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The Umbilical Brothers aren’t actually brothers, but the comedy bond between Australians Shane Dundas and David Collins has lasted for three decades and taken them all over the world with their dynamic duo act that mixes mime, slapstick and stand-up. They’ve performed on late-night for Letterman and Leno, after James Brown at Woodstock ’99, for […]
Continue ReadingWho’s joining Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap and Pat Francis for their eighth annual Pardcast-a-Thon, happening for 12 hours this Saturday live from Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, Calif.? Among the known, announced guests: Jon Hamm, Sarah Silverman, Lauren Ash, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Randall Park, Kumail Nanjiani, Rachel Bloom, and Rhett and Link. Of course, […]
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