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Friday Fun Thread for January 27, 2023

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Any recommendations for funny podcasts?

Some of my favourites are:

No Such Thing As A Fish - The researchers from the British panel show QI talk about their favourite facts of the week. It is essentially a panel show in itself, but without the conceit of any games or scoring

Dreamgun Film Reads - A group of Irish comedians (with special guests sometimes) do live readings of film scripts, that have been rewritten to be full of jokes. The podcasts are recordings of the live shows, complete with audience laughter. If you like films I strongly recommend giving this a listen.

The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast - Deadpan surrealism. The host presents a fake podcast about the beef and dairy industry. Surprisingly good given the odd-sounding premise

Lateral - British Youtuber Tom Scott hosts a quiz show with guests. All the questions involve lateral thinking. Not as funny as the others but still quite fun.

I'd really like to find something similar to Dreamgun, in the sense of being a scripted show in front of a live audience. I'm not really into D&D, which seems to have spawned a lot of comedy podcasts in the last few years.

Cum Town.

Note: not for everyone, very highbrow.

Just listened to the most recent episode of Lateral and loved it (though I was disappointed they didn't immediately get the Alien$ question)! Thanks for the recommendation.

For funny podcasts, I love Hollywood Handbook, but it's in a very different vein from the ones you mentioned and seems to be an acquired taste.

Not a podcast, but you can listen to WILTY as if it was a podcast.

Does Tom Scott always sound like he's out of breath?

Welcome to Nightvale is an enjoyable absurdist horror podcast about a radio show in a small American town where supernatural events are common and not treated as unusual.

The Monday Morning Podcast by Bill Burr is a funny podcast, Not sure if it's to your tastes but would be hard to deny that its funny.

Monday Morning Podcast by Bill Burr

Thanks, I'll give it a listen.

Any particular episodes you'd recommend? With 12 years of episodes I'm not sure where to start.

Most of the episodes are just Bill Burr going on rants, arguing with his wife and reading fan mail (and responding with {hilarious} advice), so there isn't any specific episode I have in mind.

There are snippets on youtube that you can listen to, to get a rough idea. The youtube channel Bill Burr University,Monday morning podcast clips has been compiling snippets from the podcast for a while.

This This is one of my favorites.