Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: John Krasinski Has News and Our New Look Check out our new logo! Thanks to Jonathan Broderick of A\Creative Studio for the design – we love it and we hope you do too. And there are more site changes to come. We’re getting close to the launch of what we think is our glow-up. If you missed By Lainey • Apr 08, 2020 02:16 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Rebranding “Harry and Meghan” Today is the first day of House Sussex V 2.0. And since they no longer can have “royal” in the names of their accounts, and we happen to have Duana, The Name Therapist here, we discuss on this new episode of Show Your Work what naming possibilities are available By Lainey • Apr 01, 2020 03:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Both Sides of Chris Evans Chris Evans was featured in TIME last week as one of “27 people bridging divides across America” with his new website, A Starting Point. It was supposed to launch at SXSW but since SXSW and, well, everything else has been postponed or cancelled outright, he and his team are now By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 03:32 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The sound of slapping flesh and Oprah, vlogger As promised, Duana and I are trying to produce more episodes of Show Your Work now that we’re all in lockdown. Today’s new episode opens with a discussion about the sounds of flesh-slapping. It’s one of the most lucrative entertainment streams… and no, we are not talking By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Reese Witherspoon built her empire As promised, Duana and I have been trying to produce more “bonus” episodes of our Show Your Work podcast each week while we’re all on lockdown. We’re still recording on FaceTime though and even though we’ve tried to fix the audio issues in post, there may be By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 01:01 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your work: Live… in the time of Coronavirus Savannah Guthrie anchored The Today Show from her home today as she hasn’t been feeling well and is in self-isolation. But the work must go on. So this is what it looked like: Live... from my basement... this is TODAY. Big shoutout to my husband @feldmike who has turned By Lainey • Mar 18, 2020 01:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: (Grey’s) Anatomy of A Writer’s Room I think at this point in the Golden Age of Television, we need a word for shows that remain, against all odds, in our consciousness and vocabulary. Like the fact that Friends is so squarely 90s, but still clearly resonates with teens and 20somethings who weren’t alive when it By Duana • Mar 11, 2020 03:12 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Harry Styles and the Secrets of (teen) Pop Success Duana and I don’t agree on much when it comes to fangirling. She’s Ray Romano and I’m Timothee Chalamet. She’s Spring Awakening and I’m BTS. But we do intersect somewhere and his name is Harry Styles. This surprised me. I’m more likely to get By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 01:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Power of Jessica Simpson and BTS Sorry we’ve delayed this week – our schedule has been at the mercy of travel commitments and a bad cold but we have this week's episode ready for your weekend. And if you happen to be reading Jessica Simpson’s Open Book this weekend, even better, let this By Lainey • Feb 28, 2020 01:12 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Negotiating the Oscars On this week’s bonus, special episode of Show Your Work, we take you BTS – and I don’t mean the band, but behind the scenes of our Oscar coverage and how Duana and I negotiated and bargained with each other through the process of selecting which celebrities to write By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 03:52 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Miss Americana and The Assistant On this episode of Show Your Work, we’re talking about Taylor Swift’s documentary, Miss Americana, and whether or not it meets Taylor’s objective: to reach beyond her fanbase, to people who don’t care about her, haven’t followed her career, are relatively unaware of much about By Lainey • Feb 05, 2020 02:18 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Joy of Cheer On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I debate the word “nice”. This is because Aidy Bryant talked about “nice” in her recent interview with Vulture. Is niceness a work asset? Or is it a detriment? Is it a compliment? Or is it an insult? Can By Lainey • Jan 29, 2020 03:28 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: On Brand With Brad – and with Beyoncé? The SAG Awards didn’t even used to be a thing. Do you remember this? They were industry-only and non-televised, like the Independent Spirit Awards, until super-recently. But now they’re such a factor they might be accurate predictors of the Oscars in a few weeks’ time… …and they have By Duana • Jan 22, 2020 03:40 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work – Oscars Fool Us Again Edition We always planned to talk about the 2020 Oscar nominations on this week’s episode, since an Oscar nod obviously has a huge impact on the careers of anyone nominated. Instead, we wound up talking about how obvious the Academy’s blind spot is: since once again white men vastly By Duana • Jan 15, 2020 05:13 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: LIVE from the Golden Globes! We are back, and thrilled to bring you this special episode of the podcast LIVE (ish) from L.A., where Lainey was on the Golden Globes red carpet in the dress heard around the web! The red carpet is a strange beast, and fresh from what Lainey calls one of By Duana • Jan 08, 2020 03:18 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Mailbag & The Affair For our final episode of the year and the decade, we’re diving into the mailbag and many of you have written to us about all the drama that happened behind the scenes on The Affair. Last week, The Hollywood Reporter told the story of why Ruth Wilson left The By Lainey • Dec 24, 2019 01:13 pm