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Couples Therapy

by Naomi and Andy · English · Comedy

Open your hearts and loosen your butts! On Couples Therapy, real life couple and real life comedians Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman gab with their favorite actors and comics about their romantic pasts, presents and futures and answer YOUR relaysh Qs with all the wisdom two unlicensed entertainer

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 28 min
Latest: 13 Oct 2026
Language: English

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13 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 27 minNew

Rachel Kaly

Rachel Kaly is a very funny stand-up, and was also one of the stand-out performers on Jury Duty season 2, which we really loved, so we had to have her on the show. And very quickly we realize that she and Naomi are spiritual sisters! We get into Rachel's origins and how similar they are to Naomi's, Rachel and Naomi's adventures in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Rachel walks us through how she started ketamine therapy, starting group therapy in lockdown while she was bike-riding, and of course, we learn the truth about Nas' hit album Illmatic! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions!…

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E439 · 6 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
Katie Nolan
This was our first time meeting Katie Nolan, and boy oh boy is she the bee's knees! Now, you probably know Katie from her time at ESPN, where she hosted the podcast Sports? and the late night show Always Late, or perhaps more recently from her SiriusXM podcast Casuals or her call-in show Fan Service, but even if this is the first time you are meeting her, you're gonna be enthralled! We get into her days as a Bar Mitzvah dancer, how she was love-bombed into a mortgage, how she freed herself from said lovebomber, how she met her now longterm bf, not wanting kids and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi,…
E438 · 29 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
Dulcé Sloan Returns
It's been five years since Dulcé was last on, and we've got a LOT of catching up to do! Now, you know Dulcé from her time on The Daily Show, from the wonderful animated show The Great North, her book Hello, Friends! or from her podcast Chasing K-Dramas, and most assuredly, you've seen her stand-up ( on tour now or if you live in LA, come to her Just Pull Up!), but today, we're hearing the EPIC story of her journey to get pregnant! After telling us about what it's like to date "dumb dudes", Dulcé tells us that all she's ever wanted was to be a wife and a mother, and the mother window was…
E437 · 22 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Edy Modica
Edy Modica was so fun on the first season of Jury Duty, so when we saw she was promoting her debut stand-up special I'm Just Like You (And It Sucks) ( Now on YouTube! ), we said we gotta talk to her! Edy joins us to talk about how some things in her childhood shaped her love of chaos, how her therapist was *too* positive, wanting every moment to be A Moment, her boyfriend's good boundaries, how meds helped with some obsessive tendencies, what a charcuterie board reveals about Edy's emotional state and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own…
E436 · 15 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Aisha Tyler
The woman who practically raised Naomi with her comedy, Aisha Tyler, is on the show today, and it was WONDERFUL! Now you know Aisha from a million things: Criminal Minds: Evolution, Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Talk Soup, Archer and so much more! And on today's episode we dig into her psyche and try to figure out where her positive attitude towards life comes from. Growing up in San Francisco, maybe? We'll find out! We also talk about her childhood as a nerdy outcast, how her positivity functions in a romantic relationship, learning "man shit" from her dad, the dangers of having…
E435 · 11 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
What Went Wrong's Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett
It's the second part of the What Went Wrong crossover extravaganza! Last week, we were guests on the fantastic podcast What Went Wrong discussing Hollywood couples that had some odd energy, and this week the hosts Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett join us as we put their friendship and emotions under the ol' Couples Therapy microscope! We discuss the decision to start a podcast with your best friend's wife (who is also your friend), the decision to have children, the emotional toll of the fires last year, the emotional toll of making a movie, secret darknesses, Chris' Jack Donaghy-like…
E434 · 8 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
hemlocke springs
The algorithm gifted hemlocke springs to us, and thus we praise the algorithm! While we give a youthful appearance, in truth, we here at Couples Therapy HQ are nearly two centuries old and shut ins, so we rely on the algorithm to introduce us to new things, and we are thankful that it sluiced Hems' music into our feed because she is FANTASTIC! Maybe you've seen her live (she's on tour this fall supporting MUNA ) or maybe you've heard her EP Going...Going...Gone! or debut album The Apple Tree Under the Sea? Well, no matter how much you know about Hems, you're gonna fall in love with her on…
