Guess who’s the Times of London podcast of the week?
Hint: it starts with “Kasper” and ends with “Hauser Comedy Podcast,” and is the Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast.
Kasper Hauser was the mysterious 19th-century foundling about whom Werner Herzog made a film in 1974. It is also the name of an enigmatic blog by a quartet of San Francisco comedians. Wonderfully realised, the podcast’s wistful and surreal laughs are conveyed in parodies of the cult radio show This American Life with Phantom High School, in which people talk about a fake school where diplomas “crumbled into dust” and the building was made of “spider web crystals”. Very silly and great fun.