10 Comedy Podcasts You Need To Listen To Right Now
2. Athletico Mince
Subdued recently due to a temporary hiatus, the weekly braindumps from Andy Dawson and Bob Mortimer rapidly became some of the funniest content available in any medium.
Clocking in at just under an hour a week, Athletico Mince acts as an aural cousin to the traditional Reeves & Mortimer act, with Dawson playing a slightly straighter Vic Reeves to accommodate Bob's typically sublime and surreal tangents.
Utilising established regular features, Andy and Bob bicker and bodge their way through trips to the freezer section in supermarkets, discussion of Bob's inordinate wealth, and Andy's all-too-regular meetings with Jeremy Corbyn and Billy Bragg.
Under the facade of a football discussion, the two comics subvert the sport through a series of obtuse caricatures, usually devised and voiced by Mortimer.
These include the warring 'Gangs of the EPL', in which star players from Tottenham, Arsenal, Middlesbrough and other clubs are reduced to petulant squabbling children through side-splitting voices and dialogue.
Alongside those bizarre playground rivalries, listeners are informed of the continuing off-the-field drama surrounding Steve McClaren, his hair island, his pet snake casper, a vengeful ex-lover, and fellow football manager and podcast newcomer Sean Dyche, who has a decidedly nasty attitude and a disc-beard.
It's as insane as it sounds, and a vital listen as a result.