Gimlet Media Becomes First Podcast Network to Unionize at Writers Guild of America

Petaluma, CA Is Getting Its First Comedy Festival with Pet-A-Llama

Gimlet and Squarespace’s “Casting Call” Contest Is Looking for the Next Great Podcast

Conan O’Brien Previews the New York Comedy Festival

Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival Announces First Wave of 2017 Line-Up

Cracked.com Founder Jack O’Brien Headed to HowStuffWorks to Focus on Comedy Podcasts

Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week

Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week

Pandora Wants to Add More Podcasts to Grow Listening Hours

Someone Who Writes at Jeopardy! Seems to Really Likes Comedy Podcasts

Passes and Tickets Now on Sale for The 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival

Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo Moving to Earwolf

Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

Earwolf Launches New Podcast, Hollywood Handbook with Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport

March 13, 2019

Gimlet Media Becomes First Podcast Network to Unionize at Writers Guild of America

Though Gimlet isn’t primarily known as a comedy podcast network, their unionization could be groundbreaking for the entire world of podcasting, which comedy dominates in (if they pull this off and don’t upset their owners at Spotify).

The Onion also unionized at the end of 2018 after so many other digital outlets went under or got absorbed into their larger media companies.

Potentially, this could mean that places like Earwolf, Headgum, Forever Dog, Starburns Audio, and All Things Comedy could unionize in the not so distant future and podcasting can be even further legitimatized than it already is (imagine getting benefits for podcasting?), but we will probably just have to wait and see how Gimlet fares here.

July 21, 2018

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Just North of San Francisco rests the town of Petaluma, CA that hasn’t the pleasure of hosting a comedy festival like the one coming next month.

Pet-A-Llama, presented by Blonde Medicine, seems like it’s going to start off quite nicely for its first go around (just like at the line-up above).

Tickets range from $10-$20 (and some shows are even free) are on sale now here.

Get more details, schedule, etc. for the first Pet-A-Llama Comedy Festival here.

May 16, 2018

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If you’ve got a great podcast idea, but are looking to be part of a network (and have a budget to produce it), Gimlet Creative and Squarespace’s Casting Call contest might just be the thing for you.

They’re having an open call for submissions for podcast ideas until May 21st.

If you enter, the following might happen:

Our panel of judges will join host Jonathan Goldstein to select three applicants to fly to New York and produce their pilots. At the end of the journey, one talented hopeful will be awarded a mini-series produced by Gimlet and maybe even a Squarespace sponsorship of their own—because is a podcast even a podcast without one?

Get more details and enter here.

August 10, 2017

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Per usual, The New York Comedy Festival is stacked as evidenced by Conan O’Brien being a part of it and announcing the headlining line-up (and trying to double up on a “farewell”) in this video here.

The NY Comedy Festival runs from 11/7-11/12 this year and you can get more details and tickets here.

July 7, 2017

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Denver’s excellent High Plains Comedy Festival just showed a bit of their hand for their line-up this year. We dig it.

– My Favorite Murder
– Adam Cayton-Holland
– Andrew Orvedahl
– Ben Roy
– Todd Glass
– Rhea Butcher
– Matt Braunger
– Baron Vaughn
– Eddie Pepitone
– April Richardson
– Hampton Yount
– Johnny Pemberton
– Nick Vatterott
– Debra DiGiovanni
– Langston Kerman
– Caitlin Gill
– Ryan Singer
– The Puterbaugh Sisters
– Caleb Synan
– Marcella Arguello
– Bryan Cook
– Late Late Breakfast
– Josh Johnson
– The Nix Bros
– David Gborie
– Josh Androsky
– Ramon Rivas
– Maggie Maye
– Ryan O’Flanagan
– Lisa Best
– Brett Davis
– Richard Douglas Jones
– Laura Sanders
– Dante Powell
– Kristin Rand
– Chris Charpentier
– Troy Walker
– Sam Tallent
– Jordan Doll
– Mara Wiles
– Kevin O’Brien
– Matt Monroe

There’s more to come for Thurs. Aug. 24th-Sat. Aug. 26th when the 2017 High Plains Comedy Festival takes place.

Get tickets, schedule, and more details here.

