The sixth annual L.A. Podcast Festival is giving you plenty of time to plan your trip to this year’s three-day… MORE
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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 […]
Continue ReadingThis week, the world welcomed a brand new comedy podcast: Good One, hosted by New York Magazine’s resident comedy expert, Jesse… MORE
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Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport’s Hollywood Handbook has been in a fascinatingly meta, intricate and multi-layered groove as of late. Earwolf’s obsessively loved show-business satire has devoted episode after episode to giddily deconstructing the elements of podcasting, comedy, and show […]
Continue ReadingVulture, New York magazine’s entertainment platform, debuted a new podcast series today that’s all about jokes. Jesse David Fox hosts Good One: A Podcast About Jokes. Fox’s first guest, Jim Gaffigan, talked with him about a specific bit in Gaffigan’s newest Netflix stand-up special, Cinco, that jokes about how good-looking yet vapid TV newscasters are. […]
Continue ReadingJo Firestone can be seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Chris Gethard Show, and heard on WFMU. Jo was recently named a New Face at the 2016 Just For Laughs Festival. And if you like puns, check out Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers, based on the live show she […]
Continue ReadingFans of comedy and/or The Beatles – so, pretty much everyone on Earth – will find something to love in… MORE
Playlist: Comedian (and big Beatles fan) Will Hines shares some of his favorite deep cuts appeared first on The Laugh Button.
Now that we’re deep in the bizarre nightmare hellscape that is Trump America, Brett Gelman and Cyrus Ghahremani (AKA King Cyrus King) have made it easy to escape to another kind of nightmare hellscape when we need a little relief. Starting today, Gelman’s former podcast Gelmania — which originally debuted on Earwolf in 2011 and […]
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 ReadingFor the thousands of hopeful comedians taking classes at various improv theaters like Second City, The Groundlings, and the Upright Citizens Brigade, there’s a loose but still somewhat defined path towards a career in comedy. Take classes, become a better improviser, a better writer, network with other comedians, get on a house team, get noticed […]
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