The Punnery: Recent Episodes
Tiger Leap Productions
Michael and Dan are writers, improvisers, and actors who put their formidable wits toward the loved and loathed comedic device known as the PUN. The games and segments contribute to a show that is usually funny and occasionally informative (especially to their fellow word nerds).
Headlines, Terrible New Segment, Punny Business, Popsicle Quiz
Theme song for "Terrible New Segment: Correlation is not Causation" found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7OZ6Zsqvg
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We're back! Don't read into it... but we felt like making another episode and we did!
Headlines, Punny Business, Signs and Wonders, The Sound of Pants, and Terrible New Segment.
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One last time around the bend with some of our most popular games.
Friend, Rob Alderman, avowed hater of puns, joins us and realizes what he's been missing out on all this time.
Thanks, listeners, it's been a truly wonderful ride.
Dan and Michael
More from our session with Erik Simpson.
It's a shorter episode. But what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in inanity.
Cheers.
Just three very strange guys playing a few rounds of Balderdash. Musical and rap interludes occur spontaneously.
Things get crazy as we welcome back guest Erik Simpson.
Headlines, Malapropisms, and Word Nerdery.
This episode is clean by podcast standards, but perhaps not the best one for younger ears.
We play a Valentine's Day joke game with BJ Tapke and get more details on Michael's Panda Depressed odyssey. (Listen to Ep 17 before this one).
Michael and Dan welcome friend of the pod BJ Tapke back as a guest. We play Headlines, Ruining Things, and the Sound of Pants.
A golden oldie this week. One of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Hope you'll enjoy hearing it again, or possibly for the first time. We'll be back on our usual schedule soon.
Dan and Michael are back in the new year with a crazy Terrible New Segment, and other fun.
Michael and Dan have concocted some delicious Christmas segments for you on this special day! Merry Christmas!
We're taking a short break from new episodes during the holiday season. We'll be back after Christmas. For now, enjoy this hilarious episode from this time last year.
We welcome special guest Jared Pike to play our favorite games including a Terrible New Segment.
Guest Bowling Jay joins us for Headlines, Word Nerdery, Punny Business, and Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot.
For Halloween, we come up with Punny Costumes that are perfect for literally no one! Please don't try these at home. We also play Headlines and Signs and Wonders.
Happy Halloween everybody!
The show welcomes Dan's wife, Rachel Anne, to the show to play along and help us with a special edition of Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot.
Cross-podlination this week features the podcast all about Words: "A Way With Words". https://tinyurl.com/y8ovyo7s
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We welcome Lucas Brown, the barber, to our show this week and hilarity ensues.
Segments: Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Sound of Pants, Punny Business, and Popsicle Quiz - Hot Shot
In this Point-Five Michael and I ruin TV Shows by adding one word.
It's a good time. Come contribute your own ideas in the FB group The Punnery Playroom.
Segments this week include: Headlines, Pun-Off, The Sound of Pants, Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot, Poetry With Michael.
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In this episode we celebrate Dan's birthday with Headlines, Terrible New Segment, Punny Business, The Sound of Pants, and Poetry With Michael.
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Headlines, Signs and Wonders (VBS Edition), Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot, and a BRAND NEW SEGMENT called The Sound of Pants.
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In this Point-five, we look at some more real businesses who use puns in their names.
*Point-five episodes are short little "Pod-snacks" to tide you over until our next full episode.
Michael and Dan tackle Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Word Nerdery, Terrible New Segment and Popsicle Quiz, Hot Shot. Dan's son Elijah is along for the ride.
Don't forget to throw a little love our way to keep this whole thing going. www.patreon.com/ThePunnery
For our Terrible New Segment we play a game called Utter Nonsense which puts Michael's dialects to the test.
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Almost guest, owner of our almost sponsor Bon Life Coffee, Erika Moore joins us for Headlines, Poetry with Michael, Pun-Off and the long awaited return of a Punniest of Show.
Michael and Dan realize they both performed rap as adolescents and show off what they remember. Accompanied by Erik Simpson.
This episode is just ridiculous.
