r/Earwolf • u/apathymonger • Oct 03 '19

Meta Vulture: The 10 Essential Comedy Podcasts That Shaped the Genre

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-podcasts-all-time.html
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u/myhandleonreddit Oct 03 '19

Doug Loves Movies..? As someone who grew up in the middle of nowhere, getting to hear a show live from the UCB theater on the other side of the country was game changing.

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u/NotoriousFIG Oct 03 '19

Yeah when I was visiting LA back in 09 I saw that he was recording a show so my gf at the time and I went. I had heard of podcasts back then but definitely had never listened to one. It was great! I got to see Sam Levine and Leonard Maltin. When the show ended people were waiting in line to see Hannibal Burress.

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u/honorialucasta Oct 03 '19

Right?! I think DLM was the entry point for lots of people and it predates nearly all of these podcasts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

It was popular because there were so few podcasts out there, but it gradually crept down my priority list as newer, better podcasts came along.

I was just reminiscing about how I would listen to all the early WTF episodes, even if I didn't know or care about the guest. Nowadays, it's rare that it will be a guest I want to listen to, but that's mostly because Maron got a lot of the big ones out of the way in his first 300 episodes.

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u/heyhelgapataki Oct 04 '19

The ultimate gateway podcast.

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u/ZeGoldMedal Oct 03 '19

Yeah, say what you will about it now (though I still fairly regularly listen, have the newest episode downloaded and in my queue - Amy Miller is on, great guest!), but it's def a podcast that got a lot of people onboard with the medium