Podcast Episodes featuring Negin Farsad

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Pep Talk: Dating Online with Negin Farsad

Unladylike - January 04, 2022 05:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
Comedian Negin Farsad passes along her rules for making online dating (aka dating) less terrible and offers a hilariously practical pep talk for stepping up your game, even when you end up across the table from someone you instantly hate. Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and C...

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Writer , Activist, Comedian Negin Farsad & Dr. and Comedian Priyanka Wali Episode 488

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick - December 01, 2021 12:10 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn mo...

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The 2020 Candidates with Negin Farsad, Balancing Friends & Your Relationship and Prioritizing Kindness

Just Between Us - February 19, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Gaby and Allison discuss how to balance your friendships and partnership after a listener writes in to say her roommate feels neglected now that she has a girlfriend. Then, they welcome Fake The Nations’ Negin Farsad to muse on the 2020 Democratic candidates. And finally, kindness! When and where...

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! - January 25, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 35K ratings
Olivia Nuzzi, political reporter, joins us along with Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, and Negin Farsad. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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Broken Butt Cheeks, Cultural Pressure and the Endless Indignities with Negin Farsad

Mom, Get Your SH*T Together - July 25, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Amy hits the road and gets her sweaty ass to her former hometown of NYC! She chills with old friend, the hilarious and brilliant writer, actor, comedian, podcaster, Negin Farsad (How To Make White People Laugh, The Watch List, Fake the Nation podcast). As Amy rests her exhausted body (walking. I...

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03 She's Great Comedians: Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Negin Farsad, Elaine May

She's Great - February 21, 2019 16:31 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Wyatt Cenac on Casual Acting and Negin Farsad on Blackout Boning

Slate Daily Feed - December 22, 2018 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
On this episode of Employee of the Month, Catie Lazarus interviews and honors comedians Wyatt Cenac and Negin Farsad. It is possible to be funny and make a difference as they both reveal. Cenac currently hosts HBO’s Problem Areas, which is the only political comedy show to consistently shed light...

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Wyatt Cenac on Casual Acting and Negin Farsad on Blackout Boning

Employee of the Month - December 22, 2018 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 129 ratings
On this episode of Employee of the Month, Catie Lazarus interviews and honors comedians Wyatt Cenac and Negin Farsad. It is possible to be funny and make a difference as they both reveal. Cenac currently hosts HBO’s Problem Areas, which is the only political comedy show to consistently shed light...

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Episode 38: Negin Farsad and the Mime Accident Teaser

Broccoli and Ice Cream - October 17, 2018 21:26 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Negin Farsad is a multi-hyphenate of a very high order. A comedian, an author, a director, an actor, a podcaster, a friend, a human, all kinds of people and things (and maybe places). Thanks for being in THIS place and listening. Enjoy! As desired. The end. For now. No more reading here.

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Ep 32: Self-Care Sammiches with Lizz Winstead & Negin Farsad

Advice from Mom - September 19, 2018 08:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Whether you’re building an organization, pitching your big idea, or harnessing your creative brilliance for social change, we are serving up some self-care sammiches in our first-ever advice cooking show and what might be our kookiest episode yet. We have two hilarious, wise, and self-reflective ...

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Nerdette’s Finest: Negin Farsad

Nerdette - May 25, 2018 05:01 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. It’s a philosophy she calls “Being aggressively delightful.” You might think that sounds exhausting, but Farsad says not so! “I also think rage is ...

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Jenny Yang, JC Coccoli, Marcella Arguello, Negin Farsad, Donny Divanian and hosts Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher

Put Your Hands Together with Cam and Rhea - May 03, 2018 17:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
Cam and Rhea talk alarms, Phantom Thread and junk food. Sets from JC Coccoli, Jenny Yang, Donny Divanian, Negin Farsad and Marcella Arguello.

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Negin Farsad is Hilarious (and Fights Islamophobia)

Midday - March 20, 2018 19:18 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Negin Farsad is a New York-based writer, director and social justice comedian. She’s the host of the podcast, Fake the Nation, a comedy round-table about politics on the Earwolf network, and the author of the book, How to Make White People Laugh, which has been nominated for a Thurber Prize for H...

