Serial comedy across several strange little universes.
It's All Been Done Radio Hour stages a busy fictional universe through narrated scenes, ensemble banter, Foley, theme songs, and recurring serials. Recent episodes range from Universe Journey space trouble to Daniel Kravitz magic quests, mock true crime in Worthington, Ohio, and warped storybook shorts.
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It's All Been Done Radio Hour is scripted comedy fiction with the metabolism of a repertory show. Recent episodes show a rotating set of worlds rather than one fixed premise. Universe Journey handles starships, alien planets, diplomatic visits, crew friction, android complications, and the strange intimacy of people stuck together far from home. The jokes move fast. A mission can become a death-stakes alien game, then reveal itself through the absurd familiarity of bocce. Another Universe Journey entry turns a bachelorette-party blackout into a clue trail through apartments, ships, clubs, and bruised friendships. The sci-fi material is broad, but it is not only gadget humor. Characters worry about loneliness, marriage, belonging, damaged reputations, and the friends who still show up. Daniel Kravitz, Chosen One gives the feed a fantasy serial with portals, monsters, demon magic, family conflict, and the ache of unfinished business. It can be earnest for a beat. Then someone notices the theatricality of a magician's dressing room or the awkwardness of a heroic speech, and the scene snaps back into comedy. Itsahlbend Theatre works as a fairy-tale and folklore parody lane. Goldilocks becomes less a storybook innocent than a rude intruder, while The Legend of the White Snake turns fear of a snake woman into a strangely practical town problem. True Crimes of Worthington, Ohio adds another texture, parodying investigative narration around mysterious lights, police questioning, and suburban suspicion. The show's craft is audible in the machinery around the scenes: narration, Foley, music direction, theme songs, and long ensemble credits recur in the excerpts. That matters because the comedy depends on pace and handoffs. Characters interrupt, deflect, confess, misunderstand, and over-explain until a genre setup has become a group problem. The result is cleaner than shock comedy but still a little unruly. It likes peril, romance, monsters, bureaucracy, and bad decisions. It also likes names that sound like bits before the plot has even started. PlayNext listeners looking for polished documentary realism will not find that here. It suits a listener who wants comic audio fiction with serial lore, theatrical scene work, and enough genre variety to keep the next episode from feeling predetermined. Its clearest difference from a single-premise fiction podcast is its range inside one feed: space serial, fantasy quest, mock true crime, and twisted storybook theatre all operate as recurring lanes under the same comic roof.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes scripted ensemble comedy, genre spoofing, and recurring fictional worlds with quick banter and occasional sincere stakes.
What sets it apart: The show is not locked to one fiction lane; recent episodes move among space travel, chosen-one fantasy, suburban true-crime parody, and fairy-tale revision while keeping a theatrical ensemble rhythm.
It's All Been Done Radio Hour is a live comedy show in the style of old radio serials. Once a month, new episodes of several of our rotating roster of programs are performed in front of an audience near Columbus, Ohio. Then the content is released weekly as a podcast (along with extras, such as cast interviews and fake commercials). Content is PG-13-ish.
An android mimics drunkenness to bond with the crew; you get the morning-after mystery.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fake romantic getaway becomes deadly bocce, pairing ensemble comedy with a quieter search for family.
On Nagira 5, a mission built around blending in quickly becomes a scramble through alien etiquette. Yana and Norton pose as a romantic couple, make uneasy small talk with Niles and Fina, and stumble into pile-a-ballet after learning that defeat can be fatal.
A sense of approaching finality gives the episode's magic and family conflict a sharper edge.
Daniel Kravitz returns to Kalispell with the weight of an ending he seems to have already accepted. After Brightside, England, and the Canadian base, Montana has the feel of a farewell stop, even with the meeting still ahead and Grezzet still missing.
A bachelorette-party blackout leaves a hungover crew piecing together clues that point toward a club on Felonia 2.
Universe Journey: Hung Over starts in Dr. Focolatti's apartment aboard the ASS-32 Fast 2 Furious, with Dr. Focolatti, Norton, New, Michelle, Robbie, and Captain Luna waking up sore, confused, and short on memories.
Daniel Kravitz's fantasy search becomes a theatrical reckoning with belonging, betrayal, and the justice characters think they owe.
Daniel Kravitz's fantasy search sharpens into a story about belonging and the limits of loyalty. As Daniel and Stephanie Garcia move toward an act of magic, Kranig's insistence that Stephanie still does not belong gives the episode its clearest social charge.
A fictional travel show episode where the host Tim arrives on the Orion Express and encounters a murder, interrupted by a Wayfair ad.
In the final season of Daniel Kravitz' Chosen One, Daniel communes with Kali three and a half years after the deaths of Abby and Alexis, discussing Grezzet's powers and the origins of magic.
An episode of Daniel Kravitz exploring themes of monsters and isolation as metaphors for how we treat refugees and immigrants, with a charity spotlight on Community Refugee and Immigration Services.
A comedic, modernized retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a short theatre piece.
On an alien planet, a mission goes awry when a crew member runs off, leaving the ambassador and two others to blend in as a romantic couple.
A true crime podcast host investigates mysterious lights in the sky over Worthington, Ohio, by playing an exclusive audio tape of a police interview with a suspect.
Daniel Kravitz reflects on his journey and impending final battle while being ambushed by Rosalyn and Regina.
A group of characters wake up hungover in an android's apartment after a bachelorette party, with the android revealing she mimicked alcohol effects to bond with them.
It's All Been Done Radio Hour presents "Daniel Kravitz, Chosen One: Searching" alongside a PodcastThon appeal for Community Refugee and Immigration Services, or CRIS Ohio, at chrisohio.org.
A planet's governor reveals that the supposedly forgotten Colm Foley is its revered historical hero.
Mystery Dream Team returns weeks after a skinwalker encounter, with Jackie and Gordon reinforcing the office with protective salt lines.
A would-be recruit asks to join the ASS after meeting its mixed-species crew, but Captain Michelle Takaladi has no vetting system.
Gordon's pouch of sacred herbs appears to shield him from Skinwalkers in “Fight and Die,” until one attacker knocks it away.
The hosts and actors reflect on the fun and challenges of creating the Space Dirt segment, including gender-blind casting and character evolution.
In this episode of Space Dirt, con man Harry Dirt, now a woman stranded in the Echo Dimension, is forced to impersonate the President of Earth and faces a crisis with her mother.