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Fast riffs, whiskey, and comic pressure.
Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino runs on quick comic pressure: guests arrive with career stories, road memories, and odd grudges, then the conversation veers hard. Movie-set luck, Waffle House stories, comedy-room bombing, name changes, screenwriting, specials, and public beefs all become fuel.
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Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino is a comedy interview show with the patience of a live wire. It has guests, whiskey, plugs, tour chatter, and career talk, but the real shape is a fast chain of teasing and escalation. A guest starts with a normal anecdote. The room immediately looks for the most ridiculous angle. Brad Williams talking about Waffle House with J.R. Smith becomes a riff on weak stomachs, sunscreen, red hair, cheap menus, and the guarantee that every Waffle House meal comes with a story. Josh Peck's episode moves through movie luck, impressions, Danny Trejo's unlikely path onto a set, and the sense that the business no longer lets people fall into careers by accident. That thought gets a laugh before it gets sentimental. Timmy No Brakes brings in a public beef with Red Band, and the conversation leans into the insult-comic absurdity of it rather than smoothing it over. Jimmy O. Yang's return is framed around whiskey, his special Finally Home, and a huge Hong Kong shoot that sounds less like a tidy promo stop than a victory lap with jokes interrupting the champagne. Aaron Chen's appearance turns his introduction into an SNL-announcer bit almost immediately. Fiona Cauley's episode makes a legal name change, Shrek jokes, and redhead teasing feel like the natural opening move. Tommy Brennan sparks beer talk, Wisconsin comedy rooms, Chicago allegiances, and the specific dignity of bombing before being invited to hang out. Chloe Radcliffe brings sharper career material: stand-up, social media, acting, screenwriting, a solo show called Cheat, and the tension between ambition and oversharing. The show is blunt without pretending to be tidy. It likes friendship, but it shows affection through pressure. It is best when guests are willing to argue, repeat a dumb phrase until it improves, and let a real story get hijacked by the joke sitting beside it.
Made for: For comedy fans who like interview shows loose, teasing, and interruption-heavy. It especially suits listeners who follow stand-up, touring comics, entertainment stories, and hangout conversations with sharp edges.
What sets it apart: The show turns guest interviews into rolling bits instead of polished career retrospectives. Its best moments come from sudden pivots: a promo, a feud, a road story, or a name change becoming a full comic argument.
Comedian Andrew Santino interviews friends in and out of the entertainment industry as they reflect on deviant stories of their past; while sipping whiskey. Available on all streaming services and Spotify.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Loose guest conversations turn touring mishaps, career mechanics and stray personal details into sustained comic riffs.
Andrew Santino turns guest conversations into quick exchanges of stories, teasing and follow-up questions. With Sal Vulcano, Tommy Brennan, Josh Peck, Brad Williams, Adam Ray and Chloe Radcliffe, the talk repeatedly circles touring, stand-up, acting and the strange mechanics of…
A Waffle House detour with J.R. Smith is the kind of tangent you came for.
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A Waffle House memory becomes a funny, stubborn defense of J.R. Smith and the mythology of a cheap meal.
A late-night Waffle House run turns into the comic engine, with the host remembering a stop there with J.R. Smith after a night connected to Augusta, the aftermath of getting sick, and the need to defend Smith from the idea that he had somehow gone the wrong way.
A Sinatra impression and Danny Trejo story become a funny riff on Hollywood luck.
Andrew Santino and his guest shape the episode around the odd, almost accidental ways movie careers can start. A Sinatra impression becomes the doorway into a bit that may have found its way into a film, and the conversation soon moves to Danny Trejo finding early work after…
A weak stomach turns a beef with Red Band into the episode's strangest and most persistent comic argument.
Whiskey Ginger turns a public beef with Red Band into a blunt, oddly persistent comic argument about disgust, image, and how far a personal riff can stretch.
A Wisconsin-heavy comic hangout where beer talk, Midwest riffs, and touring stories roll into a proudly messy finish.
Tommy Brennan sits down with Andrew Santino for a loose single-episode conversation built around Wisconsin, beer, and the strange alchemy of road stories.
A loose, funny career conversation turns touring, screenwriting, and a one-woman show into easy riffing.
Chloe Radcliffe comes through as a comic with several lanes pulling at once: stand-up, social media, acting, and screenwriting. Andrew Santino uses that tension as the spine of the conversation, tracking the difficulty of not splitting focus while screenwriting keeps creating…
Tattoo talk turns into a sharp, affectionate detour through taste, family ink, and dead-guy songs.
Tattoo talk drives a loose, funny argument about taste and the stories people pin to ink. The guest shows off a tattoo that once drew approving attention from gals about town, admits he could take or leave some of his body art, and points to words tied to two song lyrics for a…
Adam Ray turns no-prep live-show chaos and crude hypotheticals into a quick, behind-the-scenes comedy conversation.
Adam Ray's return to Whiskey Ginger starts in loose, familiar territory, riffing on ginger beards and Kyrie Irving's shoes before opening into a broader talk about live comedy, guest-heavy nights, and the work of shaping a show that is meant to feel barely shaped.
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.
Jerome Luai promotes Binge and Ned's, then Andrew Santino announces his comedy tour dates.
Comedian Andrew Santino hosts Sal Vulcano on Whiskey Ginger.
Comedian Andrew Santino reunites with longtime friend Adam Ray on Whiskey Ginger.
Andrew Santino and Brad Williams spend Whiskey Ginger on joke boundaries, starting with a roast of David Sampson's cherry shirt and the correction that his daughter is going through cancer.
Josh Peck tells Andrew Santino he spent nearly a decade chasing Ricky Stanicky, originally with Jim Carrey attached and Miles Teller in the mix.
Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino centers on Timmy No Breaks, who says he is from Trenton, New Jersey and claims cancer shaped his life after doctors gave him three months to live.
Andrew Santino welcomes Jimmy O.
Andrew Santino welcomes comedian Aaron Chen to Whiskey Ginger for a humorous interview.
Andrew Santino welcomes comedian Fiona Cauley to Whiskey Ginger, discussing her red hair and legal name change to Fiona.
Tommy Brennan describes a stranger finding his number online and texting him from the front row.
Andrew Santino talks with Chloe Radcliffe about her role in a Bradley Cooper movie, her move from stand-up to acting, and the New York comedy spaces like McDougal and Fat Black.
Gianni Paolo discusses his unique career as a white actor on black TV shows and compares fan bases with Theo Von.
Marc Maron returns to Whiskey Ginger to chat about fan art, UPS deliveries, and their previous interview in a bathroom.
Comedian Andrew Santino introduces an episode of Whiskey Ginger featuring Yannis Pappas, with a brief ad for IG Private Wealth and promotion of Bad Friends live shows.