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Taking one joke at a time, the rotating set of hosts and guests--usually headed by Josh and Eric--break out and break down famous and not-so-famous jokes.... more
September 25, 2020Episode 9 - Maria BamfordThe guys are back at it! This time, in honor of Suicide Awareness Month, they do a crossover episode of Jokes and Sunshine and Brain where they talk about suicide and issues related to mental health via the gateway of the brilliant Maria Bamford....more1h 14minPlay
August 10, 2020Episode 8 - Billy Wayne DavisThis week, a very strange joke in a very standard subgenre: the Penis Joke Genre....more1h 27minPlay
July 02, 2020Episode 7 - Bro ComicsWhat an episode! Fresh off a #BLM demonstration, Josh and Eric talk bro comedy, including D'Elia and Cook, and how one's canceled and one won't be, and the inexorable bro-ness of white-ness, or is it the other way around?...more1h 40minPlay
June 10, 2020Episode 6 - Police BrutalityComedians as prophets rises to the surface in the time of worldwide protests against police brutality, particularly against Black people in America and elsewhere. Josh and Eric, white guys, hear and listen to two of the geniuses of any comedic age, Dave Chapplle and Richard Pryor, discuss the ingrained system of law enforcement intended to debase and humiliate Black Americans....more1h 31minPlay
May 16, 2020Episode 5 - Nobody Gets on the TrainsJosh and Eric reflect on and discuss the great Jackie Kashian's terrified and inspiring take on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Ms. Kashian's long and anxious tapestry of political-moral collapse in America serves as a powerful example of how comedians are not to be discounted in their delivery of the unvarnished truth and, often, harbingers of worry if not doom. But not before the Jokes! crew makes a butt joke or two....more1h 36minPlay
May 06, 2020Episode 4 - The Light was OnFounder Robby brings Norm Macdonald's long, meandering "Moth Joke" from late night to the Jokes! pod, but not before quarantine insanity and hygiene are discussed....more59minPlay
April 23, 2020Episode 3 - Sir, You Have Fooled Me TwiceJosh brings the joke from the quietly prolific Paul F. Tompkins, one involving canned peanut brittle, cobras, and the finest in hilarity. The hosts digress to talk quarantine, cowboy hats, bathrooms, and observational humor....more1h 6minPlay
April 14, 2020Episode 2 - What's New With You?Eric brings the "joke," actually an appearance by Rodney Dangerfield on The Tonight Show in 1979. Josh and Eric discuss Rodney's machine-gun fire joke-telling style, Johnny Carson's wild ride, and James Mason's important absence in his presence to the culmination of the sequence....more1h 12minPlay
April 08, 2020Episode 1 - Die Heretic!Josh and Eric break apart the what has been called the greatest joke about religion. (Link: https://youtu.be/ZBKIyCbppfs.) And the podcast gets its name....more1h 3minPlay