Maximum Fun is an independent

Independent Radio

Independent radio indicates a radio station that is run in a manner different from usual for the country it broadcasts in. In countries where there exist government-run radio stations that served as the primary or only the variety of licensed broadcaster, the term independent radio generally means...

 podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 and radio show production organization founded and run by Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn is an American public radio show host/creator. He is the host and producer of the radio show and podcast The Sound of Young America, which is distributed by Public Radio International to 25 public terrestrial radio stations in 13 states and is also broadcast weekly on XM Radio's "XM...

. The organization originated with Thorn's college radio show The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America is a public radio program and podcast based in Los Angeles, California and distributed by Public Radio International...

which continues, in adapted format, to this day. Maximum Fun has since grown to include several other programs.

The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America is a public radio program and podcast based in Los Angeles, California and distributed by Public Radio International...

, begun as a combination interview/talk/sketch comedy college radio show, now follows an interview-only format and is available both as a podcast and, via Public Radio International, on XM satellite radio and numerous public radio stations across the United States.

Jordan, Jesse, Go!

A talk podcast where hosts Jesse Thorn and Jordan Morris and usually a guest provide a comedic take on a variety of topics. All time number one guest by appearances is "Big Time" Gene O'Neill.

Past Jordan, Jesse, Go! Guests

• Adam Lisagor
• Alex Blagg
• Alison Haislip
  Alison Haislip
  Alison Fesq Haislip is an American actress and former TV correspondent for Attack of the Show! on G4 and NBC's The Voice. She resides in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
  
• Amy Rhodes
• Andrew WK
• Andy Daly
• Andy Richter
  Andy Richter
  Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS...
  
  
• Ashkon
• Big Time Gene O'Neill
• Brandon Bird
  Brandon Bird
  Brandon Bird is an artist. He was born in 1980 in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento. He attended University of California, Santa Cruz and was an artist-in-residence from 2004-2006 at Risley Residential College at Cornell University...
  
  
• Brian Heater
• Brian Stack
  Brian Stack
  Brian Stack is an American actor, writer and comedian best known for his sketch comedy work on all three Conan O'Brien late-night talk shows, previously working on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, and currently on O'Brien's newest show, Conan on TBS.-Early...
  
  
• Bryan Safi
• Bucky Sinister
• Chad Fogland
• Chris Fairbanks
• Chris Hardwick
  Chris Hardwick
  Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist...
  
  
• Cole Stratton
• Curtis Gwinn
• Dan Kennedy
  Dan Kennedy
  Daniel Kennedy may refer to:*Daniel Kennedy , American actor*Daniel Kennedy , judge and former politician in Manitoba, Canada*Dan Kennedy , American goalkeeper...
  
  
• Dana Snyder
  Dana Snyder
  Dana Snyder is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for playing Master Shake on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show, and the film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, both part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim franchise.- Early life :Dana Snyder was born in...
  
  
• Dave Hill
  Dave Hill
  Dave Hill is an English musician, who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English glam rock group, Slade. The music journalist, Stuart Maconie, commented "he usually wore a jumpsuit made of the foil that you baste your turkeys in and platforms of oil-rig-derrick height...
  
  
• Dave Holmes
  Dave Holmes
  David Robert "Dave" Holmes is a television personality who gained national attention as the runner-up on MTV's first Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998. From the beginning, he distinguished himself from other candidates with an encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia.Despite his loss to Jesse Camp, MTV...
  
  
• Dave Horowitz
• Dave Shumka
• Dave Willis
  Dave Willis
  David "Dave" Willis is an American voice actor, writer, and producer mostly known as one of the creators, writers, directors, and actors of the adult humored animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force....
  
  
• David Koechner
  David Koechner
  David Michael Koechner is an American comedian, musician, and character actor. Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of Del Close, before joining the Second City Northwest...
  
  
• DC Pierson
  DC Pierson
  DC Pierson is an American comedian, author, rapper and actor. He is best known for his involvement in the sketch and improvisational comedy group Derrick Comedy....
  
  
• Emily Calderon
• Erin Gibson
• Graham Clark
  Graham Clark
  Graham Clark was a fictional character in the British ITV soap Emmerdale. He was played by Kevin Pallister.Graham was in Emmerdale for two years from 1998 to 2000. He first appeared as a local schoolteacher looking around Keeper's Cottage after Lady Tara Oakwell was evicting Seth Armstrong and...
  
