Mel's Funniest Bits of 2025!

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

Sony Music

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Happy Christmas Eve EVE, Deathlings What a gloriously jam-packed and star-studded year it’s been up here at the Pearly Gates. So consider this our little festive gift to you: a hand-picked selection of Mel’s absolute favourite moments - featuring the likes of Alex Lowe, Barry from Watford, Bridget Christie… and Channing Tatum?! Want the episodes ad free AND extra content from Mel and the guests, PLUS everything from the Kathy Burke archive? 6 Feet Under gets knee deep in all your cracking correspondence. Head to wheretheresawilltheresawake.com to subscribe. AND If you've got a story for us, send it over to mel@deathpodcast.co.uk A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Train Dreams is now nominated for five Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay,
0:08.0	and two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actor Joel Edgerton.
0:12.0	I don't know where the years go.
0:13.0	It is also nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards.
0:16.0	Figured out, let me know. I'd like to ask for a few back.
0:19.0	And winner for Best Adapted Screenplay from National Board of Review.
0:23.4	New York Magazine hails it as the best picture of the year.
0:27.4	Train Dreams, only on Netflix.
0:30.3	Ho ho, ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Christmas! It's Santa!
0:36.6	No, it's not, it's big God, Ollie. This is Where There's a
0:39.2	Well There's a Wake, where each week our wonderful host, Mel Gedroich welcomes your favorite,
0:45.0	famous people to share how they'd like to shimmy and slay their way out of this realm. So welcome to
0:51.4	Where there's a will, there's a wake, there's awake.
1:01.5	Now, we've been trawling through the archives to dig out our favourite funniest bit so far.
1:07.2	So buckle up, because we are starting off with a banger.
1:11.2	Here's Bridget Christie and a radio head-led funeral.
1:17.7	Now tell me about the funeral.
1:19.2	The funeral.
1:19.5	Tell me about the funeral.
1:21.0	Who, what, when, why, all the Ws.
1:24.9	Okay.
1:25.5	Everything.
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