Everyone in the world can relate to these two when they say this, but your finances can be very funny at times.
Cash Cuties is a weekly podcast hosted by stand-up comedian Fumi Abe and social media personality/actress Steffie Baik as they dive deep into their friends and celebrity guests’ finances, spending habits, and life lessons they’ve learned throughout the years with the love, of course.
Fumi Abe: Fumi Abe is a Japanese-American stand-up comedian/writer based in New York City. He has written for NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”, was part of the 2020 Comedy Central Digital Creators Program, and is currently a staff writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Fumi has opened for Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show, and in addition, he was a semi-finalist in the Stand-Up NBC competition in 2017 and 2019.
He currently produces and hosts a comedy podcast titled “Asian Not Asian“, which was most recently included in Vulture’s Comedy Podcast Roundup as well as The AV Club’s Podcast series highlights.
Steffie Baik: Steffie is an Asian American, born in Los Angeles, and raised between the LA and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Steffie can thank this multicultural upbringing for her Portuguese, Korean and Spanish language abilities. She grew up attending school in LA, but the rest of the years in Brazil with her grandparents where she learned about her Korean heritage while immersed in the South American culture. She has proudly written her first comedy drama pilot about vampires and is currently writing a rom com short.
She has studied improvisation at Uprights Citizen Brigade in LA. She is trained in method acting from Lee Strasburg Institute in Los Angeles. Her hobbies include creative directing shoots, tennis, and katana sword fighting. She’s also a struggling skateboarder. Steffie has booked over 30 national campaigns for well-known brands. Steffie comes from a real estate and modeling background with an as-of-yet-to-be-useful Bachelor of Arts in cognitive psychology from UC Irvine.
On this episode, Everybody’s favorite comedian Leslie Liao joined the pod this week to discuss her very stiff and functional outlook on finances. One of our best eps yet!
Leslie Liao: A writer, performer, and stand-up comedian using the stage to reflect on her experience as a single Chinese-American female living in Los Angeles. She recently placed first in Bert’s Back Room’s LA’s Top Comic Competition, was a finalist in the Crazy Woke Asians comedy festival, and she’s worked on productions for E! with Anjelah Johnson (Not Fancy), Lauren Ash (NBC’s Superstore), and Punkie Johnson (SNL).
Leslie has worked on studio films such as Central Intelligence, Office Christmas Party, and YouTube Red’s Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television. Her comedy has graced the stages of The Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, Hollywood Improv, Flappers, Westside Comedy Theater, HaHa Comedy Club, a random hotel she’s pretty sure is haunted, and many more.
Checkout previous episodes of Cash Cuties w/ Fumi Abe & Steffie Baik HERE
