Favorite Podcasts II: Podcasts that make me laugh

First in this category has to be the Ricky Gervais Show, with Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and the Karl Pilkington. Karl Pilkington is astonishing and bizarre and a real hoot. In one podcast, he describes how he had to moon his neighbor because he had accidently seen her naked and to balance things. His comment (in response to a question on whether he could eat an animal penis as contestants had to don a reality show) that he couldn't for breakfast but that he "could eat a knob at night" was one of the funniest things I have ever heard. The older podcasts can be purchased form iTunes or Audible.com, but The Guardian newspaper has 3 free podcasts up right now: The Podfather, with shows for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (the Christmas one was posted today).

Second is the monthly Ouch podcast, with actor Mat Fraser and comedian Liz Carr. It's hard to describe this one, except as definitely not politically correct humor. Ouch is a disability website, and this podcast is a talk show with things like the game "Vegetable, Vegetable, or Vegetable", where Mat & Liz try to guess the disability of a caller.

Finally, This is Screaming Halibut, a weekly 10-minute sketch comedy podcast. Morag, an evil genius with the intellect of a hundred Einsteins and the cunning of a thousand Machiavellis, has to contend with people who think he has a girl's name.