Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best
It's me, your friend Busy Philipps! My creative partner Caissie St. Onge & I love making things that we believe people need & will love & we’ve had so many plans. We had plans to do a TV show that would shake up late night! And we think it kinda did! For six months. We adored our genius, scrappy creative team at “Busy Tonight” as much as we loved our audience, so when we broke the news that we’d been canceled, we vowed to get back up & make even bigger plans to invent a whole new way of doing things in the entertainment biz, to reunite our beautiful staff & change the game for everyone! An entertainment Utopia! And we were so close, then...the world changed. Now those plans are, at the very least, on hold. So, we've shifted gears, like everyone has had to, & with our friends, we're just doing our best, taking it slow & talking to fascinating friends about how *they* are doing *their* best. They’ll tell us all about those times in their lives when a setback actually led to the right thing. Maybe it was a job that didn't pan out, but opened the door to an even more perfect one, or maybe it's how they studied for years to do the thing they thought was their calling, only to fall into something else that felt like kismet. The thing is, we want to share those moments because right now EVERYBODY is having one of those moments. Maybe we'll all learn something life-changing or maybe we'll just have a conversation where we break down in tears, then laugh at ourselves for crying. Whatever happens, we can assure you, Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best!
Episodes
April 27, 2024 • 92 mins
Do you love dog-barking ASMR? This week, Busy is in Los Angeles at Emily BB’s house with her dog, Alfie. Caissie is staying in New York at Casa Kismet, and in her husband’s mind, she and Busy are living together like Laverne & Shirley. Find out what happened to some couture clothing Busy was about to borrow from some stylists and how the first taping of Busy This Week went for QVC+! Plus, an honest discussion about frustrations the...
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April 17, 2024 • 108 mins
This week, Caissie went to Retta’s Pink Party in LA, then stayed up all night to catch an early flight to NYC where she landed, ran to Casa Kismet, threw on a sparkly jumpsuit and rushed to the Writers’ Guild of America Awards where Busy was presenting. Find out who Busy spoke to at the event that had her losing her mind. And find out who she was too star struck to talk to, but who also made her lose her mind again later in her Ins...
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April 10, 2024 • 144 mins
This week, Busy’s Girls5Eva co-star and friend Sara Bareilles is back to talk about what it’s like to try to write songs when you’re not sure what you have to say. She tells us what’s next for her (hint: one thing is musical, another thing is matrimonial) and why we all deserve comfortable pants.
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April 3, 2024 • 130 mins
This week, Busy is back in New York City and as she and Caissie reflect on the horrific killing of 7 foreign aid workers with World Central Kitchen in Gaza, Caissie attempts to articulate her mounting frustration with the social media discourse, as Busy advocates seeking out actionable items above all else. Then, everyone’s day gets brighter when comedian, actor, writer and producer, John Early, from Search Party, The Afterparty, A...
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March 27, 2024 • 147 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie share their thoughts on the explosive Max documentary Quiet on Set about the behind the scenes misconduct and abuse on the sets of several Nickelodeon children’s shows, plus they recap the arguments heard by the Supreme Court about whether access to abortion pills will be restricted. Then, Grammy winner, Tony and Emmy nominee, Phillipa Soo, stops by to talk about her experience as a child trying to break...
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March 20, 2024 • 103 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are together in Los Angeles, gearing up for their new talk show on QVC+! Busy reveals a celebrity elevator encounter she had that might have inadvertently given off a vibe she did not intend. OR DID SHE? Caissie gets extremely vulnerable and, she hopes, relatable, by sharing her struggle with an embarrassing affliction she thought was just for people in Bible times. Plus, Busy talks about how Cricket saw...
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March 13, 2024 • 162 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are trying to get the pink dye out of Busy’s hair while getting to the bottom of that questionably photoshopped royal photo. They also have a really big announcement that’s been almost 5 years in the making and they are so excited to finally spill the beans! Then, everyone’s favorite librarian, Mychal Threets, joins the pod to talk about the absolute joy of reading and to make a couple of exciting announ...
