Dean’s Killer Joke

With only a few hours to spare of 2025, our little homegrown show reached 10,000 downloads thanks to all of you. Here’s to 10,000 more!
#podcast

Dean’s Killer Joke turns one! Thanks to everyone who’s listened, laughed, and questioned their own morality along the way. Top 50 on Apple’s Comedy Fiction Charts wouldn’t have happened without you.

And Dean? Well, he wouldn’t have made it home after they heard what he had to say

Which DKJ characters would do the Riyadh Comedy Festival?
Anne-Marie: No
Carla: Yes
Rodney: Absolutely not, how dare you?
Kenny: Too nervous.
Austin: Only if you said he couldn’t.
Jack: Do they have coke?
Frank: Don’t worry about it.

We know this trend is probably about thirst, but if you listened to our show, you know this particular instance is about good (or, well, bad) ol' mental health

You heard it here first people (unless you actually saw it on Reddit when it was posted). Dean’s Killer Joke - we sound like home.
#audiodrama #podcast

My podcast about a murdered, canceled comedian just hit a perfect score on Podnews. Honestly, given the state of entertainment, I hope my fictional story doesn’t get any closer to reality.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks to you, Dean’s Killer Joke is rocking a perfect score on Podnews. Listen before the next comic gets #canceled… or worse

Exactly this

We made Dean’s Killer Joke as a satire of comedy, podcasts, and cancel culture (with some fun murder mystery hijinks). Adding a government conspiracy against free speech sounded too dramatic and unrealistic but little did we know…

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Now Kimmel? This is getting worse and worse

If you’re looking to hear another canceled white man trying to make his cancelation into podcast content, we got you

Dean deserved a People article after his thing, but all he got was this podcast

Kam Patterson’s catching cancellation heat before his first SNL sketch—before what could be his big break. Sounds like the start of a podcast. Like Dean’s Killer Joke 👀

All these Marc Maron clips going around… wild how fast comedy friendships can turn into vendettas.

I actually wrote a whole audio drama about that spiral — except mine ends in a murder. Check out @deanskillerjoke.bsky.social to see how it all unfolds

We’re in the top 5 on Apples Comedy Fiction charts in New Zealand making them one of our top 5 favorite countries! Thanks mate!

Dean’s Killer Joke is a dark comedy audio drama about the death of a canceled comedian — and the woman who might’ve helped kill him. All episodes are available now on your favorite podcast app.
#standupcomedy #canceled #podcasts

Nothing makes someone cooler than playing hard to get. From Dean’s Killer Joke episode 1. Available now, wherever you get your podcasts

#podcasts #audiodrama #standupcomedian

Check out this interview with DKJ creator Brandon Rizzuto all about how he wrote our show and why it sucks when your favorite comedian gets canceled

Colbert has been a part of our comedy DNA since we were teenagers. Excited to see what he’ll do next. However, while we’re sometimes undecided when comedians get canceled for saying the wrong things, getting canceled for exposing those in charge? That may be even worse.

Thank you to The End for featuring us this week!

Dean's Killer Joke Comedy Fiction Podcast · Weekly Series · After a night of drinking, canceled comedian Dean Blackshaw is found dead in a comedy club green room. Now his friend and fellow comic, Anne-Marie, has to put ...

Check out Dean's Killer Joke! An audio drama that has topped Apple’s Comedy Fiction charts around the world! The show follows comedian Anne-Marie Buchanan as she investigates the murder of canceled comedian Dean Blackshaw and wonders: Was it all her fault?
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Episode 1: Set Up Dean's Killer Joke · Episode

Really appreciate the trailer love from @podnews.net and their New Podcast feed today 🙏
If you're new here, Dean’s Killer Joke is a 7-part murder mystery set in the comedy podcast world.
Start here: open.spotify.com/episode/1dCw...

Welp, the ai overlords have found us

Dean Blackshaw: canceled in the States.
Charting in the UK.
That tracks.

New here from Overcast?
Welcome to the green room. Dean’s dead. The jokes are worse than ever.
What episode are you on?

Our writer did one interview and suddenly thinks he’s Marc Maron.

This was supposed to be his espresso

If your favorite comedian got canceled, tried to make a comeback, and ended up dead in the greenroom…

Would you still listen to their podcast?