43 episodes
Don't @ Me with Justin Simien Justin Simien
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4.8 • 291 Ratings
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Join me, filmmaker and author Justin Simien, for unfiltered conversations with the film stars, artists and tv creators shaping black, queer and other emerging popular cultures. Be a fly on the wall as me and my guests use a common love language of "shade" to dive deeper than the knee-jerk reactions and the Twitter hot takes. If you're a fan of my film turned hit tv show "Dear White People," you already know I'll be going deep, with wide ranging conversations about race, pop culture, film, tv, political movements, religion, drugs and occasionally highly coded Hollywood gossip. Unless you're ready for all this tea, "Don't @ Me."
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Breaking Shame Cycles w/ Dahéli Hall
In this week’s pre-recorded episode of Don’t @ Me, I’m joined by the funniest woman I know, Dear White People writer-actor and comedian Dahéli Hall. Hang with me and the MADtv alum while we discuss gatekeeping in the comedy world, working through our shame cycles, and why she would’ve been a much better Seinfeld.
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Hollywood Outsiders w/ Sam Bailey
This week on Don’t @ Me, my friend and Dear White People writing producer/director Sam Bailey joins me as we tackle navigating the “industry of dreams” as Black creatives. The Chicago-bred, Emmy-nominated director and I talk about her being inspired by messy brown women, co-creating the hit web series Brown Girls, and operating as an outsider in Hollywood.
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Queer Divinity w/ Alex Newell
In another live Zoom edition of Don’t @ Me I’m joined by Broadway-turned-TV superstar Alex Newell. We discuss his part in shaping his role as the gender-nonconforming neighbor Mo in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, growing up queer in the Black church, and why he is the perfect candidate to play Dreamgirls’ Effie White.
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The Not-So-Hidden Talents of Malcolm Barrett
In this week’s episode of Don’t @ Me, the insanely hilarious Malcolm Barrett introduces me to his alter ego Verbal the Rapper. The actor-writer-rapper talks about starting Ammunition Theatre Company, not talking to white schoolmates for an entire year, and figuring out how to bring positive change as a Black creative amid protests and quarantine. Plus he drops a freestyle none of us saw coming!
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The Gospel of Karamo Brown
In this week’s episode of Don’t @ Me, tap in and get therapized by the beloved Fab Five member Karamo Brown. From learning to live for joy, to facing pushback in shaping his Culture Expert role on Queer Eye and which of his fellow co-hosts is his favorite, Karamo spits nothing but gospel truths.
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Directing While Black w/ Tiffany Johnson
On this week’s Don’t @ Me, my friend director Tiffany Johnson catches us up on her career growth in television! We discuss picking your battles, the role of the artist in times of trauma, and an all-Black Love Witch.
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Customer Reviews
My new favorite podcast
I just discovered this podcast during quarantine and I LOVE it! Justin is so warm and funny, and I love his conversations with POCs in the entertainment community, which are insightful and just fun. He’s like the new Terry Gross (of Fresh Air)!
Just so so good
Yay!!! It’s back!!!!! Love the guest, love Justin’s interview style. I can guarantee that each episode I’m going to laugh, going to google someone/thing, and I’m going to be sad when it’s over. So glad that this show is back!!!!!!!!! And we need to see this durag empire sketch, just saying.
Don’t @ Me is Back!!
So glad this podcast is back! What a great surprise!