Couples Therapy

Brendan Scannell is back, baby! It's been years since Brendan's been on the show (You know Brendan from Bonding and Heathers and tons of other great stuff!), and while he was out promoting his new live stand-up show The Abyss (see it in LA on Sept. 9th and 10th or in New York on Oct. 1st!), he dropped by the ol' virtual couch for an extensive look at what he's been up to the last few years. And it's been A LOT! Brendan went to reha...

Sasheer hasn't been in the show in years, so we're catching up with her in a non-party setting and GETTING INTO IT! Now, obviously you know Sasheer Zamata from SNL, from Agatha All Along, Home Economics, some very funny scenes set in the real world in the new Masters of the Universe movie and of course from Best Friends, the wonderful podcast she does with friend of the show/friend IRL Nicole Byer! And on today's episode, Sasheer f...

We've casually known Josh Johnson from the ol' New York comedy scene for a long time, but do we *really* know him? Find out on today's PULSE-POUNDING edition of the pod! Now, you surely know Josh as an Emmy-nominated writer and as one of the rotating hosts of one of the last original shows on Comedy Central, The Daily Show! Or maybe you knew him back when, when he was a writer on The Tonight Show or maybe you know him from his stan...

Our old pal Eliot Glazer returns after half a decade to catch us (really, you, the listener!) up on the last five years. Now, you know Eliot as a writer and actor on Broad City, and a writer on shows like New Girl, Teachers, iCarly, Younger and more, and now Eliot is a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! Eliot's new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay is out now! Eliot's book - and a lot of what we talk about today - is about how he f...

We've been fans of Erinn's going all the way back to Childrens Hospital, which *surely* you've seen! If not, you might have seen Erinn Hayes show up in some of the best shows of the last 20 years including Parks and Rec, The Goldbergs, Transparent, New Girl, Parenthood, Will & Grace and so many others! And the entire season of her latest show It's Not Like That is now streaming on Prime! We've met Erinn a few times around ol' H...

We love David Gborie's stand-up, we love him and friend of the show/friend IRL Langston Kerman's podcast My Momma Told Me as well as his other podcast All Fantasy Everything, and we love the sadly canceled cartoon Royal Crackers that David was a voice actor on, and on today's episode, we're chopping it up with David about so many things! Moving back to Colorado and meeting his now wife, being chill vs. being unflappable, his weight...

We've been fans of Murray Bartlett's for years, so it was an absolute delight to talk to him on this week's EXQUISITE episode! Now you know Murray from a million things, as the Emmy Award-winning supporting actor from The White Lotus, as well as from The Last of Us, Welcome to Chippendales, Looking, Nine Perfect Strangers and so much more including the wonderful Apple TV+ show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (starring former guest Tati...

Roshan Sethi is back for a solo ep, baby! That's right, you remember Roshan from when he was on last year with his paramour Karan, or maybe you know him as the co-creator of Fox's The Resident or as the director of one of the best films of last year A Nice Indian Boy or perhaps as a working oncologist or maybe as the author of the BRAND-NEW novel The Simp, available now from Simon & Schuster! Well, even if this is your first ti...

Open Mike Eagle, rapper extraordinaire, co-creator of New Negroes and so much more joins us today after accidentally missing the episode with his New Negroes co-creator Baron Vaughan eight years ago! And there's been some big changes in the last eight years! We start out talking about the dissolution of his marriage which MIke alludes to in the song "The Black Mirror Episode" from his fantastic 2020 album "Anime, Trauma and Divorce...

Zach Noe Tower's a wonderful pal and a wonderful stand-up, so when we saw he was on the whistle stop tour promoting his new special Twink Death, we had to have him back on the show! Now Zach was last on the pod three years ago, so we catch up on what has changed in his life since then. Where is he when it comes to sides vs. the main course? Where is he in his romantic life? Zach tells us about a recent meet cute that is as close to...

It's Opey Olagbaju time! We met Opey when Naomi did stand-up on the wonderful, canceled-too-soon New Negroes show and are just delighted by him! Opey was recently showcased by Netflix as part of The Shortlist, was one of Time Out Magazine’s ''Favorite Comedians on the Rise" last year, was a New Face at Just for Laughs, and has generally accrued all the accolades a stand-up can get in the first half of their career. Add to tha...

It's EJ Marcus time, folks, and if you don't come out of this episode loving him, you ain't got a soul! Naomi met EJ doing stand-up, and was enamored. Maybe you've seen his stand-up either live or in clip form. Maybe you know him as a writer on HBO's I Love LA. Even if you've never heard of EJ before now, you're going to dig today's episode! We talk about how he met his partner, how they fell for each other in lockdown, their exper...

Joy Sunday was recently in the wonderful HBO show DTF St. Louis where she and Richard Jenkins played two detectives trying to workout the complicated lovelife of a murder victim. It's absolutely one of the best shows to come out this year, and she's brilliant on it, so we had to have her on the show! Now you also know Joy from Wednesday, Dear White People and a bunch of other stuff, but here we delve into her INCREDIBLY MENTALLY HE...

Folks, Deli Boys gotta be our fav US comedy right now - we've had Asif Ali on the show. We've had Saagar Shaikh on the show. And today, we are psyched to have Lucky Auntie herself, that's right, Poorna Jagannathan, join us for the hour! Now, Poorna's had an incredible acting career - you've seen her in The Night Of, Big Little Lies, Never Have I Ever, Ramy, Better Call Saul and tons of other things - but on today's episode, you'll...

Smoggie Queens is our new favorite show, and we're lucky to have the creator and star Phil Dunning on today's episode! You've seen Phil pop up in some of the best shows coming out of the UK: Feel Good, Stath Lets Flats, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Juice, and of course, his own show Smoggie Queens, which just finished its second series on BBC Three (if you don't live in the UK, figure out a way to watch it STAT!). We're calling Phil "...

Orphan Black was one of our couples shows in the earlier days of our relationship, which means we've imprinted on Tatiana Maslany like ducklings on a mama duck! We're profesh enough tho that we (mostly) keep our fangirling in check on today's episode! Hot on the press junket for her brand new Apple TV+ show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Tatiana dropped by the ol' virtual couch for the usual Couples Therapy smorgasbord of light/heavy...

We're catching up with our pal Laci Mosley on today's episode, and buddy, it's a real delight! Now you know Laci from a million things: her podcast and book and show Scam Goddess or as one of the stars of Fox's Going Dutch, from the iCarly revival or the Black Lady Sketch Show and so much more! And you know her from her many appearances on this show, but we haven't sat down with Laci for a main episode in YEARS, so you know we're g...

We've liked Kimiko Glenn in a bunch of things, so when we saw she was promoting her debut EP Modern Dance (coming soon!!!), we said we gotta have her on the pod! Now, you know Kimiko from Orange is the New Black, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse films, Hazbin Hotel and of course, if you're a parent, as the voice of Baby Shark, but on today's episode, you're gonna get to know the woman behind those characters. And oh boy, we le...

Kyle Kinane is one of the best stand-ups out there. We've known him casually, through the years, but mostly through his comedy, so on today's episode we're peeling back the layers to find THE REAL KYLE KINANE! We talk about his struggles with both therapy and couples therapy, how using life solely as fodder for stand-up isn't maybe the healthiest choice, the trouble with processing your romantic relationships on stage, anger issues...