Remembering Tiffany Haddish’s Heartbreaking and Hilarious Trip to ‘The Mental Illness Happy Hour’

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Even more than WTF, Paul Gilmartin’s wonderful, essential podcast Mental Illness Happy Hour goes deep with its interview subjects. After a really good episode of the podcast, you feel like you know the guest on a profound human level. You feel like […]

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The Harris Wittels Episode of ‘WTF’ Provides Fascinating Insight into a True Comic Original

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Comedian, podcaster, television writer, and gentle comic genius Harris Wittels would have turned 34 this April 20th. The comedy world has never stopped mourning Wittels’ premature death or celebrating his quietly remarkable life. For the people who love Harris, up close […]

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The First Episode of ‘Hard Nation’ Is a Relic of a More Hopeful, Less Terrifying Era

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time Here at Pod-Canon, we like to commemorate endings and/or milestones by traveling back to the very beginning to the kick-off episodes that launched some of our favorite podcasts. Sure enough, Earwolf’s wonderful political talk radio show Hard Nation appears to have ended […]

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Brett Gelman’s Classic “iBrain” Bit Helped ‘Comedy Death-Ray/Bang Bang’ Reach New Highs of Hilarity and Raunch

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. The 35th episode of Comedy Bang Bang, which gave the world the gift of Brett Gelman’s “iBrain,” helped establish the tone, personality, and boundaries of the then-young podcast, which still went under the name Comedy Death-Ray and was broadcast live on […]

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Don DiMello’s “Eye on Theatre” Found Andy Daly’s ‘Podcast Pilot Project’ at Its Most Disgusting and Hilarious

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. The world may a cesspool and the future unbearably grim, but there are nevertheless ample reasons for comedy podcast lovers to rejoice. Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott recently launched an R.E.M-themed podcast, to the delight and edification of the masses. The […]

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‘Hollywood Handbook’s “Pro Version” Gets Off to a Terrific Start with the ‘Ready Player One’ Teaser Freezer

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements’ prickly cult podcast Hollywood Handbook is as restless as it is brilliant and consistently funny. The podcast has introduced scores of features and running jokes that it abandons when it grows tired of them, like the […]

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‘The Onion’s ‘A Very Fatal Murder’ Is a Sly, Pitch-Perfect Parody of Crime Podcasts

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Crime podcasts like Serial are irresistible to satirists by virtue of their popularity and ubiquity alone. Serial in particular is so huge that it transcends the medium that birthed it. Even your aunts and uncles who know nothing about podcasts (heck, […]

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The First Recorded Episode of ‘The Dead Authors Podcast’ Offers a Fascinating, Educational, but Mostly Entertaining Look Behind the Scenes

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. The Dead Authors Podcast ended its run a few years back with a 50th chapter on L. Frank Baum, the man who gave us The Wizard of Oz, at the very tail end of 2015. But immediately before that episode ended […]

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‘Comedy Bang Bang’s “Best of 2017” Is Another Worthy Entry into an Epically Self-Indulgent Podcasting Institution

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. For pretty much any other podcast, having an annual “Best Of” that lasts longer than two and a half hours would seem incredibly self-indulgent. For Comedy Bang Bang, however, a two and a half hour-long “Best Of” represents nothing more than […]

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Bob Zmuda’s ‘Fitzdog Radio’ Interview with Greg Fitzsimmons Represents Cringe-Listening at Its Finest

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. For fans of morbidly fascinating podcast trainwrecks, there is nothing quite like the anger and acrimony of a walkout. The walkout represents the ultimate breakdown of civility, when a podcaster and a guest stop being polite and start getting real. I’ve […]

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