Steve and Neil Webb
46 episodes listed below
Forgotten history, loudly misbehaving.
Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History is a brisk comic history show built around lesser-known lives, unlikely escapes, strange legacies, and dramatic last stands. Its rhythm comes from factual narration repeatedly knocked sideways by dry banter, quick corrections, and knowingly ridiculous detours.
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Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History treats the overlooked corners of the past as material for a comic double act with a research habit. The show is not solemn. It opens with big, movie-trailer stakes, then lets Steve and Neil barge through the story with jokes, clarifications, impressions, and the occasional tangent that nearly derails the train before finding the track again. The subjects are broad and pleasingly odd. Michel and Nadine Vaujour bring romance, prison walls, and helicopter blades. Yi Sun-sin brings torture, political betrayal, turtle ships, and impossible naval odds. Stagecoach Mary brings Montana grit, mail routes, taverns, gunfire, generosity, and a reputation bigger than the frontier around her. Sam Panopoulos brings Hawaiian pizza and the kind of food argument that never really ends. Jesus Garcia Corona, Benjamin Briggs, and Gamaliel Ratsey point the show toward disaster, mystery, sacrifice, and outlaw folklore. Short version: the archive is full of characters. The show likes the loud ones. Its best episodes work because the facts are colorful before the jokes arrive, so the banter becomes seasoning rather than the whole meal. The delivery is quick and conversational, with plain-language explanations sitting beside knowingly silly asides. It does not pretend to be an academic lecture. It also does not abandon the story for empty riffing. The appeal is in the friction between researched narration and sibling-style interruption. Listeners get a sense of what happened, why the figure matters, and how ridiculous history can sound when nobody is polishing it into respectability. The tone can be blunt, crude, and irreverent, particularly around violence, crime, national stereotypes, and old-fashioned insults discussed in context. That roughness is part of the texture, not a claim to elegance. The show suits anyone who likes true stories with stakes, jokes with a dry edge, and historical heroes or rogues who were never likely to behave in a textbook-approved manner.
Made for: For listeners who like real historical stories but prefer banter, speed, and comic interruption to formal lecture-room delivery. It especially suits fans of obscure figures, absurd true incidents, and history told with rough edges intact.
What sets it apart: Its hook is the collision between researched underdog history and a messy two-voice comic rhythm. The stories stay factual, but the presentation feels more like siblings trying to out-riff each other over a dramatic case file.
Join two brothers for some casual chat as they unearth the untold stories of history’s most obscure figures. It’s the hidden history your teachers forgot to mention, all served up with a healthy side of sibling rivalry and a big dollop of banter and laughs.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Comic interruptions meet clear historical storytelling, with obscure lives and improbable events made easy to follow.
Steve and Neil build narrative history around people whose lives can carry a strong story, then let jokes and questions interrupt the telling.
Hawaiian pizza meets a Korean naval genius, and you get history with its tie already loosened.
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Yi Sun-Sin's comeback runs through disaster, court pressure, and the Roaring Strait.
Yi Sun-Sin returns under heavy pressure after the Japanese strike sinks 157 of his 169 ships and wipes out every turtle ship, and the court pulls him back as Supreme Commander.
A comic history of pineapple on pizza that stays anchored in taste changes.
This episode turns Hawaiian pizza history into a brisk comic run through Sam Panopoulos, early-1960s taste, and the appeal of sweet and sour flavours.
Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey narrate overlooked history, from Courbet's realism to IUD regulation.
History, remembered by witnesses.
Pop culture with the historical wiring exposed.
World news with a historian’s fuse.
Yi Sun-Sin comes back under pressure.
Two brothers host a comedy podcast where they chat about obscure historical figures with humor and sibling rivalry.
Stephen opens with a big welcome and a sponsor read for Potter's Confectioners of Great Yarmouth.
This episode tells the story of Jesus Garcia Corona, a train driver who sacrificed his life to save a Mexican town from a dynamite explosion.
A podcast episode exploring the mysterious story of the Benjamin Briggs and the ghost ship Mary Celeste.
Two brothers introduce their podcast about obscure historical figures with humorous banter.