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Mikael discloses that he auditioned for SNL a few years ago and tells us about the three characters he presented for the occasion. Click here to listen to the latest […]

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). […]

Because we live in insane times, this podcast from less than a week ago now sounds incredibly dated. Remember the Kobe thing? Yeah, I think we’re still on that. Click […]

Kobe’s dead, and with his passing, a hashtag that Mikael Johnson despises is born. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser or here […]

Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez has just dropped on Netflix. And it features the most unintentionally funny character I can think of in recent memory. We talk about […]

My uncle, a supremely talented professional guitarist, and the first person to tell me off-color jokes as a kid, died this past week. I do my best to give him […]

Josh Bard of The Prompt Magazine kindly hosts us in his house as he fills us in on what he, a married man, has been doing during his week without […]

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). […]

Shawn Westfall, the king of DC improv that left for the shores of Portland a few months ago, is back in studio to talk about life in his new home. […]

Disgusting New York hotels, calorie-laden garbage plates, and whore house hidden menus. It’s been a busy few weeks for John Papageorgiou, and he’s back with comedian and stretch mark lover […]

Comedian Jimmy Maher, a vet of the NYC and DC scenes, joins the Papa’s Basement gang in studio to talk how each of us spent the best holiday of the […]

The Papa’s Basement crew (this episode’s co-hosts are Mikael Johnson and Joe Gagliardi) spend Thanksgiving-eve together discussing why I’m a coward that’s horrible with women, why the Richard Jewell movie […]

Some childhood friends share the mic with me and make a compelling argument (through really embarrassing anecdotes) that I’m probably somewhere on the spectrum. Click here to listen to the […]

People love the Popeyes chicken sandwich. You know why? We are fat slobs that have no respect for our bodies, we want to be a part of anything we think […]

Mike Sacks is a singularly gifted comedy writer, author of the indispensable humor tomes And Here’s the Kicker and Poking a Dead Frog. His tireless work ethnic eventually took him […]