Sleeping with Celebrities

Jimmy Pardo Has Just An Absurd Amount Of Knowledge About The Band Chicago

Like, so much. As in, he knows the name of Peter Cetera’s brother. He remembers most of the set list from a concert BY Chicago IN Chicago in 1981. Jimmy, of course, is th

Wil Wheaton Tells You All About The Prisoner. You Have Become His The Prisoner Prisoner.

Wil Wheaton knows a thing or twelve about deeply loving a television series. He is part of the Star Trek universe after all, as Wesley Crusher, first appearing on Start T

Tom Bergeron - Yes, THAT Tom Bergeron - Makes Angry Birds Surprisingly Soothing

We all know Tom Bergeron from various television games and competitions he has hosted over many decades. He was at the helm for Hollywood Squares, emceed Dancing With the

Get Ready for the NFL Season with Retired Punter Chris Kluwe, Who Played the Sleepiest of Positions

The National Football League, with all its attendant huddles and wide receiving and roughings of the passer, is about to begin a new season. And although the touchdowns w

Michael Ian Black on Cunning Two-Letter Scrabble Plays (RERUN)

This episode originally ran July 19, 2023 *** The actor, writer, comedian, and bon vivant Michael Ian Black is an enthusiast of the word game Scrabble and, in particula

The Daily Show’s Zhubin Parang Feels Less Miserable Watching Les Misérables

Zhubin Parang, who has been with The Daily Show since the first time around with Jon Stewart, fully recognizes that among the many characters in the musical Les Misérable

What’s the Deal with How Much Francisco Ramos Likes Seinfeld? The Show, I Mean.

The title of hilarious comedian Francisco Ramos’s new standup special, Still Learning, is not about his constant absorption of new information about episodes of the class

Lauren Weedman, From Hacks, Loves Rocks, May Be Sisyphus

As the slightly unhinged, or maybe more than slightly, mayor of Las Vegas, Jo Pezzimenti on HBO’s Hacks, Lauren Weedman leaves a hilarious and unforgettable impression, s

Exploring the Washington Wizards, the NBA’s Most Ambien Team, with Jamel Johnson

Jamel Johnson is a DC native and has been following the Wizards his whole life. He’s seen the rise and fall of Gilbert Arenas, the arrival and departure of John Wall, and

Jesse Thorn Has More Thoughts On Menswear Formality Levels Than You Do, Probably

Maximum Fun, the network upon which you hear our program, was founded by one Jesse Thorn, who continues to host an improbable number of podcasts on the network. Three, in

Know Your Extraterrestrials with Elliott Kalan

The universe is full of all sorts of alien creatures, we just know it. Problem is, they’re far away and, like us, possibly too stupid to invent really cool spaceships in

Ryan Miller of the Band Guster Enjoys the Ordered Verticality of Lists

You are reading something that was written in paragraph format, with complete sentences, grammar, nouns, and verbs. That’s not how Ryan Miller of the beloved band Guster

NPR’s Glen Weldon Talks The Silmarillion and That Ought To Put You To Sleep

You have to be a slight J.R.R. Tolkien nerd to watch the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings film series. They’re long, there’s three of them, and it helps to know your hobbi

Sondre Lerche Takes On A-ha and Soothingly Reads Fjord Names

When you’re a Norwegian musician, you get used to hearing a lot of the band A-ha, the biggest ever to come out of the Nordic country shaped like an arm from the elbow dow

Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa and NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben Talking Field of Dreams

We have to imagine that the life of an NPR White House Correspondent does not consistently feel relaxed, homey, sentimental, and warm. But you know what does? Field of Dr

Let’s Go to Trader Joe’s with Dan Mintz. That Will Be Nice.

Dan Mintz is an actor, comedian, and writer with a new standup special, Well-Rounded Entertainer, premiering soon on YouTube. Dan is best known as Tina Belcher on the bel

Dulcé Sloan Knows Every Trope, Archetype, and Inevitable Plot Point of K-Dramas

Dulcé Sloan has been in your American television many times, appearing as correspondent and guest host of The Daily Show, doing stand up on Conan, and voice acting on The

Comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes Used to Garden and Remembers It Fondly and At Some Length

You may have seen the very funny Anjelah Johnson-Reyes in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ugly Betty, Superstore, or even on the sidelines as an Oakland Raiders cheerleader. Perhap

Rebecca Sugar: Creator of Steven Universe, Knower of Earthen Building Techniques

In the Venn diagram of “heart” and “animation”, the overlap is Rebecca Sugar. Her series, Steven Universe, was more than just the adventures of an unusual boy’s search fo

Live From SF Sketchfest with John DiMaggio, Moshe Kasher, and Meredith Edgar

A live in-person performance of Sleeping with Celebrities? At a real theater, the Bayfront Theater,  with lights and guests and an audience? At 5pm in the afternoon? Beli