Relationship advice with its hair on fire.
Couples Therapy is relationship comedy with the brakes half-off: listener questions, comic conversations, and domestic side quests. Naomi and Andy turn dating, friendship, therapy, holidays, politics, and pet chaos into quick, affectionate arguments that usually find a real feeling underneath the bit.
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Couples Therapy uses relationship advice as a doorway, then refuses to stay politely in the room. Naomi and Andy introduce themselves as a real-life couple of comedians, and that premise matters: the show depends on two people who can tease, interrupt, redirect, and still land in the same emotional neighborhood. Listener questions give the episodes a spine. The real pleasure is the detour. A discussion of friendship can become a frank account of loneliness, ego, therapy, and the effort required to keep old bonds alive. A holiday aside can turn into a miniature disaster movie about trying to get lunch near a parade. A domestic update about a pet can be treated with the triumph normally reserved for career news. Guests slide into the current rather than stopping it. Megan brings road-comedy stories, political tension, and the weird math of connecting with a divided room. Pablo talks about therapy, queer dating, friendship, and why in-person care can matter. Aaron Chen traces anxiety through family history, surveillance culture, health worries, and the learned sense that the world is dangerous. Jamali Maddix reflects on growing up in a small social world shaped by neighborhood routine, race, class, and leaving home. The show can be silly in one breath and pointed in the next. It is comfortable with messy topics: situationships, bad dates, sex regrets, conscious uncoupling, racial anxiety, politics, and the entertainment business. It is also deeply verbal. Jokes are built through correction, repetition, mock seriousness, and long winding setups that get tagged from the side. The result feels less like polished counsel than a funny table conversation where advice, confession, and performance keep swapping seats. Its softness is real, but rarely left alone. Whenever a moment gets too earnest, someone usually pokes it, bends it, or drags it toward a stranger image. That tension is the engine. Couples Therapy suits people who want comedy about relationships without the calm voice, the clipboard, or the fantasy that anyone has fully solved being human.
Made for: For comedy listeners who like relationship talk messy, fast, and emotionally alert. It especially suits people drawn to banter, guest stories, and advice that admits how strange intimacy can get.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by letting a real couple's comic timing shape the advice, so the answers feel argued into existence rather than delivered. It can move from a listener's problem to race, therapy, politics, dating, or pet chaos without losing the thread.
Open your hearts and loosen your butts! On Couples Therapy, real life couple and real life comedians Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman gab with their favorite actors and comics about their romantic pasts, presents and futures and answer YOUR relaysh Qs with all the wisdom two unlicensed entertainers can possibly contain! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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