Girls on Guys is a dating and relationship horror stories podcast hosted by comedians Nina Tarr and Liam Cullagh. Each episode features a different broad aka female guest, who does their best to steer Liam away from the embarrassing mistakes he (and most men) make by sharing their own strange encounters with the male species.
In this week’s episode, comedian Alison Stevenson discusses whether or not media and culture shape what we find to be attractive.The hot person curse. Be careful with the “cool guy.” Does height matter? What the term “dating” actually means. They also discover that Alison is bro-choice. Once again Nina knows nothing about sports. And Liam is finally coming to terms with the fact that he’s a ginger.
Nina Tarr: Nina Tarr is a Persian-American stand-up, actor, writer, and producer, from Southern California. She was recently honored as a New Face of Comedy at Just For Laughs. She is a featured storyteller on Viceland’s PARTY LEGENDS. She is a TV writer on MOSTLY 4 MILLENNIALS on ADULT SWIM. Nina’s also written and starred in popular videos for BUZZFEED. She played a co-starring role in the DOPE STATE for Starburns Industries and played a lead role in the short film, CAR STEALERS. She recurred on MTV’s HIGH CRIMES and starred as herself in the MTV pilot, FLICKERLAB. Before that, she played the lead role of Veronica in the indie feature RED RAINCOATS. She also just wrapped production playing a lead role on her second feature comedy, ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS. In 2017 she performed standup on a 6-week US and Canada tour featuring for an experimental pop musician, Ariel Pink.
Liam Cullagh: This comedian has mastered the game of spinning normal characters and situations into absurd and twisted ones. His comedy sketches have amassed hundreds of thousands of online views and when there isn’t a global pandemic he performs standup comedy in Boston. From reenacting a college guy who didn’t get balloons for his 21st birthday to creating mockumentary about a spiritual retreat just for guys, he has encapsulated a generation of humor.
This Week’s Special Guest:
Alison Stevenson: Alison Stevenson is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. She has performed at various venues across the country including the San Francisco Punchline, the Hollywood Improv, the Purple Onion, NerdMelt, the 2012 Too Much Funstival in Denver, CROM in Omaha, and the Savage Henry comedy festival in Humboldt.
Her comedy has been featured on Grantland, Huffington Post, Splitsider, PLAYBOY, VULTURE, and Jezebel. Paste listed her 8th in their list of the 75 best Twitter accounts of 2015. She has also made a notable appearance on Dan Savage’s “Lovecast” and was a featured panelist on “Huffington Post Live”. Her debut television appearance occurred on the Viceland stand up series, “Flop house”.
On top of stand up, she is a notable contributor to vice, wherein she’s written several viral articles which garnered national media attention. The majority of these pieces have also been translated for VICE’s various international outlets. Alison was also a member of the video sketch group, Blessed. Blessed is a trio of female comedians who together have created several online videos as well as put on a monthly live comedy show at the Hollywood Improv (Lab) aptly called “Blessed”. In August of 2016, Alison co-created a one-of-a-kind cunnilingus themed art show in Hollywood which garnered media attention from Huffington Post Arts, LA Weekly, Time Out, and LAist. Currently, she is the creator and co-founder of a body positive strip show called thicc strip.
Alison is also currently the host of the podcast “v single” with alexandra tweten of bye felipe. you can also catch alison live every wednesday night on adult swim streaming (8pm PST/11PM est), as part of the “Perfect women” crew.
Some of Alison’s jokes can be heard on Pandora, via Rooftop Comedy. her debut comedy album, ‘eat me’, debuted in april 2017.
Her other writing credits include: The guardian, Broadly, Teen vogue, MAD Magazine, Munchies, Mel magazine, Uproxx, xoJane, and Glamour.
Checkout previous episodes of Girls On Guys w/ Nina Tarr & Liam Cullagh featuring special guests Ali Macofsky, Ellory Smith, Gabby Lamb and many more HERE
