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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by Cd00d on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:44PM (#26881384)
Can you tell me how Spotify is with playlists of comedy albums?

I started falling asleep to comedy a couple months ago to manage poor sleep based on a generally negative attitude. It was fine on YT Music for a while, but now a lot of the community playlists are garbage, or most of the clips have been pulled (I assume some copyright issues).

I'd move to Spotify for that, and pay, if they had a catalog of decent standup comedy.

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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by blastro on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:49PM (#26881455)
it's been a while, but I remember Pandora having pretty good comendy stations. good luck!
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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by vel0city on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:31PM (#26885136)
There's a number of comedy stations on satellite/streaming radio like SiriusXM. I'm not sure what kind of value proposition it is but it might not be too crazy depending on your budgets versus your sleep quality.
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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by pnutjam on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:57PM (#26883063)
I really liked Pandora for comedy. Spotify has lots of comedy albums, but the interface is not as easy to navigate.
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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by Causality1 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:59PM (#26882402)
Do you find a significant difference between that and comedy podcasts?
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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by Cd00d on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:14PM (#26891597)
I don't know of any comedy podcasts that are more like comedy albums - recommendations would be appreciated!

The podcasts I listen to from comedians is more along the lines of interviews, like WTF, or a few people spitballing on various topics. Not well formed jokes.

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Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) by Causality1 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:27PM (#26896233)
Sounds like the podcasts from Sanspants Radio are right up your alley. "Shut Up a Second" is spitballing on a different random topic every show, and "Plumbing the Death Star" is discussion on different pop-culture related questions such as "what if Professor X ran Hogwarts?"

Their D&D podcast is probably my favorite of the genre as well.

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