MetaFilter posts tagged with podcast and humour

Monday, 9:00 AM. Briefing meeting with Deparment Research Team Thirty-Two.

benito.strauss — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:53:00 -0800

The Department. Regular listeners to The Bugle (previously) will have been missing their usual weekly dose of historico-politico-silliness. But there is a fallback. While Bugle co-host Andy Zaltzman has been travelling about Asia, the regular Bugle feed is vamping with filler. If you're missing The Bugle, read on. For three seasons prior to their launching The Bugle in 2007, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman wrote and acted in the BBC Radio 4 comedy The Department. The Department, a bureaucratic organization hidden from both the public and the government, has secretly been running the country (Great Britain) for ages. Working for The Department Oliver and Zaltzman form two-thirds of Research Team 32. Each week the team addresses one of the Big Problems facing the country, such as Trade, Immigration, Terrorism, or The British Transport System. The show starts with the statement of the problem and then lays out several silly solutions. In one episode, proposed solutions to the problems of Transport include lowering expectations, being brutally honesty with travellers, an award show for the worst rail disasters, installing football managers to manage transit employees, etc.. (The third member of Team 32 is played by Chris Addison, better known for playing the cherub-faced bastard Ollie in The Thick of It.) So if lines like "Blaming hip-hop for gun crime is like blaming J. M. W. Turner for stormy seas." is your type of observational comedy, give The Department a try. But where to listen? Sadly, the BBC isn't currently re-running it or making it available for purchase, so I'll quote The Bugle's own tweet "Google and the word 'torrent' can help out.

Credo!

Artw — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:00:32 -0800

A 3 hour podcast interview (part 2 here) with British comics legend Pat Mills, most famous for the anti-war WW1 strip Charley's War, the creation 2000ad and many of the most enduring characters within it, superhero hunter Marshall Law and numerous other comics. His work usually combines combines dark humour, a dash of left wing politics and ludicrous amounts of violence, now as much as ever with puritan zombie hunter Defoe. Subjects discussed in the intreview include the death of artist John Hicklenton, being Irish-English, Sláine and the comparitive lack of celtic heroes in modern popular culture, Oliver Cromwell and the Levellers. Bonus link: 20 pages of Metalzoic, Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neills "lost" story.

You Look Nice Today

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:58:47 -0800

You Look Nice Today | A Journal of Emotional Hygiene is one of those podcasts all the kids are talking about these days. It's just a few guys, you know, talking, but it's newish, amusing, and one of the guys is Metafilter's Very Own™ MerlinMann. As always, the funny is subjective. Your mileage may vary. I like it, anyway.

The Bugle - Audio Newspaper for a Visual World

Kattullus — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:23:40 -0800

The Bugle is a topical comedic podcast by The Daily Show's John Oliver and fellow comedian Andy Saltzman. They style it an Audio Newspaper for a Visual World. Each weekly episode is about half an hour long.

No thanks! I am going home to masturbate!

tehloki — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:48:40 -0800

The Midwest Teen Sex Show is a podcast for teens and adults covering the wonderful, awkward, stimulating, sticky world of sex.

Home of the picnic for detectives

gamera — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:29:31 -0800

How to build your very own balsawood crow, the poetry of Dennis Beerpint, Little Severin the Mystic Badger, plus lobster diagrams and of course the Binnacle of the Week await you at Hooting Yard. Celebrated in song and story, Hooting Yard (also a radio show and podcast) is the home of Frank Key, author of such works as Sydney the Bat is Awarded the Order of Lenin and A Complete and Utter History of Norwich.

43 Folders Podcast: GTD takes a side-step toward leftism

nthdegx — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:27:45 -0800

Merlin Mann's 43 Folders podcast is hilarious.