The Listener's Guide to Comedy Podcasts

By Jay Allbritton

This guide includes profiles of more than fifty of the funniest comedy podcasts for comedy fans tempted to try out the growing medium. Fill the workweek, the commute, your gym workout or your household chores with laughs from the likes of Ricky Gevais, Adam Carrolla, Marc Maron, Jimmy Pardo, Doug Benson, Scott Auckerman and dozens more great comedy hosts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jay Allbritton
• Release date: Jun 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458076908

Jay Allbritton

Jay Allbritton is a writer and a musician currently living in Gainesville, Florida. He is a member of the film production company Palingenesia as well as South Florida bands Allied Radio and Fuse. He attended the University of Florida where he earned an MA in Religious Studies. Jay is hard at work on several film projects as well as a novel.

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The Listener's Guide to Comedy Podcasts

by Jay Allbritton

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Table of Contents

Introduction

404, The

Adam Carolla Show

Artist v. Scientist Podcast

ASSSSCAT! Podcast

Best Show on WFMU, The

Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast

Bugle, The

Comedy And Everything Else

Comedy Bang Bang

Comedy Film Nerds

Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident

David Feldman Comedy Podcast

Dork Forest, The

Doug Loves Movies

Far Out! Podcast

Field Negro Guide to Arts & Culture

Fitzsdog Radio

Heidi And Frank

Hollywood Babble-On

How Did This Get Made?

How Was Your Week?

Jay and Silent Bob Get Old

Joe Rogan Experience

Judge John Hodgman

Jordan, Jesse Go!

Jorge Rodriguez Show

Kerri Kasem Podcast

Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show

Long Shot Podcast

Low Budget FM

Megaboom!

Nerdist

Never Not Funny

Overthinking It

Pod F. Tompkast

Pop My Culture

Pretty Good Podcast

Radio Dan

Ricky Gervais Show, The

Sir Darryl Radio Experience

Sklarbro Country

Smartest Man in the World, The

Smodcast

Stop Podcasting Yourself

Superego

Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!

This Week in Comedy

This Week with Larry Miller

Too Beautiful to Live

Totally Laime Podcast

Walking the Room

Who Charted?

WTF

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

I am one of 40 million Americans that work in a cubicle. Millions more live the office life at home. For a couple of years I had a two-hour daily commute. Then there’s the gym, laundry days and countless hours doing the dishes. While music fills some of these hours, millions like me are increasingly filling these hours with podcasts, particularly comedy podcasts. Many of these hosts go far beyond just making their audiences laugh. The very best engage their listeners over several platforms in a long term relationship that is mutually beneficial to everyone involved. They help us pass the time and we help them by being the audience that, despite their many talents, these comedians could not reach by other means.  

According to the website eMarketer.com, between 2008 and 2010, the total podcasting audience grew from 15 million listeners to 50 million listeners. While the success of the podcast can be seen in all of its forms, in the realm of the comedy podcast in particular, the mainstream media has begun to take notice. Comedian Ricky Gervais’s show was so successful that it was adapted into a cartoon for HBO. The New York Times wrote a long, glowing feature on comedian Marc Maron’s podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Adam Carrolla’s daily podcast recently surpassed Gervais’s to become the most downloaded show in the history of podcasting, After several successful live podcasting tours, prominent filmmaker Kevin Smith