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He goes just deep enough to make you appreciate a joke more, without ruining it. Fox is a sensitive, thoughtful interviewers, and has definitely heard the line about how taking a joke apart is like taking apart a clock - it usually doesn’t work when your done. You’ll laugh, but also learn how comedy works, and how some of your favorite routines came to exist. Vulture editor Jesse David Fox’s new podcast, in which he talks with a different comedian each week about one of his or her signature jokes, is a must-listen for comedy nerds.

Host Ira Glass can still break our hearts, as in his gorgeous eulogy to an old friend, Mary, at the end of one recent episode, “Ask a Grown-Up.” The show has a deep-set empathy - one that can bring you to tears - but stays hip by collaborating with many of the cool podcasts it inspired. One of the things that makes “This American Life” a great gateway to podcasts is that it isn’t a pure podcast, since it started 22 years ago as a public radio show: It has everything you like about radio (plus curse words that aren’t beeped), and you can pause and rewind whenever you want instead of sitting in the driveway because you just have to know how the story ends.

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(If you want to know how to listen to podcasts, start by watching this video.) We’ve talked about comedian Barry Rothbart’s experience as a nudist camp videographer, the episode of the “Atlanta Monster” podcast in which Frank Sinatra tried to catch a killer, and the devastating “Love + Radio” story “The Living Room.” Listen here.

Here’s how to listen to podcasts if you don’t already know.īefore we begin, can we make a quick plug for our own podcast? TheWrap’s “Shoot This Now” features Matt Donnelly and Tim Molloy talking about stories we want made into movies. The solution to all of these problems? Podcasts. We get it: You have a long commute, a cardio routine to get through, or neighbors whose sex sounds you don’t want to hear anymore.

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