Sister banter with excellent detours.
Sis & Tell Podcast turns ordinary sister check-ins into fast, funny arguments about whatever just happened: prom stress, game-show casting, wedding etiquette, speakeasies, illness Googling, or old dolls in the attic. The charm is in the ricochet.
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Sis & Tell Podcast is built around the kind of sister conversation that starts halfway through a thought and somehow finds three better topics before it lands. Amanda and Allison do not need a grand premise. A message from a game-show casting agent is enough. From there, they spin into worries about looking foolish on camera, the politics of sibling competition, the machinery of game shows, and who would be announced as being from which city. The same pattern holds across the episodes. Prom becomes a referendum on logistics, twins, teens, and what counts as efficient suffering. A comedy show with children in the audience turns into a practical distinction between being clean for adults and being clean for kids. A social-media request about a child-free wedding invitation becomes a full etiquette hearing. Even a hoarse voice can become a riff about “the” in front of everyday things, from the flu to The Temple. The pace is quick. The pleasure is in the pile-on. One sister sets the scene, the other tightens the joke, and then both keep worrying the premise until it produces something stranger and more specific. The show’s world is domestic, Southern, Jewish, pop-literate, and highly conversational. It is full of prom weekends, family texts, Atlanta restaurants, Birmingham belongings, Chattanooga bars, old toys, school plays, relatives, and the odd cultural obsession that demands immediate discussion. It also has a healthy appetite for low-stakes outrage. Bad acting in a reality-comedy setup, confusing symbolism in a halftime show, cruise-ship energy in a themed speakeasy, and the social rules of Mahjong night all become material. The warmth matters. Even when the banter gets blunt, the engine is affection rather than cruelty. Sis & Tell works best for listeners who like comedy that sounds alive in the room: interruptive, opinionated, nostalgic, and happy to spend a long time proving that “nothing” can be plenty.
Made for: For listeners who like conversational comedy driven by family stories, pop culture, parenting logistics, Southern Jewish references, and highly specific everyday complaints. It fits fans of quick back-and-forth more than polished interview formats.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its sibling rhythm: one premise gets tested, corrected, exaggerated, and turned into a shared bit in real time. It makes small domestic moments feel unusually elastic without pretending they are more important than they are.
Sis & Tell, an award-winning weekly comedic podcast, is hosted by southern Jewish sisters the Emmy-nominated Alison Goldstein Lebovitz from PBS' The A List and comedian Amanda Goldstein Marks.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Amanda and Allison turn sibling memory, family logistics and everyday anxiety into comedy through affectionate correction and escalating detail.
Amanda and Allison turn ordinary life into material by worrying a subject from opposite angles until the details become the joke. Game-show casting prompts questions about buttons, hometown introductions and sibling competition; prom logistics lead into dueling accounts of what…
Prom stress becomes a debate about the efficiency of having twins; you know which sister you'd side with.
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A game-show casting message lets Amanda and Allison turn audition nerves and sibling competition into easy comic banter.
A casting message for CBS's The Perfect Line gives Amanda and Allison a tidy comic setup: Jodi, a casting associate producer, has reached out to both sisters, and neither seems fully clear on how the invitation landed with them.
Prom logistics, Company Retreat skepticism, and a Fiverr-fueled Morgan Freeman detour keep the episode loose, warm, and specific.
Prom recovery gives this Sis & Tell conversation its spark, as one host is still sorting through the logistics and rising costs of having two junior promers while the other treats the double event as strangely efficient.
Comedy panic over kids in the crowd gives way to Carolyn Bessette spoilers and Family Feud plans.
Sis & Tell is funniest when it treats a small professional panic like a major ethical puzzle. A host arrives at a comedy show after hearing there may be children in the room, then worries through the difference between clean material for adults and material that actually works…
A loose, funny travel-and-family ramble that turns playhouses, themed bars, and Olympic curling into running landmarks.
Going for Gold wanders through travel, family history, and a University of Alabama trip with an easy, clutter-drawer kind of charm. The best stretch is in the way the hosts keep turning small, ordinary details into comic inventory: glassware, old invitations, a childhood…
Mahjong, halftime-show symbolism and tongue fuel a lively case of comic overanalysis.
A mahjong night at a Cabbage Town dim sum restaurant gives Amanda and Allison plenty to dispute: pronunciation, the guest list and a chance encounter with someone from a shiva.
Amanda and Allison turn family clutter, hidden doors, and Olympic envy into a warm sibling ramble.
A college-visit detour turns into a loose comic inventory of family clutter, hidden doors, and Olympic ambition kept safely out of reach. Amanda and Allison move from a University of Alabama trip and Birmingham keepsakes they clearly cannot haul home to the childhood playhouse…
A childhood bra request becomes a funny, affectionate case between sisters.
A childhood embarrassment turns into a warm, funny case between sisters. Amanda remembers being too embarrassed to ask their mother for a bra, so she asked her older sister Allison for help. Allison later raised the request at Shabbat dinner in front of their immediate family.
Sharp Black pop culture commentary with gossip, jokes, and blunt advice.
Awards season, celebrity memoirs, and new music picked apart with host Louis Fertel and guests.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Graham Clark and Dave Shumka turn one small topic into a full episode of tangents.
A woman recounts a dinner where someone took a photo of her, leading to a humorous encounter with a stranger who recognized her.
Two people discuss their preferred home temperatures in summer, touching on sleep comfort and menopause-related temperature sensitivity.
A humorous and heartfelt conversation about the emotional double whammy of a dog dying right before a child leaves for college.
A parent discusses stocking a fun drink fridge to make their house the hangout spot for teenagers.
Sisters Alison and Amanda discuss inheriting their childhood playhouse and family legacy.
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Jody, a casting associate producer on CBS Game Show The Perfect Line, emails Allison after reaching through Tiffany's Instagram contacts and a shared Atlanta comedy network.
Amanda and Allison open Sis & Tell with Ruby and Oscar’s prom weekend, including a Chipotle dinner at Amanda’s house, a 1 a.m.
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The hosts of Sis and Tell discuss childhood memories of Cabbage Patch Kids and Adopt-A-Doll, including a humorous story about a doll wedding.
Two friends discuss how to politely exclude children from a wedding invitation, sharing advice that went viral.
Allison and Amanda open with Allison's return from visiting her son Levi, who is studying in England, and detour into their mother's campaign to offload a childhood playhouse large enough to require a flatbed truck.
Two Jewish sisters, Allison and Amanda, trade stories from a Mahjong night at Jin Chan's dim sum restaurant in Atlanta where cousin Jason used a literal 'Jen Chan's Gay Card' for a 10% drink discount and they encountered food-delivery robots named Denzel and Medina on the sidewalk.
Two hosts engage in a humorous, rambling conversation about various topics including illnesses, the word 'the', and Southern dialect.