87: Extra: Cameron Esposito and the Wits Mailbag

05/21/15 • 39 min

On this week’s podcast, we talk with Cameron Esposito. She’s been on Conan, Maron, @midnight ... she’s the voice of Carroll the cloud person in Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time. She writes a biweekly column for The AV Club called Who in the World is Cameron Esposito, and she did all those Buzzfeed Ask a Lesbian videos. She talks with us about making those videos, coming out, and why she got into stand-up. We also answer questions from the Wits mailbag, and we hear actor Keegan-Michael Key and singer Bhi Bhiman in a Shakespearean take on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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