Susan Says with Susan Silver
One of the first female TV sitcom writers (with credits that include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, and The Bob Newhart Show), Susan Silver has also written a popular dating column and has reinvented herself many times. Her memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood, is available at Amazon.com. Her opinions are lively, sometimes controversial, but always fun to hear.
Episodes
Susan discusses all of the No Kings protests that took place throughout the U.S. last weekend, and how she would have participated in the one in New York City were it not for an untimely episode.
Hopeful news this week about the Middle East.
Susan discusses the government shutdown and the embarrassing display that Trump and Hegseth put on earlier this week in front of our military leaders.
Susan discusses Jimmy Kimmel's suspension from ABC and the Trump Administration's continued attack on free speech.
Susan reviews the series finale of Downton Abbey, plus she takes another look at the Beatles' film debut, A Hard's Day Night.
Susan recaps some of the main news stories of the week, including the school shooting in Minnesota, the update on Bruce Willis' battle with frontotemporal dementia, and Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce.
Susan talks about being "catfished" several times over the past few weeks.
Susan's recent trip to Maine to visit someone famous.
Susan recaps some of this week's news stories, including the mass shooting at an Army base in Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Susan discusses the mass shooting that took place in Midtown Manhattan earlier this week---a tragedy that hit too close to home for her.
Susan recaps the week's headlines, including the revelation by the Wall Street Journal that Trump was informed in May that his name is in the Epstein files.
Susan recounts the news of the past week, including the ongoing fallout in Trump World over Epstein-gate.
Susan recounts all the mishaps of her hellish trip back from the Aspen Ideas Festival last week.
Former President Obama speaks out against the authoritarian antics of the Trump administration. Plus: A recap of the No Kings demonstrations across the country and other news items this week.
Susan reviews How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast, a book that the author mostly spends complaining about her mother, feminist icon Erica Jong.
Susan reviews the HBO documentaries Pee-wee as Himself and The Fall of Diddy.
Susan takes another look at The Apprentice (2024), the Oscar-nominated biography of Trump starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong that gives us a good idea of how we got to where we are today. She also discusses Trump's disastrous meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this week, as well as the fatal shooting of the two Israeli Museum staffers in Washington, D.C.
Susan reviews Black Box Diaries (2024), the Academy Award-nominated documentary directed by Shiori Ito that depicts Ito's investigation into her own sexual assault case in 2017 while also shedding light into other accounts of sexual violence against women in Japan.
Susan discusses some of this year's Tony Award nominations. She also laments over why she can never see a play anymore because high ticket prices today are outlandishly high.
Susan reviews The Holocaust: 80 Years On, the brilliant documentary by historian Simon Schama that is now available for viewing on demand on both PBS Passport and Amazon Prime.
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