Angela Nissel
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Angela Nissel joins Questlove for a deeply funny and moving conversation about growing up in Southwest Philly, breaking into television, and navigating grief after losing her mother—the subject of her new memoir, Good Grief, Pass The Bread, Mom Is Dead.
The longtime friends revisit their wild early days together, from telemarketing gigs and busted cars to building Okayplayer and discovering the early internet, while unpacking people-pleasing, therapy, and late-in-life self-discovery. Angela opens up about caregiving, moving her mother to Los Angeles, surviving Hollywood burnout, and rediscovering who she is beyond work—all with the sharp wit that helped shape shows like Scrubs and The Boondocks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Questleff show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:30.2 | I-Heart Radio. Yeah, I feel like people will be more honest when there's, like, not people in the room. |
| 0:31.2 | Oh, shit. |
| 0:32.7 | Well, especially with these line of questions. |
| 0:33.7 | Oh, shit. |
| 0:37.3 | What is happening right now? |
| 0:41.0 | I wanted to see how long it was going to take where we started cracking up. |
| 0:43.3 | My guest today has one of my favorite laughs of all time. |
| 0:46.9 | Actually, sounds like she's crying every time she laughed. |
| 0:49.8 | But anyway, our guest today has probably come to your attention. |
| 0:55.3 | Whether you know it or not, I credit her with seating the concept that we now today casually know as black Twitter. |
| 1:06.4 | And you got to own this, Ange. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm owning it, I hear you. |
| 1:09.2 | You got to own it. |
| 1:10.0 | If you are a television watcher like I am, you probably watch one of the many shows that |
| 1:15.4 | she's had a hand, either executive producing or consulting or writing for, either or, be it |
| 1:23.9 | scrubs or the boondocks or the jellies. |
| 1:28.9 | That should have never went off the air. I love the jellies that should have never went off the air. |
| 1:29.7 | I love the jellies. |
| 1:31.0 | The last OG. |
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