Viola Davis

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Ringer

Comedy

4.7 • 11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Viola Davis can do everything but bake. Amy hangs with the award-winning actress and talks about why she loves bad kids, following Meryl Streep around on set, and jumping out of a plane to be cool for her daughter.Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Julius Tennon and Viola DavisExecutive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal music: Amy Miles This episode is brought to you by Subaru. Love goes the extra mile in a long-range Subaru Hybrid…with up to 597 miles per tank in the Crosstrek Hybrid and up to 581 in the Forester Hybrid. Visit https://subaru.com/hybrid to learn more. Shop your favorite local grocers on Uber Eats! https://www.ubereats.com/brand/kroger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.4	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.5	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.2	Stream now.
0:27.2	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Good Hang.
0:28.5	We have the best of the best.
0:29.2	We have the goat.
0:31.1	We have Viola Davis joining us.
0:34.4	And, man, we talk about so many fun things.
0:37.4	We talk about growing up in Rhode Island and Boston and how we get rid of
0:39.1	those accents. We talk about our mutual best friend, Merrill Streep. We talk about the time she
0:44.8	jumped out of a plane and all the swearing she did on the way down. And we talk about the new
0:49.7	book that she co-wrote with James Patterson called Judge Stone out now.
0:54.5	So we're going to get into a lot of great stuff and we're thrilled to have her here.
0:58.8	And as we always do, we talk to someone at the beginning of the show that knows our guest
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