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April Fools Day -- Who Takes the Grand Prize?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
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
Capitol Fools 2024 New Year Special
From: Capitol Fools
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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...

Bought by KANW and KGOU


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 2
It’s the Dog Days of Summer – and some of ‘em are going to debate.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people. Some of th...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
This Town
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A First Dog scandal electrifies the White House press corps.

Bought by KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KUOW, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 21
Politcal Satire and Presidential Politics
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover
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
219: Wife Selling
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Untrammeled Cartoonist: The Radicalism of Art Young (Repeat)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Halcyon Days
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A dark comedy about the Grenada invasion.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 30
Relationships, Misunderstandings, Family, Politics with Deborah Tannen
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: How can I make them understand
Deborah Tannen is a world class expert in communications and we discuss highlights of wonderful insights she has gained and shared over the years i...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 55:50
WRM33 - Will on Politicians
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers often showed respect to the men and women in politics he poked fun at

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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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
The Transcendent Laugh: Comedy & Partisanship, with special guest, Myq Kaplan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Myq Kaplan
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
Priming with Purple
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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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
The Devil's Disciple
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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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
Capitol Steps New Year's Edition 2019 of "Politics Takes a Holiday"
From: Capitol Steps
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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 2019 - "Straight Pride." Yes, really.
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: "Straight Pride"
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
Gary Kanter, Song writer, Singer, Humorist
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his Learn Yourself series by interviewing his fellow host Gary Kanter about his new CD, with all his ori...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 27:58
Stranger than Fiction: Kurt Andersen Tells the Truth About American Fantasies
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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On Miami Beach, we meet American writer Kurt Andersen. Besides writing novels, he has opined on America’s political landscape for The New York Time...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 14:20
That's Not Funny
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Comics on the panel about comedy and politics, Credit: Sandip Roy
70 years after Independence it sometimes feels as if Indians are still to develop a funny bone. Especially when it comes to politicians.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
The War of 1812
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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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
Hannibal
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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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
"William, the Love Child"
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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The short, funny, (yet, factually accurate) life of William, the Conqueror

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 11:12
  • Purchases: 1
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Years 2016
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: President-Elect Trump, Credit: Capitol Steps
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
Besties
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 44:06
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Years Edition 2015
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
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