Emmys season may be over, but there’s still a reason to keep the party going. Late-night just won big at the 2024 Signal Awards.
The Signal Awards, which honor the “most potent, meaningful, and unprecedented” podcasts of today, announced its winners Tuesday morning. The Judging Academy selects Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners; finalists also have the chance to win an additional honor of Listener’s Choice Award in each category, which is voted on by the public.
On the late-night front, Trevor Noah and Questlove (the drummer and co-frontman for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’s house band, The Roots) scored multiple honors for their podcasts What Now? and Questlove Supreme, respectively.
The former Daily Show host’s What Now? won Gold for Best Conversation Starter, Silver for Best New Podcast, and both the Gold and Listener’s Choice Awards for Comedians Shaping Culture. Meanwhile, Questlove Supreme took home Gold and Listener’s Choice for the Music category.
Additionally, Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas, which he co-hosts with Matt Rogers, won the Silver Award for Best Co-Host Team. The two are also set to be honored with inaugural Special Achievement Awards, presented at the winners’ party at Brooklyn’s Public Records on Tuesday, November 12.
What Now?, a weekly deep-dive interview podcast about various contemporary topics (sports, pop culture, politics, the works), launched in November 2023 on Spotify. Questlove Supreme—launched in 2016 and led by Questlove and co-hosted by Team Supreme members Bill Sherman, Steve Mandel, and Laiya St. Clair—interviews musicians, producers, and industry executives, plus late-night figures like John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, and Maya Rudolph.
Las Culturistas, a pop culture and comedy podcast, premiered in 2016 and is produced by Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players podcast network, along with iHeartRadio. In September, Yang revealed in an interview with The New Yorker that he “had to negotiate for permission” to continue making the podcast after he was cast on SNL.
This year marks the third annual Signal Awards. A full list of winners can be found here.
