Messy mornings, quick laughs, real advice.
Ben Davis & Kelly K Show is a quick-hit comedy talk show built around awkward listener dilemmas, pop-culture games, and deliberately silly arguments. Its rhythm moves from relationship advice to joke contests to oddball stories without losing the easy back-and-forth.
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Ben Davis & Kelly K Show is a fast, chatty comedy talk show shaped by listener dilemmas, recurring games, and the kind of small arguments that fill a show with noise. The show works best when a personal question becomes a public debate. One segment asks whether it matters if a new partner wants to vacation somewhere previously visited with an ex. Another turns a boyfriend's open-eyed sleeping into a mix of concern, teasing, and listener-sourced scripts for how to raise the issue. A workplace question about hiding a pregnancy at a new law-firm job gets similar treatment: part actual advice, part comic overthinking, part live reaction. The show does not stay in one lane for long. Relationship uncertainty can be followed by Can't Beat Kelly, then Throwback Thursday, then a goofy dispute over whether water is wet. Its joke contest, You Laugh You Lose, leans into intentionally groan-worthy bar jokes, animal jokes, and instant feedback from the audience. Setting the Bar brings in offbeat news, including the story of a driver treating a fast car as permission to speed. The daily texture is loose and reactive. Ben and Kelly rib each other constantly, and the fun often comes from hearing one person start a questionable idea while the other shuts it down. Still, the advice segments are not just filler. The show gives practical weight to boundaries, honesty, medical concerns, and relationship doubts, even when the route there is silly. Its comedy is clean enough for broad radio listening but blunt enough to feel unscripted. The audience is treated as part of the engine through texts, calls, and real-time corrections. Pop culture, office awkwardness, dating history, family comments, and deliberately useless facts all sit side by side. The result is a personality-driven show for listeners who want social drama, quick laughs, and low-stakes chaos in short bursts.
Made for: For listeners who like radio-style banter, relationship dilemmas, caller stories, pop-culture trivia, and clean but blunt comedy. It especially suits people who enjoy advice segments that do not take themselves too seriously.
What sets it apart: The show pairs genuine group-therapy-style advice with deliberately ridiculous detours, from animal facts to joke battles. Its real-time listener texts make each dilemma feel less like a scripted bit and more like a roomful of people arguing it out.
We are Ben Davis and Kelly K from 99/7 DJX based out of Louisville, Kentucky.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ben Davis and Kelly K turn relationship questions, audience stories, and absurd curiosities into quick, good-natured arguments with dependable comic momentum.
Ben Davis & Kelly K turn everyday dilemmas into brisk conversational comedy, moving from awkward relationships and workplace disclosures to pet stories, pop culture, and cheerfully pointless questions.
A boyfriend sleeps with his eyes open; suddenly you have opinions for Ben and Kelly.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Lily's question about places shared with an ex leads to a teasing debate, bookended by animal-fart jokes.
Kelly and her co-host take up Lily's question: would you revisit a place your partner once went with an ex? A favorite restaurant gives them a concrete case to argue over, and Kelly draws on her own experience. Her co-host keeps bringing the discussion back to Lily.
A troubling dating story, open-eyed sleep and an unresolved water debate keep the hosts talking.
A Reddit dating story gives the hosts a jolt: someone says a partner slipped shrimp into their food to test a seafood allergy, leading to an EpiPen and an ER visit. The hosts are alarmed, and their response is plain: an allergy is no experiment.
Ben and Kelly discuss a bride-to-be's conflicting advice amid World Cup talk and morning-show games.
A bride-to-be has two people she trusts telling her different things. Her therapist thinks she should leave her fiance; her pastor urges her to forgive herself and marry him. Ben and Kelly take up the question without treating either answer as simple.
Ryan turns contest texts into an emo song before Ben and Kelly spar over a workplace pregnancy announcement.
Ben and Kelly start with a question about Kelly's undefeated Can't Beat Kelly record, then get into the odd things people say in messages. A trend of turning teenagers' texts into emo songs leads to Ryan making one from real messages sent to their contest.
Ben and Kelly talk Snapchat and marriage, Bieber at Coachella, and the weather for Thunder Over Louisville.
Ben and Kelly talk through a husband's return to Snapchat, where his ex is also on the app. He asks his wife to trust him; she says going back on Snapchat would end their marriage.
Tiny discomforts, argued until they crack.
Ben and Kelly discuss Ben's epic journey of consuming 35-40 bananas after a grocery order mistake, mixed with humor about fart songs, Disney plots, and dad jokes.
Ben and Kelly discuss whether chemistry can grow, share anecdotes about missed connections and a Disney game, and explore the concept of 'dude knowledge'.
Ben and Kelly discuss different regional styles of saying goodbye, including the southern, midwest, and Irish goodbye.
Ben Davis and Kelly Kaye open 99.7 DJX's show with a Stupid Fact of the Day about which animals fart, then play Little Kid or Drunk Adult with caller Cynthia from Georgetown, whose stories include a childhood flower-girl mishap and a Fourth of July firework injury.
Ben Davis and Kelly Kaye kick off 99.7 DJX's show with crowdsourced Reddit stories about dating idiots, including a boyfriend who tested his girlfriend's shellfish allergy by hiding shrimp in her food and sent her to the ER.
Ben Davis and Kelly Kaye open 99.7 DJX's morning show with USA's World Cup run and a story about Phoenix school resource officer Sean Reevey, who spent $100 renting a movie theater for 144 low-income middle schoolers whose field trip funding fell through.
Ben and Kelly play a game where they tell jokes and the first to laugh loses.
A humorous discussion about a driver caught going 123 mph in a residential area because she thought her boyfriend's Supra could go that fast.
A listener seeks advice on whether to hide her pregnancy from her new law firm job or disclose it, balancing career concerns with ethical considerations.
A fire department sergeant in Japan was suspended for forcing coworkers to play his homemade board games during work hours.
Ben and Kelly open with Ryan turning their text-line excuse messages, including "I was pooping" and "I was in court," into an AI emo song.
A radio game show segment where a contestant named Naya tries to beat Kelly in a pop culture trivia quiz.
Ben and Kelly start with Justin Bieber’s Coachella set, where he scrolled old YouTube clips, played “Baby,” and brought Kid LAROI on stage.
Ben and Kelly discuss Ben's epic journey of eating 35-40 bananas after his wife accidentally bought five bunches, mixed with fart songs, Disney plots, and dad jokes.
Ben and Kelly discuss a needy friend in relationships and celebrate Kenny winning $1,000.