Poorna Jagannathan

Couples Therapy

Naomi and Andy

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Folks, Deli Boys gotta be our fav US comedy right now - we've had Asif Ali on the show. We've had Saagar Shaikh on the show. And today, we are psyched to have Lucky Auntie herself, that's right, Poorna Jagannathan, join us for the hour! Now, Poorna's had an incredible acting career - you've seen her in The Night Of, Big Little Lies, Never Have I Ever, Ramy, Better Call Saul and tons of other things - but on today's episode, you'll get to hear from the woman behind the characters. Poorna tells us about meeting her husband in the heady days of early aughts New York, running up the company expense account, sowing her oats in Giuliani's cleaned-up city, transitioning from an ad exec to an actor, her childhood as the daughter of a diplomat, and why maybe it's not as glamorous as it sounds and SO MUCH 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!

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0:00.0	Open your hearts.
0:02.0	Loosen your butts.
0:04.1	It's time for couples therapy.
0:07.4	Yeah, this podcast is Andy and Naomi's where they can both laugh and hang with all their
0:12.5	homies talking excellent vacationing with brunches and cuddling to messy situations, ships
0:16.6	unconscious and coupling from Netflix hookups to single them with some hulu,
0:20.2	tech, sex, regrets, so feeling on your new jubu. They gonna talk about it, ah, yeah, you are in by the eye. conscious and coupling from Netflix hookups to single them with some hulu tech sex regrets so
0:21.3	feeling on your new jubu they gonna talk about it ah yeah you are in by the i need in therapy
0:25.7	I guarantee baby we got it's couple's therapy uh-ah-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-
0:37.0	hello everyone and welcome to couples therapy.
0:39.4	My name is Naomi.
0:40.3	My name is Andy.
0:41.3	And we're a real-life couple.
0:45.2	A real-life couple of comedians.
0:47.0	In on couples therapy, we answer a couple of different questions from a couple of different
0:50.2	listeners.
0:51.6	Oh, Andy, that was funny.
0:53.7	It was just you saying your own name. It was your own name and you struggled. It was the cadence. It was the cadence. Naomi has a master comedian. Oh, okay, you tell me. I can even infuse the cadence of something with humor. Thank you so much for telling me because that's something that comedy really needs. It's like for someone to tell the other person what the funny thing is.
1:12.1	Yeah.
1:12.4	So the fact that you did that, I was like, okay, yes, master comedian.
1:15.1	Master comedian laying the groundwork, setting the standard.
1:19.6	Now, A&D.
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