Comedy History Podcasts

Presidential

60 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
The Washington Post's Presidential podcast explores how each former American president reached office, made decisions, handled crises and redefined the role of commander-in-chief. It was released l...

Those Conspiracy Guys

237 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 2.7K ratings
Those Conspiracy Guys is a comedy, history and True Crime podcast based in Ireland and deals with everything from the out-there conspiracy theories like aliens, time travel, and ancient civilisatio...

Roast Mortem Cast

303 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make...

Language of Bromance

446 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Language of Bromance is a weekly Improv Comedy Podcast that was created by Richard and Shawn in 2014. Releasing a new episode every single Sunday featuring new weird stories from history, news, mo...

Disturbing Interests

100 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Do your conversations kill the party? Do you find yourself getting "that look" due to your extensive knowledge about turn of the century asylums? Have you ever wondered if there is a market for h...

Shared History

128 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
A history and comedy podcast about the overlooked and underrepresented people and events from ancient to modern history. Join comedians Cass and Natalie for an educational, entertaining and someti...

Beheaded

67 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Torture. Execution. Death. Listen as two die-hard fans chat about some of history's most gruesome death sentences. From famous queens and kings to the uncommon names in history, no conviction will ...

Kings of Democracy

115 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
The official podcast of the United States of America and everybody who lives in it or ever has or ever will. Two semi-decent historians and occasional comedians tackle American history, one person...

I Don't Know Her

136 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Avery and Rita are on a mission to share the stories your history books left out. Every episode they tackle the brave, complicated, courageous, and important stories of women you've probably never ...

Why Do We Say That?

44 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Have you ever wondered why we use certain phrases or words? Where did they come from? What's the origin of that saying? Why do we say "Rule of Thumb"? Why should we mind our "P's & Q's"? Father a...

One Nation Under Crime

100 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
One Nation Under Crime is a historical chronological true crime podcast. Join Kayla and Leah each week as they discuss true crime cases and history from each year starting with the first recorded ...

Poor Historians: Misadventures in Medical History Podcast

117 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Three modern emergency physicians take a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek quest through various stories in medical history. New episodes every two weeks. For questions or comments, check us out on so...

Halfwit History

157 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Hosts Jonathan & Kiley talk about the history of the upcoming week, but a long time ago (and sometimes not so long ago). Occasionally, they even know what they are talking about! Join them in expl...

This is Not a History Lecture

208 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Welcome to a refreshingly casual take on history podcasts. Join Kat and Kaleigh as they share their favorite stories from history - the odd, the funny, the forgotten, and the often misunderstood. B...

Spookified

35 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
A podcast featuring ghost stories from all over the world. Each episode we will take you to a different city and explore its most haunted spots. All while sipping on a beer...or two. We're a husb...

Side Hustle Quest

84 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
A comedic exploration of all the most interesting ways people can make money.

Tea-Tanic

25 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
"Did you know?!"... that Loretta Anne Miller has been a Titanic enthusiast since age 6? Yup. She's got the proof in her horribly written school kid journal that her favorite game to play on the Bra...

Digging Deeper with the Ancients

37 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A look back at ancient places and things to get more of the story, and tie in some more modern pop culture references to see where they got it right, and where they got it wrong. We also try and ma...

Our Weird World

186 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago
Each week, host John Hinson takes a look at weird, crazy, and forgotten stories from the history of humankind. He covers true crime, paranormal, and other strange stories and tries to put some hum...

Consistently Eccentric

185 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago
The British Isles have thousands of years of history, so it's weird that all most people were taught at school was World War Two, how many wives Henry VIII had and that the Battle of Hastings took...

At The Mic (with Keith Malinak)

181 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
Everybody has a story and everybody is more interesting than they'll admit. Keith Malinak sits down with some people you may know and some people you should get to know for conversations about...t...

Armchair Historians

167 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago
What's your favorite history? Each interview on this podcast begins with this one question. Our guests are people who like history and get really excited about a particular time, place or person fr...

Vintage History

38 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
Two History teachers, united by their passion for wine and the past needed an excuse to drink. So... we made up a podcast. As we drink a bottle of wine from a wonderful year of history, we will dis...

Keck&Sikkink(y)

28 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago
We're a podcast about history, philosophy, and modern political theory! Tune in every two weeks and learn something with us :)

Jinii Teaparty Podcast

13 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago
Just three Navajo women having a tea party. Talking about a variety of different topics ranging from spooky/paranormal to true crime, Indigenous issues/aspects. Come join our tea party! Story submi...