Comedy podcasts are a great way to keep yourself and others entertained. Here are our favorite comedy podcasts that can be downloaded for offline listening or streamed on-demand via popular podcast services like Stitcher and iTunes.
Comedy Bang! Bang!: A Funny Podcasts With Special Guests
Comedy Bang! Bang! is a long-running weekly podcast that mixes casual conversation and amusing observations with entertaining interviews with guests.
An impressive list of special guests in each episode.
Episodes can run well over 90 minutes.
Archives are available through Stitcher Premium only.
Free to a Good Home: Comedy Podcast About Classified Ads
Free to a Good Home is a comedy podcast with a basic premise; reading funny classified ads. Professional Australian comedians Michael Hing and Ben Jenkins take the idea to the next level though by creating fictitious backgrounds for the people that wrote the ads and making amusing predictions about who would respond to them.
Hing and Jenkins know how to build a hilarious tale from mundane ads.
A good variety of guests from different walks of life.
Not available on Stitcher.
La Culturistas: A Fun Coversation Podcast About Everything
La Culturistas is a roundtable conversation podcast hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. While the official theme of the podcast is culture, the duo and their guests really do talk about anything that crosses their minds from childhood memories to dating and current events.
Fantastic chemistry between the hosts and guest.
Great variety of conversation topics.
You’ll want to wait until the kids are away before listening.
The Dragon Friends: A Dungeons & Dragons Comedy Podcast
The Dragon Friends is a very popular podcast about a group of comedians who get together once a month to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Each episode continues the story progression of the previous entry and the ridiculous choices made during magical life-and-death situations will have you laughing out loud.
The podcast hosts know how to make even basic plot points a hilarious punchline.
Those who have never played Dungeons and Dragons may be confused.
BBC Comedy of the Week: British Comedy in Podcast Form
Comedy of the Week is an official podcast from the BBC which collects a variety of audio recordings from different television and radio programs.
A convenient way to gain exposure to comedy across the pond.
It can be difficult to know what to expect from one episode to the next.
The Bugle: A News Podcast for Laughing at Current Events
The Bugle is a weekly podcast led by Andy Zaltzman and company that reports on the latest news happening around the world before picking it apart with a panel of comedians. Even serious stories get a laugh in this podcast.
A surprisingly good podcast for catching up on the latest news.
A fun revolving door of guest comedians every week that keep the show fresh.
The sound effects and music can make hearing the hosts difficult.
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Ears Edition is an official audio version of the popular TV show that airs on Comedy Central. Noah covers the latest breaking news with a humorous take and frequently interviews actors, musicians, politicians, and authors.
Genuinely interesting interviews that will make you laugh and think.
New podcast episodes five days a week.
Noah can resort to cheap jokes about the way people talk every now and then.
Anna Faris Is Unqualified: Funniest Celebrity Stories
Likable actress Anna Faris heads her own podcast where she interviews celebrities such as Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Jonas, and Elizabeth Olsen.
Anna Faris manages to get a lot of popular actors.
She has a very soothing and pleasant voice.
A little too much talk of sponsors and supporting the podcast.
Episodes can take a while to get started.
No Such Thing as a Fish: Humorous Trivia and Facts
No Such Thing as a Fish is a hilarious podcast made by the writers of the popular BBC show, Qi. Every week, the hosts share new things they’ve learned or trivia they’ve been told and they discuss it as a group, often in front of a live audience.
Experienced hosts who know how to make an audience laugh.
Great fun for the whole family to listen to.
Can listen to podcast with a variety of apps and websites.
The current season is completely free, but past seasons need to be purchased.
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!: A Podcast With News and Laughs
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is a rather clever format for a podcast that combines a sort of game show about current events with a panel of comedians who know how to make their audience laugh.
Fast pace and high energy.
Works just as well as a news podcast as it does comedy.
Available in a variety of formats.
50 minutes does feel a bit too long for this show format.
Greetings Adventurers! (Formerly Drunks and Dragons): Board Games and Belly Laughs
Broadcasting since 2012, this geeky podcast features a group of nerdy friends playing Dungeons and Dragons while inebriated, most of the time. It’s popularity has even spawned a card game based on the hosts characters, Drinks & Daggers, that is much like a drunken Magic the Gathering.
Plenty of episodes to listen to.
Mostly unscripted broadcasts provide spontaneous entertainment.
Can listen on their website or on Spotify.
Sometimes contains coarse language not suitable for younger audiences.
Many of the jokes may go over your head if you’re not savvy to niche topics.
Involves quite a bit of drinking, so not suitable for little ones.
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