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The Final Edition
by UBNGO
Angry chunks of comedy - featuring multi-generational talents from The Daily Show, The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno), Air America Radio, Morning Sedition with Marc Maron, Cracked-dot-com, @midnight, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Stan Against Evil and Conan.
Episodes
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A curfew wrapped in a quarantine
These are classic and eerily prescient sketches selected by archivist and writer Joe Davis. It's all there - the apocalypse, Republican cruelty, black people killed by police, Trump running for office, even social distancing, in a way. And somehow, no matter what happens, all the money goes to…
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The John Marshall Memorial Funtime Happy Show
In memory of John S. Marshall, one of the founding members of "The Final Edition."
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Muh-Muh-Muh-Muh-Muh-Muh-Muh-My Corona…
This week … we’ve all been indoors. Same as you. Didn’t even record last week, and probably won’t until the end of the month. Recording this is the first time I’ve spoken out loud all day. So … you know … typical weekend, really. And yet we have new sketches at the top of the show, all about...
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Spring Ahead, Fall into the Abyss
We whisper a sweet goodbye to Mike Bloomberg - and an actual, sincere goodbye (more or less) to James Lipton. Also, you just moved your clock forward - and yes, it’s stupid, and no, we shouldn’t be doing it anymore. The entire second half of the show is the final episode of the audio play, “The...
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ASMR Gone Wild
This week, Utah sees all the other states going their own way and decides it’s going to do the same. Ben and I talk about soup - which we both enjoy. We have an outtake from a recording session in which Ben is just trying to be nice. And we determine the value of human life. The answer is … well…
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Loving Flu is Easy ‘Cause You’re Flu-tiful
This week, I had the flu. … Well, I don’t think I had THE flu. I had A flu. … Maybe. Anyway, my voice was shredded. So we put that to good use. And Valentine’s Day is coming up. So we talked about … love? I guess? If that’s how you care to define it. Plus, one of our writers has really strong...
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Sommer the Substitute Teacher
We’re heading for the first political primaries, if you’ve got the stamina for it. We sit through class with a substitute teacher. Again - stamina. Some entire continent burned down. And. You know. Guns.
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Is it 2021 yet?
We are back with all new material - some of it about Christmas, some of it about the new year already having gone to shit, some of it about growing older, and a little of it, of course, about drugs. Ah drugs. Also, we’re starting a new five-part web serial called The Invisible World. This one is...
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The Tony Hendra Episode
This week, we’re heading into Thanksgiving … and if you’re thankful for this show, you should probably thank the guy who started it. Which would be Tony Hendra. So. All the sketches this week were written by Tony - as far as I can tell. It’s a little tricky to be sure without actually telling him...
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Which Kind of Patriotic Are You?
I know I said we’d be starting a new audio drama series this week. But we’ll wait, because we’ve got a lot of theme shows happening over the next few weeks. So this week, we’ve got sketches about patriotism. Because everybody right now is questioning everybody else’s. For some reason. Not sure…
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Computers Are Making Me Crazy
This week, I’ve been dealing with a loss of listeners because somehow our uploads to our distributor, Acast, have not been transferring properly to an Android app called Doggcatcher. And by “this week,” I mean close to a month. And by “loss of listeners,” I mean … like … a LOT of listeners. And…
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California Smells Itself Burning
This week, Wells Fargo wants something from you, John Cena is giving something away, my home state is on fire and … it’s Veteran’s Day sometime around now. Also, the next-to-last episode of The Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing. It’s going to be kind of a sad one. But you knew this was...
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Another Cursed Halloween Show
It’s Halloween, and we’ve got a collection of sketches about vampires and zombies and weirdos - although I guess, technically, all of our show are about weirdos. Plus, episode five of the Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing - which is not really about Halloween. But what do you care?
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21. Forever.
Some sketches about the stupid divisions in this country - with a note of hope. Maybe misguided hope. I don’t know. Plus episode 4 of the Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing - which is also political, but in a dumber, earlier, less scary, more small-town way than what we’re used to.
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Please Ride the Subway
We’re moving toward the holidays: with Halloween, and gnomes, and Tucker Carlson, normal subway riders and lots of other mythical creatures. Plus, part three of “The Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing.” And at the end of the show, Ben sings again. I’m warning you now.
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More Empty Calories in Your Media Diet
This week we have more sketches about the media - because, of course, this show is made by people in and on the fringes of media and largely, currently, unemployed by it. Resumes available online. We’ve also got episode 2 of The Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing - which also involves…
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Wherever Google Maps Tells Us to Go
This week, we visit Area 51. And we continue getting motivated. Also, we’ve got the first episode of a seven-part series I did a few years back called “The Obscure County Election That Changed Nothing.” I worked for awhile at papers in New Jersey, and that title pretty much sums up my experience...
