Couples Therapy

Rachel Kaly is a very funny stand-up, and was also one of the stand-out performers on Jury Duty season 2, which we really loved, so we had to have her on the show. And very quickly we realize that she and Naomi are spiritual sisters! We get into Rachel's origins and how similar they are to Naomi's, Rachel and Naomi's adventures in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Rachel walks us thro...

This was our first time meeting Katie Nolan, and boy oh boy is she the bee's knees! Now, you probably know Katie from her time at ESPN, where she hosted the podcast Sports? and the late night show Always Late, or perhaps more recently from her SiriusXM podcast Casuals or her call-in show Fan Service, but even if this is the first time you are meeting her, you're gonna be enthralled! We get...

It's been five years since Dulcé was last on, and we've got a LOT of catching up to do! Now, you know Dulcé from her time on The Daily Show, from the wonderful animated show The Great North, her book Hello, Friends! or from her podcast Chasing K-Dramas, and most assuredly, you've seen her stand-up ( on tour now or if you live in LA, come to her Just Pull Up!), but today, we're hear...

Edy Modica was so fun on the first season of Jury Duty, so when we saw she was promoting her debut stand-up special I'm Just Like You (And It Sucks) ( Now on YouTube! ), we said we gotta talk to her! Edy joins us to talk about how some things in her childhood shaped her love of chaos, how her therapist was *too* positive, wanting every moment to be A Moment, her boyfriend's good boundaries, how me...

The woman who practically raised Naomi with her comedy, Aisha Tyler, is on the show today, and it was WONDERFUL! Now you know Aisha from a million things: Criminal Minds: Evolution, Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Talk Soup, Archer and so much more! And on today's episode we dig into her psyche and try to figure out where her positive attitude towards life comes from. Growing up in San Francisc...

It's the second part of the What Went Wrong crossover extravaganza! Last week, we were guests on the fantastic podcast What Went Wrong discussing Hollywood couples that had some odd energy, and this week the hosts Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett join us as we put their friendship and emotions under the ol' Couples Therapy microscope! We discuss the decision to start a podcast with your best f...

The algorithm gifted hemlocke springs to us, and thus we praise the algorithm! While we give a youthful appearance, in truth, we here at Couples Therapy HQ are nearly two centuries old and shut ins, so we rely on the algorithm to introduce us to new things, and we are thankful that it sluiced Hems' music into our feed because she is FANTASTIC! Maybe you've seen her live (she's on tour this fall su...

For the first time, husbands Joel Kim and John-Michael Booster are podcast guesting together, and baby, we get INTO IT! Now, you know Joel from his many appearances on this show, from TV shows like Loot and the first season of the Scrubs legacyquel, from the film he wrote and starred in Fire Island, his Netflix special Psychosexual and so much more! Well, now you get to meet his husband, video gam...

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...

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...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 chil...

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 Gua...

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!...

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 20...

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...

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 hal...

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...

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 de...

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 thing...

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 wa...

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...

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 ep...