Photo illustration by Slate. Logos courtesy WTF, The Read, Welcome to Night Vale, and Radio Diaries. Sarah Koenig photo courtesy This American Life. Paul F. Tompkins photo by Barry BrecheisenWire. Image. The best podcast episodes of all timeCmon. How can you listen to 1. Is something a podcast if it first aired on terrestrial radio How do you weigh a rambling, bordering on chaotic comedy call in show against an exquisitely edited and produced meditation on the nature of grief and the power of hallucinogens Well give you our answers to those questions in one second. Amazon S3 File Upload Api Console'>Amazon S3 File Upload Api Console. But first a word from our sponsor just kidding. First, our case for why this impossible task is worth attempting. Ricky Gervais Show Season 3' title='Ricky Gervais Show Season 3' />David finds a date for the office Christmas party. The team dances and drinks the night away while Tim wonders if hell ever see Dawn again. Ricky Gervais discusses David Brent, his love of standup, Kathy Griffin and Bill Mahers recent comedy blunders, Donald Trump, and the perils of celebrity. With Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Shaun Williamson. Andy Millman is an actor with ambition and a script. Reduced to working as an extra with a. On 5 December 2005, Guardian Unlimited began offering free weekly podcasts The Ricky Gervais Show featuring Gervais, Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. Throughout. Created by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington. Pc Game Conflict Global Storm Pc there. With Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant talk to Karl. Friends TV show season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 full episodes download. TV Show Friends season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 download full episodes and. Canons, so long as they are adaptable and expansive and ever evolving, are worthwhile things. They give you a sense of the possibilities of a form, a sense of what has and hasnt been achieved. They give new artists in a medium places to start, examples to learn from, accomplishments to improve upon. But what is a podcast For our purposes, a podcast is a piece of audio that was created at least in part for digital release. If it was created for traditional radio, too, thats fine, so long as the creators also made it with podcasting in mind. Podcast purists, if such people exist, might object to the inclusion of radio heavyweights, but This American Life and The Best Show, to take two major examples, are, to our minds, great podcasts as well as great radio shows. And when you dig into the other entries on this list, youll find the distinction blurs. There are not only radio shows that have become podcasts, but podcasts that have become radio shows. We decided to throw them all in together. We left out, though, any Slate podcaststhough were proud of our work in the medium, it felt unseemly to include them on this list. How exactly does one judge a carefully crafted story that took weeks to report and put together but is only 1. Well, you just do, basically. Which is better, The Simpsonsor The Wire I have no idea, but theyre both TV shows, and thats a fun argument to have. When it comes to podcasts, were 1. The time to have such arguments has arrived. Here Be Monsters, The Grandmother and the Vine of the Dead 2. Here Be Monsters is part of a recent wave of carefully produced, sonically sophisticated podcasts that tell surprising stories full of first person reporting and adventurous editing techniques. Jeff Emtman says he created the show in order to face his fears, and since the show began in 2. Juggalos, and slug orgies, among many other topics. But its best episode, we think, is this one, in which Lauren Stelling talks to an old boss called Cherub who, grieving the death of her best friends daughter, travels to a rain forest near the equator to take Ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogen used by American Indian shamans. An interview with Cherub is surrounded by music, Icaro chants, and bird sounds the effect is, well, trippybut also surprisingly moving. The Memory Palace, Origin Stories 2. On The Memory Palace, host Nate Di. Meo tells short historical stories that are always moving and humane. This personal episode mixes nostalgia and humor in ideal measures. Di. Meo recalls his time living alone in the house in Providence, Rhode Island, where his grandparents raised their daughters and delves into the family archive, which is stashed in boxes throughout the home. Most of the material is from his grandfathers nightclub, the Club Baghdad, where his grandparents met. Di. Meo searches for a mythical, long lost recording of the floor show at the Baghdada record he is convinced will help his family come to terms with their grief over losing his grandfatherand doesnt find it. Instead, we hear two modern day podcasters Maximum Funs Jesse Thorn and Jordan Morris perform, in front of a live audience, comedy sketches that his grandfather wrote. Its a consolation prize