Awards season, celebrity memoirs, and new music picked apart with host Louis Fertel and guests.
Keep It! treats entertainment news like a group chat with better references and sharper knives. Recent episodes move from Coachella, Brandy, Robyn, Raye, and Survivor to Oscars postmortems, actor interviews, and the moral mess of still loving messy artists.
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Keep It! is a long-running entertainment podcast, sampled here across 429 episodes, organized around weekly conversation about awards shows, celebrity news, music releases, and television. Most episodes pair host Louis Fertel with a rotating guest or co-host, often a comedian, actor, or entertainment-media personality, for panel-style discussions running 85 to 95 minutes. Recurring subjects include Oscars coverage (hosting choices, red-carpet politics, acting-category debates), the Super Bowl halftime show, and festival lineups like Coachella. The show frequently turns celebrity memoirs and interviews into discussion material, as in episodes unpacking Brandy Norwood's memoir Phases or Nick Cannon's political commentary on his own podcast. Guests such as Nina Parker, an E! personality, and Monét X Change, a RuPaul's Drag Race alum, appear repeatedly and bring red-carpet or industry-insider perspective. Actors including Ethan Hawke, Dylan O'Brien, and Paul Walter Hauser join as one-off guests tied to current film or TV projects. LGBTQ representation in media is a standing thread, surfacing in rankings of queer TV shows and discussion of actors navigating being openly gay in Hollywood. The tone is opinionated and joke-forward rather than journalistic, with hosts ranking, roasting, and relitigating industry decisions rather than simply reporting them. Episodes assume listener familiarity with current entertainment news and move quickly through a large number of named actors, musicians, and media figures. The show suits listeners who already follow awards season and celebrity culture closely rather than newcomers looking for a primer.
Made for: Listeners who closely follow awards season, celebrity gossip, and new music releases and enjoy opinionated, panel-style recap conversation.
What sets it apart: Unlike straight awards-recap shows, Keep It! combines Oscars and halftime-show analysis with celebrity memoir deep-dives, music reviews, and recurring LGBTQ pop-culture commentary in the same episode.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Keep It! makes pop-culture criticism funny by pairing precise opinions with guests ready to argue, riff, and follow an unexpected reference.
Keep It! turns movies, television, music, awards shows, and celebrity news into fast conversational comedy. The talk moves easily from Oscar results and acting performances to Coachella, Euphoria, Brandy's memoir, Robyn, Raye, and reality television, with guests adding fresh…
Oscar night gets a sharper afterparty when Louis Fertel starts auditing the cameras, winners, and Irish dancers.
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A sharp, funny Adam Driver detour where Girls, prestige grit, and House of Gucci all catch heat.
Keep It hits its stride when a loose Adam Driver tangent turns into a clean little autopsy of modern male movie stardom. The hosts land on Girls as the performance that actually used him best: strange, physical, soft, hard, wacky, and specific before later roles seemed to let…
Louis Fertel and Nina Parker spin Kanye backlash, Brandy lore, Ray J asides, and The Boy Is Mine into sharp pop-culture comedy.
Keep It! opens in full pop-culture crossfire, with Louis Fertel bringing Nina Parker back for a brisk, amused pass at Kanye West's Wireless Festival fallout before the conversation turns toward Brandy, The Boy Is Mine, and the strange side roads of R&B history.
A sharp, funny pop-culture hang about old fandom, TLC nostalgia, and celebrity disappointment catching up with the playlist.
Keep It! turns pop news into a funny, slightly bruised conversation about loving artists, losing patience with them, and admitting the celebrity in your head was never fully knowable.
A sharp, funny Oscars postgame about shaky camera work, split wins, Sinners nerves, and awards season as contact sport.
Keep It turns the 98th Academy Awards into a nervous, funny postgame, with Luke, Louis, Guy Branum, and Nina Parker reading the night through performance glitches, technical wins, and the weird math of wanting your favorite to win without demanding a sweep.
A funny, opinionated awards-chat hang where Sinners, Michael B. Jordan, Emma Stone, and Wuthering Heights all get pulled into the same messy orbit.
Keep It! turns a discussion of Bad Bunny, Black History Month films, and awards picks into a loose, funny roundtable where taste and thirst keep interrupting the ballot. The movie talk has the sharpest charge when it circles Sinners, with Michael B.
A sharp Oscar ballot hang where real awards taste keeps swerving into ridiculous side riffs.
