The Funny Pages: A Comedy Graveyard
6/1/20261 hr 14 min
Remember when you’d get a newspaper to feel smart and informed and just go straight to the funny pages to gab with Garfield, chat with Cathy, and umm, see whatever the heck Family Circus was up to? We remember! Reading these informed our future tastes and helped evolve our sense of humor before life got too grim (and stopped being so Mother Goose). Jake takes us on a walk through the history of newspaper comic strips and we all namedrop a ton of favorites and some real forgettable crap. Yeah, there’s a very obvious reason these things died. Rot in hell Ziggy! Miss you Calvin and Hobbes!
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First 90 secondsHolden McNeely· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:35
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Jake Young· Host1:02
[singing] [singing] Ah, the funny pages, where laughter and joy is in every