Desiree Burch

Couples Therapy

Naomi and Andy

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

As you may know, discovering Taskmaster last year after Mantzoukas was on saved our sanity as America plunged straight into the sewer, and on today's episode, we're talking to one of our favorite contestants, Desiree Burch! Desiree is, of course, so much more than a Taskmaster series 12 contestant - she's a stand-up (who, if you live in the UK, you can see on tour in February!), the host of Netflix's Too Hot to Handle and BBC 2's Live at the Apollo; she appears on tons of panel shows and so much more! And on today's episode, we get all into how she moved to the UK for a relaysh (but not the relaysh the internet seems to think she moved for... what?!), achieving your dreams in a foreign country, how that relationship fizzled, walking your cat on a leash, the power of the mid-life crisis and TONS MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

Andy's latest essay that he mentions in the intro can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen!

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0:00.0	Open your hearts.
0:01.4	Loosen your butts.
0:02.6	It's time for couples therapy.
0:05.9	Yeah, this podcast is Andy and Naomi's where they can both laugh and hang with all their
0:11.0	homies talking excellent vacationing with brunches and cuddling to messy situationships
0:15.1	and conscious and coupling.
0:16.2	From Netflix hookups to single them with some bulu, tech, sex, regrets. So feeling on your new jubu.
0:21.2	They gonna talk about it.
0:22.2	Yeah, you are in body.
0:23.4	Needing therapy, I guarantee, baby, we got...
0:25.6	It's couple's therapy.
0:30.7	Cupple's therapy.
0:35.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to couples therapy. My name is Andy.
0:39.0	My name is Naomi. We're a real life couple. A real life couple of comedians.
0:42.7	And on couples therapy, we answer a couple different questions from a couple different listeners.
0:48.6	Naomi. Naomi.
0:50.7	Andy, Andy.
0:52.2	I'm pausing and saying your name to avoid having to talk about the world.
0:58.0	I know. I know. And I also repeated your name to avoid because I said, I will, you know,
1:03.3	can I just start something, Andy? Sure. Hello. Well, hello everyone. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi,
1:08.8	listeners. How you doing? I know you probably ain't doing well. That's why I said I'm gonna just dispense with the pleasant trees. Because I know, because I know. I assume you're in the same boat as us. I think if you are listening to the pie.
1:22.2	A leaking rickety boat that smells like dead bugs filled with plague rats it's a boat filled with plague rats um
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