Jokes!
Taking one joke at a time, the rotating set of hosts and guests--usually headed by Josh and Eric--break out and break down famous and not-so-famous jokes.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2020
Episode 9 - Maria Bamford
The guys are back at it! This time, in honor of Suicide Awareness Month, they do a crossover episode of Jokes and Sunshine & Brain where they talk about suicide and issues related to mental health vi…
Episode 8 - Billy Wayne Davis
This week, a very strange joke in a very standard subgenre: the Penis Joke Genre.
Episode 7 - Bro Comics
What an episode! Fresh off a #BLM demonstration, Josh and Eric talk bro comedy, including D'Elia and Cook, and how one's canceled and one won't be, and the inexorable bro-ness of white-ness, or is it…
Episode 6 - Police Brutality
Comedians as prophets rises to the surface in the time of worldwide protests against police brutality, particularly against Black people in America and elsewhere. Josh and Eric, white guys, hear and…
Episode 5 - Nobody Gets on the Trains
Josh and Eric reflect on and discuss the great Jackie Kashian's terrified and inspiring take on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Ms. Kashian's long and anxious tapestry of political-moral collap…
Episode 4 - The Light was On
Founder Robby brings Norm Macdonald's long, meandering "Moth Joke" from late night to the Jokes! pod, but not before quarantine insanity and hygiene are discussed.
Episode 3 - Sir, You Have Fooled Me Twice
Josh brings the joke from the quietly prolific Paul F. Tompkins, one involving canned peanut brittle, cobras, and the finest in hilarity. The hosts digress to talk quarantine, cowboy hats, bathrooms…
Episode 2 - What's New With You?
Eric brings the "joke," actually an appearance by Rodney Dangerfield on The Tonight Show in 1979. Josh and Eric discuss Rodney's machine-gun fire joke-telling style, Johnny Carson's wild ride, and J…
Episode 1 - Die Heretic!
Josh and Eric break apart the what has been called the greatest joke about religion. (Link: https://youtu.be/ZBKIyCbppfs.) And the podcast gets its name.