Odd headlines, blunt laughs, moving fast.
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher turns strange news items into a loose, skeptical comic scroll. The show moves from stolen candy bars and moon chickpeas to streaming rulings, school bus violations, celebrity lawsuits, and dad jokes without pretending the world makes much sense.
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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher is a comedy-news show built around the odd corners of the daily information stream. It moves fast. The format is mostly monologue, with headlines read, doubted, mocked, corrected, and shoved into the next tangent before they get too tidy. A story about Carmen Jimenez, accused of pretending to be blind for years, becomes a riff on social avoidance, disability checks, and another case from Italy. A Japan convenience-store statistic turns into a Slurpee fantasy, then gives way to school bus safety numbers. That is the rhythm: strange item, comic recoil, quick judgment, then another strange item. The show’s appetite is broad but not polished. It covers food logistics, consumer law, weird science, celebrity lawsuits, export restrictions, road behavior, public health notices, streaming prices, time changes, and whatever else looks suspicious enough to say out loud. Some stories are silly from the start, like stolen Kit Kats or chickpeas surviving longer in simulated lunar soil. Others bring sharper edges, including sexual assault allegations, drug seizures hidden in fruit shipments, rare illness claims, and deaths noted in recurring features. The show does not linger in solemnity for long. It tends to turn confusion into the engine: pronunciation tangles, imagined objections, side comments, old anecdotes, and joke-of-the-day detours are part of the texture. Promotional breaks and network references appear, but they are not the center of gravity. The center is the running commentary: amused, exasperated, blunt, and more interested in how ridiculous a headline sounds than in smoothing it into conventional analysis. For listeners who like news comedy that feels unscripted and slightly frayed at the edges, it has a strong daily-hangout quality. It is less a neat rundown than a comic rummage through whatever the world has decided to make weird today.
Made for: Best for listeners who like satirical news commentary, loose monologues, and strange real-world stories with a skeptical comic edge. It fits people who want topical chatter without a formal panel or polished explainer tone.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its live-wire reaction style: headlines are not just summarized, they are heckled, second-guessed, and dragged through personal tangents. It makes everyday news feel like an argument with the absurdity of the day.
Jeff Fisher (aka "Jeffy") from The Glenn Beck Program, Pat & Stu and Pat Gray Unleashed. In each episode of Chewing the Fat, Jeffy covers the daily fat pile, water cooler chit chat, road raging and a new segment called living the American Dream. Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyJFR Follow Jeffy on Facebook: Jeff Fisher Radio
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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