Episode 7: True Crime and Comedy: ‘Do we need that many dicks?’

This week, Stella chats about two of her favourite podcasts: All Killa No Filla and The Last Podcast on the Left, and picking up from episode 5, their approaches to the Jeffrey Dahmer story. Told via the skills of stand up comedians, observational and sketch comedy, and improvisation, these podcasts re-present this well-worn story with a dark wit, woven into meticulous research. Episode 7 takes the fundamentals of how true crime is understood to deal with grisly details and subversive characters, yet at the same time, uphold law and order. What happens then, when these fundamentals collide with comedy?

 

Sources:

 

Gaynor, S. M. (2023). ‘Bones are life!’ True crime podcasting, self-promotion and the vernaculars of Instragram with Cult Liter, in, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, vol 22(1), pp. 1-16 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15405702.2023.2281581

 

Sherrill, L. A. (2020). The Serial Effect and the True Crime podcast ecosystem, in Journalism Practice, vol 16(7), pp. 1473-1494 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2020.1852884

 

The Last Podcast on the Left – Episodes 122, 123, and 124 cover Jeffrey Dahmer.

 

All Kille No Filla – Episode 10, Jeffrey Dahmer. This is a very early episode of All Killa, and the audio quality is a little muffled.  

 

Both podcasts are available via iTunes and Spotify.

 

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