John Mendelssohn’s World of Hilarity

John Mendelsohn
  • 5.0 (19)
  • Comedy

You’ll laff ’til.you stop, and be reminded of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre, and other smart absurdist satire, as you listen either to A Rabbi, the Pope, and Jeff Beck’s Ghost Walk Into a Pub, made with a UK audience in mind, or Poking Bears With Sticks, which English-understanders of all nationalities, ages, races, creeds (whatever they are), and sexual preferences are certain to enjoy.

Episodes

  1. 01/31/2025

    Involuntary Celibacy: Is the Egg Salad to Blame?

    Hard-hitting journalism at its hard-hittingest!

    5 min

  2. 01/31/2025

    Gumshoes Have Erotic Needs Too, You Know

    A private detective is thwarted in his attempt to add to his client roster a dame whose legs are 100 meters long.

    4 min

  3. 01/31/2025

    One of Western Hero Ty Quando's Advemtures

    The heteronormative cis male Western hero encounters some rambunctious punks at a Denny's, and teaches them an important life lesson!

    4 min

  4. 01/30/2025

    Air Travel

    John Mendelssohn’s World of Hilarity

    4 min

  5. 07/26/2023

    Rhyming Slang

    An American newcomer to London learns all about rhyming slang from a local beauty

    5 min

  6. 05/06/2023

    The Coronation of Charles 3.0

    All the pomp, with none of the circumstance!

    4 min

  7. 04/16/2023

    SELLING TARQUIN’S KIDNEY

    [A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]    Pater and Grandmother attempt to talk young Tarquin, who seems to be sounding as though brought up in Compton, or some comparable American ghetto, rather than in Surrey, into making a small sacrifice to finance his sister Rubella's education. Rubella, meanwhile, has some text messages she has to send. At the end, we hear, in song, about the self-renamed Tarque 163's favourite meal.

    7 min

  8. 04/16/2023

    NOAH’S TWO MUMMIES

    [A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]   Mummy 2 comes home from work one afternoon with some heartbreaking news for Mummy 1, only for the handsome gentleman who made her renounce her lesbianism to find Mummy 1 irresistibly attractive. Poor Noah has no no idea what to make of all this. Man up, kid!

    4 min

  9. 04/16/2023

    ASK DR. KNOWLEDGE [UK]

    [A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]   American radio's most pompous old pedant comes to the United Kingdom, and there shares his vast expertise with a bright-eyed local lad who has in the past sat on Father Christmas's lap.

    5 min

  10. 04/16/2023

    THE POSTGAME INTERVIEW

    [A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]   A woman TV journalist who wishes she were almost anywhere else finds herself tasked with getting the "thoughts" of a moronic footballer after a match. Do you know what I mean?

    5 min
  • 10 Episodes

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You’ll laff ’til.you stop, and be reminded of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre, and other smart absurdist satire, as you listen either to A Rabbi, the Pope, and Jeff Beck’s Ghost Walk Into a Pub, made with a UK audience in mind, or Poking Bears With Sticks, which English-understanders of all nationalities, ages, races, creeds (whatever they are), and sexual preferences are certain to enjoy.

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