Holy heck do we have fun with Ally Maki on today's episode! Now you obviously know Ally from Shortcomings and The Big Door Prize or from just about 1000 other things... Hacks, Toy Story 4, Wrecked, Cloak & Dagger, but boy oh boy, you don't *know* Ally until you hear our chat! An innocuous question about Ally's Wikipedia page leads us down a rabbit hole of how she lived in an early-aughts version of a Hype House 1000 miles away from her family, and, well, we do talk about other stuff, like therapy as per uzshe, but really Ally goes in depth into her days as one of THE KIDS IN THE HOUSE! PLU ..read more

Our pal Emily joins us this week for a lovely hour of laffs, and friends, surely you know Emily from her stand-up, from her writing career - as an Emmy-winner writer on Barry, or as a writer on other great shows like The Great North - or even from her BRAND NEW Jeopardy podcast What Is... ? A Jeopardy! Podcast. But on today's EXCITING INSTALLMENT, you will get to know Emily THE PERSON! We talk about anxiety attacks and blown-out thyroids, award voting for spite, how Trump's election directly led to her marriage and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask ..read more

Tyrel Jackson Williams is in two of the best comedies of the last handful of years, Brockmire and Party Down, but waaaaay before those shows, Tyrel got his start as a child actor, playing a younger version of his brother on Everybody Hates Chris, playing one of Shirley's kids on Community, and tons of other things including the Disney show Lab Rats. We talk all about the how being a child actor psychologically screws with you, how wHite Hollywood makes you question who you are, being too queer for some black spaces and too black for some queer spaces, and how Tyrel began to figure some of this ..read more

The sequel to our 200th episode A Cavalcade of Stars, that's right, folks, it's our 300th episode 2 Cavalcade of Stars! We invited six of our favorite guests from the last 100 or so episodes plus a guest we've always wanted to have on before to chat for a short while and then each answer one advice question, and the result is a JAM-PACKED THREE AND A HALF HOUR EPISODE! (And let me tell you, listeners, the audio software we use to edit this/adjust the levels really HATES files this large... but it was worth wrangling them to bring you this GIANT-SIZED special episode!) We've got stand-up Jay J ..read more

The creator and star of the brilliant Hulu (by way of BBC3) show Such Brave Girls Kat Sadler joins us today, and boy oh boy are we glad we got to hang out for an hour with her! Not only is Kat's show great, but Kat herself is awesome, and we get into the time her therapist cried, mental health in the UK, the crisis that got her into therapy, dating, British comedy and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter! Support the show on Patreon (two extra exclusive episode ..read more

This was our first time meeting Rashida, but OF COURSE, we knew her from Jury Duty, and of course you know her from that, as well as, as a writer on great shows like South Side and Sherman's Showcase, and in the future you will know her from the new Marvel series Ironheart! And on this episode, taped back on Superbowl Sunday, we get in DEEP about cis male insecurity and how that manifests in Rashida's dating life, which seems to be populated by trifling and vainglorious pricks out to waste her time! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, ca ..read more

We've known Jes for a decade now, but on today's episode we get to *know* Jes! Of course, you, dear listener, know Jes as a stand-up, a writer for Our Flag Means Death, you've seen them in Crush, Love Life or Tuca and Bertie or perhaps you've seen their off-Broadway show Less Lonely or STARTING TODAY, doing a set as part of Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda Netflix special! And on today's episode, we talk about the romantic and existential lessons Jes learned from doing Less Lonely, hooking up with men, and lots more stuff, including a real discussion on fame and whether it's actually worth it. PL ..read more

We've admired Kay Cannon for years, both as a funny comedian and a cool person, and boy howdy, does she live up to both on today's episode! Now, you know Kay as a writer for 30 Rock and New Girl, as the writer of all three Pitch Perfect films and as the director of Cinderella and Blockers, but today we get to know Kay the human being! We talk about an eventful 20 minutes of therapy, being emotionally prefigured to deal with Hollywood, the difficulties of divorce and so much more! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 ..read more

In this improvised comedy podcast, Ike Barinholtz stars as controversial shock jock host Chris Chatman. Chatman’s hit podcast was canceled but he's listened, learned, and is back on the mic to finally win over a few female listeners. Or maybe even just one. In each episode, Chatman and his co-hosts Frankie (Lisa Gilroy) and the Professor (Neil Casey) unpack hot-button issues with expert guests but offend pretty much everyone in the process. Guest stars include Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, Ashley Nicole Black, Carla Cackowski, Craig Cackowski, Liz Cackowski, Jessica St. Clair, E.R. Fightmaster ..read more

Our friend Erin Whitehead joins us this week for a wide-ranging talk about the mating habits of snails, the dangers of black mold, and the time she dated a guy who lived in a warehouse. Plus SO MUCH MORE! Erin's the best, and of course you know her as the co-host of the amazing podcast College Town on Comedy Bang! Bang! World or from her improv group Wild Horses or, as I found out while googling her name for a picture for this episode's Instagram post, as Nurse Papson on Scrubs! (Erin, if you are reading this description, the next time you are on, you MUST tell us about your Scrubs experience ..read more