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Episode 85 - Alia Shawkat
Talk Easy returns! Actress Alia Shawkat is on the show this week. We talk growing up on the television, the success of Search Party, and how the #MeT…
8 years ago
A Talk Easy Holiday Special
With the year coming to a close, Sam (literally) calls on past guests of the show to deliver some hope. Including: Janicza Bravo talking Kahlil Josep…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode 83 - Sean Baker
Sean Baker is a writer/director known primarily for the Prince of Broadway, Tangerine, and, most recently, The Florida Project. In this week’s episod…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode 82 - Lois Smith
The inimitable Lois Smith has lived a full and exciting life, beginning in Kansas in 1930 and leading her to where she is today, acting in films like…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins
This week, Sam sits down with comedian, actor, and TV writer Paul F. Tompkins. Paul is a longtime standup comic who has appeared in everything from M…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 80 - Rory Scovel
Rory Scovel has been on the stand-up scene for more than ten years, from his early days spent doubling as a “desktop support specialist” in Washingto…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 79 - Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier is a Norweigan filmmaker who has so far directed four feature films, including the English language family drama Louder than Bombs and …
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 78 - Noël Wells
Early this year, Sam and actress Noël Wells recorded an episode of Talk Easy at Sundance. Days after the presidential inauguration and in the midst o…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta
Since the late '90s, director Miguel Arteta has worked in film and television to bring us multilayered comedic movies like Chuck & Buck and Youth in …
8 years, 5 months ago
Episode 76 - Shea Serrano
His whole adult life, Shea Serrano's worked hard. Not just at one thing, but at everything he's done, from chronic pool-playing and highly-calculated…
8 years, 5 months ago