I Need You Guys
Jenny Slate, Max Silvestri, and Gabe Liedman, comedians and friends for over twenty years, turn their group chat into a public podcast. They catch up, share personal stories, and offer the kind of advice only true friends can give, often welcoming other guests into the conversation.
Episodes
Uncle’s Bad (w/ Carmen Christopher)
In this episode, we talk to the charming, and presumably single, Carmen Christopher (The Bear, English Teacher, Friendship), and it’s all about the princess treatment, who’s the driver in their relationships, and taking Dumb & Dumber for granted, before we ask the important questions: does Carmen believe in ghosts, has Carmen ever been ghosted, and also what is ghosting. Plus: Michael Jackson, may
Oops! All Hatties: Hammersword
In this episode, we’re all wearing hats. It’s not clear exactly why we decided to do this, but all three hosts have brought along a hat which is both a fashion statement and a talking point, leading to chat about Guess Who?, jodhpurs, Abe Lincoln’s depression, manic hat enthusiasm, John Mayer’s point system for men’s fashion, Witness, Van Gogh, Joey Pants, and more. Plus: a listener has a very int
Mrs Potato Woman (w/ Aparna Nancherla)
In this episode, we talk about being the favorite child (or not) with regards to Jenny’s salad dressing dance, and Gabe wonders how to gently tell a casual acquaintance that they’ve never seen anything he’s ever done, before we welcome the delightful actor/writer/comedian Aparna Nancherla (Bojack Horseman, Corporate, The Great North). They’ll talk about Aparna and Jenny’s shared stand-up history,
Re-release: Adult Blondes (w/ John Early)
We’re re-releasing our interview with the lovely John Early this week (Eternity, Search Party) to remind you that his movie Maddie’s Secret (which he wrote, directed, and starred in) is in theaters now! In this episode, John claims he’s not in Zootopia 2, but he’s probably lying! We get his thoughts on Heated Rivalry, learn about his crush on a straight boy at summer camp, and discuss which foods
She’s Crabatouille (w/ Claudia O’Doherty)
In this episode, the stakes couldn’t be higher as Max has placed a sandwich tantalizingly close just prior to recording, and Jenny has another dangerous bisque bubbling away! Then, we’re joined by the delightful Claudia O’Doherty (Maddie’s Secret, Love, Our Flag Means Death), who tells us what she’s been cooking recently, shuts down any talk of white chocolate, and lists her favorite movies about
Missions: Impossible (w/ Rosebud Baker)
Max met Tom Cruise. That’s the headline. The tale is epic, Gabe and Jenny are on the edge of their seats. Then, we’re joined by the fantastic comedian/actress/writer Rosebud Baker to talk about reaching out for Justin Bieber, Great Dane puppies, sandwich lawyers, hangover anxieties, and Rosebud’s candid and hilarious new memoir Fully Baked. Plus, a listener’s question boils down to this: We love d
Re-release: Ray Of Light (w/ Michelle Buteau)
This week, we'd like to celebrate the premiere of Survival Of The Thickest Season 3 on Netflix by re-airing our hilarious chat with the show's creator and star, the fantastic Michelle Buteau! Michelle warns us not to get our tongues pierced at the San Gennaro Festival! She also shares how it feels to see her hosting style imitated so often, and helps us answer a listener’s question about housesitt
Oops! All Hosties 3: It’s Been…One Butt
I mean, we’re willing to talk about arthritis, that seems like a fun area, but in this week’s hosts-only episode, we’ll also discuss first semester friends, dance class soundtracks, John Travolta’s berets, fashion scum, and Gabe’s (potentially) round back. Plus, we help a listener with a question about non-vegetarian leftovers. My body is healthy and huge.
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Steven Shakespeare (w/ John Reynolds)
In this episode, it’s gonna be a two-martini night as we’re joined by the cool, hilarious, and tall John Reynolds (Search Party, Stranger Things, Yellowjackets) to discuss why playgrounds are stressful, deja vu, self-doubt, Sleeping With The Enemy, and John’s new movie Never Change! Plus, a listener has a question about the best way to get back in touch one year later!
