The Best Thing We Heard On A Comedy Podcast This Week

If you’ve missed seeing Ego Nwodim on Saturday Night Live weekly, you can still get a fix with her podcast Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim. This week, her guest was comedian and actor Ron Funches. The pair had a delightful and sincere conversation about parenthood & learning lessons from our parents, figuring out the weird dynamics of hiring people, and the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake beef that defined last winter. 

But the best part about the episode was a little debate at the end about desserts. If you’re like me, you’re feeling a bit fatigued by the non-stop news cycle filled with information that requires peak critical thinking skills and Youtube anger management breathing exercises. The comedy podcasts that touch on the real subjects are great, but sometimes, it’s just really nice to give the ole thinker a break and listen to two funny people debate over the merits of sugary foods. 

“I'm also not a donut girl. Like I'm cake, I'm cake all day,” Nwodim said at the one-hour, three-minute mark. “How do you feel about cake?”

“Cake to me is like, ‘Love me, love me, love me. I'm coming at you with sugar and icing and frosting. Love me so much. I'm cake,’” Funches replied. “…Get your shit together, cake. Have some self respect…Be like a pie or a cobbler that doesn't—pie and cobbler is like ‘I'm sweet on the inside, I don't have to show you. I don't have to show you on the outside. This just regular crust out here, but on the inside is where delicious is.’ Cake is like ‘Look at me. I got sprinkles all over my body.’”

Nwodim has a heated counterpoint about the merits of pie: “For me, pie is like, ‘Oh, to get good, I got to be somebody else on the inside.’”

“What?” Funches responded incredulously. 

“‘I'm fruit. I'm fruit,” Nwodim mocked. “Fruit is its own food. Why are you in here? That's what  I want to know. Pie. Pie. The only good thing about a pie is what's on the outside. Surface level. Acquaintance. Initial conversation. Pie. The crust.”

“Cake is a liar. Cake will be like, ‘Oh, look at me. I'm red velvet,’” Funches countered. “It's like, you still chocolate cake.”

Is it groundbreaking political commentary or the smartest bit of comedy to ever come out? No. But, does it provide the listener with a few blissful moments of respite to ponder their own dessert preference? Absolutely. 

And sometimes, that’s all we need from a podcast!