Best Supporting Podcast

According to Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis, we all just won an Oscar! This week we’re bringing the first half of the Aftershow from Patreon to the main feed to discuss the highlights (and a small handful of lowlights) of the 4 and a half hour epic that was the Oscars. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won almost everything, when it wasn’t “All Quiet on the Western Front” everywhere, incl...

We can’t imagine a universe where we don’t love “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and its quantum leaping cast of Oscar nominees (and hopefully winners this weekend!). Michelle Yeoh is, in fact, everything, we want to see Ke Huy Quan everywhere after his awards season sweep, and all at once Jamie Lee Curtis has become our Hollyweird queen. Plus: Stephanie Hsu on a bagel, best supporting Becky, t...

On this week's Patreon preview of the Best Supporting Aftershow, we queen out on the 2023 SAGs and all of its feel-good wins, especially the Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep, Michelle Yeoh and her noisy dress, Brendan Fraser's raw emotions and really, Jamie Lee Curtis's presence in general. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow, the complete season 1 recap of "SMASH" and early access to...

We’re revisiting a childhood staple through the fresh eyes of an adult this week as Colin introduces Nick to “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”! And more importantly to Rose Lindsey, brought to exquisite life by Joanna Cassidy in that red wig and that massive jar of candy that we discuss at length this episode. Plus Jayne Brook’s iconic villainess Carolyn, Kimmy Robertson as Best Supporting Ca...

Who knew a Marvel movie could have so much wall to wall lady acting? Angela Bassett earns a much deserved Oscar nomination as Queen of Grief Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” with a monologue that rivals a certain infamous dinner table meltdown. But we also get Best Supporting Okoye, Queen Michaela Cole, Iron Riri, LUPITA, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s purple streak, Shuri’s grief journey, Namo...

We’re revisiting the 70’s by way of the 90’s in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights”! Mark Wahlberg shines as porn star on the rise Dirk Diggler surrounded by an ensemble of Hollywood somebodies, including Oscar nominated Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, and QUEEN Philip Seymour Hoffman. To say nothing of Joanna Gleason going full Me...

Birthday Girl's Choice continues this week with Nick's pick: the original Broadway production of "Rent," featuring most of the original cast in its final performance, to say nothing of "Hamilton" BSA Renee Elise Goldsberry as Mimi and Eden Espinosa sending us over the moon as Maureen. Much to Colin's existential delight, this is far from the peak of musical theatre cringe but is actually a beautif...

It’s the first of two Birthday Girl’s Choices this week! We are finally talking about 1996’s “House Arrest," featuring recent Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis, plus alums of the podcast Caroline Aaron, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, and of course one of Mavis Turner’s best supporting tappers, Sheila McCarthy! Despite two egregiously cringey montages, this mid-90s hostage comedy...

This week we’re screaming the praises of Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin”! Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are perfectly cast (and dressed, in those sweaters!) as best friends navigating a sudden breakup that gets increasingly grim, morphing from Irish folklore to Greek tragedy by the end. Kerry Condon is our ring-side proxy for this battle as the Best Supporting Sister Who Stays, w...

We are a parallelogram of mixed emotions this week! "Triangle of Sadness" is not for everyone, and certainly not for weak stomachs. But if you like bickering models, a surreal upstairs/downstairs scenario on a superyacht full of the filthy rich, Woody Harrelson as a drunken Marxist captain, an absolute orgy of seasickness, a little Lord of the Flies in the third act and a final twist literally rig...

We're kicking off 2023 by looking back at 2022! This week we're counting down our best supporting actresses, shows, television events, home upgrades, pets and podcasts from the past year. Spoiler alert: Diane Keaton is on the list. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow, the complete season 1 recap of "SMASH" and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@...

We’re continuing to revisit our childhood BSA’s this week with 1995’s prestigious melodrama for 11 year old girls and gay men over 30, “A Little Princess”! Liesel Matthews gives a queen level performance as the Dickensian Sarah, squaring off against Eleanor Bron’s merciless Miss Minchin at her boarding school circa World War I. We also get Amelia Minchin giving big Kathy Najimy energy, Sarah’s bes...

It was only a matter of time before we dedicated an episode to “It Takes Two,” the 1995 Olsen twins’ take on “The Parent Trap.” This was no Oscar contender but honestly, get ready to get swept UP. it has the late and sometimes great Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg in his daddy prime, plus Queen Philip Bosco, Jane Sibbett and her dancing hands, wildly inconsistent accents, Canada as New York, Be...

