You don’t need to ask Moshe Kasher about composting bogs. The comic admits as a lot: “You don’t need to ask me about composting bogs.” However it’s too late — he’s on a roll.
“Pay attention,” Kasher says, “They're the longer term. They use no water. They don’t odor. This can be a Cadillac desert. And we'll finally be utilizing composting bogs. It’s the fitting factor to do and the tasty method to do it.”
“They don’t want plumbing,” Kasher’s spouse, fellow comic Natasha Leggero, provides. “You simply must get down in your knees and begin cranking it with grime. The flush is you churning grime time and again.”
For all of her enter, it’s clear that Leggero, 48, didn’t at all times know this a lot about eco-friendly waste disposal previous to marrying Kasher in 2015. However absorbing bits of details about your companion’s area of interest pursuits is, for higher or worse, a part of long-term monogamy, and that is simply one of many many pearls of knowledge Leggero and Kasher impart by way of their relationship recommendation podcast, “The Limitless Honeymoon.”
Although their podcast technically launched in 2019, it has developed right into a multifaceted car for Kasher and Leggero to develop their comedy careers and keep financially afloat in the course of the pandemic. Additionally, the hosts simply actually like hanging out collectively. At the very least, that was the preliminary justification for combining their reside acts, the place Leggero and Kasher would every carry out for half-hour after which proceed to roast couples within the viewers as a 3rd section. “We simply needed to go on the street collectively,” Kasher, 42, says. “We have been uninterested in occurring the street individually. Then we did a theater tour, and Netflix noticed it and so they needed to do a particular. After which got here the podcast. All of it felt very natural.” Subsequent week, the couple continues their honeymoon with the streamer after they carry the reside model of their podcast to the Masonic Lodge on Could 3 as a part of the huge Netflix Is A Joke Pageant.
One key distinction with the couple’s podcast versus reside present, nevertheless, is that Kasher and Leggero have a tendency to supply authentic recommendation on “relationships, marriage and life” to callers, whereas they typically save roasts for reside settings. As for what qualifies two comedians to be love life coaches? Effectively, you’d be stunned. “It’s such an apparent match for comedians,” Leggero stated. “Comedians sort of assume they know all the pieces anyway. Plus, Moshe was in AA for like 20 years, and he was a spiritual research main. And I had, like, 15 long-term relationships that had failed. So I felt like we did simply have numerous expertise.”
That’s to not say that Leggero and Kasher — from Rockford, In poor health., and Oakland, respectively — don’t rib one another on the first obtainable alternative. However there aren't any “Take my spouse, please!” jokes right here. For each lampoon (Kasher begins this week’s podcast by accusing Leggero of “nap abuse”), there's a real praise. “He had two issues that I didn’t even know I needed,” Leggero says about Kasher, who's sitting beside her on a settee of their Silver Lake house studio. “I believe that is what actually helped our relationship — he was not jealous of something. Which was actually cool, as a result of I had dated different comedians [where] I used to be at all times feeling like I’m in bother. However one time I used to be like, ‘Hey, do you thoughts if I point out onstage that factor that we talked about? , about you doing that factor?’ And he was like, ‘You possibly can discuss something you need. You by no means must ask me if it’s humorous and also you need to make enjoyable of me.’”
“I imply, if it’s humorous, it’s value it,” Kasher says with a shrug.
“I’m not saying that’s why I married him,” Leggero provides. “However simply that feeling of like, ‘Oh, this man can hold, ?’”
“I had a listing too,” Kasher quips. “Massive butt and a smile.” Leggero cackles.
Once they’re not bantering with one another and providing listeners courting recommendation, Leggero and Kasher open up their “secrets and techniques hotline,” the place callers can anonymously spill particulars about their intercourse lives, amongst different taboo topics. No subject is off limits. Previous secrets and techniques span dishonest fantasies, bedwetting, jealousy-based arousal and the ethics of toothbrush sharing. It’s a really perfect alternative for Leggero and Kasher to share their very own sizzling takes, a back-and-forth dynamic which often devolves into extra scorching roasts.
As for a way the podcast started to tackle a extra earnest tone, Kasher remembers how a reviewer critiqued their 2018 Netflix particular over its lack of useful recommendation to couples within the viewers. “Which I simply thought was so silly,” Kasher says earlier than admitting that the word finally ended up informing the podcast. “It’s like, yeah, our comedy particular was comedy. However then when it become a podcast, the character of the questions additionally began to turn into extra critical.
“On the street, there’s little or no actual recommendation,” Kasher provides. “It’s actually pure comedy. However on the podcast, Natasha was a giant cheerleader for honest recommendation. Additionally, podcasting is extra of a subdued, conversational factor than being on stage. And I actually assume if we tried to do honest recommendation on stage, it could be actually corny.”
