Couples Therapy

Pat Regan, stand-up, co-host of Seek Treatment, writer for the Emmy Award-winning HBO Max show Hacks, yes, THAT Pat Regan joins us today for a good ol' country hoedown, uh, you know, but without a fiddle, barn or any actual dancing. We talk everything from gettin' sober to Pat's first real relationship to being one of the "irony kids" (Andy's phrase), and of course, lots of talk about what a UCB S...

Welcome to an EPIC EPISODE with the delightful Dulcé Sloan! Dulcé was on the live show in New York a few years ago, and she was so wonderful that we had to have her back for a longer talk! Of course you know her from The Great North, from the Daily Show, from her stand-up and from tons of other things, but now you get to hear about her journey to freeze her eggs, how she told a trash-ass former pr...

What a wonderful time we had with Jana Schmieding on this week's episode! You know Jana as a writer and co-star of the fantastic Peacock show Rutherford Falls, and now you can get to know her a lil' better. Growing up in the, as Naomi called it, "white ethno-state of Oregon" to discussing her recent dates with a rocket scientist to her tales of "chasing toxic tail"! PLUS, of course, we answer YOUR...

Mitch Silpa's videos - specifically Two Old Queens Who've Just a Minute to Catch Up!, which he made with friend of the show/friend IRL Drew Droege - have brought us closer as a couple, and now let our interview with Mitch bring you even closer with YOUR loved ones! Of course you know Mitch from Bridesmaids, Spy, All Rise and tons of other stuff, but now get to know him through our probing question...

Call us Tim Hardaway cuz we've got a killer crossover for you today! (And yes, I had to look up that reference - I couldn't tell you what team Hardaway played for, let alone what era he played in... the '90s?). Andrew Farmer and Anna Drezen are the hosts of Scary Stories to Tell on the Pod (which we were on last week!), and they both also write for Miracle Workers and on top of that Anna is the co...

Kate is one of our newer friends here in Los Angeles, and what a delight it was to have her on the show where we can be nosy under the guise of an interview! Of course you know Kate Micucci from Garfunkel and Oates or Scrubs or DuckTales or whew, I could just keep listing things for days! But now get to know her from her sheltered days in Nazareth, PA to the dating boom of her mid-20s to how she m...

We first met Roz Hernandez when Naomi was on her stand-up show that she hosted with (friend of the show friend IRL) Sam Pancake, and since then, whenever we see her at parties or shows, it's a real treat! Roz, of course, hosts the wonderful Starburns podcast Ghosted! By Roz Drezfalez in addition to acting and performing stand-up, and on THIS VERY EP, we get to know her SOUL! Hear about the strange...

One of our most requested guests Bridger Winegar joins us today for a Latter Day Saints symposium and a bevy of the best advice questions under this here ol' sun! Bridger is a superstar writer who's penned jokes for Jimmy Kimmel, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Corporate, Single Parents, Black Monday and more, and his podcast I Said No Gifts!, is just a darn delight! Today we learn the secrets of the C...

What's this? A Friday episode? That's right, folks, we're doing TWO episodes this week, and today we've got killer stand-up Yamaneika Saunders! You might know Yamaneika from The Meredith Vieira Show, Last Comic Standing, The Tonight Show or maybe her Comedy Central and Netflix specials! We certainly know Yam from that, and also from watching her recaps of 90 Day Fiance on Instagram years ago (whic...

Michael Cyril Creighton has been one of our favs for a longtime. You've seen him on High Maintenance, Spotlight, The Good Wife (!!!), Only Murders in the Building and soon Dexter: New Blood! And now you can *hear* about his terrible box office jobs, the TRUTH about Irish-Catholics, how he met his husband, and call us Shirley and Co., cuz we discuss SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!PLUS, of course, we answer YO...

Aidy Bryant is one of the best (humans, comedians) in the game, and I hope you're ready for an hour of absolutely loveliness! Of course you know her from SNL. Of course you know her from Shrill. But do you *know* her, you know? You will in approximately 70 minutes! We talk high school loves, meeting your future husband at 21, having midwestern vibes, how therapy helped after being cast on SNL and...

Our old pal H. Alan Scott, comedian, podcaster, drag queen and more joins us today for a refreshing tour of Los Angeles sex parties and California chemotherapy! You might know H. Alan from his wonderful podcast with (friends of the show, friends IRL) Eliot Glazer and Brent Sullivan, You're Making It Worse or his former Golden Girls podcast Out on the Lanai! Or maybe you've seen Latter Day Jew, the...

