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You know what this is? It's a celebration, bitches. I'm not trying to be a misogynist, it’s that I'm only addressing female dawgs right now. What up, dawgs? Woof? Of course. Female dawgs who love comedy podcasts that is. Let's take a second to think about how adorable that is…"What's your favorite podcast, dog?" "What The Bark with Bark Maron. You?" "Either improv4dogs or You Made it Woof." And scene. Anyway, the actual celebration is this columns one year anniversary (well one year and 11 days). On Cinco De Mayo, 2011, Joe Berkowitz and I started "This Week in Comedy Podcasts" and what a long, not that [...]

Who let the pods out? Casts, casts, casts casts casts! Is that the worst one yet? Probably but it did make you wonder why the original song's lyrics weren't "Who let the dogs out? Cats, cats, cats cats cats." Because cats don't really like dogs, you know? You know. Seriously though, lots of people let the podcasts out and we are so so so (your boat) thankful. If they didn't, what would we write about each week in this column? It's called "This Week in Comedy Podcasts" what other choice do we have? Ok, I guess we could critique the casting styles of the fisherman who use funny looking [...]

Jim Gaffigan was sure on a lot podcasts this week – hot podcast. (That flawlessish joke was in reference to Gaffigan’s famous hot pockets bit. It's legit super famous, the type of bit that anyone who reads this site would probably know, so if you didn't get it, you must not be reading this site, which begs the questions then, where are you? What are you reading? Why has this parenthetical lasted so long?) He was on them all to promote his released directly online comedy special, which speaks to podcasts’ ascension as a valuable place for promotion (see also: Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair). It [...]

For any non-comedy nerds out there who might be reading this, standup comedian Pete Holmes is the voice of the E-Trade Baby.

OK, got your cultural touchstone? Good. Because you should check out more of his work.

Holmes is kind of a comedy renaissance man, dabbling in cartoons (The New Yorker), sketches (CollegeHumor, etc.), sitcom writing (Outsourced), acting (Ugly Americans) and podcasting (“You Made it Weird”) to supplement his work as headlining comic. He’s become a major draw on the standup scene, and recently received a Best Club Comic nomination for Comedy Central’s upcoming Comedy Awards.

Fans of “You Made it Weird” know that Holmes loves to talk [...]

Standup and podcaster Todd Glass was on Fallon last night, talking about his early days starting out as a comic, running a popular Nerdist podcast, and his recent coming out on WTF with Marc Maron. It is difficult to not love Todd Glass!

The Comedy Awards aired last weekend and with that came the announcement of the winner of Best Comedy Podcast. The nominees were WTF, How Was Your Week, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Sklarbro Country, The Nerdist – a hell of a list, if I ever seen one (and, trust me, I've seen lists). You know your art form has really made it, when a 2-year-old award show tapes someone on the red carpet reading the winner to be posted online. Making it even better is when that red carpet someone uses half of his time to belittle the whole thing (thx Col Q). And who picked those clips? Marc Maron [...]

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this past week and everyone was in a huff (the Huff-ington Post, especially) about how there was no winner for fiction but I was wondering why there wasn't a winner for podcasts this year, OR ANY YEAR. I know what you are thinking, "Generally, the Pulitzer is a writing award and podcasts are an aural medium." Well, I'm thinking, "Oh, I guess I didn't really know that, ooops. Nevermind." And now you're thinking, "That's ok, Jesse. We decided that you deserve the Pulitzer for Criticism. And that is a thing. Here you go." So now I'm thinking, "Wow, no way! Thanks for the Pulitzer [...]

"I think it was improv. It was watching people be on stage, acting without a script. There was something in me that was like, 'I want to do that. I know I can do that.' For some reason it was less scary to me than having words in front of me, because I think when you’re handed a script you know that you’re supposed to do it in a certain way, and people will think, 'How is she reading this?' But when you’re improvising, there’s nothing to compare it to and you can do whatever." — Kristen Wiig on why she was drawn to improv when she first started getting [...]