My Brother, My Brother and Me
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| Hosted by | Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy |
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| Genre | Comedy, advice |
| Language | English |
| Updates | Once per week |
| Length | About an hour |
| No. of episodes | 360 |
| Original release | April 12, 2010 – present |
| Provider | Maximum Fun |
| Website | My Brother, My Brother and Me |
My Brother, My Brother and Me (often abbreviated as MBMBaM, pronounced /məˈbɪmˌbæm/) is a weekly comedy advice podcast distributed by the Maximum Fun network and hosted by brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy. Regular episodes of the podcast feature the brothers humorously providing answers to questions either submitted by listeners or found on the Yahoo! Answers service.
The show was independently produced and released by the McElroy brothers from April 2010 until it joined the Maximum Fun network of podcasts in January 2011. In 2010, the show was consistently listed among the top 10 comedy podcasts on iTunes. Writing for The A.V. Club, critics David Anthony and Colin Griffith both counted MBMBaM as one of their top 10 podcasts of 2012. A TV series based on the podcast premiered on Seeso in February 2017.
Each week the McElroy brothers alternate between answering questions that have been directly submitted by listeners and questions that listeners have found on Yahoo! Answers. The second type of question is usually referred to by the brothers as a "Yahoo." The questions will usually prompt the hosts into long humorous discussions.
Advertisements from corporate sponsors and paid messages from listeners are read by the hosts on air during a segment called "The Money Zone."
Episodes of the show are occasionally performed and recorded in front of live audiences at venues in cities such as Los Angeles, New York City and Huntington. A special episode called "The Adventure Zone" was released on August 18, 2014, shortly after Justin and his wife had a baby. It featured the brothers playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons with their father, Clint.The Adventure Zone was later spun off into its own podcast on the Maximum Fun network.
"(It's a) Departure" by John Roderick & The Long Winters (from the album Putting the Days to Bed) has served as the primary theme song for My Brother, My Brother and Me since the show joined the Maximum Fun network on January 17, 2011. Prior to this, the show's theme song was "Take a Chance on Me" by ABBA, while "Root to This" by Fear of Pop and later "Play Your Part (Pt. 2)" by Girl Talk was used as a closing theme.
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