Podcast
Comedy Factory
Hosted by CBC · EN
If a joke's worth telling, it's worth repeating. Comedy Factory host Jane Testar collects our favourite skits, commentaries and funny bits that appeared on CBC Radio over the past week. It's an assembly line of humour, safety-tested and priced to move!
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Summer 'Fashun Trendz' 2025
May 2600:25:43Tap to summarizeLet's get you NOTICED this summer with some of the hottest trends in fashion right now.From runners you can't run in, to recycled garments from 2001! Get ready to turn heads!
Transcribe →Sunshine Guilt
May 1900:25:43Tap to summarizeThe sun is out, but are you in...side?Host Jane Testar explores the psychological phenomenon of beating yourself up for not making the most of those sunny days.
Transcribe →What's Going On?
May 12, 202500:27:36Tap to summarizeFeeling plugged in, yet out of touch?We'll bring you out of your fog until you're up to date and swimming in fascinating anecdotes.Get ready to be crowned King or Queen of the water cooler!
Transcribe →Mother Day: It's Payback Time
May 5, 202500:24:36Tap to summarizeIt's one day a year, and you've got YEARS of making up to do.A gift guide to repay your mother figure for her emotional and physical labour, you ungrateful mongrel!
Transcribe →Parking Lot Garden Centre
Apr 28, 202500:27:16Tap to summarizeThey're popping up faster than your daffodils. Digging up the dirt on these tiny, temporary, urban forests of lies!
Transcribe →VENTING!!!
Apr 21, 202500:25:24Tap to summarizeIs the state of the world turning you into an emotional tea kettle?Maybe think twice before...doing that annoying whistle thing in front of your fellow citizens.
Transcribe →The Great Garbage Gathering
Apr 14, 202500:25:40Tap to summarizeReclaim thy refuse! Salvage thy slop!Redeem thy civic reputation!...by picking up springtime trash with host Jane Testar.
Transcribe →Coffee Alternatives
Apr 7, 202500:28:04Tap to summarizeAs everything gets even MORE expensive, your favourite morning drink might have to be sacrificed in the name of fiscal prudence. But what to drink instead? Host Jane Testar looks at some equally stimulating options.
Transcribe →Nobody Wants This
Mar 31, 202500:23:21Tap to summarizeYou know when you never asked for something, but you have to deal with it anyway?We're SWIMMING in that right now.Grab a snorkel with host Jane Testar.
Transcribe →Election Training
Mar 24, 202500:27:32Tap to summarizeTime to get back into election shape. Start scrolling through platforms, practicing your 'X', and standing in a series of short lines. It's CHOOSIN' time.
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