From corporate buzzwords to aggressive current affairs, these are the fictional podcast hosts of your absolute nightmares.
1. Malcolm Tucker – The Thick of It
A brutally aggressive current-affairs podcast where every guest is called an idiot in the most creatively offensive way before the first ad break.
2. Marnie Michaels – Girls
A painfully earnest lifestyle podcast about becoming “the best version of yourself” that somehow makes every listener feel worse.
3. Ron Swanson – Parks and Recreation
A three-hour podcast about why podcasts are destroying society, recorded entirely from a wooden chair in his office.
4. Lucille Bluth – Arrested Development
A luxury-lifestyle podcast in which she reviews restaurants, people and her own family with absolutely no sense of restraint.
5. BoJack Horseman – BoJack Horseman
Every episode begins as an interview and ends with BoJack talking uninterrupted about why his childhood explains everything.
6. Jean Milburn – Sex Education
A relationship podcast where every minor listener problem becomes a 45-minute discussion about attachment styles.
7. Dennis Reynolds – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
A self-improvement podcast for men that slowly devolves into an unhinged, multi-part audio manifesto on how to mentally manipulate women and assert dominance in casual conversation.
8. Kendall Roy – Succession
A tech-and-culture podcast with an aggressively expensive sound system, three co-hosts and absolutely no discernible point.
9. Sue Sylvester – Glee
A motivational podcast consisting almost entirely of insults, unsolicited advice and elaborate plans for destroying her perceived enemies.
10. David Brent – The Office
A business podcast called something like “Brentelligence”, where every episode is 70% humblebragging and 30% terrible impressions.
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