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Podcast Your Way to Producing for Seth Rogen
Podcast Your Way to Producing for Seth Rogen

Podcast Your Way to Producing for Seth Rogen

Indie podcaster Richard Parks III reveals the secret to making great work

Colin Anderson was having a sleepless night. His client, actor Seth Rogen, was eager to begin production on an upcoming podcast, but Anderson, Sirius XM’s VP of Comedy Podcasts, hadn’t yet found a producer for the project. “I was racking […]

Producer Spotlight Comedy

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Marissa Melnyk, Super Producer
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Marissa Melnyk, Super Producer

Marissa Melnyk, Super Producer

Behind the scenes with a self-taught, tech-loving, comedy podcast producer

When Marissa Melnyk was in school for video broadcasting at Ryerson University, she noticed her classes were split into two groups. There were those who wanted to be in front of the camera—that was the much larger group—and there were […]

Producer Spotlight Comedy

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How to Host a Podcast With Your Partner That Doesn’t Suck
How to Host a Podcast With Your Partner That Doesn’t Suck

How to Host a Podcast With Your Partner That Doesn’t Suck

The real life couples who host Couples Therapy and Sawbones tell us how they bring their chemistry to the mic

“Can I just throw this out there? We actually love each other.” Andy Beckerman, writer, performer, and podcast veteran, is speaking to me, along with his fiancée—writer, performer, and standup comedian Naomi Ekperigin—about Couples Therapy, the popular comedy podcast the […]

Comedy Society and Culture

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Shannon Cason Gets Honest
Shannon Cason Gets Honest

Shannon Cason Gets Honest

You'll hang on his every word when you start your guaranteed binge listen

For new listeners to Shannon Cason’s Homemade Stories, it might be worth going as far back as 2014’s “Bath House” episode. In that story Cason, a straight man, explains why he went to a bathhouse with a gay friend: he […]

Fiction Entertainment Comedy

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Why It Pays to Be Nice in Podcasting
Why It Pays to Be Nice in Podcasting

Why It Pays to Be Nice in Podcasting

How quirky British audio sitcom Wooden Overcoats built a global fan base

This was supposed to be Wooden Overcoats’ year. The team behind this British independent audio sitcom had successfully crowdfunded their fourth and final season and planned to launch it on September 24, 2020, the show’s fifth anniversary. There were going […]

Fiction Comedy

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Behind the Scenes of <i>Hysteria</i>
Behind the Scenes of Hysteria

Behind the Scenes of Hysteria

A conversation with Erin Ryan about the show's creation and ongoing production

Erin Ryan is among the quickest, funniest people I know. We once worked one desk over from each other at the blog sweatshop that was early 2010s Gawker Media, her at Jezebel and me at Gizmodo. She moved on to […]

News and Politics Society and Culture Comedy

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Preparing the Perfect Pandemic Pod
Preparing the Perfect Pandemic Pod

Preparing the Perfect Pandemic Pod

Stay F. Homekins, Round Springfield, and more play the right chord for These Times TM

“This is episode 24. We did not expect to still be doing this!” This line from Paul F. Tompkins opens a recent episode of the Stay F. Homekins podcast, in which Tompkins and his wife Janie Haddad Tompkins discuss, well, […]

Society and Culture Entertainment Comedy

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What Mic Does Matt Gourley Use?
What Mic Does Matt Gourley Use?

What Mic Does Matt Gourley Use?

How Matt Gourley went from goofing off on a podcast no one listened to to cracking wise with Conan O'Brien

Matt Gourley says he might have been the first analog podcaster,  which makes perfect sense if you’ve ever heard Conan O’Brien roasting him for his love of vintage items—like, say, his beloved phone that was once owned by Dwight D. […]

Comedy

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Off Broadway
Off Broadway

Off Broadway

Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle bonded over a love of the big stage. Their show, True Crime Obsessed, shows how friendship and fandom sells.

Prefer to listen instead? We add new stories regularly to the podcast Timber—Stories for Podcasters. Patrick Hinds has been into podcasts for a long time. Back in 2009, the Broadway obsessive was spending an hour commuting to work from his […]

Crime Entertainment Comedy Podcast 🎧

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In the Adventure Zone
In the Adventure Zone

In the Adventure Zone

How one RPG podcast went from paternity leave filler to its own blockbuster franchise

Prefer to listen instead? We add new stories regularly to the podcast Timber—Stories for Podcasters. To the average podcast listener, the process of finding a role-playing game (RPG) podcast is not like landing on whatever the new Serial is. For […]

Comedy Fiction Podcast 🎧

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