  
• Greg Behrendt
  Greg Behrendt
  Gregory Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author. His work as a script consultant to the HBO sitcom Sex and the City, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, paved the way for co-authoring of the New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That into You , later adapted into a film by the same name...
  
  
• Greg Fitzsimmons
  Greg Fitzsimmons
  Greg Fitzsimmons is an American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer and radio host.-Life and career:Fitzsimmons has performed his comedy on numerous programs such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chelsea Lately and Comedy...
  
  
• Hal Rudnick
• Hard 'n Phirm
  Hard 'n Phirm
  Hard 'n Phirm is a comedy/parody musical duo based in Los Angeles. The members are Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman. They began performing at UCLA in 1994, but broke up, only to reform 7 years later. After the huge success of their song "Rodeohead" , they released their first and only album to...
  
  
• Ira Glass
  Ira Glass
  Ira Glass is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.- Early life :...
  
  
• Jackie Kashian
  Jackie Kashian
  Jackie Kashian is an American stand-up comedian and is of Armenian descent.Kashian was born in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised by her father, Elliot, and her stepmother, Nancy, along with her four older brothers and one older sister...
  
  
• James Adomian
  James Adomian
  James Adomian is an Armenian-American actor and stand-up comedian. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and currently lives in New York City...
  
  
• Janet Varney
  Janet Varney
  Janet Varney is an American comedic actress best known for being the current hostess of TBS's Dinner and a Movie.-Early life:Varney was born in Arizona...
  
  
• Jasper Redd
  Jasper Redd
  Jasper Redd is an American comedian from in Knoxville, Tennessee.Jasper's brand of comedy is distinguished by his use of polyrhythmic timing. Earlier in his career, this was more pronounced...
  
  
• Jeff Solomon
• Jen Kirkman
  Jen Kirkman
  Jennifer "Jen" Kirkman is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and actress, best known for her appearances on E!'s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately and the web series Drunk History...
  
  
• Jessica Makinson
  Jessica Makinson
  Jessica Makinson is an American actress, comedienne, and improviser known as a series regular for several Comedy Central programs, voice over work for animation, and as a sketch player for late night talk shows.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Jim Festante
• Jim Gaffigan
  Jim Gaffigan
  James Christopher "Jim" Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian and actor.-Early life:Gaffigan was born in Chesterton, Indiana and attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana. He is the youngest of six children and often jokes about growing up in a large family. He attended one year at...
  
  
• Jimmy Pardo
  Jimmy Pardo
  Jimmy Pardo is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host of the popular comedy podcast Never Not Funny.He is married to fellow comedian Danielle Koenig. They live in Los Angeles with their son Oliver...
  
  
• John Hodgman
  John Hodgman
  John Kellogg Hodgman is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in...
  
  
• Jonah Ray
  Jonah Ray
  Jonah Ray Rodrigues is an American actor, comedian and writer from Los Angeles.-Life and career:Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Ray later moved to Los Angeles...
  
  
• Jonathan Coulton
  Jonathan Coulton
  Jonathan Coulton is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans...
  
  
• Jonathan Goldstein
  Jonathan Goldstein
  Jonathan Goldstein may refer to:*Jonathan Goldstein , North American author and radio producer*Jonathan Goldstein , American actor*Jonathan Goldstein , British composer of music for film and television...
  
  
• Karen Kilgariff
  Karen Kilgariff
  Karen Kilgariff is an actress and writer best known for her work on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program Mr. Show and the Glasgow-set situation comedy The Book Group. She was the head writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and occasionally appears on screen in sketches and other segments...
  
  
• Keith Phipps
• Kent Nichols
• Kevin Pereira
  Kevin Pereira
  Kevin Pereira is co-host of G4's Attack of the Show! .-Biography:While in high school, Pereira hosted Pointless Audio under the pseudonym Captain Immy...
  
  
• Kurt Andersen
  Kurt Andersen
  Kurt Andersen is an American novelist who is also host of the Peabody-winning public radio program Studio 360, a co-production between Public Radio International and WNYC. In 1986 with E. Graydon Carter he co-founded Spy magazine, which they sold in 1991; it continued publishing until 1998...
  
