Posts Tagged ‘political comedy’

Myq Kaplan on the Politics of Comedy, Love and is Bowser a Dragon?

Posted: November 12, 2025 in Uncategorized
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Myq and Rini.
Myq and Rini.

You can listen to this episode above, on Libysn and you can also download it on Archive.org (63mins, 43MB). This discussion is also available in video form on Youtube here and embedded below. Subscribe to our podcast on your favourite app – we’re on a bunch including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Podcast Addict.

Episode 308 features comedian Myq Kaplan on his Special ‘Rini’, the Riyadh Comedy Festival and the politics of comedy generally, plus plenty of Nick not knowing stuff.

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Intro music: Embrace by ItsWatR.

Outro music: The Blackest Bouquet by Leonell Cassio.

Binging Fox News: Getting a Gutful of Gutfeld!

Posted: October 13, 2024 in Uncategorized
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Image from @ITYSL_memes on X – make sure you follow that account if you’re an I Think You Should Leave fan!

You can listen to this episode on Libysn (39 mins, 27MB) and subscribe to our podcast on your favourite app – we’re on a bunch including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Podcast Addict.

On episode 302 we discuss the time we watched a lot of Fox News – particularly the show Gutfeld! This is a Right-wing alternative to more liberal late-night talk shows like Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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Intro music: Embrace by ItsWatR.

Outro music: The Blackest Bouquet by Leonell Cassio.

Feminist Pranks? Intention Versus Impact

Posted: October 6, 2024 in Uncategorized
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Antoinette Lattouf (left) with members of The Inspired Unemployed. Image from news.com.au.

You can listen to this episode above, on Libysn and you can also download it on Archive.org (75mins, 52MB). Subscribe to our podcast on your favourite app – we’re on a bunch including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Podcast Addict.

On episode 301 Lottie and Nick do a deep dive into a prank gone wrong from The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers in collaboration with Clementine Ford, Antoinette Lattouf and Yumi Stynes. We discuss the politics of pranking and comedy, focusing on intention versus impact and call in versus call out culture. We also reflect on some of the prank-like things we’ve done on this podcast and similarities with the Jokers/feminist panel prank.

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Intro music: Embrace by ItsWatR.

Outro music: The Blackest Bouquet by Leonell Cassio.

Episode 245: Myq Kaplan on Quarantine Comedy as Tin Pineapple, and Time Travelling Podcasts

Posted: April 27, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Check out this comedy album at blondemedicine.com/aka

You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and add us to your favourites on Stitcher. You can also listen to it on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (69mins, 58MB).

We are joined by one of our favourite comedians Myq Kaplan, who discusses comedy in quarantine, yelling jokes out of the window to strangers, time travel, the politics of comedy and his new album A.K.A.

Also check out Myq’s podcast Broccoli and Ice Cream, watch his special ‘Small, Dork, and Handsome’ on Amazon Prime and check out all of his other stuff on his site myqkaplan.com! You can also hear Myq on our podcast again back on episode 90, plus you can time travel back to episode 165 when we actually remembered what the time travelling inconsistencies were in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’!

Book Recommendation:

Robin Ince ‘I’m a Joke and So Are You’.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Baba Brinkman ‘Stay Home’.

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