E433 · 1 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Joel Kim and John-Michael Booster
For the first time, husbands Joel Kim and John-Michael Booster are podcast guesting together, and baby, we get INTO IT! Now, you know Joel from his many appearances on this show, from TV shows like Loot and the first season of the Scrubs legacyquel, from the film he wrote and starred in Fire Island, his Netflix special Psychosexual and so much more! Well, now you get to meet his husband, video game designer John-Michael! John Michael works for Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, so we have a real 2IPC here (Oh, you don't know the acronym I just made up, "Two Industry Power…
E432 · 28 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 31 min
Brendan Scannell Returns
Brendan Scannell is back, baby! It's been years since Brendan's been on the show (You know Brendan from Bonding and Heathers and tons of other great stuff!), and while he was out promoting his new live stand-up show The Abyss (see it in LA on Sept. 9th and 10th or in New York on Oct. 1st!), he dropped by the ol' virtual couch for an extensive look at what he's been up to the last few years. And it's been A LOT! Brendan went to rehab, he got sober, he's seeing a transformational therapist, he's been in a relationship for seven years... yow! And on today's episode, Brendan might even use his…
E431 · 25 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
Sasheer Zamata Returns
Sasheer hasn't been in the show in years, so we're catching up with her in a non-party setting and GETTING INTO IT! Now, obviously you know Sasheer Zamata from SNL, from Agatha All Along, Home Economics, some very funny scenes set in the real world in the new Masters of the Universe movie and of course from Best Friends, the wonderful podcast she does with friend of the show/friend IRL Nicole Byer! And on today's episode, Sasheer fills us in on the last few years: we talk moon ceremonies and how they help her orient her life, we talk about going to couples therapy with her partner and why…
E430 · 18 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
Josh Johnson
We've casually known Josh Johnson from the ol' New York comedy scene for a long time, but do we *really* know him? Find out on today's PULSE-POUNDING edition of the pod! Now, you surely know Josh as an Emmy-nominated writer and as one of the rotating hosts of one of the last original shows on Comedy Central, The Daily Show! Or maybe you knew him back when, when he was a writer on The Tonight Show or maybe you know him from his stand-up, which you can watch on his YouTube channel or live in a city near you ! Regardless, on today's show, we're trying to crack Josh's unflappable demeanor. We…
E429 · 11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 42 min
Eliot Glazer Returns
Our old pal Eliot Glazer returns after half a decade to catch us (really, you, the listener!) up on the last five years. Now, you know Eliot as a writer and actor on Broad City, and a writer on shows like New Girl, Teachers, iCarly, Younger and more, and now Eliot is a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! Eliot's new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay is out now! Eliot's book - and a lot of what we talk about today - is about how he feels alienated for not fitting in with the (supposed) mainstream gay lifestyle. We talk about how a lot of his issues revolve around how he sees himself in…
E428 · 4 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
Erinn Hayes
We've been fans of Erinn's going all the way back to Childrens Hospital, which *surely* you've seen! If not, you might have seen Erinn Hayes show up in some of the best shows of the last 20 years including Parks and Rec, The Goldbergs, Transparent, New Girl, Parenthood, Will & Grace and so many others! And the entire season of her latest show It's Not Like That is now streaming on Prime! We've met Erinn a few times around ol' Hollyweird, but on today's episode, we really get to know her! Erinn tells us about meeting her husband in high school, how they've made it work for 22 years of…
E427 · 28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 27 min
David Gborie
We love David Gborie's stand-up, we love him and friend of the show/friend IRL Langston Kerman's podcast My Momma Told Me as well as his other podcast All Fantasy Everything, and we love the sadly canceled cartoon Royal Crackers that David was a voice actor on, and on today's episode, we're chopping it up with David about so many things! Moving back to Colorado and meeting his now wife, being chill vs. being unflappable, his weight loss journey and the GLP-1 of it all, how advice he gets from friends is really just advice he gets from podcasts he listens to, getting into therapy and then…
E426 · 21 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
Murray Bartlett
We've been fans of Murray Bartlett's for years, so it was an absolute delight to talk to him on this week's EXQUISITE episode! Now you know Murray from a million things, as the Emmy Award-winning supporting actor from The White Lotus, as well as from The Last of Us, Welcome to Chippendales, Looking, Nine Perfect Strangers and so much more including the wonderful Apple TV+ show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (starring former guest Tatiana Maslany!), which just finished its first season! This is just a small sampling of Murray's CV, but today we're getting to know the real person behind the…
