For the past 50 years, Nikki Giovanni has been one of our preeminent poets. Rest in Power to the legendary... more

It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (3:15), we wanted to take a moment to... more

To close out the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our conversation with writer, food expert, and television host Padma Lakshmi. At... more

Today, for your holiday week, we’re returning to one of our favorite 2024 conversations with actor Jeff Daniels. Daniels is... more

Actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg’s latest project, A Real Pain, is perhaps his most personal to date. He joins us... more

Since the turn of the century, actor Josh Brolin has had quite a run. From No Country for Old Men... more

It’s been a week. To help us through it, we’ve enlisted The New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon. We... more

On the heels of his latest book The Message, author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Sam for a conversation in Los Angeles.... more

Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air) has been a fixture in Hollywood for the past fifteen years. She... more

For the past decade, Jason Reynolds has become an inspiring voice in the literary world. He’s a New York Times... more

Today, culture critic Wesley Morris (The New York Times) returns to Talk Easy for a conversation about The Wonder of... more

Since his directorial debut in 2006, Jason Reitman has made the kind of films they say Hollywood doesn’t make anymore.... more

Director Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t just want to make movies. He wants to change them. This was true in 1969... more

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors of his generation. For three decades, he’s moved seamlessly between auteur-driven films... more

For actor Myha’la, the role of a lifetime arrived less than a year out of college. “Lightning struck,” she says,... more

For the past couple decades, actor Ken Leung has played scene-stealing characters in films like Rush Hour, Keeping the Faith,... more

To commemorate his 30th birthday, Abbi Jacobson interviews Sam! They talk about Sam's early days in journalism (8:00), his Almost... more

To start, Sam sits with another week in American life, before returning to our timely conversation with Congressman Maxwell Frost... more

This week, our guest is trailblazing filmmaker Lee Daniels. At the top, we discuss his fifteen-year journey to the new... more

Since 1989 (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has been a pioneering voice in American cinema. Part free-wheeling iconoclast,... more

We’re so back at the movies… with head of content at The Ringer and co-host of The Big Picture, Sean... more

What’s the difference between an interview and a first date? For the past decade, Amelia Dimoldenberg has been walking that... more

Vinson Cunningham has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for the past eight years, covering theater, television, and... more

Last fall, Zadie Smith published her prescient historical novel The Fraud. We return to our conversation with the beloved author... more

Taffy Brodesser-Akner (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”) is a staff writer at The New York Times, where she covers everything from... more

Today, we're revisiting our special conversation with actor Tom Hanks. We begin by discussing his debut novel, The Making of... more

This week, on the heels of our live show with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, we’re presenting a special conversation from her podcast... more

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) is a national treasure with more primetime Emmys than any performer in the history of television.... more

On the heels of his first Emmy win, actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach joins us on the show to unpack the return... more

“You’re never gonna forget where you were last night at 7:30,” says James Carville. “It has the potential to be... more

Beloved playwright Annie Baker won the Pulitzer for Drama in 2014 for her play, The Flick. A decade later, she’s... more

This Father's Day, we're revisiting our special talk with actor Ethan Hawke. After a phone call with Dad Fragoso (2:00),... more

Director Richard Linklater has made a career out of telling personal stories with universal appeal. Dazed and Confused, Waking Life,... more

On the heels of her breakout role in Stranger Things, Maya Hawke has gone her own way as an artist—... more

This week we’re joined by comedian and actor Ilana Glazer.  At the top, Glazer reflects on her recent tour across... more

Hacks co-creators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello, who are also husband and wife, have been performing and writing together... more

This Mother’s Day, our very special episode with actor, writer, and director Pamela Adlon. We discuss her new movie Babes... more

In just under a decade, comedian, writer, and actor Jerrod Carmichael has had a remarkably varied career. On the heels... more

Today, actor and author Nick Offerman returns to the show! We call him up to unpack his latest role as... more

Today, in honor of National Poetry Month, we’re returning to our conversation with Rupi Kaur. Her debut collection, milk and... more