Episode 105: Jim & Jeannie Gaffigan
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This week, Sara and Nikki relive their surreal evening spent amongst random celebrities and teenage screams. Comedy power couple and Gaffigan (, & ) make their triumphant to the podcast and speculate about the pitfalls of Taylor-level fame. Jim's new book, Dad is Fat, drops next week, but you should now just in case. Written with Jeannie and inspired by their five kids, the book is an astonishingly hilarious and oppressively addicting collection of essays on fatherhood. For the rest of the hour, the gang discusses collaborating with a writing partner, treating...
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Episode 104: Al Madrigal
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This week, Sara and Nikki reannounce of their really great TV show Nikki & Sara LIVE (thanks for watching!) before quickly introducing their guest, comedian (The Daily Show, ). Al's new standup special premieres on Comedy Central this Friday April 26, making this episode the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the grueling road sets and iffy TV spots that have gotten him this far. It's "gratitude and caution", Sara points out, that keep a comic sane as he strives through those early days, dreaming of a time when he'll have earned the respect and admiration of both his peers...
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Episode 103: Sue Costello
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This week, Sara and Nikki are personally invited to a out in Jersey and neither snow nor rain nor violent food poisoning will stay these girls from . Comic and birthday girl (, The Fighter, ) takes the ladies through her one-woman show I Wasn't Trying To Be Funny for which she's currently raising money to bring to a broader audience through Kickstarter (). The show covers Sue's entire comedic career thus far, from the highs of being discovered at an elderly bringer show to the improbably unlucky lows of jealous mentors and hindering home runs, and how through it all she's...
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Episode 102: Chris Fairbanks
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This week, Sara and Nikki quash a bout of podcaster's block by brainstorming new ways for Nikki to find dates. Their guest (, , truTV's World's Dumbest), a comic who graced the stage at YHTBT's first , takes this theme and runs with it first through the dark depths of sexual insanity and later around the whimsies of deceptive dating and pubic quilts. To close, the three talk pee about , friend-of-the-'cast 's existence, and Buzzfeeder 's timely tweets....
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Episode 101: Moshe Kasher
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This week, Sara and Nikki declassify the events surrounding last week's torrent of celebrity encounters, codenamed "Zero Dark Flirty". Comic (, podcast) barely makes it past MTV's team of New World Order security guards in time to plug with Natasha Leggero this very weekend and reminisce about his last barfight. Moshe, whose dark and hilarious memoir was published last year, has been cutting his way through the jungle of the LA TV biz and he comes armed with tales of treacherous table-reads and wise words for tackling rampant self-doubt. The gang talks a little pee about...
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Episode 100: Mike Birbiglia
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This week, Sara and Nikki just barely evade the censors and then react to Nikki's illicit half hour special gifts. To celebrate their first triple-digit episode, the ladies entertain one of their biggest guests yet: (). In Sara's humble office, the trio kick around some themes Mike covered in his recent movie , like crazy dreams and on-stage stress. Later, they get to some he left out too, like the isolation of marriage and the optimism of cell division. Plus Kanye. They really cover it all. Talking Pee singles out , that new , a positive Internet...
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Episode 99: Michael Che
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This week, Sara and Nikki conduct a no-nonsense all-business intro before announcing their pick for the YHTBT-designed listener-proposed website to be created on Squarespace: an entire site exclusively devoted to Talking Pee. The ladies welcome comic (, , soon SNL) to discuss the art of calling out an audience's oversensitivity regarding such topics as race or bulldogs. The trio touch upon all the complications and potential depression of watching porn and end up highlighting a host of real-world gestures, scents, and compliments that do a better job of turning them on...
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Episode 98: Andrew W.K.
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This week, Sara and Nikki react live on-mic to their first taste of the (or at least to the best bits, until all that wacky jumping business). After considering to which drug is most similar, the ladies share some dark thoughts and weird feelings that follow them through life and the causes and goals that help them cope. Looking like a badass angel from a half-remembered dream (probably involving cereal), , , and professional partier suddenly appears to give one crazy-entertaining interview. Besides discussing the many merits of the Internet and his , Andrew riffs on...
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Episode 97: Yannis Pappas
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This week, Nikki and Sara marvel at how, two weeks in, they've already gotten used to the process of making their television show. Sara recently saw Django Unchained in a now-rare moment of free time and when she says she liked it, Brooklyn-born comic and certified "grown man" (see ) (, ) offers his wholehearted agreement. After flinging fury at Brooklyn's bogus new neighborhoods, Philly's sports obsessions, and Beantown's general demeanor, Yannis tells the story of the shooting that shoved him into maturity early on in his career. The trio muse a bit on their futile little...
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Episode 96: Jessimae Peluso
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This week, Sara and Nikki share the terror and elation of hosting Tuesday's premiere of while momentarily shutting out the demands of judgy Twitterers and next week's show. Local comic and new friend () leads the ladies in a vivid chat about the vicious zits faced by all three at some point in their lives. In a surprise cameo, Drunk Diddy himself pipes in to postulate the perfect pustule-killing potion. Eventually the topic shifts to something more embarrassing than acne: the cocky posturing nearly every stand-up commits when starting out. ...
info_outlineThis week, Nikki and Sara borrow a studio deep within the Nerdist HQ to bring you more LA updates. Having recently regained consciousness, Sara explains her humbling near-death experience with a bug. Then Nikki tells what was going through her mind during her wholly successful Conan set and shares the compliments the host/her hero paid afterward. In continuing the theme Teen Stars Done Good (see ep. 80), this week's guest is Nikki DeLoach (The All New Mickey Mouse Club, Awkward.) Nikki was a part of the MMC cast with Spears, Gosling, and Timberlake and lived the 90s fantasy of girl groups, perms, and popstar boyfriends. After some reminiscing, Nikki details how she broke out of the machine and strove to get herself educated and acclimated to a realer world. Before long, she reentered the industry with the perspective required to tackle more challenging projects, like her current role as the extremely imperfect mother Lacey on MTV's Awkward. The episode closes on a very thorough pee-talking session featuring sincere shout-outs to Chris Gethard for his brilliant letter to a troubled fan, Greg Fitzsimmons for his unrivaled podcast, and the fundraisers springing up in Nikki D's hometown to support a girl with cancer. Dig in.