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Okaay, April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 02:59
Featuring former cast members of the legendary Capitol Steps and a show written by the former co-writer of the Steps, the Capitol Fools hold up a m...
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 2
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 20:53
What makes a stand-up comedian wake up one day and decide comedy needs more science? A road comic for 13 years, Shane Mauss made this enlightened d...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 26:33
- Purchases: 1
Ok, Comedians, make America laugh with surprising, original jokes that offend absolutely no one and work equally well in our very blue, very red an...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 21:43
- Purchases: 1
How did these United States get so thoroughly partisan? How do we get less partisan? Can independent-minded Americans help bridge the divide?
The...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 12:01
Richard Dreyfuss stars in George Bernard Shaw's surprising tale.
Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KCRW, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 27
Has it been a rough year? Did you put all of your savings into Bill De Blasio's presidential campaign? Did you get a haircut from Boris Johnson's b...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVLU, and KUNM
- Added: Dec 22, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
August 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex takes a humorous look at the "Straight Pride" parade planned for later this month in Boston.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 05:59
American Dream Players present a short, comic history of a war we've more or less forgotten, the War of 1812. Fought on both land and sea, this wa...
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 12:39
Why (and how and when) did Hannibal cross The Alps? Find out again with the American Dream Players short, funny (historically accurate) version.
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 13:39
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 11:12
- Purchases: 1
If only the Capitol Steps had some funny material to work with in 2016…is something that will never cross your mind when listening to their Year In...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KSFR, and KVLU
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Tune in this New Year’s and laugh, because making fun of fourteen candidates is way more fun than simply making fun of two.
Bought by WEKU, KWGS, KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Wisconsin Public Radio
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Hear a Biblical stand-up routine, Republican praise for Vladimir Putin’s decisive manliness, the adventures of a crime-solving succubus, Paul Ryan’...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 59:00
The Final Edition unearths a forgotten ‘60’s folk song that urges young people to stop being sissies and kill for US interests in Vietnam.
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 03:04
As Obamacare starts to work, prominent conservatives rail against the liberal bias of empirical reality.
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 03:32
Fox News teams with tuberculosis to denounce President Obama's stance against the infectious bacterium.
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 03:16
Douglas Clouatre reads from Presidential Upsets: Dark Horses, Underdogs, and Corrupt Bargains (5/30)
From: Peter JohnsonSeries: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Focusing here on a certain colorful Democratic president.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Does the Obamacare website make you want to sing? Don't answer. Just listen. Pull up a campfire and a pair of ears and let The Good Fight's host Be...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:57
A satirical look at nuclear power through the lens of a tour of the Godzilla Electrical Factory.
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: 06:02
Exploring the benefits of an extensive NSA surveillance program.
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 2
Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with The Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called “Politics Takes a Holiday!”
Bought by KVLU, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KUOW, and North Country Public Radio
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 4
Once upon a time, Clint Eastwood did have political smarts.
- Added: Sep 02, 2012
- Length: 04:07
The GOP in Texas, Arizona, Kansas, and other logic-challenged States that have defunded Planned Parenthood will support a replacement non-non-profi...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 03:36