Guest, Erik Simpson joins us for Headlines, Poetry with Michael, and Punny Business: Celebrity Edition.
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We play Punny Business with a new twist. What if celebrities opened businesses other than what they are known for? What will they call their businesses? We're here to help. BJ Tapke joins us again for this Point-five.
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We kick off Season 2 with some new segments including: "Terrible New Segment" and "Poetry with Michael". We welcome guest BJ Tapke. We also play a musical improv game called "Gaston."
Celebrate Season 2 by becoming a supporter of the podcast. www.patreon.com/ThePunnery
Some poorly phrased headlines keep us entertained this week. We start SEASON TWO next week.
We welcome guests Merica Stum to help us celebrate one full year of the podcast's existence! The Spreadsheet Queen Rachel Anne Buck, (yes, married to Dan) also comes on the show to announce year-end scores for all the various games and segments we do.
All your favorite segments are here and a Word Nerdery where we have fun with Google translator.
If you'd like to give us a birthday gift... https://www.patreon.com/ThePunnery
We get a look at Dan's new serial podcast about a wild adventure that happened to him last summer. Enjoy episode 1 of Project SSA.
Here's a link to the podcast's webpage: www.projectssa.com
Guest Clint Page joins us for some of our most popular segments, and our word nerdery features "Ruin Classic Literature with One Word."
Improviser and friend of the podcast Clint Page joins us for a weird round of 99 Jokes.
Michael and Dan tackle the classic segments: Headlines, Word Nerdery, Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot, and 99 Jokes.
In this episode we record the dreaded 22nd episode. We've been told that podcasts last an average of 22 episodes before they die.
So, you'd better listen to this one, it could be your last.
Headlines, Punny Business, 99 Jokes, Signs and Wonders.
We try a classic improv one-liner game called "99 Jokes." Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Popsicle Quiz, Word Nerdery, and a Request for Submissions for a new segment of "A Word for That".
We open the vault to one of our earliest segments of Punny Business to a favorite moment for both of us. Enjoy
Michael and Dan are led through a fantasy realm to fight terrifying foes armed with only their wits.
They welcome Jeremy Abner as their Pungeon Master.
Michael and Dan once again try to come up with meaningful similes to impart wisdom. It generally goes as well as you'd think it would.
We welcome American Idol runner-up, amazing musician, and generally great guy Clark Beckham as a guest on the show.
We sing some Improvised Blues with Clark on guitars and back-up vocals. He also plays along with us on some of our favorite segments: Headlines, Improvised Blues, Punny Business, Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot.
In anticipation of musician Clark Beckham coming on the show next week, Michael and Dan break out an original song of theirs from the musical they co-wrote.
We welcome guest Tawnya Daniels as we do segments Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Punny Business, Word Nerdery, and Life is Like.
Segments this week include: Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Life is Like (*new), Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot
We try to come up with some wisdom through spontaneous metaphors (actually, I guess they are similes) using only a list of words, an eight-sided die, and are keen intellects. Enjoy!
Segments include Headlines, Signs and Wonder, A Word for That, Punny Business (Real Examples edition), and Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot.
We release a full episode every other Thursday, but we're putting out a little bonus short clip for you to enjoy on our "off weeks" and we are calling them "Point-5s" (as in episode 15.5). It's just a snippet of joy intended to hold you over until the next main course of hilarity.
In this Point-5 we share jokes written by kids from the Twitter account "Kids Write Jokes".,
Hear our new segment: A Word for That.
Also, learn about the "Point-fives" and "The Punnery Playroom".
And all your favorite segments are all here.
We welcome our friend Spencer, musician and BonLife coffee barista, for: Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Word Nerdery, Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot, and a BRAND NEW SEGMENT introduced. And it REQUIRES listener participation.
It's Christmas at The Punnery. We have a couple guests in the studio and a lot of laughs.
Segments include: HEADLINES, SIGNS AND WONDERS, PUNNY BUSINESS (Xmas-Themed Medical Procedures), WORD NERDERY, RUIN CHRISTMAS WITH ONE WORD, POPSICLE QUIZ-HOT SHOT
Come check out our brand new Intro, Michael gets an early Christmas gift and tells us about his bizarre prom experience.
