Comedy Factory
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
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!
Location:
Canada, ON
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
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!
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/
Episodes
Summer 'Fashun Trendz' 2025
5/26/2025
Let'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!
Duration:00:25:43
Sunshine Guilt
5/19/2025
The 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.
Duration:00:25:43
What's Going On?
5/12/2025
Feeling 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!
Duration:00:27:36
Mother Day: It's Payback Time
5/5/2025
It'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!
Duration:00:24:36
Parking Lot Garden Centre
4/28/2025
They're popping up faster than your daffodils.
Digging up the dirt on these tiny, temporary, urban forests of lies!
Duration:00:27:16
VENTING!!!
4/21/2025
Is 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.
Duration:00:25:24
The Great Garbage Gathering
4/14/2025
Reclaim thy refuse!
Salvage thy slop!
Redeem thy civic reputation!
...by picking up springtime trash with host Jane Testar.
Duration:00:25:40
Coffee Alternatives
4/7/2025
As 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.
Duration:00:28:04
Nobody Wants This
3/31/2025
You 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.
Duration:00:23:21
Election Training
3/24/2025
Time 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.
Duration:00:27:32
Nesting Like a Great Blue Heron
3/17/2025
Forget Spring Cleaning, host Jane Testar is NESTING....HARD.
Come gather essentials with her like decorative mirrors, and doomed exotic plants.
Duration:00:28:17
Get A Hobby
3/10/2025
The answer to staying sane in this current climate? Getting a soothing and distracting hobby.
Host Jane Testar ushers you through the wonderful world of leisure activities. And does a charcoal sketch of you just for fun.
Duration:00:27:33
Vague Recollections of...Not Winter??
3/3/2025
There's something different and familiar happening.
Something the extended cold and dark has made us forget.
Host Jane Testar feels like it involves...flowers and...the colour green?
Duration:00:26:40
Oscar Bingo!
2/24/2025
From the expected: Presenter flubs a line
To the unexpected: Wardrobe malfunction
To what would be more fun: Winner's botox fails mid speech
What will be on your Academy Award bingo card this weekend?
Duration:00:28:30
TENSE
2/17/2025
Fight or flight? It's so hard to choose.
International tensions are high and we're all feeling the stress, while clenching absolutely everything.
Brace for impact with host Jane Testar.
Duration:00:28:04
What About Love?!
2/10/2025
Oh, unknowable love! It is what the world needs now. Let us learn more about it, then maybe we can have it!
Duration:00:27:07
Buy Canadian
2/3/2025
In a trade war...our weapons...are debit cards...and potatoes.
Duration:00:25:03
WHAT'S FOR DINNER, DANGIT?
1/27/2025
Why is it so hard to figure out what to eat? From nutrition, to trends, the refrigerator becomes a minefield.
Duration:00:27:12
Phoney Phone Scams
1/20/2025
By phone, by text, or by e-mail, they're all out to get us.
Host Jane Testar shows you how to build a wall around your information...and your heart.
Duration:00:29:08
Desperate Optimism
1/13/2025
It's not easy to stay calm, stay positive, or sane these days.
But what if...we FORCED IT at hard as we can?
Duration:00:23:49