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Shakespeare in Swedish
This week, no small number of sketches about food and TV. And it’s already football season - which seems weird somehow. Plus Corey Lewandowski testified before Congress. Remember that? Didn’t we all learn something?
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Social-Media-Vacation Photos
This week, every sketch is new. A few more things about vacation. Plus, Samantha interviews a fan. Ben and I talk about baseball while it’s still the season. And apparently conservative Christians are telling me how to be a Jew. So … thanks?
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Back From Vacation - Does My Job Still Exist?
We are back with new sketches as well as some classics - many of them about vacations, since we just got back from one. And work. Because you can’t have vacations without work. Though you can have work without vacations. Trust me on that one.
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History Repeats On Me
This week, all the sketches are related to history. The Middle Ages. The Revolutionary War. The Civil War. World War Two. 19th century Kansas. And the Supreme Court - from the Final Edition’s mini-series on the Supreme Court, which is still available on Howl, I think.
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Music, Such As It Is - RELOAD OF EPISODE!!
ARGH! SORRY! UPLOADED THE WRONG EPISODE LAST TIME! … Anyway, this is the right episode. All these sketches are about music - or ARE music. This includes two parodies of the radio show “Echoes” - that ambient music thing that’s always playing on Public Radio in the middle of the night. It’s been…
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In Which We Make Animal Noises
It’s all sketches about animals. Cats and dogs and a sea elephant and bears and a rat and a rabbit. Please adopt this episode.
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The Law, Damn It!
These are all sketches about the law. I don’t mean crime. We’ve got enough of THOSE sketches for a separate show. I mean the law itself and its various agents. The police, of course. Lawyers, of course. Prisons, of course. Executions, of course. Acne. High school. Blooper shows. All of it. For...
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All Sketches Were Improvised
This week, all the sketches were improvised. Not a thing was written in advance except, sometimes the intro, the outro or the general premise - and sometimes not even that. We’d improvise for some amount of time, then I’d go through and try to edit out as much as possible. And that’s the product....
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The Corporate Show
We bury you in sketches about corporations - mostly about getting jobs at one, trying to hold onto that job, and being entirely dependent upon these companies as a customer. ... I mean, loosely interpreted, virtually any sketch about anything these days is ultimately about corporations - but I...
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Sketches About the Media
Sketches from the last few years about all facets of media - online, radio, TV, newspapers … basically, my resume. The same lack of focus, the same apparent frenzy to adapt. So come enjoy the ridiculous mess that is America’s primary source of public information.
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Horribly out of Date
Sketches that are still good, I think, but are so obviously dated that we can’t disguise it. They come from as far back as the show’s first year in 2012. Scott Walker’s recall election. The 2014 presidential election. Some asinine thing Justin Bieber said, like, six years ago. And a whole bunch…
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Calling Agent Penis
We continue watching the very nature of news coverage deteriorate - as well as the nature of writing jokes about it. Also, some sketches from a few years ago - one or two of them may be obvious - that go to prove that everything has always been pretty much this ridiculous. Well … not this...
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Zoinks
We’ve got summer activities, including a sketch about Disney. And not one but two sketches about the show Law and Order. We also want to remind you that malls are dying, catch-phrases are being retired, song lyrics have subtlety whatsoever anymore and Abbott and Costello are still relevant.
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SPF Flannel
This week, we’re heading into summer - with theater, heavy drinking, music festivals and the unintended consequences of a happy ending. Also, at a certain point in a recent recording session, we ran out of things to do and started reading out of our notebooks. Seriously.
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Cat Poop Coffee
All new sketches. And just to prove we’re fresh and up-to-date, we talk about Uber and Game of Thrones and abortion and Billy Joel and Montessori schools and ancient China.
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One Sketch Per Writer - Part 2
We’re back with 12 more sketches by 12 more writers. Some of these sketches go back a few years because some of the writers do. You’ll know which ones when you hear them.
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One Sketch Per Writer - Part 1
We’re looking back on sketches from our 300 episodes and pulling out no more than one sketch per writer.
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Mythical creatures - don’t touch them
This week, we have a lot of mythical things - a yeti, a genie, dungeons, dragons, an employed college English teacher. Simon, from “Simon says” - who’s a real person, by the way.