E425 · 14 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 34 min
Roshan Sethi
Roshan Sethi is back for a solo ep, baby! That's right, you remember Roshan from when he was on last year with his paramour Karan, or maybe you know him as the co-creator of Fox's The Resident or as the director of one of the best films of last year A Nice Indian Boy or perhaps as a working oncologist or maybe as the author of the BRAND-NEW novel The Simp , available now from Simon & Schuster! Well, even if this is your first time meeting Roshan, strap in for a HIGH-OCTANE 75 minutes of FAST and FURIOUS talk about how racist Hollywood (in general) is and how it would rather lose money as a…
E424 · 7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Open Mike Eagle
Open Mike Eagle, rapper extraordinaire, co-creator of New Negroes and so much more joins us today after accidentally missing the episode with his New Negroes co-creator Baron Vaughan eight years ago! And there's been some big changes in the last eight years! We start out talking about the dissolution of his marriage which MIke alludes to in the song "The Black Mirror Episode" from his fantastic 2020 album "Anime, Trauma and Divorce" and then talk about how Mike started therapy in college, his post-mariage lovelife, his cool and calm demeanor, what hardtack is and how that's a metaphor for…
E423 · 30 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Zach Noe Towers Returns
Zach Noe Tower's a wonderful pal and a wonderful stand-up, so when we saw he was on the whistle stop tour promoting his new special Twink Death , we had to have him back on the show! Now Zach was last on the pod three years ago, so we catch up on what has changed in his life since then. Where is he when it comes to sides vs. the main course? Where is he in his romantic life? Zach tells us about a recent meet cute that is as close to erotica as this show gets! We also talk recovery, how Zach got sober, and is there any hope for us two, childless people to get our lives in order? All this…
E422 · 23 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
Opey Olagbaju
It's Opey Olagbaju time! We met Opey when Naomi did stand-up on the wonderful, canceled-too-soon New Negroes show and are just delighted by him! Opey was recently showcased by Netflix as part of The Shortlist, was one of Time Out Magazine’s ''Favorite Comedians on the Rise" last year, was a New Face at Just for Laughs, and has generally accrued all the accolades a stand-up can get in the first half of their career. Add to that writing for shows like I Love You, America, Close Enough and Bob Hearts Abishola, and baby, you got a crock pot brimming with credits! But have those things made Opey…
E421 · 16 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
EJ Marcus
It's EJ Marcus time, folks, and if you don't come out of this episode loving him, you ain't got a soul! Naomi met EJ doing stand-up, and was enamored. Maybe you've seen his stand-up either live or in clip form. Maybe you know him as a writer on HBO's I Love LA. Even if you've never heard of EJ before now, you're going to dig today's episode! We talk about how he met his partner, how they fell for each other in lockdown, their experiment in polyamory and what the scientific findings were from the experiment and of course buying a Philly soft pretzel down on Oregon Ave. PLUS, obvi, we answer…
E420 · 9 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
Joy Sunday
Joy Sunday was recently in the wonderful HBO show DTF St. Louis where she and Richard Jenkins played two detectives trying to workout the complicated lovelife of a murder victim. It's absolutely one of the best shows to come out this year, and she's brilliant on it, so we had to have her on the show! Now you also know Joy from Wednesday, Dear White People and a bunch of other stuff, but here we delve into her INCREDIBLY MENTALLY HEALTHY life. In fact, what are we doing here? Joy is teaching us how to live! All that plus growing up on Staten Island, dating in LA, being a good kid and SO MUCH…
E419 · 2 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 18 min
Poorna Jagannathan
Folks, Deli Boys gotta be our fav US comedy right now - we've had Asif Ali on the show. We've had Saagar Shaikh on the show. And today, we are psyched to have Lucky Auntie herself, that's right, Poorna Jagannathan, join us for the hour! Now, Poorna's had an incredible acting career - you've seen her in The Night Of, Big Little Lies, Never Have I Ever, Ramy, Better Call Saul and tons of other things - but on today's episode, you'll get to hear from the woman behind the characters. Poorna tells us about meeting her husband in the heady days of early aughts New York, running up the company…
E418 · 26 May 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
Phil Dunning
Smoggie Queens is our new favorite show, and we're lucky to have the creator and star Phil Dunning on today's episode! You've seen Phil pop up in some of the best shows coming out of the UK: Feel Good, Stath Lets Flats, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Juice, and of course, his own show Smoggie Queens, which just finished its second series on BBC Three (if you don't live in the UK, figure out a way to watch it STAT!). We're calling Phil "the Amy Sedaris of England" because of the wide gap between Phil's sincerity and his characters' grotesquery! We talk all about that, whether Phil needs therapy,…