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March 7, 2024 • 105 mins
This week, Busy has been busy round the clock doing press for the new season, plus the past two seasons, of Girls5Eva on Netflix! It’s almost finally here! And in her spare time, she’s been hosting every benefit and gala for every important cause she can get her hands on. Meanwhile, Caissie may be be getting some of that BPE in her house. Like, literally.
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February 28, 2024 • 140 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are trying to balance the dark and the light. On the one hand, the world is dark and scary, on the other hand, they were sent Dunkings jogging suits. While taking photographs for a gig, Busy was asked to smize and learned she does not have that skill! Then, comedian writer and first time female director, Chelsea Peretti stops by to talk about her new movie, “First Time Female Director” available on Roku,...
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February 21, 2024 • 147 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are still basking in the glow of all the info they learned from The Points Guy and waiting for their Amex Gold cards with 4x points on groceries to arrive. While they wait, they discuss why Busy’s trip to visit BFF (Michelle Williams) was cut short, the concept of body doubling in ADHD, the pig pot raffle status, what BFF Michelle gave Busy for Christmas and how, hopefully, not to get scammed by a fake c...
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February 14, 2024 • 132 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are talking about Busy’s epic garage sale in New York City and how, afterward, they attempted to watch the Super Bowl together by looking in the window of Busy’s neighbor. There is a thorough recap of Ben Affleck’s Dunkin commercial. Then, the day has finally arrived when the women are joined by THE Points Guy, Brian Kelly, who explains which credit cards offer the best programs and perks and how to use ...
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February 7, 2024 • 169 mins
This week, Busy is excavating her entire life in preparation for her epic garage sale and Caissie’s getting ready to fly out to NYC to help her…when one of the stars of The Office, Veep, Silicon Valley, The Good Wife and so much more, Zach Woods, joins the chat and absolutely enchants the pants off everyone. They talk about THE sexiest scene in cinematic history, neurodivergent hyper-focus meals, the significance of Snow Babies, ma...
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January 31, 2024 • 155 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie thought they were getting a great guest, but when it got down to brass tacks, the ladies decided to bump him up to honorary co-host. Jake Johnson from New Girl, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse plus 21 Jump Street, among many other things, joins the pod to talk about the new film he wrote, directed and stars in, called Self-Reliance on Hulu now, and his new podc...
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January 24, 2024 • 127 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are discussing the Oscar nominations…and the snubs. They’re reminiscing about how much they used to obsess over Bradley Cooper’s bang. Plus, Biz is preparing for a colonoscopy while working through a weird interaction with a guy, and Caissie is paranoid her sons saw her pubes.
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January 17, 2024 • 145 mins
This week, Mean Girls is #1 at the box office and Busy is celebrating being in her first #1 movie, while also talking about clearing some of the physical and emotional clutter from her life with a big upcoming sale that anyone can come to if they want! Caissie is realizing that perhaps she can only write under perfect conditions and, for her, those conditions are while riding on a moving train.
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January 11, 2024 • 155 mins
This week, Busy describes what was going through her mind, and her stomach, at the “Mean Girls” premiere. Then, her movie daughter Reneé Rapp joins the pod to talk about what it feels like to bring her Broadway portrayal of iconic character Regina George to the big screen, and the one and only thing that made her nervous about stepping into the role.
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January 3, 2024 • 149 mins
This week, Busy and Caissie are together for the second week in a row, sharing how they rang in the New Year and what they wore. Then, Rabbi Sharon Brous returns to the podcast to talk about her new book, “The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts,” and how we can better help each other to grieve.
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December 30, 2023 • 110 mins
In their last episode of 2023, Busy shares why her Christmas was lousy. Literally. Then she and Caissie share their New Year’s resolutions and Busy pushes back against an Instagram critic.
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December 16, 2023 • 99 mins
Busy and Caissie promised to come back and tell everyone what they were doing their best at this week, and they do. But they also talk about so many other things, including gifts, grief and why Biz has a yeast infection. CONTENT WARNING: Death, child death
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December 13, 2023 • 95 mins
This week, Busy talks us through what’s been going on in her family and why there was no podcast last week and Caissie shares why she’s the world’s most useless psychic.
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