Keith and the Girl
Keith and The Girl, abbreviated as either KaTG or KATG, is a popular comedy podcast that began on 7 March 2005. It is hosted by comedian Keith Malley and singer Chemda Khalili, an unmarried couple living 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 girlfriend talk shit".
Keith and The Girl has been in the past able to consistently achieve a top-ten ranked podcast at Podcast Alley. However, due to ceasing the promotion of Podcast Alley on the show and website and a lack of votes they have failed to rank in the top ten recently.[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]
Keith and Chemda's stated aim for the podcast is for it to become their main source of income. Keith and Chemda were also children's entertainers at one time, but have since retired from the profession. They also sell show merchandise through the show site. Items such as t-shirts, hoodies, flasks, lighters, keychains, Keith's standup CDs/DVDs, as well as music CDs that Chemda has appeared on, can be purchased.
In March 2007, Keith Malley claimed that the summation of all PodShow shows totaled a mere 12,000 downloads a day, and suggested that PodShow had squandered the funds obtained from venture capitalists. Malley challenged PodShow to "prove him wrong", and later suggested that PodShow had attempted to hurt the standing of his show on the list of podcasts on Digg.[5]
Keith and Chemda recently submitted the first draft of a Keith and The Girl relationship book and recently also completed their first live 72-hour podcasting telethon. A part of the donations from listeners went to support research on Asperger syndrome.