E417 · 19 May 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
Tatiana Maslany
Orphan Black was one of our couples shows in the earlier days of our relationship, which means we've imprinted on Tatiana Maslany like ducklings on a mama duck! We're profesh enough tho that we (mostly) keep our fangirling in check on today's episode! Hot on the press junket for her brand new Apple TV+ show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Tatiana dropped by the ol' virtual couch for the usual Couples Therapy smorgasbord of light/heavy - we talk about our morning routines as well as our 4am fears, Tatiana's childhood in Saskatchewan and Tatiana's adulthood in anxiety, Everything from…
E416 · 12 May 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Laci Mosley Returns
We're catching up with our pal Laci Mosley on today's episode, and buddy, it's a real delight! Now you know Laci from a million things: her podcast and book and show Scam Goddess or as one of the stars of Fox's Going Dutch, from the iCarly revival or the Black Lady Sketch Show and so much more! And you know her from her many appearances on this show, but we haven't sat down with Laci for a main episode in YEARS, so you know we're gonna get into it! We ask Laci what she wants out of a relationship, if she even wants a relationship, being ambitious, neurotic feelings, what her wedding might…
E415 · 5 May 2026 · 1 hr 42 min
Kimiko Glenn
We've liked Kimiko Glenn in a bunch of things, so when we saw she was promoting her debut EP Modern Dance (coming soon!!!), we said we gotta have her on the pod! Now, you know Kimiko from Orange is the New Black, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse films, Hazbin Hotel and of course, if you're a parent, as the voice of Baby Shark, but on today's episode, you're gonna get to know the woman behind those characters. And oh boy, we learn about how Kimiko's desire to make music was a way of processing the shitty men she's dated, we learn about some of those shitty men - and boy are they shitty -…
E414 · 28 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Kyle Kinane
Kyle Kinane is one of the best stand-ups out there. We've known him casually, through the years, but mostly through his comedy, so on today's episode we're peeling back the layers to find THE REAL KYLE KINANE! We talk about his struggles with both therapy and couples therapy, how using life solely as fodder for stand-up isn't maybe the healthiest choice, the trouble with processing your romantic relationships on stage, anger issues, the CBS Dynamic of hetero relationships and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call…
E413 · 21 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 31 min
Jessica Matten
Dark Winds is one of the best shows on TV, and today we're spending a real HEALING HOUR with one of its stars, Jessica Matten! Jessica's been in a ton of other rad things too including Rez Ball, Tribal and Frontier, and on today's episode, we start out talking about what childhood in Edmonton was like, and that segues into a really fantastic discussion of Jessica's mental health journey, including the medicine woman who changed her life and a lot of other things. Jessica also explains soul agreements to us and talks about some that in relation to some not-so-great guys she may have dated in…
E412 · 14 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 32 min
Megan Gailey Threepeat
One of our favorite folks Megan Gailey is back for her third full episode, and we have A LOT to catch up on! You know Megan from a million things, but perhaps, dear listeners, you know her best from the podcast she and Naomi used to host I Love a Lifetime Movie. Well, Megan's new special just came out - it's FANTASTIC - and you can see it on the 800 Pound Gorilla (home to many, many incredible stand-up specials) YouTube channel here ! On the whistle-stop publicity tour for her special, Megan stops by to tell us about the emotional tilt-a-whirl the last year has been for her, cussing out a…
E411 · 7 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Pablo Castelblanco
This was our first time meeting Pablo Castelblanco, but we slid into conversation like we were old chums! Now, you know Pablo from a bunch of stuff including Alaska Daily and Happy's Place with Reba McEntire (airing now on NBC/Peacock!), but today we're drilling down and getting to know the REAL Pablo Castelblanco. Oh, did we mention, this is also Pablo's first podcast! We find out all about starting therapy back in Columbia, how the confluence of the WGA/SAG strikes AND a broken ankle AND a boyfriend turning into a friend got him back into therapy, what times of the day to NOT go on a date…

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Couples Therapy is a English comedy podcast from Naomi and Andy. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Naomi and Andy
Language: English
Category: Comedy
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 28 min
Latest episode: 13 Oct 2026
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