Before streaming, podcasts, and internet humor, radio was the main source of comedy and entertainment for millions of Americans. Baby Boomers grew up tuning in to the voices and characters that ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Radio listeners have long welcomed Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin, Ira Glass and Rush Limbaugh into their cars and cubicles. But lately those names have been ...

Longlist voting closes Sunday 11th January 2026 at 11:59pm. Shortlist voting will run from Monday 12th January 2026. We are ...

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 ...

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 audio-only broadcast ...

Bob Elliott, the surviving half of Bob and Ray, the legendary radio-comedy team that came to national fame in the 1950s and continued to be a cult favorite decades later, died Tuesday at home in ...

Kendra G is one of the most recognizable radio personalities in Chicago. Her voice is powerful and her influence is vast. She is a combination of beauty, humor, compassion and intelligence. Recently, ...

SiriusXM and Netflix announced the launch of Netflix Is a Joke Radio, a full-time comedy channel piggybacking on the streamer’s stand-up comedy lineup. The channel, debuting April 15, marks the first ...

Comedy producer Bill Dare – the creator of Radio 4’s Now Show and Dead Ringers – has died in a car accident abroad at the age of 64. No further details have been revealed about the circumstances of ...

What do “The Lone Ranger,” “All Star Western Theatre” and “The Virginian” have in common? They were all radio Westerns on the air in the year 1947. If you can’t imagine what those sounded lik,e the ...

Bob Elliott, the surviving half of Bob and Ray, the legendary radio comedy team that came to national fame in the 1950s and continued to be a cult favorite decades later, died Tuesday at his home in ...