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Cleat Cakes (w/ Jon Gabrus)
Today we have a special treat, Action Movie class is in session and Professor Jon Gabrus has prepared a syllabus! A few weeks ago, Jenny asked Max & Gabe for suggestions to fill in the gaps in her action movie knowledge, and their pal Gabrus rose to the challenge in classic style. But before that, they’ll talk all about moisturizers, tapered football jerseys, adult rugby, and everything Gabrus has
The Moon Will Stink (w/ Chani Nicholas)
Today we’re joined by the fabulous Chani Nicholas, astrologer, activist, and all around good egg, and she has Jenny, Max, & Gabe’s birth charts in hand! She’ll answer questions about how their charts align, how they differ, being prepared for expansion, and getting cornered on airplanes. Also, ghost hunting! Plus a question about using AI on family photos (that’s a big “no” from the panel).
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Hole For Guys (w/ Kerri Kenney-Silver)
They say don’t meet your heroes, but this episode conclusively proves that if your hero is one Kerri Kenney-Silver (The State, Reno 911, The Four Seasons), then it’s absolutely fine. Kerri joins the group to talk about starting stand-up at age 60 (so a few years out yet, get hyped), her all-girl 90s band Cake-Like, steampunk bar mitzvahs, The State’s long friendship, and to dispense potentially in
My Country, Titty Freak (w/ Pete Holmes)
The hilarious Pete Holmes (Crashing, You Made It Weird) joins us today to discuss unkind thoughts about a man’s foot, encountering Paul Rudd after stroller combat, and to offer a caller some advice about getting the lyrics wrong. Plus, what’s an appropriate gift for a boo mitzvah, and Jenny has a simple opening question about high school: “Were you guys tryin’ to grind?”
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Chunk Hunt! (w/ Ilana Glazer)
Ilana Glazer (Broad City, It’s Open With Ilana Glazer) joins us live from bed today, as we remember epic party boat shoots, Ben & Jerry’s encounters, and the time Gabe fell over very mindfully. We’ll also help out a caller with a very pertinent question about weed disclosures. Plus: Jenny is ready for action movie suggestions, and the boys can’t believe their luck!
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Oops! All Hosties 2: A Golden Thread
The secret ingredient in this week’s hosts-only episode is love! Jenny finds out that shackets are like jeggings for boys, Gabe explains why you should measure twice to cut once, and Max gets us excited for two Pennsylvania-set movies coming soon (though we’re disappointed by the lack of scrapple). Plus: we help a pair of callers work through their confusing night with a Sharon Tate lookalike and
Tony Tony Ate Bologna (w/ Anna Konkle)
Anna Konkle (Pen15, The Sane One) might be the only second grader who watched Fried Green Tomatoes for her birthday party! Together we share Pen15 memories, help a caller whose friend is a bad driver, and discuss the dark corners of Nextdoor, from a feral animal surgeon to an aspiring indie songwriter. Plus: Jenny’s been activated by a horny novel about improv.
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Making A Donation (w/ Nicholas Braun)
Nicholas Braun (Succession, The Sheep Detectives) went to the same high school as one of us, and you’ll have to listen to find out who! We talk about high school reunions, regrets, and surprise hookups, and Nick puts his detective skills to use to help a caller whose upstairs neighbor has a strange post-sex ritual. Plus: Jenny learns that “making a donation” has a different meaning in outer space.
The Bread Is In Your Court (w/ Alison Roman)
We’re lucky writer and chef Alison Roman made friends with Jenny before she hit max friend capacity! Together we’re celebrating Jenny’s birthday, feeling guilt from parenting Instagram, and helping a listener who’s worried a bad tattoo will threaten their friendship with the tattoo artist. Plus: Max and Gabe share some very sweet and gentle pranks.