A lot of attention goes to Chevy Chase and the yuletide foibles of Clark Griswold in this 1989 holiday classic, but our favorite part of "Christmas Vacation" is of course Diane Ladd in those glasses as Clark's doting mother Nora. And we have to recognize Best Supporting Beverly D'Angelo as the occasionally absurd Ellen, Queen Mae Questel as Aunt Bethany, and honestly, Randy Quaid's pitch perfect e...

They're called BSA's, Ed. While 2000's "Erin Brockovich" is best known as Julia Roberts' Oscar at long last, it also features a deservedly nominated Albert Finney as her unlikely sidekick/boss, Ed Masry, and Marg Helgenberger doing a lot of the movie's emotional lifting as featured Hinkley resident and bundt cake maker Donna Jensen. Plus Erin's kids are just great, even the baby! We have a lot to...

This HBO movie is a hidden gem from 2002, despite earning a pair of best supporting Emmy's for film legends Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, a nomination for Juliette Lewis, and one very deserved Golden Globe for star Uma Thurman. Beautifully directed by Mira Nair (of "Monsoon Wedding"!), "Hysterical Blindness" is a heartbreaking slice of Debby Miller's life in 1980's New Jersey and her unfortunate...

We’re continuing our love affair with Dakota Johnson and our appreciation of witches this week with 2018’s “Suspiria”! We get Tilda Swinton doing triple duty with not nearly enough recognition, Mia Goth as Best Supporting Sarah, a coven of distinguished European actresses including Angela Winkler’s magical 11th hour micromoment, the DANCING, the themes and metaphors we definitely don’t fully grasp...

Much to our surprise, Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" came out at the beginning of this summer, not sometime last year, and has just been shimmying under the radar as the funny, feel-good coming of age story of an up and coming motivational dancer for the local Bar Mitzvah circuit. There is surprisingly zero cringe and plenty of actressing from Leslie Mann as his nameless mother, Odeya Rush a...

The original 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” is the stuff of childhood trauma, but for us adult actressexuals, it’s 90 minutes of queen, icon and star Anjelica Huston at her grand dame greatest, plus nuanced Jim Henson puppets, Mr. Bean, Brenda losing her Blethyns, Mai Zetterling’s truly great grandma, and bowls of delicious cress soup, preferably with bread. We discuss the scariest...

After the production that was last week's episode, we're taking it easy with a casual fall catch-up this week. We discuss the Jamie Lee Curtis multiverse, Colin’s career path, Nick’s new addition to the family, The Watcher, an Office rewatch, Patti Lupone’s autobiography, Sally Field’s memoir, the Tár experience, the schlocky horror classic “The Fan”, reasons to watch “Hocus Pocus 2” and The First...

Awards season has officially begun, at least on this podcast, as we celebrate another year of great performances with The Westons! We're looking back on the last 12 months of episodes to recognize the best supporting sisters, friends, moms and other scene-stealers we've loved. Plus: we induct a new batch of Queens, look back fondly on the Housewives, give out the prestigious Rita Moreno Award for...

We’re taking a week off on the main feed to prepare for a very special episode next week! Instead here is this week’s discussion of “Smash” from Patreon, featuring friend of the pod Amanda Kuchinski (We Love to Hate Everything, We Love to Hate TV, Total Requests Podcast)! This week we chart the dramatic highs in the Houston household and the cringeworthy Times Square set lows of “Hell on Earth”! K...

This week on Smash Derek decides to "take the show in a new direction," Eileen's daughter shows up, and Ellis weasels his way into Eileen's inner circle, (and the back of her car). Julia shouts at a judge for no reason, we are treated to the worst bowling musical number of all time, and Tom and Derek fight like cats and gayer cats. What's not to love? Join us for SEASON 1 of "SMASH" and get early...

Brevity is the soul of wit, and Emma Thompson is the heart and soul of 2001's "Wit," co-written and directed by Mike Nichols. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by one and done wonder Margaret Edson, "Wit" takes us through the grueling cancer treatment of Thompson's Vivian Bearing, a largely lonely experience except for the presence of Best Supporting Susie. played by living legend Audra McD...

Is it hot in here? This week on Smash The Workshop is in full swing, Karen records a demo for Bobby Raskin, and Leigh Conroy has entered the chat! Tom continues to impress us with his one liners, Julia almost ralphs into her scarf, and we say BYE BYE to the lecherous Michael Swift. The episode concludes a bounty of touching moments as Leigh Conroy finally tells Ivy that is a star in the making and...