Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald

Zach and Donald have known Charlotte Lawrence since before she was a baby. Now, she's all grown up. Charlotte recently completed a tour with Madison beer and had a fabulous turn on  Bad Monkey, where she sang a duet with THE Paul McCartney! She discusses her thoughts on being a nepo baby, why Johnny C kicked her and bestie Olivia Rodrigo out of his house, and what it's like to finally start f...

Relive the very first episode where Zach and Donald talk about filming in an abandoned hospital, discuss the audition process, and explain why they were so starstruck by Sarah Chalke, aka Dr. Eliot.    Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joel McHale's built his career with guest comedy host spots and catapulted to The Soup. He tells us about how he worked through his dyslexia and doing live teleprompter readings navigating the rise and fall of daytime talk television, and how he juggles so many jobs concurrently and the "horrors" of working with Sarah Chalke. Plus he talks about the celebrity basketball club with Donald. Zach fina...

On this week's episode, JD finds a list of things he wanted to accomplish before he turned 30. When he discovers he has accomplished none of them, he enters a triathlon. In the real world, we remember that time Tom Hanks became a superstar, the collapse of Victoria's Secret, and that Lord photo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to our annual relisten of the best Scrubs' Christmas episode. In this week's episode, Turk questions his faith after a particularly difficult Christmas in the ER. In the real world, Zach and Donald recount the inspirations behind one of the best dream sequences in Scrubs' history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zach and Donald went to Vegas and shut the F1 circuit down. They partied with Snoop Dog and had an awkward encounter with Michael Fassbender. It's a road trip for the books, and they're breaking it all down for you. Plus, new Scrubs! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brett Goldstein's been listening to Fake Doctors since the beginning, and we may have a new number-one fan. He tells us about his first time working with Donald Faison on the pilot Spced Out. Zach tells us about the first time he met Brett while working on Ted Lasso. We also learned that Brett's mom likes to text during movies. Donald and Brett share their mutual love of Jason Segel's Muppets movi...

Michael Urie of Shrinking and Ugly Betty fame joined us and shared his storied career, from being booted from his Broadway debut to straight men discovering him in Shrinking. He laments the woes of auditioning and the awkwardness of announcing you went to Juliard. Plus, CaCee and Zach are watching Anatomy of a Lie and are enraptured by the national scandal. Zach and Donald debate how far is too fa...

Ronald Gladden looked for a job online and wound up in a real-life Truman Show when he learned the documentary he signed up for was actually a reality TV show where he was the main character. Since Jury Duty became a national sensation, Gladden moved to Los Angeles and began a new life. But he never forgot who he is: a down-to-earth, hard-working, nice guy. Zach and Donald talk to Gladden about da...

Scott Galloway, also known as Professor G, made a career in business. In today's episode, he discusses how he made his first million and why he chose to move on from the rat race and center his family. Professor Galloway discusses everything from how the culture can help produce healthier young men, the damage social media does to the psyche, how the addiction to cell phones has reduced the "slow-...

Nicole Sullivan walks us through her break out role on Mad TV, her loving relationship with our favorite gal, Christa Miller, and how she discovered her talent amongst a team of superstars.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rick Glassman is an actor and comedian. You know him from the TV show Undateable and the film A Futile and Stupid Gesture. But you probably know Rick best for his hit podcast Take Your Shoes Off, where he gets personal about his life and the Autism level 1 diagnosis he received when he was 30.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zach and Donald are joined by relationship guru and British heartthrob Matthew Hussey to discuss all things meeting, courting, and figuring out love. Sorry ladies, he's taken. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isabelle Fuhrman got her big break when she was cast as the titular character in the horror film The Orphan. Not to be undone, she quickly followed that up by appearing in The Hunger Games. Going completely against casting, she was younger and smaller than they were originally looking for, and she blew everyone away with her performance. And then, during the pandemic, she became a doula! Her infec...

Brian Baumgartner is best known as Kevin from The Office. He outlines the series' rapid growth on DVDs, streaming, and the video iPod after its original run on NBC. The series' universal reliability, impeccably stacked cast, and four-episode arcs helped make it a classic. A theater kid at heart, Brian stumbled into television acting after falling in love with Los Angeles.  See omnystudio.com/liste...

Heather Graham gets out of our dreams and into our podcast. She tells us about working with the Coreys, Vince Vaughn, Eddie Murphy, and Mark Wahlberg on her second visit to the show. Zach and Donald play crooners and sing to the woman of our dreams. She talks about adding her iconic skates from Boogie Nights to the Academy Museum, and what it was like to be part of the pop culture experience that...

Henry Winkler learned he was dyslexic while helping his son with a school project. He and Donald discuss what it's like to be an actor who frequently reads in front of large groups with a disability. Later, Winkler wrote 40 children's books with his partner Lin Oliver. Mr. Winkler walks us through his time on Happy Days, watching Ron Howard evolve into a director, and the first time he saw Robin W...

Vanessa and Xander make their triumphant return to Fake Doctors to tell us about butt stuff, and how to keep the wife happy. Just a reminder - this one isn't for the kids. Enjoy! Go to vmtherapy.com for Vanessa's guides. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Queen of the Internet, the video game icon, and the Friends color barrier breaker, Aisha Tyler, breaks down her career from Talk Soup to her new brand of cocktails, losophe. She talks about the legacy of Friends and the animal that is sitcom performing. She and Donald gush about their love of animation. Tyler's role as Lana Cane on Archer  came about because of her passion for Sealab 2021.  Plus,...

Dr. Deren Bagsby isn't your typical surgeon. He's an orthopedic surgeon who, for charity, marathons performing surgery. Working near Fort Brag, Dr. Bagsby recognized the area where he works was critically low on orthopedic surgeons. So, he challenged himself to do 3k units of surgery in a single month. He tells us about inappropriate patients, how to cure tennis elbow, and the accuracy of Scrubs. ...

Craig Robinson took the bit role of Darryl on The Office into a career-launching mainstay in the ensemble. After years of sharpening his skills on the road as a musician and comedian, Robinson took off. From Chicago school teacher/ club bouncer to Def Jam Comedy Tours and Hot Tub Time Machine, Robinson discusses the time he auditioned for The Fourty-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up , how a keyboard...

Ever wonder how the CIA gets an informant to trust them? Do you want to know which movies get the CIA right? Former high-level CIA operatives John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea walk Zach and Donald through how they would craft fake conspiracies to help solve real crimes. Learn what kind of person the CIA is looking for and how you could become a member.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Tony Hale went from weird guy on the commercials to co-lead in Arrested Development to starring in Veep, arguably one of the most influential comedies of the past decade. Along the way, he's been learning to conquer his fear, something Inside Out 2 helped him immensely. Now, he's got a new show about the pandemic, not Covid, but the plague. The Decameron is out on Netflix now . See omnystudio.com/...

In our second interview, we welcome the legendary Billy Dee Williams to the show. Mr. Williams tells us about his passion for painting, how to play heartthrob, and why he doesn't believe children should work.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jon Cryer's been a star since he was a teenager, but there were a few years in the middle when he wasn't sure if anyone cared about him as a performer. But he made his own way, throwing himself into his passion and waiting for the right deal. The hilarious actor talks to Zach and Donald about his varied love for all things sci-fi, his early Broadway performance following Matthew Broderick, and wha...