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Bad News Bears (w/ Paula Pell)
Paula Pell (The Burbs, Girls5Eva) is drinking iced coffee out of a Tab glass with a waistline! She tells us what it’s like to return to acting after a legendary writing career, then helps a caller with sweat issues, and we debate whether her dog looks more like Gizmo from Gremlins or a steering wheel. Plus: we’re still not sure how Jenny’s dad injured himself in a very sensitive place.
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Eat The Onion (w/ D’Arcy Carden)
D’Arcy Carden (Sunny Nights, The Good Place) promises Max has nothing to fear from getting a spray tan! She also recommends a tiny delicious fruit to us, and helps us help a caller whose grandma won’t stop buying her a certain giant appetizer. Plus: Gabe has faith in pet psychics, but is the ‘gift’ from nature that fell onto his car a bad omen?
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Bone Wise (w/ Michelle Collins)
Michelle Collins (The Michelle Collins Show, On The Box) sadly doesn’t revive her one-woman performance of Les Misérables for us! But she does share the shocking thing people would yell at her in Amsterdam, reminisces on her college days with Jenny and Gabe, and helps us with a caller who thinks his friends are talking about him behind his back. Plus: Max used to be Wiccan?
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I Love You, I Wish You Were Gay (w/ Jake Shane)
Jake Shane (Therapuss) is not shy about saying I love you! We talk about how he became fast friends with Jenny at their Broadway show and breaking theater kid rules, then help a caller who had an awkward run in with a guy she went on one date with. Plus: Our pitch for a President’s Day movie.
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Oops! All Hosties
No guest, it’s just the three of us this week! (Sorry, Keira Knightley, maybe next time.) Jenny guesses what the movie Saw is about, before Max relives the very real horror of a birthday dinner that went terribly wrong. Then we help our first ever preteen caller prepare for middle school. Plus: did Jenny invent the crab taco?
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Grunched Up (w/ Vanessa Bayer)
Vanessa Bayer (Scrubs, How Did We Get Weird?) is sitting criss-cross applesauce on the floor to podcast with us! She explains why you shouldn't kill bugs in front of kids, helps us pitch new gift store items for the Clinton Presidential Library, and reveals her secret history as a puppeteer (prompting Gabe to make us all jealous by telling us how he met Kermit). Plus: Jenny's on Broadway, and worr
Do You Have Rugs Down? (w/ Michael Cyril Creighton)
Michael Cyril Creighton (Spotlight, Only Murders In The Building) is here to clear up any rumors that he’s actually Gabe Liedman! We talk about dealing with critics (including the critic in your head) and help a woman whose formerly friendly neighbor is icing her out. Plus: our Valentine’s Day dinner got a little awkward.
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BONUS: Are You Mad At Me?
In this bonus conversation, Jenny asks Max and Gabe what goes through their head when they’re asked “Are you mad at me?”
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Get Me Outta Your Gut (w/ Kurt Braunohler)
Kurt Braunohler (Bananas podcast, The Big Sick) is a snow-tubing virgin just like us! We talk about the best sledding hill in his town, the pros and cons of living in another country, and the prank show victim he never thought he’d run into again. Plus: we get maybe our favorite voicemail ever from a daredevil talking smack about everyone in her small town.
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Angle Your Gland (w/ Rachel Antonoff)
Fashion designer Rachel Antonoff has been proposed to 50,000 times! She joined us last summer (for our second ever podcast taping!) to help us with our fashion problems, from how to deal with wedgies in public to how Max can wear a weighted vest without looking like he’s in a militia. Plus: Gabe and Jenny think opera kinda blows.
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Big Shirt (w/ Jon Daly)
Jon Daly (Fallout, Big Mouth) will never run out of Peet’s Coffee on our watch! We talk about the bands we pretended to like in high school, and discuss whether you should slam books you were gifted on Goodreads. Plus: Jenny deals with the fallout of a cooking disaster, Max feels lucky to be alive at the same time as Ben Affleck, and Gabe corrects the record on Diet Coke.
