Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata
Gayle & Oprah. Bonnie & Clyde. Nicole & Sasheer. Enter the pantheon of best friendship. When you’re forced to change your number, are sick of being single, or want to take a pole-dancing class, you’re going to need a best friend...and if you don’t, you can still have this podcast. This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Best Friends via Gumball.fm.
Episodes
It’s summer, which means all of the summer seasonal ingredients are finally available for our best friends to enjoy! Nicole and Sasheer chat about goofy restaurant experiences, Sasheer’s quest to have someone impersonate her, and both Nicole and Sasheer’s hilarious stories about playing on celebrity game shows. Also discussed are the films Looper and Burlesque - this episode’s conversational range has no bou...
Nicole and Sasheer are back for another extra special silly solo episode of Best Friends! Nicole recently heard an incredible story about an underwater dolphin village, which would be so much fun to believe is real but sadly is not. Our fave pair then learns about rice paddies, the history of the life saver candy, as well as plan an influencer pyramid scheme where influencers influence other influencers to influence other influence...
Nicole and Sasheer have a very special guest in the studio today - friend/comedian/writer/actor/podcast host/superstar Sabrina Jalees! Our trio gets into Sabrina’s experience starting stand up as a teenager in Canada, finding her voice in comedy while also finding her identity, the current joy of taking a bath in your front yard (it’s LA!), the long-gone joy of making out to a repetitive DVD menu, and the most haunting ...
What do hundreds of Garfield-themed phones washed ashore and a robbery of 12 tons of Kit Kats have in common? Nicole and Sasheer talk about both topics in this week’s episode of Best Friends! Our favorite hosts also wonder about James Cameron’s love of water, how they’d handle AI on social media if they were president, and Nicole shares her dream of seeing all of the fruit-themed bus stops in Japan.
This episode, Nicole and Sasheer leave no conversational stone unturned, covering everything from falling in love with chatbots to Baby’s Day Out. Our favorite pair of best friends also reminisce on their 9AM showing of Now You See Me 3, the joy of exclaiming!!!, and give a sincere shout out to Tobey Maguire’s portrayal of Spider-Man.
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Nicole and Sasheer have two differences of opinion this episode: one about egg puns, and the other about the funniness of a really specific part of Big Daddy. But that’s okay! They also get into being called sir at the airport, Nicole’s recent sewing party, David Blaine’s magic tricks, and the struggle of buying the right hair clippers.
QUIZ LINK: What % Unicorn Are You?
Warning: this episode is full of belly laughs and tee hee hees! Nicole and Sasheer team up to investigate the difference between capris and coulottes, give a special awooga at Leonardo DiCaprio’s mustache at The Oscars, remember past outfits of yore, and celebrate Michael B. Jordan's talent + handsomeness.
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Nicole and Sasheer have the giggles this week remembering their favorite stand up shows from way back when, remember the What-Could-Have-Been that was the failed Spider-Man musical, and remind themselves that sometimes in life you must jump in the deep end, like Lady Gaga.
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Nicole and Sasheer are back from a Creamy Girls Take East Coast trip and are ready to dive into all of the hilarious details, from a visit to Nicole’s school in search of spicy chicken to finding a novelty jacuzzi at a couples-only hotel. Our favorite pair also ponders if bugs have hobbies, the right thing to say as a waiter when someone finds a foreign object in their food, and the joy of having ice cream for brunch.
Nicole and Sasheer have a LOT of fun topics to debrief this week, covering everything from Vin Diesel’s passion for playing Groot to all of the 65+ cuties that could potentially join their hypothetical sexy stable. Nicole and Sasheer also discuss the evolution of a smoker’s voice, the wonder that is Donna Summers, and take a Buzzfeed quiz about prehistoric species.
Our favorite pair of best friends have so much to chat about this week! Sasheer’s almost done watching All Her Fault, Nicole’s continuing her Rosetta Stone journey learning Spanish in her car, and they both watched the America’s Next Top Model documentary on Netflix. Also discussed are a few new additions to the Handsome-And-Over-65 stable, the genius that is the Barefoot Contessa, and Nicole’s latest experi...
Nicole and Sasheer are dressed in head-to-toe cream for an extra-special Creamy Sisters extravaganza episode. Our favorite duo gets into trying to learn a new language while driving, feeling dangerous while wearing cream, inventors, and which past television show they’d like to act on if they could go back in time.
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Nicole and Sasheer are thrilled to welcome a special guest, political strategist and host of the Words to Win By podcast, Anat Shenker-Osorio! Our trio gets into the current political climate, the background behind different messaging strategies we’ve seen recently, and how we can help each other as friends and a community during difficult times.
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Nicole and Sasheer are back in the studio to, first and foremost, debrief Mike Tyson’s Super Bowl commercial. They also reminisce about children’s television of yore, sensory immersion experiences at museums, answer some advice questions from our lovely listeners, as well as consider the growth journey of an eyelash.
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Nicole and Sasheer take a deep dive into Nicole’s latest passion - making her own ice cream at home! Our favorite best friends also discuss the evergreen hotness of Joe Pesci, Spider-Man’s goop and where it comes from, as well as Sasheer’s thoughtful gift for safekeeping Nicole’s extracted tooth.
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Nicole and Sasheer are thrilled to welcome a very special guest, Nicole’s former roommate and Sasheer’s former co-worker, the incredible actor/writer/comedian John Milhiser (SNL, Drama Club)! Our trio takes a trip down memory lane to revisit apartments that are either windowless or haunted, consider the under-sung lesbian icon that is Clarabelle Cow, and find out the origin story of Nicole’s love for ricotta chees...
Nicole and Sasheer have so much to dish about this week, covering everything from the Black Eyed Peas and Vanilla Ice's decision making to revisiting one of the best legging reviews of all time. Nicole also brings a show-and-tell presentation for Sasheer that marks an important first for the Headgum studio - nothing like this has ever been done before!! Our favorite pair also gets into the NBA (as a company), track and fi...
This week on Best Friends, Nicole and Sasheer are locked in and ready to learn about everything from glittery lotion to snowboarding uphill. They also get into airport fashion, Nicole's original plan for her remains that also involves the airport, and Sasheer does a special ASMR session featuring Nicole's new bracelet.
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This week, Nicole and Sasheer chat about Waymos (aka Vin Voms), reminisce about visiting a dangerous waterfall, practice eye strengthening exercises and make plans to go off-roading AND to the library in the same day. They also take a quiz to figure out what mystical creature they are!
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This week, Nicole and Sasheer take a trip down memory lane all the way back to Nicole's middle school cafeteria. Sasheer also shares her exciting cat update - welcome Sesame!! Our favorite duo also plans a potential getaway to the Poconos, so stay tuned for more developments.
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