Podcasts like No Joke Podcast

No Joke is a weekly comedic podcast on the HeadGum podcast network hosted by Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick, who are best known as members of the sketch group Harvard Sailing Team. Since its first episode in February 2016, No Joke has had over 200 episodes, with guests such as Amir Blumenfeld, Jake Hurwitz, Ben Schwartz, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, and Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher of BriTANick. Each episode, Billy and Adam select a topic (often just before recording the episode with input from Twitter users) and discuss their previous, present, and future relationships to it.

The No Joke podcast has covered a myriad of different topics ranging from the topical (e.g. the NBA finals, fall sitcoms) to the quotidian (e.g. wallets, jobs) and even philosophical (e.g. leadership, ghosts, power). No Joke follows a three-act structure where the three acts loosely correspond to Billy and Adam's past, current, and future relationship to the topic. The acts are separated by act breaks, where either an ad or a song is played. Episodes are typically between forty-five minutes and an hour, and the time is usually divided about evenly between the three acts. The podcast also has an intro and outro which identify the hosts, the name of the podcast, and the topic of that episode. Billy and Adam have revealed that the intro is actually recorded at the end, after having recorded the rest of the podcast, and inserted into the beginning of the show in post-production.