Earlier than getting into their house studio, which is plastered in palm leaf wallpaper and homes a sprawling white couch, Leggero motions to an out of doors seating space the place fellow comic Todd Barry is seated, wordlessly scrolling by means of his telephone. “You may acknowledge well-known comic Todd Barry right here,” Leggero says. (That is the primary and final time Barry will get talked about or reveals up in the course of the afternoon.) Previous to recording this week’s episode, Leggero and Kasher pose for photographs with their three aged Chihuahuas. Splitting off for separate portraits, Kasher jokes how the photographer “stated one thing about being impressed” as he mugs for the digicam subsequent to a midnight-blue wall.
In individual, Kasher and Leggero’s dynamic mirrors the best way they work together on “The Limitless Honeymoon,” with one needling the opposite on the first signal of a dropped protection. Kasher, a naturally quick speaker, is a whirlwind of ideas and sizzling takes, which makes it simple to know his fame for improv and skewering audiences. Leggero, who was a daily roundtable panelist on “Chelsea Currently” from 2008 to 2014 and at the moment co-hosts TBS’ “Rat within the Kitchen,” is an impeccable roaster herself, having participated in a couple of official Comedy Central Roasts, together with of James Franco and Justin Bieber. Doing stand-up, Leggero is observational and unmerciful, lampooning everybody from Ceremony-Assist cashiers to typewriter-toting hipsters, a dumpster-diving Burning Man attendee named “Flapjack,” and, naturally, Kasher.
Within the early days of “The Limitless Honeymoon,” Leggero says she’d really use the podcast as a car to air out marital points with Kasher. “I'd simply carry it to the viewers and I'd get a lot suggestions,” she says. “Moshe’s a really, superb arguer and it’s exhausting to argue with him. So I’m like, OK, I’m simply going to carry it to the gang. However that may be somewhat immature.”
Kasher began doing the identical factor. Just a few months in the past, he requested their viewers if it was regular for him to make use of Leggero’s toothbrush at any time when he felt prefer it. “It blew up,” he says. “It was such a transparent reply from crowdsourcing it that I noticed, like, in actually stark phrases, this isn’t cool, and I have to cease. Lesson realized.”
Along with crowdsourcing recommendation for their very own partnership, Leggero and Kasher have been pleasantly stunned at how legitimately heartfelt their comedy podcast has grown over the previous three years. “I do really feel an intuition to assist folks after they name as a result of, like, I at all times glamorized elders once I was younger,” Leggero says. “Like, you would go to [elders] and ask questions on life. I want I’d had extra of that. You’ve bought all of those younger folks calling in and so they’re attempting to start out their lives and get in relationships and there may be one thing actually apparent and harsh you may want to inform them. And, like, I really feel like I’m not afraid to inform them that generally. And I don’t know if that’s good or unhealthy, however I’ve simply been round [long enough to know].”
Kasher additionally remarks at how many individuals have instructed him and Leggero that “The Limitless Honeymoon” was a supply of consolation in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. “A few years in, I bought lots of people writing in and thanking us, saying, ‘You bought me by means of the pandemic,’” Kasher remarks. “I believe numerous podcasts had that impact on folks, but it surely was actually candy that somewhat group shaped round it and that individuals have been utilizing it as an escape for darker instances.”
The podcast bought Leggero and Kasher by means of the pandemic too, each emotionally and financially. Like many working comedians, Kasher and Leggero toured extensively pre-pandemic. However as soon as March 2020 hit, “all of the work went away,” Kasher says. “For the primary time in a very long time, I used to be feeling monetary and artistic panic. This podcast 100% bought us by means of the pandemic — simply having one thing to do. We had advertisers. It paid the payments. So it wasn’t simply our listeners that used it. We used it to get by means of, too.”
“The Limitless Honeymoon,” whose listenership skews youthful and feminine (in line with producer Laura Grossman), has additionally given Leggero and Kasher a possibility to turn into extra open minded as people. “A part of being an clever individual, to me, is being an open individual,” Leggero says. “I need to hear and perceive experiences. I need to course appropriate. I need to broaden my thoughts to issues that perhaps I may not have been open to earlier than.”
And, regardless of how a lot they like to heckle one another, the podcast has introduced Leggero and Kasher a lot nearer. Sure, they each nonetheless have packed particular person schedules — they’re each writing books and TV reveals, and Leggero frequently auditions — however the podcast has turn into a supply of consolation and profession consistency.
“My factor is that there are higher folks at giving recommendation on this planet than us, however there usually are not funnier folks giving recommendation than us,” Kasher says. “I’m not Esther Perel and I by no means shall be, however she’ll by no means be capable of crack a joke.”
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