Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Kate Berlant

Kate Berlant was seeing a few too many ghosts for a while. Amy hangs with the actress and comedian and talks about why you can't have two class clowns in bed, if she's a nepo baby, and why all curses should be lifted for free. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: John Early and Kate BerlantExecutive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal music: Amy Miles Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at https://paypal.com/payin4Switch today at https://www.Visible.com for just 25/mo. Or get the premium Visible+ pro plan and save $10 on your first month with code HANG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 12m
Broadcast on: 20 Oct 2026
Audio Format: other

Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: John Early and Kate Berlant
Executive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige Garbarini
Original music: Amy Miles

Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at https://paypal.com/payin4
Switch today at https://www.Visible.com for just 25/mo. Or get the premium Visible+ pro plan and save $10 on your first month with code HANG.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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John Amy. Oh my god, it worked. You know what I never really noticed and I'm noticing right now how blue those eyes are of yours. That's really sweet. Well, they are. You what? They are blue. I'm kind of far back. Are you kind of far back? Are you blue? I'm blue as well. Yeah. Okay. Well. And I just read somewhere that we should be wearing sunglasses all the time. No. Yes. My. Because it's, it's, we're more susceptible to like vision. Too. Damage. Sun damage eye. Sun damaged eyes. Wow. I have 2020. No offense. Bragg. No, I do not. You still have 2020. I still do somehow. That's incredible. All right. Thank you. I do not. I've got reading, I've got glasses for reading, and it's going downhill really fast. Kate has reading glasses. You guys could talk about that. John Early, it is really good to see you. It's so good to see you. I'm so starstruck. You're nuts. I am. John, right back at you. You know, we were, we were watching, we were rewatching Vicki with the V and Maddie's secret before we got on. And we were, we were saying like there are certain people when they, when they portray female characters that it feels like aggressive. Yeah. Yeah. And you. They're working through something. They're working through something. And I clearly am too. Well, we all are. It's maybe, it's maybe more coming from some sort of child like longing and not necessarily an aggression. No, it feels very nice. It feels like it feels very, like it just makes me feel nice and safe. It does make me feel weird. Oh my God. Thank God. For people that don't know, you and Kate have created so many works of art together. And you are like partners, but not partners. You do your own separate things always. But when you come together, there's like the special language, like there's a comedy language, but it always consists of this very thrilling, deep dive into something. Like, it's always really deep and always funny. Thank God. When did you first meet Kate? Let's talk about that origin story. We first met when I was, I guess we were both like 24,

which was last year. And we met, okay, we met basically doing our mutual friends comedy show.

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