Howard Stern is long gone and your local after drive DJ is nowhere to be found. Your smartphone or iPod is ready to be connected to your car stereo, but what should you be listening to? Easy. Here is a quick top 10 of podcasts that offer better content than most radio shows ever did.
10. Doug Loves Movies
The lovable stoner of 'Super High Me' and the shortly aired 'Benson Interuption' has been doing his film podcast for a couple years. It is recorded in front of a live audience at the UCB theater. His guests include comics, actors, and others from media. It's a loose discussion of pop culture with silly jokes and almost always includes a round of the 'Leonard Maltin' game. 9. Fitzdog Radio
Greg Fitzsimmons is a long time stand up comedian and frequent guest of the Howard Stern show not only has his own satellite radio show but a podcast. He seems to have borrowed the Stern style of asking personal and embarrassing questions but does it in a natural way with more humility. He has a very honest show where he is not afraid to talk about his own life and gets guests to open up to him. Fitzsimmons is quick witted and can create a quality joke out of thin air.8. Christopher Titus
Another veteran of the stand up circuit and star of the canceled Fox television series 'Titus.' Titus, Bombshell Rae, and Stuntman Tommy go throw the silliness of what the news has to offer and rip it down in a humorous and frustrated way. Titus and Rae will set aside the jokes to analyze many topics and have a truthful discussion. The show never seems to lean politically one way or another and speaks from the every-man's point of view. 7. Cort & Fatboy
Two nerdy and hilarious FM radio personalities from the Portland, OR market. They lost their show when the radio station was bought and changed over. (The station only lasted a year after the change.) After they were fired they jumped to the podcast format easily as they offered all their radio shows as a podcast format anyway. They discuss pop culture, technology, and all things nerdy. Fatboy is a quick witted humorist and Cort drives the show along while bringing his ability to crack a timely joke as well. 6. Nerdist
Chris Hardwick is a stand up comedian and has hosted too many shows since the 90's too even listed. He podcasts with fellow comedian Jonah Ray, and Matt Mira. They discuss all things nerd between hilarious banter among themselves. 5. Talking Shit w/ Jim & Eddie
Stand up comic derelicts Eddie Ifft and Australian born Jim Jeffries berate their friend/assistant Jason Auer. They usually have a guest from the comedy world and do exactly what their title says, talk shit. From disturbing stories to horrifying antics while they record, the show is entertaining, hilarious, and will make you take a shower when you're finished. 4. Marc Maron WTF
Marc Maron is another veteran of stand up comedy. He has numerous late night appearances under his belt and hosted a radio show on the now defunct Air America. His podcast is not so political and focuses more on very intimate, intense, and witty one on one interviews with people from all over the spectrum. He got a lot of buzz when he did some controversial interviews with polarizing characters such as Robin Williams, Dane Cook, and Carlos Mencia. Maron has the ability to make guests cry, give it a listen. 3. Comedy Bang Bang
It might take you a few minutes to understand what the hell is going on when listening to Comedy Bang Bang hosted by Scott Aukerman. Formerly named Comedy Death Ray the show started out live at the UCB theater. It has been renamed but contains all the same silliness. It's an improv comedy show that includes guests and characters from comedy. It's over an hour of complete hilarious nonsense. 2. Joe Rogan
Rogan, yet another stand up comedian who's career spans almost two decades, UFC commentator, and Fear Factor host. He records a funny, thought provoking, and truth seeking podcast. Guests include comics, actors, and video game makers among many other fields. Rogan and guests discuss benefits of some drugs, living healthy and fully, and big picture concepts such as the beginning of man. No topic is too big or too trivial. No topic is safe from a joke. A great long-form podcast that has developed a large following.1. Adam Carolla
The Podfather, Adam Carolla, was fired from his old radio job when the station flipped formats. Instead of going back to another station which he easily could have he said 'f' you to the man and made his own online podcast network. He showed other comedians that a podcast could produce higher quality content than many radio shows and that with quality and consistency a large following would come. He now has advertising, employees, co-hosts, and even sound effects. The Carolla show is the standard for what podcasts can be. His show also took over the Guinness World Record for most downloaded podcast.
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