@“whatsarobot”#p87482 what podcast makes you laugh the most?
The [Aunty Donna Podcast](https://play.acast.com/s/aunty-donna-podcast/) is the only other podcast I regulary listen too. I'd describe it as an improv comedy podcast, which leans heavily into the absurd. If you know Aunty Donna either through Youtube or Netflix, I'd say the podcast is their best work. I have no idea where I'd recommend starting. Maybe one of the [End of Year Best Of](https://play.acast.com/s/aunty-donna-podcast/podcast-ep-287-the-best-of-2021-part-1) episodes and then picking a episode from there.
The most recent episodes 321 - Finding Yeezus, 320 - Optimus Prime, 319 -Mr Hollywood have been pretty good, as was the three parter (from 312) A Fried Chicken Investigation.
As it's Australian I feel like I should issue a [u]**LANGUAGE WARNING**[/u] for the whole series. Probably not suitable around kids.
I have been meaning to listen to Three Bean Salad as I liked Mike Wozniak on Task Master.
@“beets”#p87503 i am not familiar with Aunty Donna, and i never listen to podcasts with my kids, so i will be giving this one a go as well. thanks beets! love your new avatar, btw.
@“whatsarobot”#p87482 try Gossipmongers. It was another British podcast hosted by comedians and until they destroyed it, was the best thing going.
The three hosts would read out funny stories and gossip sent in by listeners and would often having me L O L-ing.
At the end of the third season, the two male hosts decided that the female host was having too much success from the podcast and fired her. Without her, the podcast was dreadful and I think it died during/after the fourth season.
The first three are gold though!
Actually, just realised this will be difficult unless you use YouTube. The male hosts scrubbed the first three seasons from podcast services to remove the existence of the female host but you can find it all on YouTube.
@“Chopemon”#p87510 it sounds as though they were quite dedicated to gossip, and went a bit meta in trying to create gossip about their own show. i'm curious to hear those first three seasons, but also a bit wary of supporting these two male hosts, who sound like they might be gigantic a-holes!
this reminds me of all the LOLs i used to have with Russell Brand and his BBC radio program (which was available as a podcast) until he self-sabotaged with Jonathan Ross when they prank called someone they shouldn't have, on air. i don't quite remember the details, but i'm still mad at Ross for getting ol' Russ canceled.
@“whatsarobot”#p87513 The full story is that the two male hosts are Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, comedians that have been going for a while. The female host, Poppy Hillstead, is also a comedian but hadn’t had the same level of success. After season 3, she got an email from Joe and David’s agent saying that “her time had come too early” and she was fired from the show. The fourth season was a disaster. Just two men laughing at their own jokes. The fan reaction was pretty angry and they barely promoted season 4 then it just disappeared.
So, they are a-holes and they shouldn’t be supported. HOWEVER, since they scrubbed all of the official uploads of the first three seasons from podcast services and their youtube channel, the only way you can listen to it is through unofficial youtube uploads so none of their numbers go up.
Obviously, you may not want to listen anyway because Now You Know but if you can look past that, it is an amazingly funny show.
For comedy podcasts, I personally really enjoy the bugle. Andy Zaltzman is a bit of an acquired taste, sometimes he can be incredibly funny to me and other times not so much. I guess you can say that when he hits, he really hits it out of the park for me. In general I think he is best in collaboration with people which is what the bugle is. It first ran from 2007-2015 hosted by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, until Oliver became to busy with his success in America. The old bugle is very funny in my opinion. Just for context I do not find John Oliver funny on Last Week Tonight from what I have seen, but he was actually hilarious on the bugle. He and Andy had really good rapport, drawing out good material from both of them.
The Bugle was revived in 2016, this time with a rotating set of hosts in addition to Andy. This included more hosts from around the world as well as some more diverse voices in general. The post-revival bugle has also been very funny, although it does vary a bit more in quality then it did before. My two favorite co-hosts, whom are also the ones with the largest number of episodes, are probably Nish Kumar and Alice Fraser, both of whom really seem to gel with Andy’s style of humor.
I would try to describe the style of humor, but I'm not sure how to do so well. While it is mostly a topical show I actually find it just as funny to go back to old episodes and it’s an interesting way to be reminded of what was going on in the world at the time.
This is definitely not a podcast that nobody knows about, however, I think it is relatively famous.
the podcast blowback is good one. there have been three seasons now, each a deep dive into an historical event. the first was about the iraq war, the second was about the cuban missile crisis, and the newest is about the korean war.
I‘d struggle to say that this is a podcast as such, despite being presented as one, but I’ve recently started listening to the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine podcast which is essentially a series of dramatised versions of stories pulled from the magazine‘s archives. I’m a sucker for a mystery novel and detective fiction so it‘s up my street and the episodes are brief enough to not exhaust anyone trying to follow what’s going on.
Articles of interest pretty much goes into fashion stuff in the 99pi style. they have a new season going on right now and it's great.
[poetry off the shelf](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/74636/poetryofftheshelf) conversations with poets and a couple reads of their work. [poetry unbound](https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/) these are really polished reads of poems, and then an interpretation of them and the poem again. this one RULES while on bike rides.
the [new books network ](https://newbooksnetwork.com/) podcasts are separated into various categories, which is pretty handy and the [ezra klein show](https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein-podcast) has some cool conversations in there, but they always recommend some books at the end of the episode! so both of these might also help you finding new reads.
btw, does anybody know of 3d podcasts similar to the [flippednormals ](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flippednormals-podcast/id1434052147) one? i really like their focus on art fundamentals and storytelling which is a bit unusual for 3d podcasts i think?
future of coding is a really well made and approachable podcast, not about coding as it is, but about how computing might someday be. it isn‘t, in my opinion, inaccessible to non-programmers, and especially since the guy who currently runs it took it over, it’s really, like, stylish and fun to listen to.
My son has wanted to listen to stories on the way to daycare every morning for the last two weeks. Let me tell you, the audio recordings available on the world wide web sure do suck ass.
So bad are they, in fact, that I've begun recording my own.
This isn't really a podcast but maybe some day it will be.
Also, apologies to those who hear my voice. Yes, it does sound like that and I can't do anything about it.
My friend showed me this French anarchist (I think?) music podcast called The Brain Radioshow and you can find most of the episodes here. I remember it being a pretty cool listen.
My friends and I have launched a manga podcast called Mangaroos! Each week, we‘ll blab about the first volume of a different series. We read the manga in Japanese, but talk about it in English, so it gets weird! The cover art my friend Alex did rules. I hope you’ll consider giving it a listen.
Just found (since it is updating again) the Something Rotten games podcast focused on the grimy slimy end of the medium. It of course covers IC podcast (maybe just Tim) favorite Kane and Lynch: Dog Days. Thoughtful coverage of shlock is always my bag.
Been a really big fan of They Create Worlds since discovering them on The Videogame History podcast. Really great, though, as they do deep dives on a lot of subjects in videogame history.
My friends and I are doing a manga podcast, and this is our fourth episode, but it‘s the one where I think we hit our stride. Also the sound quality is much better than our first episode! We’re talking about Black Night Parade, by Hikaru Nakamura, who also did Saint Young Men. Give it a listen, if you think it's the sort of thing you might enjoy! Or, tell your friends!
@“Chopemon”#p112628 For whatever reason, the YouTube algorithm started recommending Romesh Ranganathan videos to me ages ago, and hasn‘t stopped (because I keep watching them I guess). He’s funny. Don‘t think I know Tom Davis, but I’ll have to give this a listen.
