Loose headlines, sharp riffs, Sunday rhythm.
Sunday Papers is a weekly comedy commentary show built around Greg and Mike reading the news, arguing with it, and wandering into side stories. The appeal is the crinkle-paper looseness: quick jokes, blunt takes, and a format that treats the tangent as part of the headline.
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Sunday Papers is a weekly comedy show that treats the news like something dragged in from the porch, shaken out, and immediately argued over. Greg and Mike are the named center of the format, moving through headlines with the rhythm of people who know when to interrupt and when to let a ridiculous premise run. It is not a clean panel show. It is a loose Sunday routine with jokes about the routine itself, including audio problems, paper crinkles, travel haze, and the indignity of being corrected by listeners about microphone placement. That roughness is part of the product. The episodes sampled move quickly from sponsor breaks into politics, culture, family stories, sports, and whatever strange detail catches the eye. Trump and Melania show up in jokes about robots and White House staging. Bondi, Epstein-related documents, victims, public questioning, and accountability turn the room more serious, then the show snaps back into ridicule. Nancy Pelosi’s stock gains become a doorway into investing and public cynicism. Neanderthal genetics turns into a run of prehistoric dating jokes. Florida becomes a whole social theory made of golf shirts, lawyers, airport exhaustion, and sitting on a parent’s couch. Ancient Rome gets pulled into the Ides of March and modern ignorance. AI appears as both news subject and comic hazard. The show’s best moments come from escalation: a normal observation gets stretched until it becomes a complaint about the country, a person, or human behavior generally. It can be blunt. It can be messy. It often works because the mess has timing. Sunday Papers is for listeners who like news comedy with a barstool pace and a paper-route premise, not for anyone needing a careful rundown of every major story. Its edge comes from the contrast between casual delivery and ugly subject matter, especially when scandals, abuse, corruption, or public cruelty enter the conversation. The hosts do not pretend the news is orderly. They make the disorder funny, then occasionally stop long enough to show why it is also infuriating.
Made for: Best for comedy listeners who want weekly news commentary with fast banter, adult edges, and frequent detours into family, sports, politics, and pop culture. It suits people who prefer comic chemistry over a polished explainer format.
What sets it apart: The show’s signature is its deliberately lo-fi newspaper ritual: Greg and Mike do not just cover stories, they let the act of reading them become part of the comedy. Its tangents are not filler; they are often where the clearest take arrives.
Greg Fitzsimmons and Mike Gibbons bring you a funny weekly summation of news straight from the Sunday Papers. Produced by Gotham Production Studios Part of The Gotham Network
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Greg Fitzsimmons and Mike Gibbons turn headlines into sharp, escalating banter while keeping the absurdity of public life firmly in view.
Sunday Papers turns the news into a running argument between Greg Fitzsimmons and Mike Gibbons, with each headline serving as a launchpad for jokes, objections, and personal detours.
A paper crinkles, and you get Greg and Mike taking the least solemn route through the headlines.
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A quiet Wyoming licensing change meets loose current-affairs comedy, from the opening crinkle hunt to a filthy Dagwood detour.
This Sunday Papers segment turns on a Wyoming policy change with a grimly casual feel: transgender residents can no longer update the gender marker on their driver's licenses after a quiet behind-the-scenes shift.
A loose court riff gives way to sharper Melania robot jokes in a crude, absurd current-events segment.
A court-case riff becomes a test of how far one room can stretch a shaky premise. The discussion piles on legal wordplay, prison-shower imagery, and the urge to see a limbless athlete play cornhole, then lets the room acknowledge that the bit has been pushed past its natural…
A Wyoming check-in, a Neanderthal news story, and Greg and Mike landing on the same Philly joke.
Greg and Mike start with a hazy connection from Wyoming and a rush to the airport. Then a Sunday news story takes over: genetic evidence suggesting that interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans mostly involved Neanderthal males and human females.
An echoey family-tech riff gives way to a sharper argument about political accountability.
Greg's echoing microphone becomes the episode's first joke, turning a week in Florida with his dad into a loose comic argument about technology.
A southern ice storm, Philadelphia bravado, and world news feed a loose, raised-eyebrow riff.
Sunday Papers turns a southern ice storm into a running joke about maps, then lets the news keep spreading outward: the World Economic Forum, Greenland, a possible immigration crackdown in Philadelphia, and the odd overlap between political geography and a Civil War map.
Chaos, jokes, politics, and stubborn hope.
Football arguments with the edges left on.
News, jokes, panic, repeat.
Greg and Mike reminisce about their college experiences and the strange dynamics of dorm life.
Greg and Mike discuss their involvement in the Emmys and mention various writers, while promoting the Labrokes betting app.
Greg and Mike kick off 2026 with a short episode discussing Mike's role as head writer for the Golden Globes and Nikki Glazer's New Year's Eve comedy sets.
This episode of Sunday Papers with Greg and Mike features sponsor ads for Betfair Casino, EDF energy, and McVitie's biscuits before the hosts discuss being careful about what they say.
Greg and Mike discuss their experience at a Led Zeppelin celebration event and a movie they saw.
On Sunday Papers, Greg Fitzsimmons and Mike Gibbons mix personal stories with jokes about Dolly Parton, Ed Sheeran, and current news.
This episode features advertisements for Scottish tourism and a risk management platform, with no substantive content beyond the ads.
Greg and Mike open with Palm Sunday, Easter, and Mike’s plan for a 60th birthday party on Easter Sunday with three cooks, a bartender, blackjack, a massage chair, a disco ball, and a 60s theme.
Greg and Mike banter about mic technique and St.
Greg and Mike discuss the Ides of March and modern parallels to ancient Rome.
Greg and Mike discuss Greg's trip to Florida, including visiting a lawyer for his mother's will and the local culture of golf attire.
Greg opens from Wyoming with stories about Jackson Hole, Corbett's couloir, and a long ski weekend with Pete, Dudley, and Jack Stout.
Greg spends much of the episode on the Olympics, using Alissa Liu, Eileen Gu, and a Japanese silver medalist to argue that medals, pressure, and “balance in her life” change how athletic success feels.
Greg and Mike open with Valentine’s Day, poker, and a long detour into backgammon, then move into a media-and-politics rundown anchored by Pam Bondi’s Epstein hearing.
Greg and Mike open with a report of a "life threatening winter storm" hitting Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New England, then keep circling back to ice and power outages.