I've discovered that podcasts are a great way to keep me entertained during my daily commute. I'm often not in the mood for music, but a bit of comic banter always goes down well, and helps shut out the awfulness of the underground.

I've enjoyed the Ricky Gervais podcasts (which should by rights be called the Karl Pilkington show) and must have looked like a loon this morning sniggering away to Adam & Joe. Does anybody have any other favourites they would recommend?

The only other one I listen to is Comic Geek Speak, but it depends if you like comic books or not.

The Russell Brand 6 Music podcasts are pretty great, although that depends on whether you like him or not.

There's a real lack of good comedy podcasts aside from A&J and Ricky G. At least, I can't see any more I want to listen to in the iTunes shop.

I wish the BBC would do some Radio 4 or BBC7 comedy podcasts. 15 minutes from each show or something like that would be great.

Mark Kemode's film reviews are on the Five Live page if you like that sort of thing.

Not sure if the UK version of iTunes carries any NPR programming from the States - I'd think they would, seeing as how we get Ad&Joe, Kermode and the rest - but there are several there worth checking out:

- Harry Shearer's "Le Show" is a grand 50min-hour of political commentary and satire.

- "Morning Becomes Eclectic" with Nic Harcourt is a fine music program that has really good guests often.

- "The Treatment" with Elvis Mitchell (film discussion) is worth a look; I'm not a fan of him as an interviewer, but he does often get great guests. Altman was on recently.

bit of a slowburn for me - at first i was expecting 'spinal tap'-like guffaws, but once you get over that and realise it's a fairly level-headed, intelligent "what's going on in the world?" conversation with the listener, it's very enjoyable. his coverage of the post-katrina nola flood political farrago has been fascinating.

related to the new orleans thing, florida-based producer/dj/musical nomad diplo (he of the m.i.a. collaborations) does a great show called 'mad decent worldwide radio' - including an astounding show from new orleans with various bounce/dirty south hip hop/new orleans brass musicians blended together in one musical message of defiance and human resilience.

radio clash started out as a bootleg/mashup podcast, but has grgown into something much more: tim presents excellent music from past present & future, talks passionately, treats the audience and the artists with respect (but not reverence), and does the odd on-the-spot report...

similarly bristol's wobcast grew out of the 'west of bastard' bootleg night, but now lumpy, andrewherring & juxtaposeur have developed the music policy a little wider - ragga jungle, breakcore, ambient touches, the odd cover version, more psychedelic stuff, indie classics, and, well, much much more - and enveloped it with thoroughly listenable banter about the music. a real treat

and if you want pure mashup deliciousness, look no further than the weekly ramdom thoughts, hosted with aplomb by scott over in essex - meticulously selecting the best new boots as well as a few classics, and usually ending with a nice long slice of a bastard pop mix courtesy of guest dj's...

finally, another bb i'm on decided we'd start our own little radio station to keep each other amused... there's a bunch of us now each with our own shows, and we collect them all together on one - coolest radio. myspace music, bootlegs, film music, covers, breakcore, breaks, spoken word... a bit of everything really

anyhow, i could bang on about loads more but my fingers ache, so i'll just mention a few and let you google them

£50
jarvcast
i motor away
yeast radio
radio three sixty
resonance
wmfu
sri radio sweden
budtheweiser

happy hunting

They had The Now Show available, but nothing else.

oh, and 'the spoilers' do great geeky alternative dvd commentary podcasts

it's only an experiment for the beeb at the moment - a few news progs, the now show, kermode, a bbc7 kids' programme... i think they're appraising it all in december?

oh, and the 'dawn & drew show' is just rather nice, a couple talking about, well, anything really. they're up to their 408th show at last count i think!