  
• Luke Burbank
  Luke Burbank
  Luke Burbank is an American podcaster who currently hosts the Seattle-based former radio program and current podcast Too Beautiful to Live....
  
  
• Marc Maron
  Marc Maron
  Marc Maron is an American stand-up comedian and podcast host.He has been host of The Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition, and Breakroom Live, all politically-oriented shows, produced under the auspices of Air America Media. He was also the host of Comedy Central's Short Attention...
  
  
• Maria Bamford
  Maria Bamford
  Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...
  
  
• Martin Starr
  Martin Starr
  Martin Starr is an American television and film actor, known for his roles as Bill Haverchuck on the short-lived NBC comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks and as Roman DeBeers on the Starz comedy series Party Down, as well as for his roles in the films Knocked Up, Cheats, and Adventureland.-Life and...
  
  
• Matt Belknap
• Matt Belknap
• Matt Besser
  Matt Besser
  Matthew Gregory "Matt" Besser is an American actor and comedian best known as one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe who also had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998-2000....
  
  
• Matt Gourley
• Michelle Biloon
  Michelle Biloon
  Michelle Biloon is an American stand-up comic who started out in Austin, Texas and, after four years, moved to Los Angeles where she still currently resides and regularly performs. She has been featured on Chelsea Lately, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and...
  
  
• Mike Pesca
  Mike Pesca
  Mike Pesca is a Jewish American radio journalist based in New York City. He serves as a National Desk correspondent for National Public Radio , and is a panelist on Slate magazine's weekly sports podcast Hang Up and Listen....
  
  
• Mike Phirman
• Michael Glen Schmidt
• Moshe Kasher
  Moshe Kasher
  Moshe Kasher is an award winning American stand up comic writer and actor from Oakland, California. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles and tours nationally and internationally.- Stand up comedy:Moshe began his career in San Francisco in 2001...
  
  
• Neal Pollack
  Neal Pollack
  Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Pollack has written six books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Alternadad, Stretch, and Jewball. He is a member of...
  
  
• Neil Cambell
• Nick Adams
  Nick Adams
  Nick Adams was an American film and television actor. He has been noted for his supporting roles in successful Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s along with his starring role in the ABC television series The Rebel...
  
  
• Nick Hornby
  Nick Hornby
  Nick Hornby is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was...
  
  
• Nick Kroll
  Nick Kroll
  Nick Kroll is an American actor and comedian best known for appearing in television shows such as Best Week Ever, Cavemen and Sit Down, Shut Up. He co-stars in the shows The Life & Times of Tim and The League....
  
  
• Nick Thune
  Nick Thune
  Nick Thune is an American actor, comedian and musician.Thune was born in Seattle, Washington to parents Erik and Cindy Thune. He has one sister and twin brothers. While in Seattle, Thune attended Bellevue Community College for two and a half years and did not earn a degree...
  
  
• Paul F. Tompkins
  Paul F. Tompkins
  Paul Francis Tompkins , best known as Paul F. Tompkins, is an American actor and comedian.-Life and career:Tompkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a receptionist mother and railway worker father. He started out in stand-up comedy in 1986 at The Comedy Works, Philadelphia, PA, where he...
  
  
• Paul Rust
  Paul Rust
  Paul Robert Rust is an American actor, comedian and writer.-Life and career:Rust was born in Le Mars, Iowa to Jeanne and Bob Rust...
  
  
• Paul Sheer
• Pigeon John
  Pigeon John
  Pigeon John is an American hip hop rapper raised in Hawthorne, California and based in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Pigeon John is a Los Angeles area rapper who has recorded four studio albums as a solo artist, as well as several others as a member of the groups like L.A. Symphony and...
  
  
• Rachel Cantu
• Randy and Jason Sklar
  Randy and Jason Sklar
  Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar , professionally known as the Sklar Brothers, are American identical twin comedians and sportscasters. They formerly hosted the show Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic, which came to an end on November 19, 2006, after four seasons.-Biography:Randy and Jason grew up in suburban...
  
  
• Richard Martin
  Richard Martin
  Richard Martin may refer to:*Saint Richard Martin*Richard Martin , , Master of the Mint 1582-1617*Richard Martin , , lawyer of the Virginia Company...
  
