Ike Barinholtz #4
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Ike Barinholtz (Artificial, Funny You Ask, The Studio) is an award-winning actor, writer, and comedian. Ike returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss the agony and the ecstasy of colonoscopy prep, how all his winning has changed his personality, and what a great group he gets to work with on The Studio. Ike and Dax talk about his crying triggers as he nears 50, why he made the decision not to try standup comedy, and how the idea hit him for his new podcast. Ike explains why everyone loves to answer questions, living his fantasy as a Jeopardy writer, and his adorable obsession with capybaras.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Mouse. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi there. Today we have 12-time returning guest, Ike Berenholtz, now an award-winning actor and comedian, the studio, the Mindy Project, Blockers, Neighbors, Running Point. And he has a new podcast out now that I have been on, I'm proud to say. |
| 0:22.7 | I hadn't been at the time of this interview and I have since. |
| 0:25.7 | Yes. |
| 0:26.2 | It's called Funny You Ask. |
| 0:28.4 | And I'm telling you, it is a blast. |
| 0:30.3 | You do trivia and you shoot the shit. |
| 0:32.3 | We do a little trivia in this episode. |
| 0:34.9 | And I want to just, I did not represent my people well okay any of my people |
| 0:39.7 | Indian people American people um women um under 40s humans really I did a bad job and I'm sorry |
| 0:48.6 | mermaids mermaids bad look for mermaids it really was came out of nowhere in your defense |
| 0:53.8 | you weren't prepped no I'm just bad at trivia. It's fine. What does it get you? If anyone wants to like give me lessons, trivia lessons, damn me. Oh, I bet you're going to get actually a lot of offers. Men love teaching women things. Oh, God, you're right. Please enjoy Ike Barronholz. |
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