Adam & Joe - Pod Gods

I don't know why, but I've never really blogged before about my love of podcasts. For those of you who don't know, these are free audio downloads, normally available through iTunes, and often produced by well known comedians. Sometimes they are purpose built to be downloaded, as in the case of the Ricky Gervais Show, or Collings and Herring. In other cases they are abbreviated versions of longer radio shows that have already gone out as in Mark Kermode's film reviews or the rather fabulous Adam & Joe.

I religiously download about a dozen podcasts a week, and I listen to them over and over again, often in the dead of night when all of Spain is asleep except for me and my iPod. I have many favourites other than those mentioned, including The Bugle (featuring the Daily Show's John Oliver), The Daily Mayo and In Our Time featuring Melvyn Bragg. But by far the highlight of the pod week is when Adam & Joe is available for download.

The show is a collection of highlights from the similarly named Radio 6 Music show that goes out on Saturday mornings. Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are two British comedians and close friends who have been working together for 20 odd years. A few years ago they produced several series of comedy on Channel 4, followed by a stint on XFM in London and they have now landed on BBC radio. Apart from these duties Adam Buxton is a stand up comedian and actor, and Joe Cornish writes screenplays, including heavy involvement in the new Tintin movie.

But it's their radio show and subsequent podcast that I truly love them for. Their style of comedy is warm and silly, and lacks the preening and posing of most radio DJ's these days. Their regular features range from the legendary 'Song Wars' where they compete to come up with the funniest song based on a given theme, through to 'text the nation' where listeners are invited to contact them to report a variety of extremely trivial and silly stories. Also unique are the self-produced jingles and stings that join up their show, which are often as funny as anything on there. But there's nothing worse than trying to describe why something is funny, Adam & Joe just are. And what you need to do now is go to iTunes and subscribe to their podcast IMMEDIATELY (it's in the British store) and you can then come back here and thank me profusely for changing your lives.  

And I just have one further thing to add.....Stephen !!