# Any really funny "talking" podcasts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965 "2008-02-09T22:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/1 "2008-02-09T22:21:35Z")
I’m looking for a talk radio style podcast that is genuinely funny. I’ve only found 2 that I like so far and there are way too many to sort through so I come to you. The two I like are “Uhh yeah dude” which is pretty funny and “Red Bar Radio” which is funny most of the time but the racist ramblings of the host are off putting sometimes. I think he thinks its funnier than it really is to come across as a racist or something. But when race is not in the picture it’s pretty funny. I’m look for casts that are an 30 min long or more. None of these little short 5-10 minute blips. Ones I’ve checked out that I haven’t liked so far: (I picked these off the descriptions so hey, give me a break…): The Awful Show Get Laid Show Chud Show I’m not really looking for video casts, though if there are good ones that are longer than a few minutes let me know. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/2 "2008-02-09T22:33:29Z")
As I said in the last podcast thread, talk radio host [Paul Harris](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9441096#post9441096) interviews likes to interview funny people. Along with his weekly talk with Jon Macks, [Kip Adotta](http://www.kipaddotta.com/) was also scheduled this past Friday. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/3 "2008-02-09T23:37:46Z")
The Preston and Steve show, based out of Philly. I am subscribed to their show via iTunes, and each day the podcast is about two hours. Really good stuff; you can get a preview of them at [their official site](http://www.prestonandsteve.com) or at youtube, where there are multiple videos involving them. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/4 "2008-02-10T00:52:59Z")
[Car Talk](http://www.cartalk.com/ct/review/index.jsp), of course. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/5 "2008-02-10T05:37:19Z")
The Fred and Barney voicemail thing out of Canada (some one help me out). The funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/6 "2008-02-10T06:03:41Z")
[I like this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451284) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/7 "2008-02-10T12:33:12Z")
Bill Simmon’s B.S. Report on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) is fantastic if you like sports/entertainment stuff. I’m a huge fan of his columns and the Podcast works really well and has some on-going gimmicks that keep me engrossed. I’m also a huge fan of Adam Carolla’s morning show, which is available in Podcast form. It’s a 4 hour show and the segments are broken up into 15 minute blocks so there’s about 16-20 files each day. It’s way more than I have time to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/8 "2008-02-10T13:40:11Z")
[Gay Pimpin’ with Jonny McGovern](http://gaypimp.com/index.php/content/view/13/36/) is hysterical, if you like that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/9 "2008-02-10T18:17:20Z")
NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/10 "2008-02-10T18:29:19Z")
I’m told that NPR’s “Political Junkie” podcasts with Ken Rudin are pretty funny, although I haven’t heard any myself. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/11 "2008-02-11T01:51:55Z")
My friend Kevin Cummings (who was for a short time a Doper) has had a podcast of his column **Short Cummings** going for quite a while now. Kinda DaveBarryesque: [http://www.shortcummingsaudio.com/](http://www.shortcummingsaudio.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/12 "2008-02-11T03:06:25Z")
_The Onion Radio News_ – 45-second “newsbreaks” that are very good. I actually put them into my main play list and when I shuffle, they occasionally pop up between songs like goofy commercial breaks. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/13 "2008-02-11T03:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me [/QUOTE] I cam in to mention Wait, Wait. Consistently funny. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/14 "2008-02-11T03:27:52Z")
Dan Savage of Savage Love has a pretty funny podcast, if you can handle fairly frank sexual discussion and salty language. I can also recommend the KQRS morning show podcast out of Minneapolis. Robin ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/15 "2008-02-11T05:05:26Z")
Film-maker Kevin Smith has one called SModcast. It’s about an hour a week of him shooting the shit with his producer and friend Scott Mosier. Sometimes he has other friends of his on instead, and he did a couple episodes of just him and his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/16 "2008-02-11T15:18:34Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [I like this one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451284) [/QUOTE] You already go through the trouble to add a link; is it really that much more difficult to say what the link contains so I can choose to click on it or not? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/17 "2008-02-11T16:35:52Z")
[QUOTE=Mongo Ponton] The Fred and Barney voicemail thing out of Canada (some one help me out). The funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. [/QUOTE] I heard that on “This American Life” a few weeks back, but I don’t know off the top of my head if that show has a podcast version available. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/18 "2008-02-11T17:07:14Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I heard that on “This American Life” a few weeks back, but I don’t know off the top of my head if that show has a podcast version available. [/QUOTE] The Fred & Barney voicemail, I thought, was just for TAL. I know that one of them, Fred I think, was New York writer David Rakoff… I don’t remember who the other was. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/19 "2008-02-12T04:55:20Z")
Fred and Barney were done by Jonathan Goldstein who has a show called [Wiretap](http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/index.html?copy-audio) on CBC Canada. I guess he goes on TAL sometimes and that’s why it aired on there. So they don’t have the rights to it and can’t rebroadcast it and he has some kind of copyright issues with the music so it’s hard to find. I have it on my computer so its around and worth finding. The link has some other good stuff by him. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965/20 "2008-02-12T05:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I heard that on “This American Life” a few weeks back, but I don’t know off the top of my head if that show has a podcast version available. [/QUOTE] TAL available as a podcast on iTunes; I listen to it sometimes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-really-funny-talking-podcasts/436965.md?page=2)