Atsuko Okatsuka (Let's Go Atsuko!) visits from LA to share the downsides of thinking your grandma is taking you on vacation as a kid from Japan to California only to find out you were actually moving there, schizophrenic moms, being a "nice comedian", and vacationing in the dessert. Gianmarco also tries a new bit with Russell...
2021-05-24 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJoanna Hausmann (Bill Nye Saves The World, Hyphenated) shares the downsides of skin cancer, overoptimistic doctors, replying to work e-mails too soon after anesthesia, and an old school teacher of hers who stabbed himself in the heart after confessing he tranq...
2021-05-17 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn today's Patreon EXCLUSIVE I sneak in a clip of Russell singing "Lily's Eyes" in college, he shares the story of auditioning for Fat Camp The Musical where he was asked to show off his legendary "slow-motion somersault", and we do our first patron submitted This Has Gotta Stops!
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2021-05-15 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEmma Willmann (My Crazy Ex Girlfriend) and Gianmarco have collectively failed their driving tests 11 times but Emma is the only one who once tried to bribe a cop from giving her a speeding ticket by offering him unlimited period panties from t...
2021-05-10 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJessica Frey ( Sense & Sensibility, Netflix's The Characters) shares the one or two downsides of giving birth during a global pandemic. We talk about the anxiety of holding a baby on a roof, facts about women's bodies that Russell and I should have known...
2021-05-03 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Downside guys talk with our dear friend, sketch team member, and the voice of McDonald's Chris Cafero about the downsides of having a dad in politics. We talk death threats, losing a race for office, and why America is probably gonna collapse any day now...
2021-05-01 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNotoriously terrible chef/okay comedian Gianmarco Soresi welcomes NYTimes best selling author Jake Cohen (Jew-ish: A Cookbook) to talk about the downsides of culinary school, working in a test kitchen, Zoom shabbats and why Gianmarco's birthright bar mi...
2021-04-26 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMoose and bears and pedophiles, oh my! Stand-up comedian/Alaskan SALLYANN HALL (winner of the 2017 She Devil Comedy Festival) joins us to talk about the downsides of growing up in Alaska, getting a dog in quarantine, being an au pair to a family of Italian jockeys, and pornography. Gianmarco also talks about how he almost got...
2021-04-19 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBonus episode #2! Today Russell and I talk with our friend and composer of The Downside theme Douglas Goodhart about some dreadful celebrity encounters we've had. We're talking Billy Joel, Bill Burr, and Mandy Patinkin, three celebrities that appeal to three entirely different kinds of people.
On what was supposed to be the first episode of The Downside, my co-host's wife was in a room with someone who had coronavirus so he couldn't join, which felt fitting given the "theme" of this "podcast". Thank god my guest was stand-up comedian/friend JAY...
2021-04-12 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Goddamn, you four folks joined at just the right time. Here you go, one day early, an ad-free version of my episode with Alex Brightman, the most famous person who replies to my texts. He had the life I always dreamed of having back in my musical theater college days and I did everything I could to make him tell me why it's n...
2021-04-05 15:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello my two Patreon subscribers!
I want you to know that I will never forget your support. Even if years from now I have five Patreon subscribers, six if I’m lucky, I will remember that you two were the first.
Today I drop the first bonus episode where me and my co-host, who you both know personally, discuss th...
2021-04-01 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHere's early access to tomorrow's episode (and ad-free of course). I will try to get y'all day-early access whenever I'm able. Once I have enough patrons to have a regular producer in place it'll be easier. Also, your first bonus episode comes out on the 1st! It's called The Downside of Funerals. AND!!! We've decided to give ...
2021-03-29 15:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we’re joined by The Tonight Show’s KENICE MOBLEY (@kenicemobley) to dish on the downsides of strip clubs, dating in New York City, making your late night debut during a global pandemic, and college cafeteria shows. We also breakdown once and for all the difference between a horse girl and a cat lady, which has s...
2021-03-23 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Downside has officially launched and so has The BIG Downside, my Patreon exclusive version of the podcast with bonus episodes and, most important, no ads.
Here is the first episode with stand up comedian Matthew Broussard. Bonus episodes will begin on the 1st starting with TWO bonus episodes (to make up for what I'm...
2021-03-17 14:58:51 +0000 UTC View Post
