Keith and The Girl

Keith and The Girl

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Hosting Keith Malley
Chemda Khalili
Updates Weekdays
Debut March 8, 2005
Genre Comedy
Website keithandthegirl.com

Keith and The Girl, abbreviated as KATG, is a popular comedy podcast that began on March 7, 2005. It is hosted by comedian Keith Malley and singer Chemda Khalili in Queens, New York. Chemda is of Persian descent whilst Keith's exact origins are unknown, but believed to be eastern European. In the show, which usually has a length of an hour or more, Malley and Khalili discuss their lives and current events in humorous and unrestrained fashion. As described by Keith and Chemda themselves in the show's tagline, "Keith and his ex-girlfriend talk shit".

Keith and The Girl has been able to consistently achieve a top-ten ranked podcast at Podcast Alley.[1] The show has over 50,000 listeners and in excess of 1 million monthly downloads as of June 2008.[2] The show's media files are hosted on LibSyn/Wizzard Media, returning after a short period of being hosted on TalkShoe. The podcast's popularity has peaked at times to the 5,000th daily traffic rank according to Alexa.[3] Recently they received the award for best Podcast in the Mature Comedy Category, and also People's Choice, for best Podcast of the year.[4]

Contents

Features

Some of the regular features of Keith and The Girl include:

Less-frequent show elements include relationship advice to listeners' letters, mail and calls from listeners and other podcasters, road shows from on location (or reports afterward), prank calls, and comedy clips for review and discussion.

Recurring themes

Some frequent topics of the show include:

Keith and The Girl TV

Keith and The Girl TV began in late November 2007. It is a branch off of the original format of an hour to an hour and a half of talk and is focused more on short 3–5 min comedy shorts or skits that usually feature a topic or guest of the previous week's show or news.[9] Topics have included internet phenomena such as "2 Girls 1 Cup" and "The Cinnamon Challenge", to the inner workings of the main KATG show. The show is said to update every Monday morning and is downloadable through the shows website or via iTunes. This however occurs irregularly and you will find that they update this on a bi / tri monthly or even less frequent basis. Like the show it was inspired by, KATG TV frequently ranks within the top 5 on Podcast Alley. The show has since been merged into the main KATG feed and then into the VIP paywall.

Books

“What Do We Do Now? Keith and The Girl’s Smart Answers To Your Stupid Relationship Questions” is Keith and The Girls relationship book, which was released on March 9, 2010.
Keith has also self published his autobiography, The Great American Novel, which was released in November 2010.

CDs and DVDs

Chemda

Keith Malley

Keith and The Girl

Keith and The Girl iPhone Application

The official Keith and The Girl free iPhone/iPod Touch application created by fan Doug Russell allows fans to listen to the show live, send in instant feedback, call the show, as well as follow Keith and Chemda's Twitter accounts.

Guests

Past guests include

Awards

See also

References

External links