Cocktails with Dimples & The Beard

Greg Giraldo Jr. is carrying one of the most famous names in comedy — and he's earning it on his own. The New York roast-battle regular joins Dimples and The Beard to talk about starting out under a fake name (Greg Hernandez, and the hacky jokes that came with it), why being a nepo baby is like being a hot girl, and what it's like when every roast battler you face has the same obvious targ...

There's a Big Baby on Shudder... or at least there will be soon. October 30th to be exact. Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One and Terrifier 3's Krsy Fox join Dimples and The Beard to talk Big Baby, their new meta slasher hitting Shudder this Halloween. They dig into how a deliberately absurd short grew into a full psychological horror feature, the custom Big Baby mask, and the moment Spider...

Comedian Galina Rivina joins Dimples and The Beard to talk about her Kill Tony appearance, performing in front of Tony Hinchcliffe and Jimmy Carr, and why “fast and furious” was the perfect accidental description. She also explains why Furious 7 is her favorite installment in the franchise, how Austin wore her down after her comedy career stalled in Los Angeles, and what the city’s massive Kill To...

Hannah Fierman joins Dimples and The Beard to discuss playing Lily in V/H/S and SiREN, including the producer who wanted to recast her, the contortionist stunt double behind Lily’s inhuman movements, and why Hannah’s real singing voice was ultimately used in SiREN. She also takes us behind the scenes of St. Agatha, revealing that Sarah’s brutal tongue-cutting scene wasn’t originally in the script...

Sky Elobar—Big Brayden from the cult comedy The Greasy Strangler—joins The Beard and Dimples for an uncensored look behind one of the strangest movies ever made. Sky reveals what he thought when he first read Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard’s outrageous script, how he landed the role, Don Swayze’s unexpected audition, Michael St. Michaels’ struggle to remember Big Ronnie’s dialogue and Elijah Wood’s...

Comedian and screenwriter Greg Roque joins The Beard and Dimples to reveal the full story behind the viral Roast Battle clip in which he relentlessly roasted Tony Hinchcliffe. Greg explains why their history became personal, whether he would still go after Tony today and why he considers himself one of the comedy “punk pioneers” who criticized Tony before it was cool. Greg also discusses his Black...

Everlee Wihongi returned to the United States through LAX after a family trip to New Zealand and was detained by ICE over a 2012 marijuana conviction involving less than two grams. What she believed would be a brief delay for paperwork became 73 days inside immigration detention facilities in California, Texas and Arizona. Everlee tells The Beard and Dimples how she was separated from her family,...

Matt Noveskey of Blue October joins Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard to talk about the 20th anniversary of Foiled and what it’s like revisiting one of the band’s biggest albums two decades later. Matt shares which songs had to be relearned, why playing Foiled front to back has been such a different experience for the band and fans, and how rehearsing “Let It Go” revealed that he’d been countin...

Ethical adult filmmaker Inka Winter joins The Beard and Dimples to explain how she creates adult films women actually want. The founder of ForPlay Films breaks down the difference between ethical, feminist and female-friendly pornography, why mainstream adult films didn’t work for her, and how consent, authentic pleasure, emotional connection and performer collaboration shape every scene she direc...

Comedian Liz Zagone joins The Beard and Dimples for a funny, unfiltered conversation about building a stand-up career from scratch, beginning with the unexpected text from her little brother that pushed her toward her first class at Second City. Liz talks about turning nearly two decades of bartending in Chicago and West Hollywood into comedy, creating her debut stand-up special Sick Little Freak...

Milwaukee comedian Justin Leon joins The Beard and Dimples ahead of his August 7th and 8th shows at The Laughing Tap, and the interview immediately turns into a full-scale roast. The Kansas City native looks back at getting his first laugh at six, being one of three Black students cast as thugs in a Lutheran school play, performing twenty minutes his first time onstage, and finding stand-up at Sta...

Comedian Luke Binkow joins The Beard and Dimples to talk about becoming a recurring guest on Bobby Lee’s TigerBelly—and the Comedy Store parking-lot accident that left him caught between his managers, a damaged car and Bobby demanding to know who ratted. Luke explains how his relationship with Bobby led to the opportunity, what it’s like joining a podcast with a fiercely loyal audience and why wor...