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Grundle Farms (w/ Nick Kroll)
Nick Kroll (Adults, Big Mouth) is the kind of friend who can tell us when we’ve made an inadvisable fashion choice! He helps a caller get over her jerk ex who ghosted her and moved to Colorado, and helps Jenny get over her orange-juice-related airplane trauma. Plus: Max is completely over drinking water.
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Adult Blondes (w/ John Early)
John Early (Eternity, Search Party) claims he’s not in Zootopia 2 but he’s probably lying! We get his thoughts on Heated Rivalry, learn about his crush on a straight boy at summer camp, and discuss which foods we’d most like to eat in the shower. Plus: Jenny remembers the time she recruited Gabe to convince her college astronomy teacher to give her a better grade.
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BONUS: Visiting Reptiland (w/ Jacqueline Novak)
We’ve got even more from Jacqueline Novak this week! She talks about the time she visited Reptiland, and gets so excited she sticks her leg out at an angle that must be seen to be believed. (We do our best to paint the picture, audio listeners.)
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A Manufactured Akimbo (w/ Jacqueline Novak)
Jacqueline Novak (Get On Your Knees, POOG) swears delightfully while dealing with tech issues! Once we get rolling, she shares an old showbiz hack to help us pose for public photos, and gives excellent advice to a caller whose friends keep repeating the same stories. Plus: Jenny introduces the concept of “The Harder Rock Cafe.”
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Serious Socks (w/ Ron Funches)
Ron Funches (Traitors, Loot) teaches us how to get high on a plane without getting caught! He and Gabe share stories about meeting each other as young writers in LA, and we help a caller worried about dating in her 40s (which we all agree is admirable). Plus: Gabe's vacation ended abruptly, but at least he doesn't have yellow fever.
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The Swearfinger (w/ Ed Helms)
Ed Helms (Snafu, The Hangover) wants to love clams even though he doesn’t really! He tells us about the secret history of Easter and gives sincerely good advice to a cat-loving single dad getting back to dating, and in return, we teach him what gooning means. Plus: Gabe’s Philadelphia accent returns as he schools us on Philly’s iconic Mummers Parade.
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Bomb Ogent (w/ Joe Mande)
Joe Mande (Hacks, Parks and Recreation) is legally barred from doing impressions on our show! But he is allowed to weigh in on the etiquette of rushing to get off an airplane, and we reminisce about our indie sleaze era enduring the bathrooms at Rififi. Plus: Why is Max’s butt wet?
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Don't Call It A Restroom (w/ Rachel Sennott)
Rachel Sennott (I Love LA, Bottoms) finally comes clean about her beef with Max! We debate when it’s OK to ask to go to the bathroom (never ‘restroom’) during an interview, help a caller who works different hours than his boss, and drool over a hot diner doctor. Plus: Jenny has never been in a ball pit?Watch Rachel in I Love LA, the whole first season is on HBO Max!
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Introducing: CrimeLess
CrimeLess is a weekly comedy talk show exploring the wild crime questions you’d never act on—but secretly want answered. Comedian Rory Scovel and journalist–turned–true-crime podcaster Josh Dean break down a new outrageous caper each episode, from bold heists and absurd scams to crypto disasters and monkey-driven chaos. Their deep dives into the strange details and eccentric criminals spark hilari
A Necklace That’s A Wife (w/ Kumail Nanjiani)
Kumail Nanjiani (Night Thoughts, Fallout) doesn’t want us to bust his chops! Together, we help a caller trying to coax his mother-in-law to get a much-needed surgery and guess which not-quite-A-List actor is dating an AI chatbot. Plus: Silvestri and Liedman dream of having “last name” friendships.Check out Kumail's "Night Thoughts" special on Hulu 12/19!
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BONUS: NPR Talk (w/ Jason Manozoukas)
We spend a little more time with Jason Mantzoukas this week, going long on our favorite public radio stars from Eleanor Beardsley to Larry Mantle, and the difference between lacrosse bros and hockey bros.
