Anthony DeVito shares the downsides of finding out at 18 that your dad didn't "die in a car accident" but was in fact a member of the mob, got murdered, and was found in a trunk. Then we move onto ...
2022-11-05 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Danny Jolles shares the downsides of your grandfather having to get his war tattoos removed so he can be buried in a Jewish cemetery, having friends whose parents may or may not have been working f...
2022-11-01 09:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Russell complains about people complaining about Christmas decorations going up too early and Gianmarco wonders if all of support your Jewish friends then why did nobody donate to the indiegogo for...
2022-10-31 15:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Solomon Georgio shares the downsides of internal hemorrhoids, financially supporting your parents, waiting too long to say I love you, eating bacon for the first time as an adult, and why restauran...
2022-10-25 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Amy Northup shares the downsides of being an intimacy coordinator and why we need to think of sex scenes more like stunt work.
Listen to The Downside- live every Tuesday at 4 PM ET on 2022-10-23 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sarah Adelman shares the downsides of working at a sperm bank and recruiting for donors at open mics.
Listen to The Downside- live every Tuesday at 4 PM ET on 2022-10-22 18:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Zach Zimmerman shares the downsides of having a father who heard god, hole pics, losing your faith after losing a friend in the Virginia Tech shooting, the great crowd work debate, coming out to yo...
2022-10-18 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ariel Elias joins to share the downsides of having a beer thrown at you onstage but deciding to finish the set nonetheless because your merch is based on your closing bit and it feels like the audi...
2022-10-11 17:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Andrea Allan shares the downsides of having bipolar disorder and having friends with bipolar disorder and why you should stop saying people who are moody have bipolar disorder.
Listen t...
2022-10-10 22:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re going to make a bonus episode of The Downside, and we need your help! Please send any burning questions you have for us, anything you want advice for, and any this has gotta st...
2022-10-06 19:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Mo Welch joins to discuss the downsides of civil war museum gift shops, growing up in Normal, Illinois (not to be confused with Sandwich, Illinois), being addicted to bad improv, playing basketball...
2022-10-04 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Vanessa Paradis shares the downsides of being a phone sex operator + Russell and Gianmarco try figuring out what’s their version of being a dom.
Listen to The Downside- live every Tuesday a...
2022-10-01 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Chef Michael Jenkins shares the downsides of working a short staffed kitchen on Mother’s Day, what The Bear gets right and wrong about cooking, why it’s racist to dismiss American cuisine as no...
2022-09-27 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ryan Dempsey shares the downsides of being a party clown and answers the philosophical question: what if you’re white and your boss tells you to play Black Panther at a child’s birthday?
...
2022-09-24 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedian Geoffrey Asmus and I compare our JFL experiences and then dive into the secrets of getting through sleepovers as a bedwetter, not masturb@ting until you’re 25, the merits of kegel exerci...
2022-09-20 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Lukas Arnold joins for a second time to sorta talk about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe but more to discuss his dead dad’s unproduced play, if we’d let Hillary Clinton do our respective podcasts...
2022-09-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Shahak Shapira joins us to discuss why Auschwitz has a 4.5 star rating on Yelp, having a grandfather who died in the Munich massacre, a Florida gun show, a wedding derailed by bees and ways we...
2022-09-13 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
James III (Netflix’s Astronomy Club) shares the downsides of having a baby from a man’s perspective (fina...
2022-09-12 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We celebrate the 100th episode of The Downside with our second ever live episode and people actually came this time! Lucas Connolly joins as our guest to share the downsides of passing your driver...
2022-09-06 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Savage shares the downsides of being a sex advice columnist and other submissions he received before coining the term pegging.
Listen to The Downside- live every Tuesday at 4 PM ET on 2022-09-04 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Debbie Downsiders,
Some uncharacteristically exciting news, The Downside has been picked up for a 48-week run of LIVE shows by Amazon for their new audio app 2022-08-31 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On today's episode of The Downside, our producer Paige Asachika interviews Gianmarco and Russell about their generally unsuccessful lives. Gianmarco discusses growing up in the Beverly Hills o...
2022-03-01 14:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedian Kyle Gordon shares how he was banned from a theater after one of his fans throw a glass at the bartender (and other downsides of being a TikTok celebrity. We also talk about having an orth...
2022-01-28 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostRussell and I vaguely discuss the one interview where we betrayed our principles, comedy club bouncers that are a little too gentle, movies that use CGI for things we have in real life, and Russell...
2022-01-26 15:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Samantha Ramsdell shares the downsides of applying for a Guinness World Record, using concealer to make your mouth look smaller after your peers compare you to Big Mouth Billy Bass, doing TikTok co...
2022-01-21 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostGianmarco rants about a bachelorette party from hell, being booked as a “mystery headliner”, bullying his way into brunch at the Clinton Street Baking Company, a post show hook up (many years a...
2022-01-18 06:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedian Daphnique Springs shares the dangers of deep ocean fishing, scales that can cut you to the "white meat, watching a man drown, being a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas and watering down (or l...
2022-01-14 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI share all the things I should have said at a private event for a Jewish youth group, Russell chastises me for the one thing I did say, and we debate if I ruined a high school gi...
2022-01-10 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by comedian Sam Morrison to discuss being tricked into buying shrooms, having a masseuse clip your toenails unprompted, high school speech and debate, a comedy club hate crime, getti...
2022-01-07 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re doing FOUR patreon-exclusive episodes a month now and what better way to start than an episode with my current girlfriend, Tovah Silbermann. I talk about my New Year’s gig at Punch Line P...
2022-01-03 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post