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Bless These Braces (2024)
A weekly 10-episode video podcast celebrating the awkwardness of becoming an adult. Hosted by comedian and writer Tam Yajia with seasoned veterans of the stand-up circuit and writers’ rooms as guests, Bless These Braces will debut weekly episodes starting February 27, 2024, across all platforms and everywhere you listen to podcasts.
KEY CREDITS
HOSTED BY
- Tam Yajia
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
- Adrien Finkel
- Darren Miller
- Ben Rosen
WITH SUPPORT FROM
- Common Era
SPECIAL GUESTS
- Gil Ozeri
- Ron Funches
- Robby Hoffman
- Kylie Brakeman
- Joanna Hausman
- Megan Gailey
- Sophia Benoit
- Hayley Marie Norman
- Dylan Adler
- Shelby Wolstein
SERIES TRAILER
EPISODES
Humping Teddy Bears with Gil Ozeri (Bless These Braces: Episode 1)
Writer and comedian Gil Ozeri (Big Mouth, Happy Endings) joins Tam to talk about his two Bar Mitzvahs, fart etiquette, and the cassette tapes he ordered to achieve multiple orgasms….
Cartoon Crushes with Ron Funches (Bless These Braces: Episode 2)
Comedian Ron Funches (Trolls: World Tour, Gettin’ Better) joins Tamara Yajia to talk abotu his childhood cartoon crushes, badly timed boners, and the magic of Bill Clinton playing the sax.
Great-Uncle Eddie with Robby Hoffman (Bless These Braces: Episode 3)
Comedian Robby Hoffman (Too Far, Verified Stand-Up) sits down with Tam to look back on her Bat Mitzvah, keeping Kosher, and putting ointment on her Great-Uncle’s feet.
Most Random with Kylie Brakeman (Bless These Braces: Episode 4)
Comedian Kylie Brakeman (The Tonight Show) stops by to chat with Tam about freak trains, old Facebook statuses, and the girl who campaigned to be Most Random in her middle school yearbook.
Jewtinas with Joanna Hausmann (Bless These Braces: Episode 5)
Writer and comedian Joanna Hausmann (Hamster and Gretel, Bill Nye Saves The World) joins Tam Yajia to talk doing therapy in Spanish, the best Yiddish words, and the smell so bad Tam’s husband passed out.
Leave The Dolphins Alone with Megan Gailey (Bless These Braces: Episode 6)
Bless These Braces – 106 – Megan Gailey
Flies In The Buttcrack with Sophia Benoit (Bless These Braces: Episode 7)
Bless These Braces – 107 – Sophia Benoit
Seinfeld Dreams with Hayley Marie Norman (Bless These Braces: Episode 8)
Bless These Braces – 108 – Hayley Marie Norman
Soy Vey with Dylan Adler (Bless These Braces: Episode 9)
Bless These Braces – 109 – Dylan Adler
Camp Romance with Shelby Wolstein (Bless These Braces: Episode 10)
Bless These Braces – 110 – Shelby Wolstein
SERIES CREDITS
Hosted by Tamara Yajia
Executive Producers: Adrien Finkel, Darren Miller, & Ben Rosen
Writer/Researcher: Yoni Lotan
Director of Photography: Gemma Doll-Grossman
Production Manager: Savvas Yiannoulou
Production Coordinator: Ellen Burns
Sound Mixer: Will Harrell
Gaffer: Kishan Patel
Production Designer: Christina Phensy
Art Dept. Assistant: Carolyn Deskin
Hair and Makeup: Brenna Haukedahl
Editor/GFX: Brandon Fryman
Assistant Editor: Michael Wolfson
For Funny Or Die
VP of Digital: Darren Miller
Head of Original Content, Digital: Ben Rosen
SVP, Physical Production: Whitney Hodack
Assistant to Whitney Hodack: Anastasia Jacques
Director, Legal & Business Affairs: Annie Killen
SVP, Production Accounting: Devi Reichert
Head of Post: Derek Bartholomaus
SVP, HR/Facilities: Taylor Treadwell
Bless These Braces is a Funny or Die Original Production with support from Common Era
Common Era is an R&D platform working to make sure the Jewish experience continually evolves to meet the present moment, today and in the future. Through explorations and collaborations with creators, builders, subcultures, and social movements, Common Era is imagining and funding initiatives and experiences that offer the world a more expansive Jewish reality.