- Headlines
- Signs and Wonders
- Punny Business
- Word Nerdery
- Popsicle Quiz, Hot Shot
Some fun treats and surprises in this episode.
We welcome Jeremy Abner to help us dream up the WORST pun costumes ever. Your other favorite segments are all here as well.
Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Word Nerdery, Popsicle Quiz Hot Shot, Punny Business, Pun-Off
Michael portrays "Madonna" and we come clean with our listeners about our great popsicle secret.
- Headlines
- Signs and Wonders
- Word Nerdery (it's a doozy!)
- Rate & Review Challenge Winners announced!
- Popsicle Quiz, Hot Shot - NEW FORMAT
- Punny Business - Pop-Up Bar Version
Rate and write a punny review on iTunes and we may read it on our next episode.
We welcome Adam Lowe as our guest on this episode.
Some various things we crack wise about:
Self-Autonomous Trees, Army Surplus Stores, Body Waxing, and much more!
Segments include: Headlines, Signs and Wonders, Popsicle Quiz - Hot Shot, Word Nerdery, Punny Business, and Pun-Off.
No guest this week, just Dan and Michael doing all your favorite segments:
-Headlines
-Signs and Wonders
-Popsicle Quiz, Hot Shot
-Word Nerdery
-Punny Business
-Pun-Off
We welcome guest Callie Swenson and make her dreams com true. SAD!
We tackle all our favorite segments: Headlines, Popsicle Quiz, Pun-Off, Signs and Wonders, and Word Nerdery.
In our 6th episode we welcome Ethan Moore, improviser, actor, and friend of the podcast. (Cameo appearance by Dan's teenage son who wears fake glasses)
- Headlines,
- Punny Business,
- Popsicle Quiz - Hot Shot (Cameo Appearance, Elijah Buck),
- Signs and Wonders (Cameo Appearance, Elijah Buck),
- Pun-Off
Hilarity ensues.
We normally release a new episode every other Tuesday, but while recording our next episode we had a little extra content. So, we decided to publish it separately for those of you who JUST CAN'T WAIT for the next full episode.
This is a segment of Word Nerdery in which we look at poorly phrased headlines. These are mostly victims of "misplaced modifiers".
We have a new segment called Signs and Wonders that has some fun with Church Signs.
Look for a particularly interesting Word Nerdery and a truly strange "Pun-Off".
In Episode 4, look for the segments:
- HEADLINES
- PUNNY BUSINESS (listener's edition)
- WORD NERDERY
- POPSICLE QUIZ, HOT SHOT
- PUN-OFF
- PUN FOR THE ROAD
Our listeners love to pitch in their own ideas for Punny Businesses - So we feature some of their best contributions. Listen to the episode then, look for us on Facebook to pitch in your own groaners!
We're in a studio now! Gone are the days of us sharing a $20 microphone! We've moved to the big times!
Come check out our latest episode with everyone's favorite segments!
*NOTE: Eps 1 & 2 were recorded before we had access to a studio space so the audio quality is a bit rough. Start at Ep. 3 and come back for these once you're hooked!
A full-groan podcast of puns, dad jokes, and general word-nerdery.
Segments this week include
- Popsicle Quiz, Hot Shot (Grape and Orange)
- Word Nerdery (Contronyms and Buffalo)
- The Pun-Off (With a new 30 second timer and an irritating buzzer)
- Punny Business (NEW! Beekeeping accountants, churchgoing alien abductees, etc)
- Headlines (Potato spills and Pope jokes)
Listen for shout-outs to Richard Yeakley, Jeremy Moore, James Laws, Rachel Anne Buck and Bon Life Coffee!
NOTE: Eps 1 & 2 were recorded before we had access to a studio space so the audio quality is a bit rough. Start with some newer episodes and come back for these once you're hooked!
A full-groan podcast of puns, dad jokes, and general word-nerdery.
Hosted by Dan Buck and Michael De Backer.