Photo from the Comedy Bang! Bang! wiki.

Harris Wittels was an insanely talented comedian who died on February 19. He was a co-executive producer of Parks and Recreation, and the crew ran a black “We Love You, Harris” card at the end of the show’s seven-season run. People might want to know who he was.

In addition to being a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, coiner of the word “humblebrag,” and drummer, Wittels was also a prolific and hilarious podcast host and guest. Here’s a guide to some of his best shows.

For someone who’d never met him, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Harris Wittels talk. Like, dozens and dozens of hours. In this way, I’m no different from the thousands of other podcast nerds around the world. I was crushed when my girlfriend called me to tell me he’d died (also skeptical—“RIP Harris Wittels” was a macabre running gag in the Earwolf universe). By thirty, he had already written for three of my favorite sitcoms—The Sarah Silverman Program, Eastbound & Down, and Parks and Recreation—and was apparently going to start making movies, creating his own TV shows, and doing more stand-up (and on the east coast!).

Lots of fans have posted beautiful tributes on Twitter, the Earwolf forums, and Reddit. And that’s not to mention some really lovely pieces by journalists and some of Harris’ colleagues like Aziz Ansari and Nathan Rabin. (Aziz’s tribute manages to be nearly equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and tear-jerkingly touching.)

Because he was a member of a small, largely invisible community of comedy writers and didn’t make very many appearances in front of the camera, a lot of folks don’t know anything about this beautiful and troubled weirdo.

In addition to writing for Parks, Harris played Harris, an animal control person.

A lot of people complain that they don’t know where to start when it comes to podcasts that have hundreds of back episodes; I hope this helps. My goal in this piece is to provide some context and walk uninitiated listeners through a handful of Harris’ best appearances that they might not have heard (even non-fans might have heard his two WTF appearances, so I’m not going to talk about them).

I can assure you of two things: I’ve got a mostly good sense of humor, and Harris is worth your time.

Harris appeared on twenty episodes of Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang! Bang! (two of which featured his weird-pop, sometimes-comedic-sometimes-serious three-piece band Don’t Stop or We’ll Die). He had his own Earwolf show, Analyze Phish, in which he did his damnedest to persuade co-host Scott Aukerman and a number of guests, like Parks and Rec’s Adam Scott, WFMU’s Tom Scharpling, and Islands’ Nick Thorburn, to like the Vermont jam band whose shows he frequented. (A crazy thing about listening to Wittels’ output is hearing his concert count climb from around sixty in 2009 to about a hundred in late 2014.)

He also showed up on two episodes (one live and one in-studio) of Marc Maron’s popular podcast WTF, and three episodes of You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes (one live, two in-studio). He was also featured on dozens of other lesser-known but equally solid ’casts. (Thanks to redditor jesuz for his list of Wittels’ podcast appearances, which was a huge help in writing this.)

I’m going to take these episodes chronologically, highlighting particularly funny and/or weird and/or emotional moments from Harris’ extensive recorded catalog.