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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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As Summer lurches towards Fall, the idiots and the universe keep giving us great material.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 50:18
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African Lions, Trump's Brain & Texas Dreams: All things Obama shouldn't have to handle

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 52:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Roderick
John Roderick is the singer and frontman of the band "The Long Winters" and a candidate for Seattle City Council (Position 8). He talks with hosts ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 39:14
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June gave us guns, flags, banks, god and Trump. We can only hope July is so generous.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 54:20

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:49
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Author Ammon Shea weighs in, from his new book, Bad English: What do you think of such words as "irregardless" or "decimate" or "hopefully"? Anothe...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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A Fable for our times.

  • Added: May 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:47
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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
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As Obamacare starts to work, prominent conservatives rail against the liberal bias of empirical reality.

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 03:32