I clicked the play button, and here's the first thing I heard:

"The station you are about to listen to contains explicit and offensive material that may not be suitable for all listeners or children. To hear something different, you can switch to a different station. Thanks for listening."

That's what I'm talking about—at last, Pandora has comedy channels. And they're pretty outrageous ones, too.

"I didn't care about the world until I had kids," explains Christopher Titus on my Rodney Dangerfield channel. "I just wrote jokes. Jokes like this: 'Hey, did you hear that Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice. Hit his head. Died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet died a vegetable.'"

My job

Shame on you if you laughed at that joke. And be forewarned—that's one of 10,000 similar skits produced by 700 comics laying in wait on ten genre channels.

"Today's comedy" includes Chris Rock and Daniel Tosh, "Working Class Comedy" includes Larry the Cable Guy and Frank Calliendo, "Golden Oldies Comedy" includes Bob Newhart and Jose Jimenez, and "80s and 90s Comedy" includes the great man himself: George Carlin, creator of the Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television routine (but can say on Pandora).

"My job essentially is thinking up goofy s**t," Carlin explains on his channel. "I mean, you don't have time all week. So I think up the goofy s**t and I come at the end of the week and report it to you."

We'll leave the rest of Carlin's report for you to consider at your leisure.

The new content comes as Pandora announced that on Sunday April 24, the ten billionth "thumbs up" button was clicked. The honor went to "Ridin' Solo" by Jason DeRulo at 4:46pm. Now Pandora users can thumbs up or down "60s and 70s comedy" with Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller, and Freddie Prize, and "Urban Comedy" with Paul Rodriguez and George Lopez.

Taking the same approach

Rest assured, however, that as you are picking and choosing from these various genres, Pandora will be busily noting the attributes that you selected, and classifying your preferences via the great Genome database that until now was reserved for music. According to Pandora founder Tim Westergren, a team of professional comedians have been "furiously analyzing" the collection to get it ready for use.

"We've taken the same approach to comedy as we have to music: carefully and deliberately analyzing comedic 'bits' across a very large number of attributes to capture the style, delivery and content of each performance," Westergren explains on his latest blog post. "Now, instead of talking about 'minor keys,' 'falsetto,' and 'extensive vamping,' our comedy-analysts capture 'odd juxtaposition' (A horse walks into a bar...), 'misdirection' and 'spoonerisms' (a well-boiled icicle, instead of a well-oiled bicycle)... "

I wonder how Pandora's Genome experts classified this one?

"You always hear that lesbians hate men, right?" notes Rosanne Barr on her channel. "What do they know? They don't have to f**k 'em."