Friends Like Us talk about the worth of an imperfect story and more...

Featured guests: Robin Montague- writer for Chris Rock Show, Pootie Tang, AXS TV "Live At Gotham", HBO's "Def Comedy Jam"; Erin Jackson- "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Last Comic Standing", Co-host for "Exhale" on Aspire TV, Worked with Wanda Sykes for OWN, NFL Network's Top Ten; Pat Brown- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Friends Like Us goes live at the Village Undergound in New York!

Featured guests: Aida Rodriguez- featured in Robert DeNiro’s latest film "The Comedian" a, Last Comic Standing Finalist, NuVo TV- Stand up and Deliver, and "The Nightly Show", Christina Greer - "The Nightly Show", Professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream.”; Pat Brown- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Jennifer Epps Addison, a leader with deep roots in Milwaukee, visits Friends Like Us! We talk about how you can help build movements in your city. What can you do to lead the resistance in your city? Will we get tired?

Featured guests: Jennifer Epps Addison - Network President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy. ; Terri Lynn Martin- Personal Trainer,Training folks in the 5 boroughs and NJ, www.facebook.com/terri.l.martin/about, former executive producer at NBC News and NBC Universal.; Pat Brown- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Angela Yee visits Friends Like Us! We talk comedy, Grammys, Adele's do-over, the Breakfast Club, and how Angela makes the most out of opportunities.

Featured guests: Angela Yee - Host of the nationally syndicated morning show "The Breakfast Club" along with DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God, an appearance on hit show "Empire"; and host of her own podcast "Lipservice", http://teamyee.tv ; Terri Lynn Martin- Personal Trainer,Training folks in the 5 boroughs and NJ, www.facebook.com/terri.l.martin/about, former executive producer at NBC News and NBC Universal.; Pat Brown- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Friends discuss the bubble? Is it real or a distraction? Also, Terri tells all about her adventures at the Womens' March in DC!

Featured guests: Marc Theobald - "Picking Up the Pieces" Tour with Tracy Morgan, Writer for new Tracy Morgan show, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, and Comedy Central’s "Chappelle’s Show"; Kyle Grooms - half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central, “Chappelle’s Show.”, P-Diddy’s “Bad Boys of Comedy,” Jamie Foxx’s “Laffapalooza,” VH1, and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,”; Terri Lynn Martin- Personal Trainer,Training folks in the 5 boroughs and NJ, www.facebook.com/terri.l.martin/about, former executive producer at NBC News and NBC Universal. Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Kyemah McEntyre, a talented student, went viral after designing her own prom dress. Friends get into the mind of Kye! What are the differences between millennials and the rest of us?

Featured guests: Kyemah McEntyre- A 19 year old artist attending Parson's New School of design, designed her own prom dress featured on "Fab Life" , created paper dolls for Elle.com, and she was featured in Teen Vogue; Janelle James - NBC Seeso's Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, @midnight on Comedy Central, Uproarious on Fuse, Just For Laughs Montreal's New Faces category for 2016, and named one of the The 50 Most Funny People in Brooklyn 2016; Pat Brown - The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Calise Hawkins and Zainab Johnson visit us from LA land! Friends discuss taking moments with trigger words that may be offensive and more...

Featured guest: Calise Hawkins - staff writer for @midnight on Comedy Central, story consultant for TruTV’s “Comedy Knockout”, contributing writer for NickMom.com, Russell Simmons Presents Stand Up At The El Rey and, "Late Night" with Seth Meyers; Zainab Johnson - HBO Russel Simmons' "All Def Comedy", NBC's "Last Comic Standing", Comedy Album:"Model Citizen" is available on iTunes; Pat Brown - The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Michelle Buteau is back! Friends talk about how they don't need a dominatrix, and so much more...

Featured guest: Michelle Buteau - Comedy Central Half Hour Special "Shut Up" on iTunes http://on.cc.com/1fTA7h9 and VH1; Pat Brown - The movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com;Chewy - Young new comedian and works for FriendsLikeUs Podcast; Always hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Friends talk with Dr. Janus Adams. She helps us to look forward and back. And we discuss her line: “You have to know when to leave the plantation”

Dr. Janus Adams Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, publisher, and producer, the author of eleven books; founder and publisher of BackPaxKids.com children's media, Go to www.JanusAdams.com, https://soundcloud.com/janusadams
Erin Jackson- "Last Comic Standing", Co-host for "Exhale" on Aspire TV, NFL Network's Top Ten; Pat Brown- BET, The Movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com;
Always Hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"

Friends talk with Kurt Metzger about venting on social media, religion, black laughter, and more...

Featured: Kurt Metzger- writer for "Inside Amy Schumer" and "Chappelle Show", the voice of Randall Skeffington in Comedy Central's animated series Ugly Americans, Comedy Central special: "Kurt Metzger: White Precious"; Kerry Coddett - MTV2 "Joking off" and The Nightly Show, Comedy Central's comics to watch; Pat Brown- BET, The Movie "White Water", Winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, New Album on sale: "SexTape" at comedianpatbrown.com;
Always Hosted by Marina Franklin: "Trainwreck", "Louie Season V","The Jim Gaffigan Show", "Conan O'Brien", and Louie's "Horace and Pete"