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EDDIE: We're at the point with podcasting now where enough people have experimented with the medium for up-and-coming podcasters to have a reasonable understanding of what does and doesn't work. Which means we'll shortly be moving to the stage where people stop experimenting and instead simply go with one of the several formats that have been shown to work. With everyone then making almost identical podcasts, a medium which was once greeted with naive optimism will become passé and we'll all move on to the next big thing. This award celebrates the work of those practitioners who have done so much to speed up this process.
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In the year 2010 Josh Thomas and friend Tom Ward produced just four podcasts. Such was their outstanding level of shitness in the view of our voters that Josh and Tom were the very clear winners in this category, securing more than two-thirds of the vote. In some ways such an overwhelming victory seems a little unjustified. The shows experimented with ideas and formats (ranging from rambling, improvised discussions among friends, to pre-planned "segments", to scripted pieces) and there was, if not improvement, at least a sense of progression over the season. Having said that, Josh Thomas & Friend was a fairly self-indulgent show (a full episode was devoted to Josh agonising about coming out), which wasn't particularly funny. The icing on the cake was an absolutely woeful Ricky Gervais-inspired video sketch, which we'll look at in more detail a bit later.
Sticking strictly to the "two mates having a chat" podcast format were Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen, hosts of 30 Odd Foot of Pod. If you're prepared to listen to around 50 minutes a week of these two wittering on aimlessly, then good for you. Personally, we bailed after episode 4.
Sam Simmons seems to turn up as a guest on Triple J at least twice a week, sometimes winding-up callers for laughs with his trademark aggressive surrealism. These calls are then put into his podcast, The Sounds of Sam, along with lots of sketches he made years ago. In the world of online content generation this is called "repurposing". In the real world, it's better known as "repetition" or "running out of ideas".
BERT: And speaking of repetitive, we haven't shown any classic comedy clips from the GTV-9 archives for a while. Who wants to see a montage of all those "A Town Like Dallas" skits from The Midday Show?
AUDIENCE STARTS BOOING.
OK, but you'll be begging for it when you see what's coming up next...
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