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How To Be Aggressively Delightful With Negin Farsad

Nerdette - February 23, 2018 06:01 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. “I guess if I were to name it, it’s a philosophy called ‘being aggressively delightful,’” she tells us. Farsad, an Iranian-American Muslim, is the c...

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Episode 90: Bigots Have No Sense of Graphic Design (with Negin Farsad)

Another Round - May 17, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
This week we bring to you the magic of our live show at NYC's PodFest!  We talk to writer and thirst correspondent Bim Adewunmi, denounce some things with comedian Negin Farsad, and even play a game with our pod brother, Ahmed Ali Akbar of the See Something Say Something podcast.  Plus, shout out...

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WDEK Podcast Ep. 50: Negin Farsad, Mike Recine & Beth Wawerna - Feb. 28, 2017

We Don't Even Know - March 19, 2017 22:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
  We celebrate our 50th Episode of WDEK on Mardi Gras with party horns, beads and great guests.  Shonali shares a feel good story about a NYC cabbie. Christian gives us his take on rules for shushing at the movie theater.  We have new WDEK T-Shirts for sale at the show and now online. Our firs...

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Kill Me Now with Judy Gold - January 10, 2017 14:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Comedian Negin Farsad, who can make audiences think about deep stuff without them even realizing it, is in studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 187: Negin Farsad

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast - November 15, 2016 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 201 ratings
May 13-19, 1989 Today Ken welcomes author, comedian, podcaster and filmmaker Negin Farsad to the show. Ken and Negin discuss outdoor podcasts, Harvard University, transcriptions, tax law, living abroad, barista as dream job, French TV, watching US Shows in foreign countries, TV sign offs, Th...

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WMC Live #169: Negin Farsad, Kathy Spillar, Hope Jahren. (Original Airdate 5/28/2016)

Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan - May 28, 2016 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Robin on Obama, Trump, Sanders—and manhood. Guests: Muslim feminist comic writer/filmmaker Negin Farsad; Feminist Majority Exec. Director and Ms. Editor Kathy Spillar; geobiologist and best-selling author Hope Jahren. Plus Surrealism Corner and We Won This! Negin Farsad: Kathy Spillar: ...

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Ep.5 Dave Hill, Negin Farsad, Andrew Kirell

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps - July 20, 2015 04:39 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 363 ratings
Welcome back to a genuinely live #WeThePeople LIVE! Very proud and excited to bring you this great conversation. Josh was honored to quip with Dave Hill, Negin Farad, and Andrew Kirell in front of the hospitable crowd at Pine Box Rock Shop. Starting off you'll be hearing a multid...

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WMC Live #132: Naomi Oreskes, Negin Farsad, Sini Anderson. (Original Airdate 7/4/2015)

Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan - July 04, 2015 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Robin on SCOTUS rulings and white-supremacist domestic terrorism. Guests: climate science defender Naomi Oreskes; Muslim feminist comedian Negin Farsad; and documentary filmmaker Sini Anderson's new subject—women and Lyme Disease. Plus, Surrealism Corner. Sini Anderson Naomi Oreskes ...

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Negin Farsad: Red States and Muslim Comedy

Point of Inquiry - June 03, 2014 17:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
This week, we welcome Negin Farsad, a groundbreaking Iranian American comedian. A TED speaker and TED Fellow, she was named one of the Huffington Post's 50 Funniest Women. She's been seen on Comedy Central, MTV, CNN, MSNBC, and in her movie The Muslims are Coming!, a documentary following some o...

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Ask Roulette - Negin Farsad, Real New Yorkers, Black and White Movies

Ask Roulette - February 04, 2014 21:32 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Ask Roulette is a conversation series in which strangers ask each other questions on stage. This excerpt is from our November regular show at Housing Works Bookstore, and features comedian Negin Farsad, house band Eli Bolin, and some audience members. Questions Asked: -- Do you like black and ...

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THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING: Interview with Iranian feminist comic NEGIN FARSAD

UnF It Up With Katie Goodman - September 03, 2012 20:57 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Today I am joined by Iranian feminist comedian Negin Farsad, as we talk about feminism in comedy, racism, rationing cheesecake with immigrant parents, sex, boning (wait that’s the same thing), STD’s, more sex, and all the things you’d expect of muslim-related comedy. Just back from a comedy show...