Shut Up I Love It

As Terry Crews continues making the headlines in his online battle with Gabrielle Union, we've got TV writer Ashley Soto (VIDA, FAST AND FURIOUS: SPY RACERS) lead us in an intellectual dissection of Terry's 2003 vehicle WHITE CHICKS. This "comedy standard" (to quote Ashley) was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and stars Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans as a pair of FBI agents donning whiteface to pass as two white women.

Also, we recommend Alfred Hitchcock's lesser known - but not lesser - film REBECCA (1940) starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, the British TV comedy PLEBS and Ismael Rivera's musical recordings with Cortijo y su Combo.

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Writer/producer Carlton Gillespie and Sasha go head-to-head as tensions rise in our most argumentative/political/historical/scientific/slam poetry episode so far. We're discussing N.E.R.D., the hip-hop/rock band fronted by the babyfaced Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Inevitably, that leads to a larger discussion of Biggie vs. Tupac.

Carlton schools Sasha on the correct interpretation of the lyrics of N.E.R.D.'s song "Brain" (he's wrong), Steven schools Sasha on what ASMR videos are and Sasha schools everyone on the fact that she might be from Siberia, but she can quote at least one Biggie lyric.

Finally, we recommend Alejandro Landes's film MONOS, Joachim Phoenix in the 2008 rom dram TWO LOVERS and, unexpectedly, Mini Chewy SweeTARTS.

Actor/writer Irene White (SUPERSTORE, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) join us to defend... the Valley! The Valley vs. Hollywood, amiright???

If you don't live in Los Angeles, this will be very educational. Irene will even give you the one advice that you must follow when choosing your first place in Los Angeles. If you don't live in LA, don't worry, you'll get to hear from both sides and also learn what Irene loves more, cats or France.

Also, we recommend Matt Berry's new TV comedy YEAR OF THE RABBIT, the film EVE'S BAYOU and the TV show DAMAGES with a female actor named Glenn Close.

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Comedian/writer Andrew Shannon Sr. and Joss Whedon share a favorite superhero, CYCLOPS. Unlike Andrew, Joss Whedon couldn't make it to record this podcast. Luckily, Sasha was over at Joss's house for a caroling party so she conducted an impromptu interview right there. Listen how Andrew's take on Cyclops compares to Joss's... you heard it here first.

Also, we recommend the TV show for kids STEVEN UNIVERSE and the podcast My Marvelous Year.

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It's 2020 and we're starting the year off by: 1) no longer talking about ourselves in third person and 2) discussing TOUPEES. As in hairpieces. Straight from the horse's mouth, our guest is comedian/screenwriter Will Saunders, who's been wearing not one, but a whole series of toupees for the past 6 months.

Will bares it all and tells us the whole thing including: how he decided to get a toupee, how he takes care of the toupee and whether he notes the toupee on his online dating profile. He also shares an insider's knowledge on how to spot a toupee on a fellow toupee-wearer. Then we tell Will if we think his toupee looks  like "the real deal."

Finally, we recommend the novel "Star Wars: Resistance Reborn" by Rebecca Roanhorse, the RPG game Disco Elysium and Genndy Tartakovsky's new animated TV show PRIMAL.

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Happy New Year! It is the biggest holiday in Siberia, so we've got Sasha Feiler as our guest today. Luckily, Gabe Mountain (THE HILLS: NEW BEGINNINGS) jumped in as the cohost. Also in the recording studio is comedian/actor Juzo Yoshida (JETZO, FXX's CAKE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME), the very subject of the episode.

How many characters does Juzo go through in the course of the interview? What were his mom's last words of wisdom before she passed away? Listen to find out.

Also, Steven and Gabe recommend the podcast Spooked and Ring Fit Adventure Game.

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In the spirit of Christmas, we're shaking things up and inviting Rigby Stunkleman on as a guest. Thank Christ (the Bday boy!), Lorraine DeGraffenreidt jumped in the copilot's seat just so we all could discuss the finale of the epic TV show LOST. Did just the mere mention of this grandiose Television event send shivers down your spine?

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Will Hines is an improv prophet and the middle brother of the Hines Brothers, so it's exciting that he sits down with Sasha and Steven to defend BRAIN DONORS, basically, a Marx Brothers movie made in 1992.

Also, Sasha and Steven recommend the Russian book "The Twelve Chairs" (Mel Brooks adapted it for screen in 1970!) and the 1997 film THE WRONG GUY starring Dave Foley.

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Remember that famous episode of Shut Up I Love It where two dope dudes defended Jerry Lewis's controversial cinema masterpiece "The Day The Clown Cried"? You loved that episode.

Now you want to know more about the dudes, so here we go. Jeff Abraham is a Hollywood publicist and comedy historian. Burt Kearns is a documentary producer and author of the controversial memoir, Tabloid Baby. Both, according to Vanity Fair, are “show business and pop culture savants.”

The dudes came together and co-wrote a book called The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. Praised by Vanity Fair as “absorbing,” by Vanish magazine as “incredibly compelling” and by Richard Lewis as “a great read,” The Show Won’t Go On was named by Playbill as one of the best books of 2019. Sick.

Listen to this bonus episode recorded live at Stories Books And Cafe in Echo Park, Los Angeles - and go read a book, any book, but really, you should mainly read The Show Won't Go On. Okay bye!

Comedian/dear-ish friend Scott Tammel sits down with Sasha and Steven to defend THE OFFSPRING, a punk rock-ish band that's somehow NOT on "Rolling Stone's Readers' Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of The Nineties."

Speaking of polls, did Scott actually hold a double-blind study on whether THE OFFSPRING sucks? Does Sasha question the lead man Dexter Holland's PhD? How good is Scott's Pauly Shore impression? Listen to find out.

Also, Sasha and Steven recommend the film BOOKSMART (2019) and the Finnish standup comedian Ismo's take on "Ass: The Most Confusing Word In The English Language." Finally, Scott and Steven go over a bunch of celebrity sightings at Hollywood's Gold's gym.

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