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  1. #1 Sawbones (2013) A doctor and her comic husband tour the strange history of medicine — what humans have tried, what worked, and what definitely did not. Health Comedy 50% liked · 2 votes
  2. #2 Tuesdays with Stories (2014) Two New York comics swap road stories, complain about bombing, and gradually become two of comedy's sharpest storytellers in real time. Comedy 50% liked · 2 votes
  3. #3 The Adventure Zone (2014) The McElroy family plays an actual-play tabletop role-playing game that became a beloved fantasy fiction serial. Fiction Comedy
  4. #4 Wooden Overcoats (2015) A British sitcom audio drama about rival undertakers on a tiny English Channel island. Wodehouse-meets-Father Ted. Fiction Comedy
  5. #5 Welcome to Night Vale (2012) Twice-monthly community radio broadcasts from a small desert town where every conspiracy theory is real and the citizens are oddly chill about it. Fiction Comedy
  6. #6 Smash Boom Best (2018) A debate podcast for kids — pineapple vs. mango, cats vs. dogs, Mario vs. Sonic — judged by a panel of kids in the audience. Kids Comedy
  7. #7 Story Pirates (2008) A sketch-comedy podcast in which professional improv comedians act out stories written by kids and sent in by listeners. Kids Comedy
  8. #8 Bandsplain (2020) A music journalist explains a different band per episode to a non-fan friend, often with hilarious deep-dive guest critics. Music Comedy
  9. #9 The Daily Show: Ears Edition (2019) The audio cut of The Daily Show — segments, interviews, and behind-the-scenes from the Comedy Central late-night newsroom. Arts Comedy
  10. #10 Stuff You Should Know (2008) A twice-weekly explainer about anything and everything — how cold cases are solved, how octopuses work, how marshmallows are made. Education Comedy
  11. #11 Men in Blazers (2010) Two transplanted Brits cover American soccer and the global game with humor, deep knowledge, and unapologetic enthusiasm. Sports Comedy
  12. #12 New Heights (2022) Two NFL-star brothers — one a center, one a tight end — break down the week in football with locker-room jokes and the occasional A-list guest. Sports Comedy
  13. #13 The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (2004) A long-running daily sports-and-comedy show, equal parts ESPN heritage and absurdist running bits. Sports Comedy
  14. #14 The Pat McAfee Show (2017) A former NFL punter hosts a wild, comic, daily sports talk show that combines news, in-studio guests, and locker-room energy. Sports Comedy
  15. #15 The Howard Stern Show (2006) The shock jock turned long-form interviewer. Stern's second act is, by all accounts, the deepest celebrity-interview show in the modern era. Interview Comedy
  16. #16 The Joe Rogan Experience (2009) The biggest podcast in the world. Multi-hour, free-flowing conversations with comics, scientists, politicians, and conspiracy theorists alike. Interview Comedy
  17. #17 Risk! (2009) True stories people never thought they'd dare to share. Like The Moth, but bawdier and more confessional. Storytelling Comedy
  18. #18 Mortified (2007) Adults read aloud the diaries, letters, and song lyrics they wrote as teenagers, in front of a live audience. Funnier and sweeter than it sounds. Storytelling Comedy
  19. #19 Heavyweight (2016) Each episode, Jonathan helps someone go back to the moment in their life that everything would have been different if they'd just done one thing differently. Storytelling Comedy
  20. #20 The Read (2013) A weekly pop-culture and Black-culture comedy podcast that's built a decade-long cult following with its sharp commentary and "read" finale. Society Comedy
  21. #21 If Books Could Kill (2022) A two-host trashy-airport-bestseller book club — Freakonomics, Tipping Point, The Secret — picked apart with hilarious sourcing. Society Comedy
  22. #22 Sounds Like a Cult (2021) A weekly look at the modern-day "cults" we all sort of belong to — SoulCycle, multi-level marketing, sourdough, the wellness industrial complex. Society Comedy
  23. #23 Behind the Bastards (2018) An investigative journalist turned podcaster recounts in-depth the lives of the worst people in history, with a rotating comic guest. History Comedy
  24. #24 The Infinite Monkey Cage (2009) A physicist, a comedian, and a rotating panel of scientists and comics tackle one big science topic per episode with great wit. Science Comedy
  25. #25 Ologies (2017) A weekly comedic interview with an expert in one extremely specific "-ology" — kalology, sphagnology, urology, you name it. Science Comedy
  26. #26 StarTalk Radio (2009) America's favorite astrophysicist hosts comic co-hosts and celebrity guests to talk space, physics, and everything in between. Science Comedy
  27. #27 Pardon My Take (2016) A blistering, ironic sports comedy podcast that became one of the most influential sports media products of the decade. "Mt Rushmore" of everything. Comedy Sports
  28. #28 Armchair Expert (2018) Long, vulnerable celebrity interviews about "the messiness of being human," followed by a "fact check" segment with Monica. Comedy Interview
  29. #29 Wiser Than Me (2023) Julia Louis-Dreyfus interviews women over 70 — Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Isabel Allende — about what life looks like once the panicking finally stops. Comedy Interview
  30. #30 Working It Out (2020) Birbiglia invites a fellow comic into his garage to road-test new jokes on each other, opening up the writing room of standup comedy. Comedy Interview

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