Mega

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An improvised satire from the staff of a fictional mega church.Mega is a critically acclaimed podcast that hilariously satirizes contemporary megachurches and their associated evangelical subculture. Hosted by Holly Laurent and Greg Hess, this show offers a unique take on American religious culture through a range of comedic characters and segments. It was named "Best Satire" by Vulture.One of the most exciting aspects of Mega is its guest interviews, which feature a variety of comedians, actors, and thinkers such as Louie Anderson, Lauren Lapkus, Duncan Trussell, Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer, Lisa Gilroy, Scott Aukerman, Tom Papa, Jen Hatmaker, Adal Rifai, and more. These guests bring their own comedic styles and perspectives to the show, creating memorable moments that keep fans coming back for more.In addition to its guest interviews, Mega is also known for its signature episodes featuring Holly Laurent playing Day Labont, a skeptical teenager who brings on guests like his atheist thinker friend Hemant Mehta. The show's humor and tone have been compared to the mockumentary style of Christopher Guest's films and the dry humor of The Office or Parks and Rec, making it a must-listen for fans of these genres.Whether you're a believer or a skeptic, Mega is a podcast that offers something for everyone. Its witty improvisation, spot-on parodies, and sharp commentary satirizing contemporary religion and politics make it one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking shows available today. Join the Mega congregation and tune in for hilarious insights on the world of megachurches and evangelical Christianity.

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Recent Episodes
  • An Absolute Affront with Andy Daly
    Apr 14, 2024 – 39:28
  • Bonus Episode! Over the Shoulder Boulder Holder
    Apr 10, 2024 – 14:08
  • Role Play with Jen Hatmaker & Tyler Merritt
    Apr 7, 2024 – 28:09
  • Soft Core Corn with Meaghan Strickland
    Mar 31, 2024 – 38:08
  • An Onion for A Bunion with Ryan Rosenberg
    Mar 24, 2024 – 31:21
  • Aspirational Feminism with Lily Sullivan
    Mar 17, 2024 – 41:17
  • Bonus Episode! Tiffer n' Mickey, Mickey n' Tiff
    Mar 13, 2024 – 16:28
  • Daddy Joined the Ice Capades with Vanessa Ragland
    Mar 10, 2024 – 39:59
  • Cheap Blue Stuff with Adam Cayton-Holland
    Mar 3, 2024 – 35:21
  • Bonus Episode! Day Break with Day LaBont
    Feb 28, 2024 – 20:08
  • Panamaniac with Eric Edelstein
    Feb 25, 2024 – 33:50
  • Locked Out Again with Erin Keif
    Feb 18, 2024 – 32:19
  • Raw Theology with Joey Bland
    Feb 11, 2024 – 41:31
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "Twinning"
    Feb 7, 2024 – 18:31
  • Begat! Begat! with Jiavani Linayao
    Feb 4, 2024 – 37:14
  • Al Roker the Perfect Man with Katie Marovitch
    Jan 28, 2024 – 35:50
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "What To Expect When You're Not Expecting To Expect"
    Jan 24, 2024 – 14:47
  • The Opiate of the People with James Mastraieni
    Jan 21, 2024 – 29:51
  • Lilith Flair with Charlie McCrackin
    Jan 14, 2024 – 35:12
  • Doing Life Together! "Year In, You're Out"
    Jan 7, 2024 – 39:11
  • [REBROADCAST] His Style God Supreme with Edgar Blackmon & Ross Bryant
    Dec 31, 2023 – 47:14
  • [REBROADCAST] Second Coming with Jason Mantzoukas
    Dec 24, 2023 – 32:56
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "Charles Dickens' A Christian Carol"
    Dec 20, 2023 – 31:51
  • Devil in Disguise with Gil Ozeri
    Dec 17, 2023 – 35:15
  • Lavished & Ravished with Alyssa Sabo
    Dec 10, 2023 – 41:33
  • A Murder of Morons Anatasha Blakely
    Dec 3, 2023 – 33:49
  • [REBROADCAST] Kundalini Pasta with Odinaka Ezeokoli
    Nov 26, 2023 – 35:20
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "Three Pieces of Corn"
    Nov 22, 2023 – 13:18
  • Told Ya Becca! with Will Hines
    Nov 19, 2023 – 27:48
  • The Axe Wagon with Lauren Ash
    Nov 12, 2023 – 36:10
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "Speaker of The House, Keeper of the Sleaze"
    Nov 8, 2023 – 16:33
  • A Ghost in the Toilet with Jacob Sorling
