Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata

Nicole has been watching too many DIY videos, including videos where people make open shelving by removing the doors from their cabinets - it’s overwhelming! Sasheer witnessed the spectacle that is the Blue Man Group and loved it, but she couldn't help but wonder "Where are the blue women?" The ladies are headed to Atlanta and Nicole can’t wait to test drive a vintage Bronco! Lastly, they answer a...

Nicole and Sasheer are stuck in Groundhog Day, Happy New Year! Nicole isn’t vibing with being able to edit texts after sending them, thus reminding Sasheer of an awkward moment in the show Popular. Sasheer and Nicole take on the most intense quiz yet and it’s all about pie, not the math kind. Lastly, your besties answer queries about how to handle conflicts between coworkers, how to navigate roman...

Happy almost new year! To bring in good tidings to 2023, we are releasing another amazing episode of Best Friends from behind the paywall. On another episode of Besting Each Other, Nicole and Sasheer are joined by Casey Wilson + June Diane Raphael! Casey shares a story of June keeping energy high at Casey’s bachelorette party, and June gets teary-eyed remembering how Casey reached out to her their...

Happy Holidays! Our present to you is this classic episode from behind the paywall! On this week’s episode, best friends Lauren Lapkus and Laura Willcox join Nicole & Sasheer for another round of Besting Each Other. Laura shares their UCB roots, maintaining a long distance friendship, texting vs. calling, and Lauren’s unique eating habits. Then, Lauren joins to explain how kombucha is brewed,...

Sasheer went out to see My Chemical Romance and Nicole is NOT OKAY. Nonetheless, they both welcome the return of emo culture. Nicole may have gone out to play with a big dog the night before recording and is now in need of a “hair of the dog.” Speaking of dogs, Nicole and Sasheer investigate Bosco, Veronica’s Insurance practice partner and german shepherd. This leads them down the spiral of lawyer...

Is Love really blind? Will Nicole buy a boat? Who knows! What we do know is that Sasheer is a party ghost. Her body will make it to the party, but her soul may not. Nicole is not in a category in Sasheer’s party guest list, she is just #1! Meanwhile, Nicole is having a hard time being so cute and quirky, send help! Nicole and Sasheer LOVE reality tv, fake tears, closed-captioned “blowjobs” and all...

Sasheer will be returning to Hotlanta next year to play a super-secret role in the Agatha Spinoff of WandaVision! Another win in the books is Nicole finally acquiring glorious lasagna from Little Dom’s! Nicole was frightened, worried, and concerned for Sasheer’s safety when Sasheer landed in Atlanta for a few comedy shows, and quickly the scene became the movie Taken in Nicole’s mind. After a few...

We are re-releasing a classic episode from behind the paywall! Nicole and Sasheer welcome best friends Liza Treyger and Kara Klenk for another round of Besting Each Other! Hear all about how Liza and Kara met, tiki bar fishbowl drinks, eating until it hurts, Kara’s kind spirit, being Virgos, being too organized, tomatoes that make Nicole weep, match-making green rooms, ordering well, standing up f...

Nicole is surprised that a lot of Kmarts didn’t survive the times and how Target usurped Kmart. Regardless, Sasheer and Nicole absolutely love Target! Nicole saw 25 year olds dressed older than her and realized they could be her mom. Sasheer is making a new tradition to make her inner child happy by throwing a Holiday Beverage Party. Nicole and Sasheer want secondhand stores to know that they have...

Some days go really well and some not so much. On a day where Nicole would’ve found comfort in lasagna, there was none available. Meanwhile, Sasheer learned how to swim this year and finally surfed for the first time ever. As best friends going through different ebbs and flows, they can at least both agree that cooking is weird. Nicole just started meal prepping and absolutely hates it, while Sash...

Sasheer is melancholy about the abandonment of mashed potatoes at Sweet Chick, but at least she is a Delta Diamond Diva! Nicole would like to go on a date with Ed Bastian, become his Sky Baby, and soar all around the world! Both Sasheer and Nicole agree that they wouldn’t travel back in time, but Jordan would to prevent the Titanic wreck. They wrap things up by answering listener questions and han...

Sasheer proposes Nicole to D.A.R.E. to not have B.A.D. cigarettes. Nicole is on the hunt for an inexpensive thrusting type thing, perhaps a sex doll AI? Although Nicole is afraid of AI, she can be swayed! They take a quiz about what delicious and full of autumn spice treats they are, review the queries, and receive friendly reminders highlighting some memories from not TOO long ago.   Here is the...

Nicole has questions for Farm Rio: she loves them, but what is her true ordering size? Sasheer watched Dahmer and both she and Nicole agreed - yikes! However, they do like Joe and are excited for YOU. They take a quiz about what their eyes say about them, and lastly answer some questions with their natural -born leader abilities.   Here is the quiz from this week:  https://www.quizyourfriends.com/...