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At least measles is still free
This week, we’ve got measles. Well, not us personally, but a lot of people. We also get heavily into the kind of things you encounter when you don’t have a lot of money. Cheap businesses. Cheap food. Weird financial arrangements. Big expensive movies that still seem like cheap movies. And the...
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Get back in your head
This week, it’s pop culture and pop music and weird brain stuff. And speaking of all those things, it happened to be 4/20 this last weekend. So we talk to a member of our own cast who happens to work with — and report on — cannabis. You’ll never guess which cast member it is. You’ve already...
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We return from the black hole
On this week’s show, we have … a show. Which we didn’t last week. Because my computer was broken. So we have two man-on-the streets because, over the last two weeks, apparently two things happened. We’ve got sketches about money and the next Woodstock concert … but I repeat myself. And outer…
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Florida Man
The phrase “Florida Man” has trended more heavily than usual. So we hear from the man himself, then we talk to a Florida woman. Also, we watch the news debase itself. Even further. We try to decide whether things are good or terrible. Don’t get ahead of me. And we discuss whether academia is good...
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Two Long Sketches
We have - basically - two long sketches. While we’ve been trying to make our sketches shorter recently, we do have these two from before that are massive. So we’re going to start with a sketch that’s eight minutes long, and it’s kind of a Western. Eventually. Then we’ll have a promo or two and…
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Bad Sports
We make fun of the people who paid bribes to get their kids into college. Then we make fun of the people who make fun of the people who paid bribes. Also, Facebook crashed for a day or so. Then Samantha tells us what it’s like to be a woman. Plus, it’s springtime. So the theme in the second half…
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St. Patrick - the Patron Saint of Patricks
A little more science, a little more heartache, a possible cure for HIV, one of those old Medieval mob scenes where someone is always holding a rolling pin for some reason, and an attempt at a good old fashioned political sketch that isn’t somehow apocalyptic. Wish us luck. ... Then in the second...
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I Don’t Really Need a Job That Bad
We have science, a bit of perversion, and Ebbie Parker’s dead-on script about college radio. Then in the second half of the show, we chat about our real-life terrible bosses - and as usual, whenever we talk about our lives, on or off the air - Jessica. Tops. Everybody.
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Have Fun, Babe!
Ben tries to make a point about anti-semitism. I try to make a point about prescription drugs. Jessica doesn’t really make about about relationships. She just shows a really awful one. And Keith wrote a parody of War of the Worlds. Then he went to Japan. So maybe he knows something.
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American Things
We start with a musical indirect nod to President’s Day. Then Ben has collected some of the lies that Millennials tell each other. Dominique reveals her inner thoughts - which I’d always wondered about. We have kind of an all-American section at the end, with Keith bringing the new Mary Poppins…
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There’s no “We” in Valentine
A Valentine’s Day show, with the kind of sketches about romance and relationships that you might expect from people who are hanging out in a recording studio on a Wednesday night because they have no particular reason to go home. Some new material - mostly up front. Plus, a lot of the sketches…
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The Coffee Show
All new sketches this week, with a lot of things about coffee. And not just because the Starbucks guy is running for president for some reason. And they’re going to spell his name wrong on the ballot!! Anybody done that joke yet?! Plus, Ben and Jessica each announce things they want. Joe Davis…
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Every Sketch Has an Actual News Story
In this week’s show, every news story in every sketch is true. … Most of the news stories. Other times, our sketches may be about poop. But this is a collection of sketches - including two brand new ones - with actual news stories from as far back as 2013. God. Remember the news in 2013? Wasn’t…
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The Hello Show
The bullshit distraction of the government shutdown continues. And some people are mad at Gillette for telling them not to be assholes. Note: When fishing a razor out of your protest toilet by hand, Gillette says not to take out your anger on your wife. Take it out on Alastair Bitner - Keith’s…
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Doctors with Borders
This week, Samantha Gurewitz is a werewolf. Sort of. Keith Saltojanes is a swift tailor, and not, uh … well, I think you can see this one coming. Joe Davis brings another episode of Slash Frontlobe where leftwing revenge fantasies once again mean nothing. And Ben Kuerchner and Barry Lank each…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Angry chunks of comedy - featuring multi-generational talents from The Daily Show, The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno), Air America Radio, Morning Sedition with Marc Maron, Cracked-dot-com, @midnight, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Stan Against Evil and Conan.
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Angry chunks of comedy - featuring multi-generational talents from The Daily Show, The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno), Air America Radio, Morning Sedition with Marc Maron, Cracked-dot-com, @midnight, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Stan Against Evil and Conan.
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