Eli Leonard (Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO) is a hilarious, amazing, talented writer, actor, and clown from Minnesota! He’s written storylines and appeared on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Leonard tours the country opening for stand-up comedian, Elon Gold and the Chosen Comedy Festival, and with his One Man Show, GOOD SHOWBIZ, which also runs monthly in Los Angeles at The Elysian Theater. We yenta about: Working and being on on Curb your enthusiasm Is there a feud between Elon and Modi? Are you a jew ...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr
Avital is an accomplished writer, comedian, and actress. She's been on Barry on HBO (um ever heard of it??)! She’s gonna be at Edinburgh fringe! She’s sold multiple TV shows! She's also queer and ex-Orthodox. Our conversation with Avital Ash was so awesome, so hot, so interesting, that we split this episode into 2 parts! We yenta about: Baby gays feeling like a fraud Avital's new show “Avital Workshops her Suicide note” How Avital packaged and sold TV shows Raye’s dates telling them to choose be...
Mar 14, 2024•53 min
Alli Goldberg is a comedy powerhouse, and you've probably seen her hosting the hit dating show Love Isn't Blind- the only dating show where the men don't talk! Allie is a business genius, and she drops some life-changing career advice goss. Also we talk about crusty dicks. We yenta about: - Why cis men with small dicks need to learn from the queer community - How Allie sold multiple shows and has a entertainment empire - Searching a guy's phone and finding searches for "bicurious" (!!!) - Can yo...
Mar 08, 2024•57 min
Antonia and Raye recap their LITERALLY INCREDIBLE show at the Minnesota JCC. They talk comedy writing, vulnerability on stage, and self confidence; this is an episode for the Yenta comedy nerds! We yenta about: The glamour of performing at the JCC. Did this famous comedian get a BJ on stage at the comedy store?? The INSANE moment when we discovered the majority of the JCC audience wasn't Jewish. Raye doesn't believe compliments. Antonia thinks Raye is perfect. Mush. Vulnerability. Antonia had a ...
Feb 29, 2024•43 min
Lily Lester (NY Jewish Week, Mishegoss) is a hilarious comedian, writer, actress! We had an awesome conversation with guest cohost Sarah Afkami!! We Yenta about: Lily’s super gay hot Jewish queer relationship and everything about it Bringing over boys to make out while you babysit Masterbating to Larry David When men don’t get things The first people to ever give their opinions on NY vs LA Lily Lester: https://www.instagram.com/thelilylester/ Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeontheway...
Feb 21, 2024•56 min
Catherine Mcafferty (Hulu, Amazon, Freevee) is a genius comedian who also happens to have THE JUICIEST SECRET WE'VE EVER HEARD ON YENTA. WE'RE LITERALLY STILL SCREAMING. Hints: c-list celebs, steamy hookups, St Louis???We Yenta about: Fans who want to bone you. Catherine's new series Pretty Gay, that's pretty perfect, pretty hilarious, pretty gay The creators of Dropout are producing Catherine's new show because they literally believe in her so hard. Catherine doesn't want to treat men like huma...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Antonia and Raye go over the history of their friendship including the dm that Antonia sent Raye on Instagram over a year ago! And than share the decision making process that led to this big announcement ! Uncut and bonus episodes: https://patreon.com/yenta Raye Schiller: https://instagram.com/rayeontheway Antonia Lassar: https://instagram.com/antonialastar (00:01:38) Podcast Introduction (00:02:06) Engaging Listeners (00:02:33) Upcoming Announcement Tease (00:03:29) Connecting Over Shared Ident...
Feb 08, 2024•34 min
Milana Vayntrub (Marvel, This Is Us) is literally world famous for being the face of AT&T, and we can't believe she took a break from being a Marvel hero to yenta with us! Buckle up Yentas, this conversation is everything Glennon Doyle wishes she was: hilarious, brilliant, and filled with goss!!! We're still glowing. We Yenta about: How Milana started directing her own AT&T commercials That Soviet Jewish Life Everything Milana loves about Judaism (big pitch for Judaism, folks) Milana's I...
Feb 01, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We’re doing a Yenta! Live in Minneapolis on February 24 and we thought we’d give you a little inside scoop into our process! We'll be reading your secrets, doing some standup, and literally I have no idea what else. This is a true look inside our silly brains for this brainstorming episode! Watch the whole episode on patreon.com/yenta instagram.com/antonialastar instagram.com/rayeontheway...
