* The episode on Fiascoes. All of it. But Act One, the catastrophic performance of ''Theatre/PeterPan'' takes the cake. [[https://www.thisamericanlife.org/61/fiasco-1997 Listen here.]]
* Also, Mike Birbiglia's short ''2 Fresh, 2 Furious.'' Originally part of the ''This American Life Live'' movie, Mike [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZKuN-g released the film on YouTube.]]
* The story of a cancer patient telling his super that he met a woman at a gas station with a troupe of traveling performers, one of which included a [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext bench pressing snowman,]] which entertained the super so much that he decided to write a news article about it. When he went to get more information from the tenant, however, [[spoiler: it turned out to be fake]], but it was still hilarious. Listen to it [[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/323/the-super Listen to it here]]
* One episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' had Liz listening to him on St. Patrick's Day- the show starts normally, before drunken revellers invade his studio and start to beat up Ira- who promptly asks if [[ComicallyMissingThePoint they've heard his show on bullying]].
* [[WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman "Your telephone is ringing. I'm Ira Glass. Thank you for being a sustaining member of public radio. Everyone has a story, and your phone's story is that it's ringing."]]
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