(she has a dirty mouth too )

Yes, good point - anyone expecting "Tap" like shenanigans is going to be disappointed. But he's very passionate about covering stories with a depth they don't get treated in the mainstream press, humorous and otherwise. (The Katrina stuff is personal for him, he has a home in Nawlins.)

oh, and 'saturday night with the who boys' is a new-ish show which is essentially listening to a bunch of people get gradually more and more pissed as they listen to music, ramble on, have arguments, get visited by friends and phone for taxis

it's better than i make that sound

http://thewhoboys.podomatic.com/

macbreak
twit
this week in media
roughmix
lofi stories
how to lose friends & alienate people (toby young)
bristolbands.com
french maid tv ( )
aol music - the interface (surprisingly good - a bit of an interview & a live session track or two)

avoid: little britain's david walliams, olde english sketch comedy...

I like Nowhere in mulberry, which is an entertainment podcast with 4 friends talking about what's new in entertainment. http://www.nimpodcast.blogspot.com

Also Movies You Should See is a nice British movie review podcast.

Peter Kay is podding now.

Eyyyyy! This American Life is finally available on iTunes. *twirls*

I am packing up the house for my move at the end of the month and I'm listening to the TAL podcasts. #203: Recordings for Someone is great; the story about the stutterer is heartbreaking, but that guy is a champ. Right now though, I'm cracking up at the Peter Pan story in #61: Fiasco!

Adam and Joe have got a new-ish podcast on since they finished their run of x-fm stuff. I can't find a link at the moment, but it's something like Coke World Music. I know there's a myspace for it, I'll try and find a link once I come back from lunch.

The Coke Music myspace site

Tis pretty good stuff. Adam and Joe are as funny as ever and there's even a few decent songs on there, as well as some god awful rapping in German for the sake of balance.

Listened to episodes 53 through 59. Pretty good stuff. Not laugh out loud funny most of the time, but they're certainly helping me get through the work day with a few decent chuckles.



The only episode available on Itunes I could find was based around Iraq and the way we measure casualties. Very interesting, I certainly felt educated after listening. Time to get some more I think.

If you can find the "Recordings For Someone" episode (that's turned up on iTunes for us, dunno if selected eps are different overseas), grab it immediately. Both sad and toucing (a segment with audio tapes sent by a soldier in Iraq to his family) as well as mad and hilarious. (The Columbia University "Little Mermaid" story, which involves a hopping mad Jewish mother leaving her son a spectacular voice mail. Oh, it's good.)

tru say, except a&j's show is a pretty example (imo) of a failure to get to grips with podcasting, it's just a branded commercial radio show on the net, doesn't have the warmth of of the many great amateurs out there.

comedy-wise i dig:

goodnight burbank (pastiche of a californian local tv news show)
the onion radio news
distorted view (touch o' the curate's egg, mind)
dawn & drew (mentioned earlier) & saturday night with the who boys (ditto) can both be very funny

the times edinburgh fringe comedy podcasts with jason byrne were abysmal, and now they're spamming me for shows i am not interested in

most of the comedy casts i've come across have been three-legged dogs, and i've unsubscribed from them. but c'est la vie, as people get to grips with it, there'll be more great shows along soon

Not current/recent podcasts as such, rather a trawl back in time this, but if you're willing to leave the computer running for most of the weekend on a BitTorrent download, Cookd and Bombd currently have Chris Morris' entire run of Radio 1 Music Shows from 1994 available as a job lot download. I dare say Chappers already has these. Possibly.

Go HERE

24 x hour-long episodes of general silliness, Feedback Reports, The Sock Quiz, music, Paul Garner the Shopkeeper Botherer ("when he gives you the change, tell him the coins are angry"), Kiddy's Outing, Childish Airport Tannoy Announcements, music, Michael Alexander St. John's Dance Chart run-down, The Cow Quiz, the death of Michael Heseltine and other bogus news reports, Wayne Carr Interviews: 2Unlimited/Edwina Currie/Frankie Valli/Peter Stringfellow, inventing tomorrow's news in case of a Newsbeat! departmental strike and approaching Members of Parliament for soundbites for the as-yet-unhappened news, more music, Chris' mate Sergeant Murphy, Big Spoon Baby Balloon and oh so much more. And plenty of insulting/embarrassing his right-hand man Peter Baynham.

