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.
In this episode, Comedian and Actor Chinedu Unaka (HBO’s Insecure, Abbot Elementary) dropped by the pod to talk about how you can actually save money by breaking a bunch of traffic laws, his sagacious approach to poker, and how to ensure your kids get money from their rich uncles/aunties.
Born and raised in south Los Angeles with direct Nigerian roots, Chinedu got his start in comedy after a friend in college dared/encouraged him to try stand up. Chinedu, down for 180 degree life change, told himself “Why not?” After a successful enough first show (didn’t cry or shit his pants) Chinedu became hooked; performing at every talent show, open mic and stand up night he could find at and around the University of California, Santa Barbara. After finishing school,, Chinedu moved back to LA to pursue his entertainment dreams. Chinedu began performing nightly anywhere he could, while teaching students with special needs until he figured out how to make a living through his passion.
A fews years later, CHINEDU is still eating peanut butter everyday, but has established himself as a smooth comedic presence performing regularly at some of the country’s most renowned comedy clubs. Including his local favorites: The Hollywood Improv, The Comedy and Magic Club, The Laugh Factory, The Westside comedy Theatre, The Comedy Store and many more. As well as touring universities nationwide annually through his “Study Break” College Comedy Tour reaching from USC and UCLA in Los Angeles to Ithaca College and Cornell University in New York.
Chinedu has also competed in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity competition – being named a top ten finalist out of 1000 + comedians. In addition, he was featured on NUVO’s TV Stand Up and Deliver and was named as a top finalist at the Laughing Devil, Ventura Harbor, Burbank, San Diego and the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival. Chinedu comedic talents were also seen early on TV in his own half hour comedy special on The Africa Channel as apart of Africa Laughs, which still continually airs internationally on Time Warner Cable. Furthermore, his name can be seen on the credits as writer for a comedy project that was aired for SHOWTIME.
Chinedu is also the co-producer of The Comedy Kickback, a once a month stand up comedy show, that happens every second Friday in Los Angeles at The Hollywood Improv in The Lab.
Checkout previous episodes of Cash Cuties w/ Fumi Abe & Steffie Baik HERE
