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Inside Never Not Funny's 4th Annual Pardcast-a-Thon

by | November 19th, 2012

When the podcast boom first materialized, at the forefront stood Jimmy Pardo’s ‘Never Not Funny,’ a new type of show consisting of merely a few friends sitting around a table chatting through live microphones. Sure, it sounded simple then – a recorded conversation – but it would soon become a format to be duplicated time and time again to the well-known shows of today.

‘Never Not Funny’, a weekly podcast (or Pardcast) hosted by the comic and his producer, Matt Belknap, features a different guest each week along with the others “around the room,” as Pardo puts it. Today, six years since it’s birth, it remains one of the medium's most distinct shows out there with it’s fans being the industry’s highest in dedication.

If there is anything that we’ve learned from the ever-growing tree of podcasts it’s that we, as fans and as people, strive for conversation. The lost art is so heavily yenned that we’re willing to listen to nearly two hours of others entertainingly ramble on about their own lives, even if miles upon miles separate us. Perhaps it’s a therapeutic event for we listeners, or even an imaginative idea of friendship; but with the loads of them being unleashed via iTunes, ‘NNF’ has stood the test of time and proven to be a best friend to its listeners each and every week.

Back in 2009, with the idea of recreating the lost telethon of old show business, and raising a little bit of money for charity (though they’ve since reached substantial amounts), the Never Not Funny crew chose to put on Pardcast-A-Thon, a twelve-hour-long podcast/telethon held in Los Angles with 24 guests on the roster to raise money for SmileTrain, a charity that aims to aid those with cleft lip and palates. READ MORE

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