At 80Mb per episode, it's not a 10-minute download. Have fun.

Cripes! Just out of curiosity, what's the total file size for the whole shebang? I'd probably have to dump it all straight onto a DVD after.

I'm there!

Thanks for the tip off, Ade!

Indeed! I think the job lot was in the region of around 2Gb... if you have major, major problems let me know....I'm sure I could sort something out.

edit edit: I meant TWO! not TWENTY!!! Oops. Sorry.



Most welcome, petal.

Jackpot! That'll help me get through the days at work nicely. Thank you kindly sir.

Rrrrawkin' - you're a prince, Ade, thanks!

My pleasure, peeps!

*bows with a flourish*

Sweet. Cheers Ade.

Don't know if anyone else has pointed this out, but Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington are doing three free special podcasts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/rickygervais/.

Didn't find the Halloween one especially funny, but the Thanksgiving one is a treat with some great Pilkington musings.

Cheers for the reminder, Knight Industries Two Hundred.

They're pretty good. Having listened to them and taken a liking to Mr Pilkington I got the first and second series of podcasts they did off Itunes. Sometimes it's a bit hit and miss, but for the most part Pilkington is brilliant. Think I might pick up a copy of his diary at some point soon.

I'm really enjoying StarShipSofa at the moment. If you're into science fiction it's a real treat - two witty blokes having a meandering discussion around a particular author or film each week.

Two Adam & Jo best ofs are now available, comedy fans.

What's scary is I've listened to certain shows so much by now that I can identify the bits they've left out.

I would recommend you listen to the Kings Place podcast.

http://soundcloud.com/kings-place/kings-pl...cast-april-2010

I particularly recommend scrolling to about two-thirds of the way through where you can hear me and Tom Deacon being interviewed about comedy and me laughing sycophantically at all his jokes.

Have a listen to our podcast:

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Well if that's what we're doing...

Back to the 80's

Just started listening. The first gentleman that talks has a very strange accent.

Listening to that I'm genuinely gutted I've consistently been unable to make it down for any of the shows yet. I had every intention of making it in March but simply ran out of dosh. April for sure.


Incidentally, it's nice to hear your voice, Zoe.

I am downloading all of Peacock and Gamble, I figured the two hours to and from Londres would be a good time for a new podcast binge.

I also recommend you download Watch With Mothers, particularly the three weeks of quiz specials from October/November of last year.

I enjoyed Adam Buxton's Big Mix Tape yesterday, with Julian Barratt. Weird hearing Adam present on his own, seemed a little bit uneasy to me but was great when Julian arrived. Louis Theroux next week, should be a good 'un.

The only two podcasts I listen to are SModcast, with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier; and Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!, with Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanagan.

They're both similar in format, but I think they're hilarious.

I really enjoyed this too


I listen to these. They're fantastic and never fail to make me laugh. Have you listened to the podcast Malcolm does with his mum?

No, but from Bryan's semi-review of it last week it doesn't sound like I'm missing much, or that it'll be around for too long.

I don't know who Malcolm is, so he doesn't really interest me. I know the other four from DVD commentaries and Kevin's books.

I've been devouring Dave Gorman's podcasts. Hilarious. TEDtalks is a great vidcast a bunch of today's best minds sharing their ideas in a open forum. NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is also pretty funny.

True, I only know him from the previous smodcasts but I'll be intriuged to listen. Bryan is my favourite guest even if he is a bit too self depracating at times.

I'm going to check that out very soon. In fact I've been meaning to post a link to the TED site for a while* - haven't really had much chance recently to check it out properly, but there are some extremely interesting topics under discussion there - I'd really love to be able to attend the convention at some point.

* duly rectified


Thomas Dolby has been involved as Music Director of TED for years, although this fact only came to my attention relatively recently. Here's a video linky to Dolby & Garniez's novel and somewhat amusing rendition of 'La Vie En Rose' at TED2004. I know it's not podcast per se, but I thought it was cool.