    Nov 5, 2023 – 33:49
  • Lesbian L.L. Bean Wedding with Blaire Erskine
    Oct 29, 2023 – 30:16
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! “Pumpkin Flavored Face”
    Oct 25, 2023 – 13:22
  • A Oui Bear with Julia Hladkowicz
    Oct 22, 2023 – 39:21
  • Nip It In The Bot with Bill Cochran
    Oct 15, 2023 – 36:08
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! “I Can Has JeezBurger”
    Oct 11, 2023 – 16:06
  • The Male Gaze with Beth Stelling [REBROADCAST]
    Oct 8, 2023 – 29:40
  • A Lad of The Lord with Alana Johnston
    Oct 1, 2023 – 35:37
  • Bonus Day Episode! Day Breaks with Dr. Laura Anderson
    Sep 27, 2023 – 33:27
  • Eight Days A Week with Adam Felber
    Sep 24, 2023 – 37:23
  • Smells Like Teen Spirituality with Charlie James
    Sep 17, 2023 – 39:13
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "IN 2 HYMN Electric Violins"
    Sep 13, 2023 – 22:40
  • The Paul Bunyan of Fetuses with Paul F. Tompkins & Janie Haddad Tompkins
    Sep 10, 2023 – 47:47
  • Frat Rushes With Brushes with Nick Mestad
    Sep 3, 2023 – 37:46
  • Bonus Episode! Doing Life Together! "Insalata Mister"
    Aug 30, 2023 – 17:42
  • Little Dirty Bones with Ryan Nemeth
    Aug 27, 2023 – 34:28
  • Cirque du So Christ with Jackie Durruthy & Patrick Babbitt
    Aug 20, 2023 – 35:15
  • Bonus Episode! Red Letter Day with Jenny McGrath
    Aug 16, 2023 – 43:18
  • Doing Life Together! "Peter Pan Sexual"
    Aug 13, 2023 – 36:58
Recent Reviews
  • Maryellenla
    paid for premium, but getting ads after update
    MEGA is my favorite podcast, particularly at this time in the world where news is grim and we are more stressed out and on edge. Smart and hilarious. I love them so much that I paid for Premium ad-free for a year. Suddenly though--the ads are back. I recently updated the iphone and wondered if that's the reason. I don't know how to figure this out.
  • kindasortamaddy
    Thank you for making this show!!
    This podcast is so funny but it also has been a really helpful place for me to examine my own past growing up with the church. It’s been really eye opening in a way I did not expect and I’ll be honest, there’s moments that I realize OH that’s where that anxiety comes from! I recommend it to almost everyone I know in person and definitely recommend it to all internet strangers.
  • Amanda from LJ
    Hilarious
    Great concept, great humor great guests. can’t recommend highly enough
  • Schwanzy71
    This Podcast is a Treat and a Treasure
    Great Podcast! Brings a hometown feel with its Big City Professional Hosts. Listen to the one host navigate hemorrhoids, latently suppressed carnal desires, and indoctrinated willful cluelessness as she brings Greg to Climax. Good job. Clever and funny
  • LuvGazdic
    What is this?
    This is horrible
  • devil zilla
    Amen
    Any podcast containing the phrase “your booty hole is trying to grow labias to protect itself” gets 5 stars from me.
  • skulleash
    Great Podcast
    Cracks me up every Sunday!
  • IShootWithMyMind
    Obsessed.
    I only found this podcast a few months ago and I am less already up to September of last year’s episodes. I have absolutely loved everything about this show, and have never laughed out loud so frequently from a podcast. Holly and Greg are two of the most hilarious people I’ve ever listened to.
  • lightinaugust
    This is SUCH a good show
    The best satire rings true. This is brilliant, funny, and now and then shows compassion toward the same people they’re mocking. Pitch perfect.
  • JonMatteson
    They are doing the lord’s work
    I was lost and then I found this podcast. They are some of the funniest creators ever to grace my ears and the improv is impeccable!
  • Jennifer & Tommy
    Hysterically funny!!!!
    Wildly creative. The episode “A Christian Carol” has me wide-mouthed for 12 minutes already!! Love the humor.
  • JennyTaisho
    Outstanding satire
    Get ready to listen to some of the sharpest comedy minds around. The podcast is incisive, fun, and healing. The guests are incredible. It really deserves every star and more
  • Shexpeare
    ❤️❤️❤️❤️
    Holly and Greg are the funniest people alive.