June 23, 2017

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Cracked.com Founder Jack O’Brien Headed to HowStuffWorks to Focus on Comedy Podcasts

Here’s yet another sign that podcasts are not only here to stay, but are only getting bigger, better, and more refined, especially when it comes to comedy.

January 15, 2017

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Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week

By the way, Inauguration Day is this week and if you need to go to a comedy show in LA, we got you covered.

FYI, there’s so much comedy to watch this week.

December 25, 2016

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Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week

We’ve even got listings for live comedy around LA for a bit of 2017 too.

July 22, 2016

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Pandora Wants to Add More Podcasts to Grow Listening Hours

So does that mean you’d have a channel that goes from an episode of WTF to You Made It Weird?

February 26, 2016

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One of the funniest podcasts around, Superego, is returning to Largo to let loose Jeremy Carter, Mark McConville, Matt Gourley, and Paul F. Tompkins to wherever their beautifully chaotic improvised scenes takes them.

Superego Live! added a late show to their evening at Largo at the Coronet Theatre on Saturday, March 5th. The early show is sold out, but you can still get tickets for 10:30PM for $30.

The rest of our comedy listings are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

December 8, 2015

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More and more answers seem to come from someone who not only listens to comedy podcasts, but thinks that they’re culturally relevant enough to be on Jeopardy.

In its 32nd season on the air, Jeopardy! stands an television landmark and the topics, of which they derive their answers from, have a certain distinction within history and pop culture.

Just in the past month, both the great comedy podcasts Superego, Greg Proops’ Smartest Man in the World, and Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast have been mentioned as answers.

Jeopardy! mentioned @goSuperego! Amazing – well done! @MattGourley @PFTompkins @markmcconville @ShuntMcGuppin pic.twitter.com/9YwsxkiKg8

Hey! The Smartest Man in the World @GregProops Podcast was a question on the Smartest show in the world @Jeopardy!! pic.twitter.com/prnI4O50UZ

Thank u to all our fans for making #GGACP a success & a question on @Jeopardy RT & SUBSCRIBE https://t.co/AwsNK8H1ol pic.twitter.com/pz15fqpVVY

We don’t know how rigorous the vetting process for the writing the answers that contestants have to guess the right question for, but it’s obvious that podcasts are within the zeitgeist enough and potentially have enough staying power to make into the realm of the renowned trivia show in existence.

Also, whoever came up with those questions seems to have particularly good taste in podcasts as well.

UPDATE: the someone/whoever we’re referring to appears to be Jeopardy! writer Mark Gaberman.

Let us know if you see any other Jeopardy! answers that are comedy podcast related @thecomedybureau on Twitter and we’ll add it to this post

March 13, 2014

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Passes and Tickets Now on Sale for The 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival

The line-up isn’t announced yet, but The LA Podcast Festival is putting passes and tickets up for sale now because lots of folks come to this thing.

In fact, many of them come from around the globe for this thing, thus needing ample time to plan, which means you might want to snag some passes early on.

January 9, 2014

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Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo Moving to Earwolf

That’s right, the trailblazing podcast known as Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, which you had to pay to listen to, is now moving to Earwolf and will be free to all to listen to.

Only a select few (Conan O’Brien, Patton Oswalt, SF Sketchfest, Scott Aukerman) are up from the hundreds upon hundreds of episodes Pardo’s recorded, but we’re sure you’re like us in being excited for Pardo goodness for all.

October 18, 2013

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Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

If you’re not at all familiar, the world of podcasting is in potential danger by what is known as “patent trolls”, people trying to obtain licensing fees off of a patent while they themselves do not enact or produce any such services or products from the very patent they’re trying to profit from.

Luckily, podcasters have banded together, specifically the Electronic Frontier Foundation and are taking it to straight to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon, so we can go back to listen comedians get deep with no worry.

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October 8, 2013

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Earwolf Launches New Podcast, Hollywood Handbook with Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport

Earwolf adds another podcast to their expansive network focusing in on “breaking into entertainment” stories, which goes to show you that podcast is starting to grow from just being exclusively, purely focused on comedy.

Well, aside from both Sean and Hayes being comedy writers and interviewing Jake Johnson from the hit sitcom New Girl, it’ll focus on the more industry side of things.

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