with a point Even if some parts of the past are lost, there are others we can bring to life ourselves. State of the Re Union, Bayard Rustin Who Is This Man 2. On State of the Re Union, host Al Letson usually takes an excursion to a particular American community. On this episode, he breaks from that format to introduce listeners to Bayard Rustin, the black, gay, Quaker pacifist who educated Martin Luther King in the principles of nonviolence and was the uncredited architect of the March on Washington. Rustin had an unconventional life thats often omitted from histories of the civil rights movement, and the episode weaves together Letsons musings on the meaning of Rustins work with clips from Rustins speeches and recorded interviews and, most moving of all, the voices with people who knew and were influenced by the man. The Ricky Gervais Show, Season 1, Episode 7 2. This early comedy podcast, distributed by the Guardian in 2. British writers and comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Picking up on one of that shows running bits, the podcast focused squarely on their erstwhile producer, Karl Pilkington, whose stubborn dimwittedness soon made him an Internet celebrity and the subject of much terrible fan art. In this particular episode, Karl tries to wash dishes without using his thumbs, says doctors should teach people to give themselves prostate exams, and shares his utter bafflement about the saying a stitch in time saves nine. Mostly it showcases the podcasts signature dynamic a disbelieving Gervais goading and mocking Karl, Merchant playing the supportive straight man mediator, and Karl sitting at the center of it all, gloriously persistent and oblivious. For a long time, The Ricky Gervais Show was the most popular podcast in the world, and it introduced many people to the medium, showing them how funny and unexpected the format could be. The Read, Say No To F Boys 2. Hosts Kid Fury and Crissle anchor a weekly chat podcast that combines pop culture commentary, advice, and a weekly read, i. Fury, a blogger and You. Tube personality, and Crissle, a writer, are friends with an easy conversational chemistry. Read episodes, including this one, are loose and chatty, featuring back and forth on ridiculous celebrities and their bad behavior, and occasionally reader mail when Beyonc surprised everyone with her December 2. Beyonc, the hosts invited several friends on to simply share their instant, overloaded reactions. This installment features Crissles epic rant against what she calls fuckboys, weak men of bad faith who betray, manipulate, and mess with women. Fuckboys has become a recurring Read watchword, as well as a useful meme. Seven Second Delay, Andy Outbids the Tooth Fairy 2. Seven Second Delay, with hosts Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman, is a live radio show that is also available as a podcast. Filme O Lutador 2 Dublado Avi on this page. Each episode is devoted to an on air stunt. Ken and Andy take calls, needle each other, and relentlessly pursue the given episodes stunt premise, sometimes into the realm of absurd unfunniness. Like Tom Scharplings The Best Show, also from WFMU, Seven Second Delay has accrued rabid fans and frequent callers. This particular episodes stuntAndy offers a princely sum to any kid who would bring a tooth into the studio by the end of the episode, instead of leaving it for the tooth fairyends in a suspenseful race to the finish line. Even among podcasts, the show feels incredibly looseand more than most podcasts, Seven Second Delay conveys a strong sense of place and community. It feels local, without being provincial. Extras TV Series 2. IMDb. Gervais had a big task on his hands with this project The Office has now entered into comedy history, and people had very high hopes for his follow up. The documentary style has been ditched, and Gervais has given his character just a little more dignity than he gave David Brent, so the comedy is a little less squeamish. The changes in direction and style are daring and pay off the show doesnt feel like a desperate follow up or imitation of The Office. In fact, its highly original. Its a pitch black satire, which follows the efforts of Gervaiss character as he attempts to progress from being an extra to actually getting a real acting job, or at least a line. The shows also charts his female friends unsuccessful love life, his deadpan agent and parodies a celebrity every week. This week it was the turn of Ben Stiller, who was mocked as an evil dictator of a man, who constantly reminds those around him of the box office of his movies and insists that kissing Cameron Diaz still counts, even though it was for a movie. Stiller is a good sport for joining in, and has fun messing with his image. Overall the show is gently paced, well written and shows extremely high potential for character study. Definitely one to watch. STILLER DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM GERVAIS Starsky or Hutch I can never remember. STILLER Was that supposed to be funny GERVAIS You were in it you tell me.