Crushed With Sarah Morisano

"Who Shot Ya?" week continues as CRUSHED welcomes back its very first guest, Ricky Carmona! Ricky (Tosh.0) gushes with crush-like love for movies like ROMA, MALCOLM X, and CLOUD ATLAS and filmmakers like Michael Mann and Spike Lee. He gives credit where credit is due to Tom Cruise's performance in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT. Ricky and Sarah also break down this past week's Oscars and pinpoint who their Academy crushes were. Did POOTIE TANG make the list? Listen to find out!  Rate and review us on iTunes and email your crush stories—including your movie crushes!—to crushedpodcastcrushes@gmail.com. You might hear your crush on the air in a future episode! 

Film producer and festival programmer, Drea Clark (LA Film Festival, MaxFun), dishes all her delicious movie crushes and sneaks one or two TV crushes on the list as well. HEATHERS comes up quite a bit as do John Hughes' movies, BILL & TED, "My So Called Life," and GHOSTWORLD—that's right, Steve Buscemi in GHOSTWORLD! EDITOR'S NOTE: while discussing SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, Drea and Sarah credit Mary Stuart Masterson's role to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. They realized this mistake after the taping and thus were not able to correct it during the episode. Please note, dear listeners, that we at CRUSHED have all the respect for Mary Stuart Masterson's performance in this John Hughes 80s classic.  Please subscribe to the show, rate and review us, and email CRUSHED! Send your crush stories to Sarah at crushedpodcastcrushes@gmail.com. You might hear your story on the show! 

Comedian and writer, Amy Silverberg, talks about unrequited crushes, college crushes, and why having a crush on yourself is by far the greatest crush of all (to quote Queen Whitney Houston). Don't bother with someone you have to win over and DON'T go chasin' waterfalls. Amy and Sarah also kick off the 2019 CRUSHED Movie Crush series as we gear up for the Oscars—aka the Cinephile Super Bowl. Listen, subscribe, rate and review the show. And share your CRUSHED stories in the comments. We may read them aloud during our next recording! Email your stories to CrushedPodcastcrushes@gmail.com

Naomi Ekperigin (2 Dope Queens, Broad City, Comedy Central Half Hour) and Andy Beckerman (Beginnings, Couples Therapy) appear on a very special Couples Therapy edition of CRUSHED as we gear up for Valentine's Day. Not only are they brilliant, talented, and hard-working comedians and writers, they're also a real life couple! Naomi and Andy talk about growing up on the east coast, their roads to comedy, and how their friendship blossomed into a courtship which then grew into a beautiful friendship...somewhat suddenly. Plus, we talk comedy crushes. Spoiler alert: Naomi and Andy have some pretty fantastic picks when it comes to comedy crushes. No surprise, there. Take a listen, subscribe to satisfy your cravings, and then rate and review us—and tell me all your secret crush stories in the comments! 

Brittani Nichols (Suicide Kale, "Transparent") discusses crushes in an "ideal podcasting situation" with Sarah's dog Scout attentively listening within the walls of the CRUSHED studio (i.e., Sarah's living room). Brittani talks about growing up in Chicago, college life at Yale, working in the Bay area, moving to LA for a career in TV—and why Schitt's Creek is one of the sweetest sitcoms out there. Follow Brittani on social media at @Bishilarious.        

Hailing from the Bay Area, Kristine Gerolaga is an LA-based actress, writer, director, boxer, and all-around badass babe and filmmaker. Kristine talks with Sarah about her childhood crushes and all they would entail, plus her celebrity crushes—including but not limited to Leo DiCaprio (Leo DiCaps!), Jake Gyllenhaal (Jakey Gylls!), and Aubrey Plaza (Aubz Plaz!)—along with her love for storytelling, the art of editing, and muy thai kickboxing. 

Lucia Fasano (Portlandia, Catty B's) talks about being a "life-long crusher" while growing up a tomboy—an Italian tomboy, at that!—in Simi Valley, California and why she was "wrecked for weeks after meeting Weird Al."  Check out Lucia's music here and support her on Patreon! 

Lydia Popovich, a.k.a. @hatertuesday, talks about learning to love yourself before you can love anyone else and reveals all her kindred spirit comedy crushes. Get all the CRUSHED feels listening to this AFTER YOU VOTE TODAY!  Recorded in April 2018.

It's the 4th anniversary of CRUSHED and to celebrate, we've got Sarah's comedy crush, Marcella Arguello, in the building! Marcella talks about how crushes evolve as you age, the catch 22 of being a strong, funny woman, the precariousness of being a feminist who loves hip hop, and why she refuses to compete with women for male attention (hint: b/c that's called internalized misogyny, y'all!).  Please rate, review and subscribe if you like what you hear! 

Jackie Kashian, a comedian, road warrior, writer, podcast host, and generally just one of the best people in the business, talks about the innocence of early childhood crushes, the importance of choosing to like things, and... novelty condoms! Prepare to be absolutely delighted when you hear who Jackie's first crush was...

Johnny Pemberton (Superstore, I Feel Bad) talks about crushes, Richard Pryor, Jim Jarmusch, and stealing versus copying art.

Eliot Glazer (Broad City, New Girl) talks about Flight of the Navigator, the Lawrence brothers (hot goss: Andrew is the hot one now), Judy Gold, Naomi Ekperigin, interning at Conan and SNL, doing improv at UCB, and how his writing career took off after his video "Shit New Yorkers Say" went viral. 

Erica Rhodes (Veep, Modern Family) grew up voice acting on "A Prairie Home Companion" and playing the cello, which means, spoiler alert: this episode contains an adorable Last-Night-of-Music-Camp-Dance crush story! Erica also talks about vocal warmups with Allison Janney, moving to New York, "stalking" Vincent Gallo in LA (yup, THAT Vincent Gallo; relax, it was mostly just internet stalking), and the type of guy she's into now, as an adult woman (hint: it's psychopaths).

Abed Gheith (Rick and Morty, Community) freely admits he knows more about crushes than he does about actual relationships. In this episode, Abed runs through all his biggest crushes, digressing often to comment on the movies and TV he holds dear. Hot tip: Abed is the IRL inspiration for Abed on "Community" and he's dope!

Virginia Jones (Gothic American, "The Dork Forest") talks about moving to a new city in pursuit of a crush, doing standup in Portland pre-Portlandia, and her massive crush on Dave Hill. Virginia will be performing at Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen on March 26th in Los Angeles!

Comedian Danielle Perez (Jimmy Kimmel, Put Your Hands Together) talks about asking your crush those pesky, panic-inducing yes-or-no questions and why Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" will haunt her forever and ever and ever.

Alyssa Onofreo (omgchomp, VidCon) talks about reading into coincidences when a crush is involved, social media's impact on her crush life, and Harrison Ford. 

Comic Evan Kessler (VH1) talks about long-spanning unrequited loves that turn into lifelong friendships, doing standup in situations ripped straight from a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, and the crushing impact Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet had on our generation. 

Comic Nicole Aimée Schreiber (CC's Roast Battle, Funny Girls) talks about sleepaway camp, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, improv vs. standup, and scores of sweet, sweet Equinox gym crushes. 

It's post-Chanukah Christmas with The Cooties! Well, two-thirds of the Cooties... Ethan Edenburg and Eric Jackowitz are a coupla those Cooties! In this episode recorded in September 2017, Ethan and Eric discuss their different approaches to crushes and how they deal with texts they regret sending and other social media faux pas. They also promote shows that occurred back in October. Enjoy!!