CBC Radio’s “Irrelevant Show” is recorded live in front of a paying audience. Credit: Rob Swyrd/CBC OTTAWA — For many listeners, the Golden Age of radio was also the Golden Age of radio comedy. Before ...

Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?” is four minutes and 46 seconds of a basic misunderstanding. It relies on the kind of grade-school wordplay — “No, the horse’s name was Friday” — that would ...

Gavin Petrie, who has died aged 83, was a music magazine journalist and features editor of the TV Times who turned to writing ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Way before that guy in your English class discovered NPR, audio entertainment had been amusing ...

Also this week, comedian Billy Gardell, a daylong Jane Austen tribute, Judy Collins and Tom Rush in Escondido, a podcast ...

SiriusXM radio and Comedy Central have signed a multiyear deal to create Comedy Central Radio. Comedy Central is creating a 24/7 audio channel consisting of new stand-up and exclusive performances ...

Netflix is expanding beyond the small screen with its radio debut. The streaming giant is teaming up with SiriusXM on a comedy channel, according to both companies. The 24-hour channel, which is to ...

Valley radio listeners face a dizzying array of choices. News/talk or sports/talk. Rock music or country music. English or Spanish. Now they have another option — comedy. All Comedy Radio, which ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Netflix is branching out beyond film and TV with its first ...

Initially, a popular Radio 4 comedy, this dramatised version premiered at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2022. For fans of the radio show wondering whether to go, there’s the additional ...

BBC Radio 4 Extra, the new digital spinoff station that will replace Radio 7 next month, has ordered a string of new comedy programmes. From April 8, Rufus Hound will present What's So Funny? on the ...

BBC Radio 2 launches the New Comedy Award 2011 to find the best emerging stand-up talent in the UK. BBC Radio 2 has today announced the launch of the New Comedy Award 2011, a nationwide search for the ...