Keep It gets a lot of mileage out of Oscar ballot talk, mostly by refusing to treat predictions as sacred. The hosts move from likely winners to petty feelings, from rooting for Sinners to wondering whether casting awards sometimes come down to who answered the email.
A loose, funny queer TV ranking sprint where CatDog and The Voice somehow make the canon.
Keep It! comes back for 2026 in full overtalk mode, with Louis Fertel and Vinny Thomas turning a pop culture check-in into a proudly unserious queer TV canon draft.
Sharp Black pop culture commentary with gossip, jokes, and blunt advice.
Comedian Chris Gethard takes one anonymous call a week and can't hang up first.
Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer riff on feminism and TV history from Spanish stages.
Graham Clark and Dave Shumka turn one small topic into a full episode of tangents.
Men: still hit or miss.
Nina Parker arrives glowing, and Louis wastes no time turning the reunion into Wireless Festival gossip.
Chili catches a stray.
This episode of Keep It features host Louis Vertel and guest Guy Branum reminiscing about their friendship and a celebrity-themed game they played, following an ad for the audiobook and movie adaptation of Project Hail Mary.
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This episode discusses Harry Styles' new album and FX's series 'Love Story' with guests Nina Parker and Alessandro Nivola.
The hosts discuss the premiere of Survivor 50, pop culture topics like Mike White's abs and the SAG Awards, and the social experience of watching reality TV at bars.
Lewis Vertel interviews Dewayne Perkins about his movie The Blackening, comparing it to Naked Gun, and discusses his one-man show How Being Black and Gay Made Me Better Than You.
This episode discusses the classic novel Wuthering Heights and Netflix's documentary about America's Next Top Model, featuring guest Nina Parker.
Keep It brings Monét X Change to discuss Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, Charlie Puth and Coco Jones singing before the game, and the hosts’ ranking of classic halftime performances.
A pop culture podcast that reviews TV shows and films with a comedic twist, starting with a sponsor ad for Koyuchi bedding.
The Oscar talk turns prickly fast.
A comedic pop culture roundtable show with a humorous host discussing entertainment news and a sponsored segment about Factor meal delivery.
Host Louis Fertel and guest Guy Branum discuss their favorite awards telecasts and the fun of post-awards analysis.
Drag Race is back, naturally.
This episode features Dorinda Medley discussing the early days of Bravo reality TV and her experiences on Real Housewives.
The host humorously promotes a collagen supplement and then pitches a true crime comedy podcast called Scam Goddess.
This episode features an interview with Courtney Revolution discussing his experiences at BravoCon, his role on Netflix's The Circle, and his perspective as both a reality TV fan and participant.
A comedic host promotes Masa chips with humorous tangents about nutrition labels and a proposed euphemism.
A comedic podcast episode featuring host Louis Fertel and guest Riri Chaney discussing musicals and personal anecdotes, with a sponsored segment for Factor meals.
The host Louis Fertel discusses Frankenstein, Grammy nominations, and other topics with comedy writers Gus Hickey and Chris Schleicher in a humorous and casual conversation.
Host Louis Fertel and guest Kyle Buchanan discuss the upcoming Oscar season and the films they've seen.
A comedic podcast discussing pop culture, with a sponsor segment for Soul gummies and a preview of discussing Lily Allen's album.
Louis Fertel hosts a pop culture podcast with guest Kyle Buchanan, discussing movies, film criticism, and personal anecdotes.
The host discusses attending a queer pride event, shares a controversial opinion about gay men's fashion, and promotes a wellness brand's THC/CBD gummies as an alternative to alcohol.
The hosts discuss the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You and critique the original film's performances.
Hosts Ira Madison and Louis Virtel discuss summer plans, Coachella, and pop culture with comedic banter.
The hosts return from a break to discuss pop culture news, including Morgan Wallen controversy and Val Kilmer's death, with humorous commentary.
The hosts discuss sleep issues and promote Beam's Dream Powder, a sleep aid hot cocoa.
The hosts discuss Ira's appearance on a game show and banter about pop culture, with a Planned Parenthood sponsorship message.
Hosts Ira Madison III and Louis Fertetti banter about movies and pop culture, including a reference to the film Spectre and a discussion about a movie called 'Queer'.
Hosts Louis Fertel and Ira Madison III banter about the Oscars and promote Factor meal delivery with humorous asides.
The hosts recap their live show in Boston, joking about the experience and their fans.
A sponsored segment promoting Beam's Dream Powder sleep aid, discussing its benefits and ingredients.