Jan 25, 2024•12 min
As very requested (by a few people) we did a part 2 of 3 Orthodykes on a Couch! Melissa and Leah are the best and have become good friends. This is all the heimish queerness of the first episode, taken even further! We yenta about: A Chassidic family buying a “Love is Love” card Big breakups and getting together and life updates Singing kah echsof and zemiros Leah being a bottom vs a daddy Matt rife being canceled Handling Social media falling in love with creating Yenta audience secrets watchin...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 6 min
In preparation for the release of 3 Orthodykes on a Couch part 2 (coming soon!), we are rereleasing Part 1 with Leah Forster and Melissa Weisz, with a little sneak preview of Part 2! This episode is an epic, amazing, dream come true kind of episode. Yes, our guest today is the iconic Leah Forster ! We gossip about: Do we want to date our parents? Raye's first threesome with their Torah study partner Melissa's threesome offer in seminary Leah tries to play matchmaker for Raye Being horny on Sha...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Ariel Elias (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) and I flirt in bed while I open for her on the road! Ariel is a hilarious comedian and writer and has blown up on the internet and when she asked me to open for her in PA on New Years Eve for a Jewish show I said ‘how dare you!’ kidding I said “YES!” The beautiful thing about going on the road with someone is you barely know them before and then after you are trauma bonded. Ariel is one of the best, funniest, coolest people and I feel so grateful to have gotten t...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr
It's my birthday episode Yentas! For this one, your fav Antonia Lassar and I have a cute catchup since we haven't hung out in a while! This is a real behind-the-scenes vibe of our IRL friendship. We yenta about: Shows in NY making people cry Dating a religious college girl Behind the scenes on our 'Jews on the Street' video Embracing my 29th birthday (00:00:00) Raye and Antonia Catchup episode! (00:03:35) New York City and Jewish stand-up (00:07:30) Stand-up comedy and social issues (00:12:43) D...
Dec 28, 2023•47 min
Liz Glazer (CBS, HBO) is a former tenured law professor turned comedian, she's Jewish and queer and married to a Rabbi and we love her <3 We yenta about: How the comedy world is handling I/P The journey from law to comedy The joy/pain of a creative path Crazy story about doing standup for her classroom as a law professor Shame and self-consciousness Go follow Liz Glazer! https://www.instagram.com/lizglazer/ Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeontheway/ (00:00:00) Scandalous relations...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Jake Stein is a comedian, writer, and my oldest friend on the pod! We met at Hunter Hillel in 2013 and since then neither of us has changed at all. ;) We Yenta about: How Jake and Raye met in kippahs and skirts Summer in the heights getting high, learning Torah, and being gay Raye getting canceled Jake’s problematic first comedy show 3 time eskimo sisters The old stoner days Jake Stein: https://www.instagram.com/joke_stein Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeontheway/ Uncut episode on P...
Dec 07, 2023•32 min
Yvette Segan is a comedian, writer, performer, and TikToker with tens of millions of views, she's the queen of the girlies. She's a Jewish New Yorker! She's the best! We yenta about: Growing up a Jew in Westchester Getting cheated on Yvette’s advice for creating content How to write a sketch Emotions behind posting Boyfriends in comedy What do girls like? Hear the rest of the episode at patreon.com/yenta! Follow Yvette! https://www.tiktok.com/@yevit Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeo...
Nov 30, 2023•44 min
I met comedians Max Norman (Fringe Festival) and Kate Sharp (The Gay Agenda) doing a show in London and they were charming and hot and hilarious and I said "you have to come on my podcast called Yenta" and they were like "what is a yenta??" and by the end of it don't you worry they understood the assignment. We yenta about: What a 10/10 vagina looks like Hooking up with every dyke in London The struggles of a bisexual man Reaching too far during anal Wanking a dog Watch the rest of the episode o...
Nov 23, 2023•59 min
Clara Olshansky (Reductress) is a hilarious, mega-viral non-binary comedian based in NY! They have a great story about cheating on a vocab test (didn't we all!?) We yenta about: Being bisexual and nonbinary The great nonbinary storyline in Sex Education Period piece lesbian movies Being in love with your director Cheating on tests in middle school Come see them live on Big Yenta Energy in NYC on 11/8! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-yenta-energy-with-raye-schiller-nycf-tickets-697381335347 http...
Nov 02, 2023•45 min
Sami Schwaeber (TimeOut, NY Comedy Fest) is wonderful, hilarious, and her whole family is queer and Jewish (or at least most of them). She has so many great secrets and stories, including one about her *mom and sister* coming out as queer before she did. She’s going to be on Big Yenta Energy in NYC on November 8th! If you’re in NY, you won’t wanna miss this! come thruuuuuuu fam <3 https://www.samischwaeber.com/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-yenta-energy-with-raye-schiller-nycf-tickets-6973...
Oct 26, 2023•59 min
Abby Feldman (Netflix, Just for Laughs, Adult Swim) is a hilarious comedy pop star, featured on the Drew Barrymore Show, the Today Show, the LA Times, Hey Alma & more. She’s gone mega viral on Instagram and TikTok with hits like “Call Me By Your Hebrew Name” She’s vegan, gluten-free, sober, meditates everyday, performed standup on TV in Argentina & Chile, and she’s so much fun and lovely to talk to! We yenta about: Abby’s experience with a matchmaker! Dating in the secular world vs jewis...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr
Ever Mainard (JFL, Netflix, Vulture) is a force of nature and a hilarious nonbinary comedian from a 900 person town in Texas! Ever is one of the hottest comedians out there and it was a joy to yenta with them! We yenta about: Behind the scenes for Ever’s SNL Audition Ghosts stealing our joints Writing our own queer roles Starting a queer gun club Ever’s journey to realizing they are nonbinary How to get in on the CVS goodies Check out Ever’s podcast Y’all Gay: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...
