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DeFile Your Taxes

Kai Ryssdal hosts our latest listener challenge: making something with the 1040 tax form.

DeFile Your Taxes

The Winning Valentine GIF

The Winning Valentine GIF

Teach Me How to GIFy

Teach Me How to GIFy

My GIFy Valentine

My GIFy Valentine

Creative New Years Resolutions: Celebrating Success

Creative New Years Resolutions: Celebrating Success

Yo La Tengo Takes It Higher

Yo La Tengo asked for your requests — and you delivered. Now they’re back to play their pick, Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue.”

Yo La Tengo Takes It Higher

What's Your Creative New Years Resolution for 2016?

What creative project do you want to start — and finish — in the New Year?

What's Your Creative New Years Resolution for 2016?

Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts

We asked you to distill the holidays into a 30-second short film, and we've received some wonderful entries. 

Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts

Jenny Slate Presents: It’s a Wonderful Short

All Jenny Slate wants for Hanukkah is for you to make a 30-second holiday film about old people, animals, and/or feasts.

Jenny Slate Presents: It’s a Wonderful Short

Extra Credit: Learning from the Popsicle Stick Master

David Hrobowski is building every piece of furniture in his house out of popsicle sticks. You don’t have to be that obsessed to enter our extra credit challenge — but it couldn’t hurt. 

Extra Credit: Learning from the Popsicle Stick Master

Extra Credit: How to Make America Out of Popsicle Sticks

A crafty couple from Columbus, Ohio rose to our popsicle stick challenge by making a map of the USA and delivering it to Nick Offerman in person.

Extra Credit: How to Make America Out of Popsicle Sticks

B.J. Novak Picks the Funniest High School Comedy Writer

We asked high school students to send in their funniest writing. B.J. Novak picks a winner to our challenge. 

B.J. Novak Picks the Funniest High School Comedy Writer

New Year's Resolution: First Day of Filming (Finally!)

An update from Joseph Riedel, who has recovered from his cancer treatments and is now filming the first episode of his comedy web series, "A Good Sense of Tumor."

New Year's Resolution: First Day of Filming (Finally!)

Kurt's Five Lessons of Comedy

Before he was our host, Kurt Andersen co-founded the pioneering humor magazine Spy. Here are his suggestions for finding the funny.

Kurt's Five Lessons of Comedy

Funny Ha Ha: B.J. Novak Wants Your Humor Writing

We’re kicking off our latest listener challenge for high school students with comedian, actor, and author B.J. Novak — and he has advice for aspiring humorists.

Funny Ha Ha: B.J. Novak Wants Your Humor Writing