Pandora adding personalized comedy offering

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Just like music on Pandora, now comedy can be personalized to each individual’s taste. The comedy bit selections will be powered by the Comedy Genome Project—similar to how the Music Genome Project powers individuals’ music tastes.


Listeners can create comedy stations based on their favorite comedians, or on popular genres such as political comedy, working class comedy, PG comedy, or comedy from the 2000s, 60s and 70s, or 80s and 90s.

A team of Comedy Genome Project analysts at Pandora has analyzed thousands of performances to capture their comedic style and content. Additional comedic material is being analyzed daily.

Starting 5/4 people can listen to comedy on Pandora in the same manner that they listen to music: by choosing a favorite artist or genre as a seed to start a station and then giving thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback to shape the station to their individual taste. Like music stations on Pandora, comedy stations will play the seed artist and related material.