![]() ![]() Guests this month have included comedians Sydney Duncan and Robby Hoffman, who each discuss the boys’ clubs they are a part of, ones they aren’t a part of, and ones they hope to see in the world. Better yet, Janda and Carney can discuss nuanced issues while maintaining an endearing level of silliness see Janda’s inability to remember idiomatic expressions or his relatable desire to land on the Hot Guys Who Read Instagram. Still, their version of a boys’ club is anything but exclusive - the two are relatable, refreshingly themselves, and literally end each episode with a smooch. But queer comedians Conor Janda and Nico Carney are reclaiming boys’ clubs in one of the biggest there is: comedy. The great part about life under patriarchy is that boys seem to never grow out of boys’ clubs - they just move from the playground to, say, the Senate. Yes, it gets grotesque, but as a showcase for two of our most demented working clowns, it’s bravura stuff. In addition to writing the episode, Self and Escola also voice all the characters, including the flatulent tap-dancing President Grandma and infant weatherman Lionel the Baby. Episode 11, their first “special episode” since the podcast premiered last November, is truly a doozy it packs uxoricide, Harry Styles’s cum rags, drowning babies, and the sudden death of Mary-Kate Olsen into 22 disorienting minutes. As macho talk-show anchor Larry Shed (who “likes to eat meat”) and his simpering co-host, Diane Denise-Kitchen (who, being a woman, “only orders salads”), Self and Escola, respectively, spend every episode trying to out-sicko each other with increasingly upsetting headlines (picture Hoda and Jenna if they were being mind-controlled by Eric Andre and Christeene Vale). Hungry for a little celebrity gossip in the morning? If so, stay far away from Breakfast Buffet, the gonzo longform sketch podcast masquerading as a Today parody from comedy partners and erstwhile Search Party stars Jeffery Self and Cole Escola. ![]() It is also an episode about the highs and lows of being mother, with “It’s awful being mother” becoming the new “Heavy is the head that wears the crown.” Also, they talk about how straight ramps (the allium) are, and it is, like, exactly right, and everything a listener dreamed of from this team-up of Earth’s greatest heroes. ![]() The topic was “Dinner Parties,” but really it was an episode about what happens when people who live in Brooklyn find themselves in Manhattan for a few hours. Anyway, Roman was so good in this episode. There is actually a reasonable explanation for this: StraightioLab is many things - a podcast about straight culture, a podcast about gay culture, a podcast about podcasting - but because it launched in early 2020, it is also a podcast about reckoning with what culture even means anymore after the emergence of COVID, and “Alison Roman is pandemic” culture. Since nearly the start of the show, the idea of Roman has always been the third co-host of StraightioLab, not unlike how the city was always the fifth main character on Sex and the City. But then Alison Roman appeared on StraightioLab. In 2015, U2 appeared on the podcast U Talkin’ U2 To Me? At the time, I thought, Comedy podcasts will never top this moment. ![]()
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