The Funny Pages: A Comedy Graveyard

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Remember when you’d get a newspaper to feel smart and informed and just go straight to the funny pages to gab with Garfield, chat with Cathy, and umm, see whatever the heck Family Circus was up to? We remember! Reading these informed our future tastes and helped evolve our sense of humor before life got too grim (and stopped being so Mother Goose). Jake takes us on a walk through the history of newspaper comic strips and we all namedrop a ton of favorites and some real forgettable crap. Yeah, there’s a very obvious reason these things died. Rot in hell Ziggy! Miss you Calvin and Hobbes! Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Your the mouth.
0:02.0	Pha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ba-ha-ba-ha-p-pon-p-p-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-pon-all. All the funny pages where laughter and joy is in every child's hands every day.
0:29.6	Who could forget such perennial classics as Blondie by Chick Young?
0:35.1	Chick Young died in 1973.
0:37.4	And of course, the family circus,
0:39.9	America's favorite, wholesome group
0:42.2	of one panel, lovable family members by Bill Keene.
0:47.0	Bill Keene died in 2011.
0:49.0	And of course, who could forget
0:51.3	the wonderful adventures of Hagar the horrible.
0:55.0	Oh, this Viking sure got a business with his funny bone created by Dick Brown.
1:00.9	Dick Brown died in 1989.
1:03.2	Folks, the comic strip is where comedy has not only come to die, but it's been dead for
1:09.8	decades.
1:10.5	Also, I'm very concerned. We haven't
1:13.1	gone full video yet, but Jake's the only person in this room that is in full black and white.
1:17.6	Oh, yeah. And it's very upsetting. Well, I'm in color on Sundays. We're just not recording.
1:21.6	I will say it's 51% white and that helps it a little bit. Sorry, I didn't get to,
1:26.7	can I, one last one?
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:29.3	And of course, everybody,
1:31.4	the one of the originators of the comic strip,
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