Oct 05, 2023•58 min
Oh gays you're in for a treat we got to yenta with Dylan Adler (Late Late Show with James Cordon, Vulture) this week! He is a hugely successful, hilarious comedian and also just a genuine nice person. We yenta about: Buying a fake id for Rachel Sennott at NYU Touring with Atsuko Okatsuka Working with James Corden! Timothee Chalet is a “big slut” Dylan’s new boyfriend! Do we actually like Gal Gadot’s Imagine video? https://www.instagram.com/dylanadler_ Co-host Alice Brenner! instagram.com/alicebr...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min
When I found out the director of YOU ARE SO NOT INVITED TO MY BAT MITZVAH is a queer, nonbinary JEW I knew I HAD to have them on Yenta. Sammi Cohen is the wildly of accomplished director of that giant Jewy Netflix movie with Adam Sandler and his whole family and the adorable high school queer rom-com Crush on Hulu. They’re also standup comedian, and truly just an all around wonderful person! We yenta about: How Adam Sandler feels about they/them pronouns Sammi coming out as nonbinary Sarah Sherm...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Get ready to laugh and be inspired with the hilarious and talented Samantha Bowling! Samantha is an indigenous comedian, improviser, performer, and all around wonderful human and this episode is a treat! She's behind the beautiful one-woman Hollywood Fringe show "This Was Never Supposed to be a One-Woman Show, a one woman show” about losing her comedy partner after her struggle with mental health. Yes I straight up laughed and cried when I saw it. We yenta about: Anxiety and depression and impro...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Hannah Jones is cool! I got to meet Hannah on when I was on the road in Denver and it was a joy. She’s huge on Instagram and TikTok! She’s cool and queer and also comes from a religious background so we had a ton to talk about. She has her own podcast go listen to it!! We yenta about: Hannah's foursome experience Raye sneaking into shabbat dinner Culturally do women pretend to like head? The “Jesus feminist” that changed Hannah’s life That one time she bombed for 45 min https://www.instagram.com...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr
This week we have Celine Kuklowsky! Celine is a writer, comedian, french-american clownboi. You might've seen them in Netflix's "Feminists: What were They Thinking?" starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin! We start the pod super hungover (ayyy) but eventually get into schmoozing about: “Men Who Want to be Pegged but "Aren't Gay" 90% of Queer People Being Cooler than Non-Queers Celine's Bob Dylan Doppelganger Story Raye’s major BOMB and being comforted by ChatGPT A big fight about AI and the future ...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 24 min
It was such a joy to chat with Esther Fallick this week! We get into trans joy, musical theater, and obviously how queer the story of Esther (from the Bible) is. Esther (Vulture, Autostraddle, not from the Bible) is a comedian, cabaret icon, and musical theater writer based out of Brooklyn, NY but she came out to LA just for Yenta pod! We Yenta About: What Esther’s Mom thinks of Threesomes Esther’s secret getting rejected from a crush Esther is in loveeeeeee Jack’s decision to use new pronouns! ...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 10 min
My friends this episode is crazy and chaotic and beautiful! We have Janaya Future Khan (they're very famous co-founder of BLM and a model and wow so much more) and Curtis Chase (cute comedian, also famous) and our great cohost Jack Brenner! We talk about: Janaya loves men as a queer masc Empathy for masculinity Comedy as a form of protest The coming culture war in the next few years Dave Chappelle and trans people laughing at themselves Raye’s secret hookup on molly Watch Janaya sing songs from ...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 16 min
This week we have Teresa Lee!! She is a stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker. She was on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm wtf!!? Her short film I Think She Likes You was shown at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. She's written for Good Mythical Morning, Cracked , and was a contributing writer on Season 3 of Brockmire. She's amazing! We Yenta About: Dealing with Hecklers Old Comedy vs. New Comedy Teresa’s Baby Talk Voice Shoplifting Confessions Ashley Gavin TikTok Controversy NY VS. LA Advice about s...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Pallavi Gunalan is an accomplished writer, comedian, creator, and biomedical engineer! She writes for Lovett or Leave It, and has been featured in NYTimes, been a part of New York Comedy Festival, and so much more. We talk: Influencers in LA Being comedians with science backgrounds Becoming bros with a pod Getting a boyfriend during pride How to communicate by flirting Being with men as bisexual women Advice: how to signal that you’re queer if you’re a straight-passing woman https://www.instagra...
Jul 27, 2023•56 min
