Ep 35. ‘We Unlocked A Portal,‘ with Jesse Esparza too

Rolling Stones FINALLY retired the song ‘Brown Sugar’ after fifty years of playing it, the day after Indigenous Peoples Day. But that has nothing to do with anything that happens in this episode! This week, I chat with comedy writer Jesse Esparza (ABC's MIXEDISH and MAGGIE) about being awesome in a writers’ room, life after improv at UCB, and one of his favorite pictures of JLo. I'll also find out which TV show-era Mark-Paul Gosselaar Jesse would f**k, marry or kill. Before that, check out the sketch ‘Whale It Do’ (08:37), and then listen to my friend, comedian,  rapper (and one of Jesse’s former UCB students) Malaika Jules explain that a portal might have been opened during Jesse’s class just before the pandemic. But don’t worry! The ‘cream will always rise to the top’ and, of course, f**k  Columbus.