This week Nicole and Sasheer have a ghoulishly groovy time with friends Betsy Sodaro and Mano Agapion! Betsy answers her favorite things about the spooky season and how Mano loves to push her at the creepy monsters when they visit scary mazes and trails! Mano gives us the chills with a spooky tale from his supernatural experience while visiting Greece! Was it a dream or was it real? All will be re...

Nicole and Sasheer are Mejores Amigas! They discuss what they wish they had learned in school, Green Day’s Good Riddance , Nicole’s high school performances, their supportive parents, “Weird Wilhelmina,” show choir hair, and black face. They take a quiz to find out what kind of car they are (Nicole’s dreams come true!), and answer a listener questions on do friends let friends eat Chick-Fil-A. Plu...

News alert! Sasheer took a swim class, and Nicole is thrilled! This week, Nicole and Sasheer discuss why it’s hard for Sasheer to tread water, Nicole liking amusement parks now, why some planes don’t have tvs, and why Nicole’s assistant is so wonderful (great job Lyndsey!). They take a quiz to see if they are a Girl, Ghoul, or God, and answer listener questions about standing up for yourselves, an...

We almost missed some of the E’s! This week, Nicole and Sasheer discuss bra sizes, that Nicole is a real bird girl, getting some vinery, backyard wildlife, wild things Nicole has seen on Hoarders, all the hot goss from the Creative Arts Emmys and the after party, where to thrift the good stuff, how could they miss Gaga, and round french fries from Mama’s Shelter. They wrap things up by answering l...

HELLO HI HI HI THERE! This week Nicole and Sasheer talk about adult things like working on your air conditioner or washing machine, and what even is freon? Then they talk about adult things, like foot fetishes and couples who film themselves sexy for Instagram. We cover scary theme parks, how outhouses work, how GRAND the Grand Canyon is, and what kind of dinosaur everyone is in We’re Back.  They...

Sasheer! Nicole! This week, we are discussing Nicole’s recent singing lessons, why Sasheer hasn’t been listening to the newest Beyonce album, Sasheer’s gift to Nicole on Jimmy Kimmel (Check it out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVLGSn7xdv8 ), how Clyde is a rambunctious scoundrel, Nicole’s tooth drama, and is Sasheer scary? They take a quiz to see what their first impression is, hear from...

She’s feeling like the island! This week we have another Besting Each Other, with Adam Pally and Jon Gabrus! Adam shares about meeting on the improv team Havana Clambake, how Jon is like a gazelle… no wait… a dolphin, smoking weed recklessly, and who you would f*ck if your plane was going down. Jon Gabrus shares a favorite memory with Adam where they get a restaurant to open after hours in Italy,...

Now it’s Sasheer’s turn to be sleepy! This week on Best Friends, it’s Besting Each Other with Nava Kavelin & Penn Badgley! Nava shares her dreamy London day with Penn Badgley and his family, why you SHOULD use emojis when texting, and how Penn is good at keeping secrets (or just forgets the secret), and the perks of being a good neighbor. Penn shares how struck he was by Nava’s intelligence, p...

Nicole and Sasheer both have a bone to pick with Urban Outfitters. They also discuss how Nicole is a zoo woman, Sasheer’s potential fire pit, how banning Trump from Twitter is NOT the same as bakeries saying no to gay people, metaphors and analogies, Kamala’s wrong photo, Beyonce’s day and a gentle friendship request, manifesting, update on Nicole’s dog, growing up on bologna, Nicole’s glory hole,...

This week, Nicole and Sasheer reminisce over childhood movies with animals and whether the animals talked in them or not. Then they take a BuzzFeed quiz where picking your favorite cakes determines what Disney villain you are and Nicole is shook by the results! Afterwards, they answer fan questions which include whether to stay friends with an ex and dealing with a friend’s mean sister in Mexico....

This week Nicole buys Sasheer hot dog eating shorts in real time on the podcast. Then Nicole and Sasheer manifest their next career dreams, and Sasheer realizes she has opening weekend audience energy but always sees a movie after it’s been out for a few weeks. These two best friends continue to plan their trip to Africa which includes Nicole needing to see 111 species of lemurs. Then Nicole and S...

Nicole and Sasheer are unclear on when they last saw each other, but we are here together now at the Largo! They discuss what would happen if Nicole got stolen, lying about what you had for dinner, running into the Kirkland-brand “Elion” Musk, dive into the trailer for the new show “American Gigilo” as well as the classic “Touched by an Angel.”, and should Nicole get a bird?  They take a quiz to s...