Langston, Langston, Langston, that's right, we've got stand-up and writer Langston Kerman on the show today, and what a barnburner it is! If you don't know Langston, he's written for everything from Pause with Sam Jay to the Oscars to Kenan and acted in everything from The Boys to Insecure to Bless This Mess. And on today's episode, we discuss how he knew his wife was the one, his "famously caucas...

Another power couple?! On Couples Therapy!?! That's right! Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger - you know them from comedy, acting and comics, and of course, their brand new podcast Did You Get My Text? And now you get to hear them right here for an hour of fun, chuckles and more emotions than you can shake a therapist at! We talk about how to be assertive, how to not invite shitty relatives to yo...

Creator of Comedy Crossing, stand-up and writer Jenny Yang joins us today (you might also know Jenny as a former writer for Busy Tonight and as one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" in 2020), and what a gosh darn joy it was! We taped this a lil' while ago when Mabel had first started peeing everywhere, and we really needed this talk to drag us out of our despair! Jenny tells us all about the void...

Podcast queen and power couple Lauren Lapkus and Mike Castle might just be The Most Wholesome Couple™ we've ever had on the show! Lauren's been in everything from Jurassic World to Orange is the New Black to Good Girls, and Mike starred in the Netflix show Brews Brothers, and despite existing in the Hollyweird Hellscape, they are both normal, down-to-Earth folks and absolutely lovely humans! Today...

Beneath the bitboy exterior beats a heart of... well, we'll find out! This week we're joined by MaxFun founder Jesse Thorn and author of the new graphic novel Bubble Jordan Morris (who also host the podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go!) - they've been friends for two decades, and we DIG DEEP INTO THEIR PSYCHES and PUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP ON THE DISSECTION TABLE to see what makes it tick! Plus an emotional hist...

We hope you enjoy the feeling of enjoyment, because we've got two people on today's show that radiate fun and cheer like a gosh darn neutron bomb! That's right, Chris Colfer and Ashley Fink of Glee join us for a gold ol' fashioned recorded hang. Chris and Ashley were part of the reason we started to like LA, and on this episode, we talk all about SABOTEUR STANS, SHOWBIZ SHERPAS and THE SOCIAL CURR...

Paul Scheer was in the "graduating class" at UCB a few years before we started there, so besides making a lot of cool stuff we like (How Did This Get Made?, Black Monday, Human Giant, The League, Unspooled, Crash Test and so on!) - which would already make us nervous to talk to him - there's also an extra aura of "freshmen talking to a senior" that made us ANXIOUS before we started recording. HOWE...

This week, we take a bit of a detour from the "usge" as we talk to, as Naomi calls them, "the hot version of us", yes that's right Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton, two the stars of the Netflix reality show Love is Blind! Lauren and Cameron were on the whistlestop tour for their new book Leap of Faith when they Zoomed into our apartment, and what an absolute freakin' delight they were! We get int...

Cool customer and hot comedian Joel Kim Booster (Singled Out, Big Mouth, Urgent Care pod, stand-up... more!) makes his triumphant return to the pod, and baby, even though he is fighting food poisoning, we are just basking in his presence! How might Joel make a tractor show better? Find out inside! What kind of relationship shape might Joel be open to? Find out inside! Should we make "I get it, you...

Star of stage and screen Jason Butler Harner (oh, you know, from OZARK, neXt, HOMELAND... an episode of Andy's personal fav THE GOOD WIFE... and of course numerous on and off-Broadway plays!) joins us for a fun-as-heck episode where we get into Jason's pandemic wedding, House Hunter International sound effects, living the movie Beginners PLUS, of course, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd l...

You've heard Ryan O'Connell and Punam Patel on the show previously on their own, and now hear the creator and stars of the COMPLETELY BRILLIANT Netflix show SPECIAL here on the show TOGETHER! Guess what, Ryan and Punam are friends in real life and their platonic chemistry practically drips into your ears (ew?) in this episode. We talk about Special and on-screen (and off-screen) sex, Ryan's desire...

Sydnee Washington, podcaster (Hobby Hunter), stand up (co-host of Comedy at the Knitting Factory) and all around good human has graced our live show a number of times , but now we get to talk to her for an hour on her own, and baby, what an hour it is! We talk to Sydnee about hew new gf, being a "top-tier lesbian", not knowing how to date... Also, in a RINGING ENDORSEMENT, Sydnee calls us, "A hete...

I mean, what a TREAT! Maybe you heard our earlier episode featuring Garfunkel and Oates performing on our live show, but NOW we got to sit down with Riki Lindhome herself for an hour and DISH! (And of course you know Riki FROM Garfunkel and Oates, Another Period, Knives Out, Duncanville and like, tons more) We talk all about the STRANGE town Riki grew up in, having a positive attitude, being boy c...