Therein Hangs A Tale (w/ Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad-Tompkins)

Bad Dates

SiriusXM | SmartLess Media

Comedy

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On a special new episode of Bad Dates, host Joel Kim Booster welcomes wedded actor/comedians Paul F. Tompkins (BoJack Horseman, Mr Show, Comedy Bang! Bang!) and Janie Haddad-Tompkins (Regular Show, Night Court, Hacks) to hear the epic tale of their relationship! Although they’ve now been married for 15 years, it was not a straight line to get there, and you’ll hear about all the near misses, previous partners, and misalignments they had to negotiate in order to get together. You’ll hear about the fights, the laughs, their worst date, the proposal, their secret to a long relationship, the latex, the leather, the straps…wait, are we still talking about Halloween? Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 3 Paul F Tompkins: @pftompkins on socials, Varietopia live dates! Janie Haddad-Tompkins: @lebaneselooker on Insta, Weekendwater.substack.com for Stay F. Homekins podcast

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0:00.0	Bad dates.
0:03.0	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Bad Dates.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Joel Kim Booster, and boy, oh boy, do we have a very
0:22.1	special episode for you today. As you know on the pod, we normally have sad, sac, single people
0:28.7	talking about their relationship trauma. But today we have two success stories that I'm very excited
0:35.8	to get into their life and their love story.
0:39.0	Joining me today is a comedian, actor, and writer from The Thrilling Adventure Hour,
0:42.4	Mr. Show, Bob's Berger's Bojack Horseman, and There Will Be Blood.
0:46.1	It's Paul F. Tompkins.
0:48.6	And we also welcome a writer-director and actress from shows like Hacks, Nightcourt, regular show,
0:53.7	and American Dad.
0:54.4	It's Janie Haddad Tompkins. Hello, thank you for having me. So first question I want to ask you guys is, how's your bladder going? Okay, because here's my thing. I finally have, it's all grown-ups in here today. Finally, for the first time ever. That's okay. and unfortunately
1:10.5	there's a new segment on this show
1:12.3	called Joel stops the show
1:14.8	to go
1:15.1	to the bathroom and has every guest continue on the show while in my absence.
1:19.7	And then we keep it in and I listen to what they're saying about me afterwards.
1:22.8	But it's not a segment that I wanted to add.
1:26.1	Okay?
1:26.7	It is simply a byproduct of I think almost being 40 and the bladder simply not doing the work that it used to.
1:35.0	And I want to check in with you guys now and ask you, are you window seat or aisle seat now on a plane?
1:40.8	Well, you know, we're aisle seaters.
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