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Little Grandmothers (w/ Jason Mantzoukas)
Jason Mantzoukas (The League, How Did This Get Made?, Percy Jackson) doesn’t want your dessert omelettes! But he does teach us the best way to scream at children, and together we help a caller planning their next French exit (or is it an Irish goodbye?). Plus: We learn why Max is also known as “The Human Trombone.”
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Teach Me, Rodolpho (w/ Tim Simons)
Tim Simons (Veep, Nobody Wants This) is too shy to tell us what voice he uses when pretending his dog can talk! But together, we bond over Tom Cruise movies, share our most gutting acting class stories, and help a caller who no longer wants to stay with her in-laws for the holidays. Plus: Is Gabe's Texas A&M shirt stolen valor?
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T Of My C (w/ Kate Berlant)
Kate Berlant (Poog, A League Of Their Own) has strong feelings about dinner party etiquette! Just in time for Thanksgiving, we share cocktail recommendations for hometown bars and agree that using Google Maps isn’t sexy. Plus: Max explains what ‘no cap’ means to Jenny (we think).
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Flirtlining (w/ Adam Pally)
Adam Pally (Happy Endings, Staying Alive) is here to tell us why it's terrifying to work with horses! We talk about competitive male friend dynamics, auditioning for roles out of your comfort zone, and whether pediatricians or cops make better lovers. PLUS: Jenny and Gabe both do Robert Durst impressions.
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BONUS: We Touched A Lamborghini
It was exciting to see each other in person again on our New York trip! In this bonus clip, we're sharing more of our adventures in NYC, from touching a Lamborghini to eating some questionable meals.
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Ray Of Light (w/ Michelle Buteau)
Michelle Buteau (The Circle, Survival Of The Thickest) warns us not to get our tongues pierced at the San Gennaro Festival! She also shares how it feels to see her hosting style imitated so often, and helps us answer a listener’s question about housesitting pets while naked. Plus: Max asks Jenny and Gabe for TV and movie recommendations, from a legendary NYC documentary to a soothing art contest.
The Marvelous Mrs. Measles (w/ Sean Hayes)
Sean Hayes (from SmartLess, one of our podcast dads) is here! We get into Gleem toothpaste commercials and weird 1-800 hotlines, and give Jenny advice on a meme featuring her getting some seriously unwanted attention. Plus: hear Gabe and Max try out their Delco accents.
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BONUS: Our Big, Terrific Origin Story
Jenny, Max, and Gabe all sat down at the studio in New York City during launch week to talk about their origin story! You’ll hear how they met, what they thought of each other’s fashion (the phrase “Sideshow Bob” is uttered), which of their parents used to come see them live, and hear all about their own Project 2025 (which was simply to start this podcast so they could hang out, it’s nothing nefa
Angels In My Eyeline (w/ Jessi Klein)
This week we need our dear friend Jessi Klein (Big Mouth, Here To Make Friends podcast). She helps us deal with Gabe’s early morning texting habits and an alarming ‘gift’ Jenny received, then tells us about a drive-by surprise. Plus: We help a caller learn the best way to find out how someone died without seeming creepy.
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BONUS: More Advice with John Mulaney
John Mulaney loved giving advice with us, so he stuck around for one more voicemail from a listener dealing with a difficult dog problem. We’ll be back Tuesday with a brand new episode - if you have a problem we can help solve, don’t forget to leave us a voicemail!
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This Is The Way (w/ John Mulaney)
It's our first episode! We talk about why we started a podcast 16 years late and remember that era when Jenny wore galoshes every day. Then, our old friend John Mulaney stops by to hear Max's horrifying dinner party story and explain why he's not that hard to buy gifts for. Plus: we help our call-in guest deal with her loud partner "Hank." Special thanks to Margaret Harris this week.
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Coming Soon: I NEED YOU GUYS with Jenny Slate, Max Silvestri & Gabe Liedman
Hear a sneak peek of I Need You Guys with Jenny Slate, Max Silvestri & Gabe Liedman! Coming October 21st from SmartLess Media and SiriusXM.
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