  • Podcasts Son
    Amazing Satire
    MEGA has a ridiculous amount of talented guests and the hosts have the best chemistry of any podcast out there!
  • voxblue
    Climax!
    Helping people work through their religious trauma one podcast at a time. And very, very funny.
  • Sharonerik
    Laugh out loud funny!!!
    This is easily one of my top 3 podcasts!!! They are incredibly funny in their church satire— strikes SO many chords from my past-evangelical lifestyle. Freaking hilarious! Just give it a listen and you’ll be hooked too.
  • McMillzz
    VERY FUNNY with normal amount of ads.
    This show has as many ads as any other podcast! It’s also hilarious. Highly recommend their Patreon too. FIVE STARS.
  • Pantene Minus
    Gloriously Glorious!
    Forever grateful to the friend who recommended Mega! Somehow hilarious, goofy, and poignant all at the same time!
  • SFVincent
    Hooked on The Rise and Fall of Twin Hills
    Love the podcast. Confusing and hard to find in the long list of episodes - wish it there was another view with the episodes in folders by titles/seasons. For some reason Apple Podcasts only brings up the highlight episode on It’s A Wonderful Lie. Shoutout to them for getting me here though! Hilarious amazing content that while outrageous it doesn’t feel totally outside the realm of possibility.
  • BellaNise
    Too Many Ads
    If you like podcasts with more ads than content, this is the podcast for you.
  • Howlin Malmsteen
    The King
    Easily fave comedy podcast. Blessed satire and improv, and actually thought provoking.
  • JessReens
    Funny Satire
    I really enjoy this podcast. The “rise and fall of twin hills” episodes were pretty over the top for me, but the regular episodes are fun. I especially enjoyed the interview with Brian McLaren.
  • OhPleaseComeOnNow
    Fundamentalist Nonsense Laid Bare
    I didn’t grow up in a nonsensical church, but I have had nonsensical Christian beliefs shoved down my throat all my life. Mega hits the nail on the head and let’s me laugh at fundamentalist nonsense instead of getting angry.
  • DisSomeBS
    Always evolving!
    This podcast has been a favorite of mine for years as I am an Exvangelical who grew up in a home & church just like Holly’s, right across the state line in Illinois…It is now my favorite podcast, as in the last few months they have tried some new things such as interviewing “real” people like Brian McLaran and Bart Campolo while staying in character, Mockumentaries about Pastor Steve, as well as getting Day more involved in the show. These recent “change in format” podcasts have taken the show to a whole new level and I continue to look forward to listening biweekly. They have captured the essence of the evangelical church with all of its contradictions, hypocrisy, fear mongering, etc, while helping the secular world to see, in an hilarious style , that many of these folks (leaders and flock) are also victims of this control system. Best of all, this podcast has helped me to heal.
  • ChrisR1124
    Hilarious!
    Original, funny, clever, entertaining. I look forward to the new episodes every week!
  • Shazzzzzam
    Hilarious!!!!
    Love this stuff!
  • mkspear
    Truly Perfect
    I grew up as a pastor’s kid in Indiana and have previously worked at a mega church so this podcast is my niche. The comedy is gold and listening instantly puts me in a better mood. Thank you for this treasure!
  • PeteyPete123
    Comedic genius!
    I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. This is funny, witty and healing for those of us who have survived high demand religious experiences. This satire exposes the absurd black and white thinking and mental gymnastics that come from white evangelicalism.
  • J4m3sV
    Excellent!
    I just found this podcast. Freaking hilarious…especially as an ex Christian. I love it when improv podcast are actually funny.
  • wooooooooooooo69420
    Sneaky Jesus lol
    😄
  • Holiday Laurent
    The best
    Joined the Patreon and it has been the BEST.
  • Grandma Melby
    Refiner’s Fire, My Heart’s One Desire
    Some of these episodes are GOLD! And some are duds. Strikes and gutters, man! Regardless. The best episode is Episode 2, with that amazing gal from SNL. I never went to a megachurch but was raised Assemblies of God in the 80’s and 90’s, same age as Halley and Gray no doubt. Halley is my favorite, everything she says is precious and insightful!!! This show is probably most fun for ex-church folks but could work for anyone with a sense of humor. It’s all covered in the blood. KEEP ROCKIN 4 JESUS!
