Best Interview Episodes on Celebrity (& Celeb-Adjacent) Podcasts⭐

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

Sam Fragoso, host of Talk Easy, instantly makes his guests — sometimes super famous people — feel like real people to listeners. Most of his interviews sound like they're the easy, casual chatter that usually happens off mic rather than the formal interactions we've become accustomed to hearing on talk shows. I loved watching Ramy (2019) a few years ago and was pumped to see him pop back up on this podcast.

It’s Been a Minute

Interview: Insecure Actress Natasha Rothwell

I’m throwing it way back for this recommendation. In 2017, Sam Sanders started a show with NPR called It’s Been a Minute With Sam Sanders. It still runs today (sans Sam Sanders) and is hosted by Brittany Luse, another remarkably talented interviewer and reporter. The show’s original iteration was one of my first favorite podcasts — I listened to it twice a week, every week. Since this episode dropped, Natasha Rothwell has blown up (The White Lotus; How To Die Alone). It’s really fun to revisit this conversation with people I admired then and still admire now and get a sense of how much has changed in politics and pop culture.

Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald

My Own American Girl with Sarah Chalke

Fake Doctors, Real Friends was a big pandemic comfort for me when it first dropped in 2020. I watched Scrubs in high school and cried almost every episode — the music, the earnestness, and the hospital setting just got me. So when this podcast launched, I was jazzed not only to revisit the sitcom, but to hang out with TV show and IRL best friends Donald Faison and Zach Braff. I maintain that this is one of the best celebrity-led podcasts to this day. In this episode, they sit down with Sarah Chalke, who played Elliot on Scrubs, for a big nostalgia fest. 

The Worst Podcast

The Worst Way to Spend Your College Years, with Anna Sale

To me — and probably to most people reading this — Anna Sale is a celebrity. The Worst Podcast is a relatively new show in which “award-winning filmmaker and noted curmudgeon” Alan Zweig interviews celebrities about their “worsts.” I really enjoyed this conversation because it was so halting and disjointed — that’s the point. Plus, Kattie Laur, who produces the show and writes a newsletter called Pod The North, adds humor and volume to the episode.

On with Kara Swisher

Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer

I consume most shows and episodes Kara Swisher is involved in, whether she's hosting or guesting. This episode is a must-listen, especially if you’re a millennial who watched and loved Broad City. Ilana Glazer is somehow simultaneously hilarious and poignant in this conversation, and Kara Swisher pokes and prods in her signature way, while stopping for a giggle in response to some of Glazer’s quips.

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Someone's In Here

Someone's In Here explores our cultural relationship to the bathroom; a topic that everyone can relate to but is almost never treated with the dignity that I think it deserves. The podcast follows the host, Ben, on a journey to figure out why talking about the bathroom, especially talking about poop, is so taboo and if it should be.