  
• Rob Corddry
  Rob Corddry
  Robert William "Rob" Corddry is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a former correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his starring role in the comedy film Hot Tub Time Machine...
  
  
• Rob Huebel
  Rob Huebel
  Rob Huebel is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his sketch comedy work on the MTV series Human Giant. He currently co-stars on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ron Babcock
• Ryan McKee
  Ryan McKee
  Ryan McKee is an American football offensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Southern Mississippi.- Early years :McKee attended Daphne High School, Alabama, and was a...
  
  
• Ryan Perez
• Sarah Thyre
  Sarah Thyre
  Sarah Thyre is an actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Coach Cherri Wolf on the television show Strangers with Candy, with Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello....
  
  
• Sarah Vowell
  Sarah Vowell
  Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio...
  
  
• Scott Aukerman
  Scott Aukerman
  Scottrick "Scott" Aukerman is an American writer, actor, comedian, television personality, director, producer, and podcast host. In the mid-1990s, Aukerman was a writer and performer on Mr. Show with Bob and David. He currently hosts the weekly comedy podcast Comedy Bang Bang...
  
  
• Scott Simpson
  Scott Simpson
  Scott Simpson may refer to:*Scott Simpson , Welsh pole-vaulter*Scott Simpson *Scott Simpson *Scott Simpson , New Zealand National Party MP*Scott Simpson...
  
  
• Seth Morris
• Sloane Crosley
  Sloane Crosley
  Sloane Crosley is a writer living in New York and the author of best-selling collections of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number....
  
  
• Stefan Lawrence
• Stephen Brophy
• Theresa Thorn
• Tig Notaro
  Tig Notaro
  Tig Notaro, born Carl Notaro, is an American stand-up comic."Tig" is a nickname, bestowed upon her by her brother when both were children. Her great-great-grandfather was the mayor of New Orleans....
  
  
• Todd Glass
  Todd Glass
  Todd Steven Glass is an American stand-up comedian originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Biography:Glass is perhaps best known for his appearances as a contestant on the second and third seasons of NBC's Last Comic Standing and has appeared regularly on programs such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!,...
  
  
• Todd Levin
• Tony Camin
• W. Kamau Bell
• Xeni Jardin
  Xeni Jardin
  Xeni Jardin is an American weblogger, digital media commentator, and tech culture journalist. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing, as a contributor to Wired magazine and Wired News, and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show Day to Day...
  
  

Coyle and Sharpe: The Imposters

Rebroadcasts of audio comedy pranks and put-ons performed and recorded by comedy duo Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe

Mal Sharpe

Malcolm Sharpe is an American television and radio personality with roots in San Francisco, California.In the early 1960s, Sharpe teamed with Jim Coyle to create a series of comic on-the-street interviews for San Francisco radio station KGO. Armed with a tape recorder, Coyle and Sharpe confronted...

 in the 1960s.

The segments were originally recorded for KGO radio and Warner Brothers Records and preserved by Mal's daughter, Jennifer Sharpe.

The Kasper Hauser Podcast

Selections of sketch comedy performed by the Kasper Hauser comedy group.

The Sound of Young America: The College Years

Rebroadcasts of episodes of The Sound of Young America from its early days as a college radio show.

Stop Podcasting Yourself

On March 22, 2010, it was announced that the Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

-based podcast Stop Podcasting Yourself, hosted by Dave Shumka and Graham Clark, would join Maximum Fun.

Judge John Hodgman

Stemming from a popular segment on Jordan, Jesse, Go!, Judge John Hodgman

John Hodgman

John Kellogg Hodgman is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in...

 debuted as a standalone Maximum Fun podcast in November of 2010. Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman

John Hodgman

John Kellogg Hodgman is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in...

serves as judge and jury, hearing cases brought by listeners on topics ranging from which kind of soap goes in the dispenser on the sink to whether a high schooler is responsible for the theft of a life-sized Ernie doll that he had previously stolen.

My Brother, My Brother, and Me

On January 17, 2011, Jesse Thorn announced the addition of My Brother, My Brother, and Me to the Maximum Fun family. The show is a comedy show that poses as an advice podcast, hosted by real-life brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy.

MaxFunCon

Begun in 2009, an annual weekend convention where fans of Maximum Fun can spend time with Maximum Fun hosts and other celebrities.