  • Senorborritoslover
    A must listen after leaving Christianity
    I found this podcast after Holly's interview on Andrew Gold’s podcast. I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and find this podcast resonates deeply. It makes me laugh while helping me deconstruct some of the toxic beliefs I was raised with. Thank you so much for this podcast! You’re truly doing the lord’s work 😉
  • Emmkitkat
    Will never stop listening
    I cannot recommend this podcast enough!! Ever since I started listening, I keep working my way through the whole catalogue again and again. The improv is hysterical and I always notice new lines or jokes when I re-listen. The religious commentary is nuanced and so on point - every single exvangelical out there would defintiely love this podcast! It’s incredible to listen to something so healing AND so hilarious. Thank you Holly and Greg for creating something so wonderful!! PLEASE never stop making more. PS. Day for President!
  • Tdstash
    So, so purely funny, ESPECIALLY if you grew up in church
    Just hilarious - the comedy and jokes are SO specific and such deep references about the church.
  • Jacob Stein from GA
    The show I didn’t know I needed!
    Your pod was recommended by another podcast I love, Wife of Crime. They said we should give it a listen especially if you grew up in the church. It’s hilarious 🙌🏻
  • Love it!12345
    I love this podcast
    It’s so funny
  • This Guy Cooks
    Love it
    If they didn’t have the disclaimer at the front about being a satire, you wouldn’t know. Ring so true
  • fowstus
    Perfect Mix
    It’s reaching onion level of satire accuracy. Just tipping the reality to higher levels. If I didn’t know it wasn’t satire/comedy I would question if it was an actual Christian show.
  • Lazerwolf07
    Fun and Enjoyable
    Improv is usually a coin toss of funny luck as to whether I am chuckling or zoning out into unimaginative ways to mow my lawn next week. Thankfully this podcast has some very talented folks that steer the dialogue into unpredictable dialogue and catchphrases that keep me smiling and sharing it with others I feel will feel right at home at Twin Hills. I hope you find it fun and enjoyable too.
  • oli739
    So much potential, but need better guests
    Let me start off by saying…I have listened to every single episode. Every. Single. Episode. I also grew up deeply Evangelical, so it feels like this podcast was made for me. I absolutely love the idea of this show. And when it’s good, it’s *SO GOOD.* A handful of guests are absolute fire, and no amount of listening on repeat gets old. The co-hosts are so incredibly talented! I really only have one critique, but unfortunately it’s a pretty huge critique: a lot of the guests simply are not funny. I don’t mean, they drop a line or two that doesn’t land. I mean that they can’t seem to ever pick it up to begin with. I mean that their satire is uncreative, the chemistry is lacking, and the show never gets off the ground at all. Poor Holly & Greg have to work overtime to try to resuscitate the show. If it were just a guest here or there like this, that would be one thing. But in my opinion, it’s an unacceptable number of guests. Holly & Greg are so talented; they just need to hone their radar. I will continue listening each week, because as I said before, when it’s good it’s amazing. I am hopeful that as they continually improve and find their footing, the episodes will get consistently funnier. I want this podcast to succeed! Good luck, and thanks for bringing some laughter to this area of life. ☺️
  • BB Cole80
    This. Is. Amazing.
    Your podcast is quickly becoming on of my favs. Hilarious content and great hosts and guests!
  • Straightedgemama
    Cannot stop laughing
    I was raised in an atheist home in the Deep South, and this is so hilariously spot on to what I saw around me growing up. I love it!
  • JenEric97
    Love it!
    As someone who grew up inside of the Evangelical world and has gone through deconstruction and kissed that world goodbye this podcast makes me giggle and not alone in the journey.
  • Dutch Master Uncle
    Fan after 10 seconds
    Daniel Van Kirk brought me here. Subscribed after hearing the 10 second promo clip. This show is in my wheelhouse on the boat to Jaffa.
  • Lmiindy87
    Hilarious
    Seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever listened to! Who knew one church could have so many personalities in it?!
  • brenboat
    If you love this - and who doesn’t?
    You need to get on patreon bc the mega minis are amazing!! So much thought provoking content.
  • eobherr
    Uncanny
    This podcast has tapped into the insanity of the evangelical experience with such insight and hilarity.
  • Holyroller0832
    My only break from a steady diet of true crime
    It’s true. I listen almost exclusively to true crime but make an exception for this podcast. It is such a palate cleanser! So funny, and has the actual pulse of US conservative mega churches. I have shared it with many, and even created “best of” lists for each of the different years they’ve been making shows to get my friends started. ☺️
  • FuquaHunter
    Hilarious
    I love the comedy, but this show has been a bit of a life preserver. It’s gotten me to expand my reading list (mega mini), opened me to new ideas and got me into therapy. I’d have to say I’m feeling too blessed to be stressed.
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