Just curious if anybody has any comedy or offbeat podcasts that they are into. i'm goin on a trip and would like a few podcasts to listen to on the long flight over.
any suggestions besides Ricky Gervais?

I have 91 hour long shows that Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington did between 2001-5. I also have some MP3's of the smart arse BBC quiz QI (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/qi/)

Mitch any chance you'd YSI those shows to us, maybe one a week?

You don't want all of them! I'll YSI some of the better one's once I've finished sorting them.

nice...thanx mitch. now remember i leave on friday so have it all wrapped up by tomorrow afternoon. heheheh..i kid

The only podcasts I've downloaded were comedy from itunes. I don't know if they're still there, but look for the Z100 Phone Taps. It's a station in New York. They have these prank phone calls that are just too much. I know that sounds all old school like Jerky Boys and whatnot, but it's good stuff.

Best podcast I've been listening to is the Rhinocast...it's on itunes.

So the free run of Ricky Gervais' podcasts are done. Starts up next week as a pay podcast, $6.95 for four episodes.

Audible.com link

Not sure that I'm willing to make the jump to paying almost two bucks an episode just yet.

I'm not paying for that, especially if it continues to be repeats of XFM 'material'.

I'm sure it will 'turn up' here once I've found it.

Is that what they are? I wondered about the pauses and breaks, makes sense now. They've been new to me since I've never heard XM.

No it's not scripted, they are just goading old resposes out of Karl. It's much better to hear Ricky's genuine reaction when Karl says something spazzy for the first time.

I just meant that the pauses seem to show where the XM show was edited down for the podcast. And not really pauses, just the little musical interludes between sements.

http://www.keithandthegirl.com

Funny, but kind of offensive sometimes.

I have seriously cut down on my podcast consumption, and gotten rid of all of the video ones. I am now down to the 10-1 Saturday NPR line-up (Wait Wait, Sound Opinions, and This American Life), Filmspotting (another NPR show), I Love Movies (Doug Benson and comics talk movies- kind of), and Never Not Funny (UCB's Jimmy Pardo and guests- I get the free podcast, but I'm thinking about subscribing to the full podcast).

This is my current slate of podcsts: Some comedic, some news, some somewhere in between: I very much doubt most will read all this, but there are some gems in here. (Theremin, this is why I'm more interested in bickering than music - I don't have time to listen to music anymore!)

All through iTunes.

Sound Opinions - I think we all know what this is. Often (unintentionally) hilarious.

Bob Edwards' Weekend - former Morning Edition host converses with political and cultural figures. The XM/Sirius merger seems to have interrupted or even endedthis podcast, sadly - it didn't load this weekend as it always does.

Filmically Perfect - "Perfect movies" dissected by the storyboard artist for the Coens and the nitrate film archivist for the Library of Congress. Often funny. Interesting standard of perfection; controversial selections.

FilmWeek Podcast - Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's AirTalk, hosts a weekly round table of movie reviews and discussion.

I Love Movies - see above. Sometimes, Doug Benson is hilarious. Sometimes, Doug Benson is a moron. Frequently, he is both at the same time.

KCRW's The Business/KCRW's The Treatment - Claude Brodesser-Akner handles the business side of all things Hollywood/Elvis Mitchell interviews primarily directors and writers of films that interest him. Both good, but Mitchell's The Treatment is the better of these.

The Moth Podcast -Real people telling true, often hilarious, and more than occasionally very sad, stories of their lives. Excellent.

NPR Fresh Air Podcast - The longer I listen to Terry Gross, the more certain I am she should never interview pop culture figures and stick to social/political guests. Unless listening to someone ask jack White "what his influences are" really turns you on...

NPR Hearing Voices - An hour of radio documentaries, sound collages and what have you, curated by a different NPR producer/host each week. Often excellent; occasionally dull.

On the Media - WNYC's program of interviews and conversations studying how the media reports and shapes the news in America week to week. Vital.

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? - two hours of silliness and alleged comedy culminating in a quiz of incredibly weird/obscure questions which Fedman usually gives contestants the anwers to, if they pay attention. This is purely an acquired taste, but I think it's hilarious.

PRI The Sound of Young America - Jesse Thorn interviews film people, alternative hip hop performers, rockers, authors, and all kinds of comedy performers and writers.The interviews are painstakingly researched, insightful, and almost always very funny. This is probably my favorite podcast every week.

The Ricky Gervais Podcast - Not always as hilarious as you might expect.

Savage Love Podcast - Dan Savage's audio version of his weekly sex advice column. Pretty funny.

Slate's Culture Gabfest - Slate's Steven Metcalfe and guests blather on about cultural matters in a way that makes people like me feel as if we're really smart.

SModcast - Kevin Smith and longtime producer/friend Scott Mosier spend an hour a week being themselves: Juvenile, profane, scatalogical and idiotic. Also brilliant and funny as hell.

Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson - WNYC magazine show dealing with arts and pop culture. Developing a strangely conservative bent of late. Thinking about giving Anderson the boot.

This American Life - Anyone on this board who doesn't know what this is has to stop pretending to be from Chicago.

Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank - rambling, weird, stupid, more or less indescribable podcast of Burbank's nightly attempt to reinvent talk radio sans callers. I'm addcited to this.

WNYC's Radio Lab - Awesome production meets Robert Krulwich and some kid named Jad as they make science almost comprehensible to dolts like you and me.

The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Sharpling

Winner winner chicken dinner.