Comedian and impressionist Leah Knauer joins Cocktails with Dimples & The Beard for a hilarious, unpredictable conversation about stand-up comedy, celebrity impressions, social media and the persistence it takes to build a career in entertainment. Leah breaks out spot-on impressions of Jennifer Coolidge, Joan Rivers, Drew Barrymore and more, talks about her experience on Kill Tony, explains ho...

A Florida vacation takes a bizarre turn when a 23-year-old man allegedly makes headlines for one of the strangest crimes we've ever heard. From that unbelievable Florida Man story, we spiral into bodycam videos, public bathroom etiquette, crying over animal reunion videos at work, the great oral vs. anal debate, Joey Chestnut's latest hot dog eating championship, a 59-year-old Wisconsin wo...

Comedian Gracie Canaan joins Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard for one of our most fascinating conversations yet. From comedy and filmmaking to her background as a dancer and creator on OnlyFans, Gracie opens up about the many layers of her life and career. We dive into the psychology behind dancing, what it taught her about reading people, and why she believes dancers become “emotional athlete...

On this episode of Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard, we sit down with Wisconsin comedian Abe Auer for a hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt conversation about stand-up comedy, roasting small towns, and building a career in comedy. Abe shares how his now-viral Menasha jokes first started at Skyline Comedy Club, why local comedy clips have exploded on Facebook, and how roasting Wisconsin towns...

On this episode of Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard, we sit down backstage at High Noon Saloon with American Idol standout Genevieve Heyward for an honest conversation about what life has really been like after American Idol. Genevieve opens up about the emotional highs and lows of competing on one of the biggest music shows in the world, dealing with internet criticism, navigating social medi...

Comedy Store door guy and Employee of the Year Joey Cerone joins Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard to talk stand-up comedy, life behind the scenes at the world-famous Comedy Store, moving from Indiana to Los Angeles, celebrity encounters, Don Barris, Bobby Lee, Ron Funches, and what it takes to survive in comedy. Joey shares stories about becoming the Comedy Store's "Head Door Guy,"...

DISCLAIMER: We experienced a severe audio/video lag while recording this episode with comedian Jackson Banks. Unfortunately, it prevented us from getting into the rhythm we normally have with our guests, and you'll occasionally notice Jackson's lips not matching his voice. The connection issues ultimately forced us to end the recording early, which is why the episode cuts off abruptly. We...

A man pretended to have Down syndrome so he could get three nurses to bathe him. That's not a joke, that's an actual story we came across — and it immediately turned into one of the most ridiculous debates we've ever had. Was it wrong? Was it diabolical? Was it somehow genius? We honestly couldn't agree. From there, the conversation goes completely off the rails. We get into the wo...

Bobby Lee kisses. Pauly Shore hugs. Don Barris tickles. Somehow that was only PART of our trip to The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. We spent three straight nights inside one of the most legendary comedy clubs in the world — watching comics like Bobby Lee, Ali Wong, Don Barris, Jeff Ross, Pauly Shore, Howie Mandel, David Spade, Dane Cook and more absolutely destroy on stage while we somehow kept get...

Midwest Meg joins us for one of the most Wisconsin episodes we’ve ever done — and things go off the rails fast. What starts with Midwest accents, supper clubs, dive bars, cheese curds, and how she accidentally became one of the biggest Midwest content creators online slowly turns into drunk bar stories, dirty business names, social media chaos, and a story that completely destroys her wholesome im...

After hanging out at The Comedy Store all night and waiting out a police standoff at our hotel until nearly 4 a.m., we somehow ended up back in our room with comedians Josh Potter and Nelya Linnik recording one of the most chaotic episodes of Cocktails with Dimples & The Beard we’ve ever done. Running on almost no sleep, the conversation immediately spirals into trauma bonding, growing up in U...

This week we’re joined by comedian and horror expert Katie Hettenbach, and yeah… she absolutely unloads on Scream 7. What starts as a simple question turns into a full breakdown of what went wrong — from pacing and missing story beats to why it doesn’t feel like a real Scream movie at all. We get into horror franchises, why some sequels hit and others completely fall apart, and how modern horror i...

This week on Cocktails with Dimples & The Beard, we sit down with singer-songwriter Bryant Thomas and his fiancée Alyona to break down the moment his life flipped upside down—going from singing in the shower to getting the call from American Idol. What started as a random recording turned into a viral moment, leading to an unforgettable audition, behind-the-scenes chaos, and a proposal story t...