Want our latest podcast reviews and episode recommendations sent to your inbox? Sign up here for our weekly newsletter.Īfter unsuccessfully pitching Di-Town (a play on S-Town) to Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig - with the help of accomplished producer Lina Misitzis - St. But they actually have no idea what they’re talking about and refuse to listen to anyone telling them otherwise. Geegland and Gil Faizon, characters they previously played on Broadway - think they know the secret to making it big in podcasting. Like overzealous grandparents escaped from a nursing home, Mulaney and Kroll - as George St. On Oh, Hello, the comedians play two crotchety and arrogant New Yorkers on a bumbling quest to produce a hit podcast about the death of Princess Diana. Instead, the show’s hosts, John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, let their own brand of humor shine through while quietly ridiculing some of podcasting’s biggest names and most popular story arcs. It’s a take on the cold case murder genre, but unlike earlier parodies like The Onion’s A Very Fatal Murder, Oh, Hello doesn’t try to wring dry every possible joke on the form. With Oh, Hello: the P’dcast - pronounced “pid-cast” - we finally have a parody podcast that doesn’t need to dress itself up in clown shoes. As the discourse around podcasting broadens past cliché jokes about mattress ads, it’s welcoming in a more complex and nuanced set of references that become richer with meaning the more we pull on them. So it feels odd that only now the medium is reaching its “inside baseball” stage. Podcasting has long been an insular community where it seems all the creators are fans and all the fans are creators.
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