Brilliant Observations
Real friends. Real funny. We swear. Like, a lot. Join us for unscripted, uncensored, and definitely unsuitable-for-work comedy conversation about relationships, marriage, friendship, sex, hope, parenting and prospering at midlife. It's like grabbing a weekly cocktail with your favorite girlfriends for a candid look at life that lifts you up as it pulls you in. From religion to porn to money, fears, our bodies, our brains, secrets, failures, food, family and finding your path, almost nothing is off-limits (except politics — gross). Longtime friends Melissa Brilliant and Amy Fugazi overshare about everything with the love and trust that only comes from a lifetime of being there for each other. So cut through the fake friends who try to glamourize all the BS masquerading as midlife. We're the bawdy, brutally honest best friends you never knew you had. And we always pick up the check. Love us? Tell your friends. Hate us? Tell your therapist.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 419
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Are You There God, It's Brilliant Observations | Brilliant Observations 135
The Lost Episode! In our original, we discussed life as an artist during Covid-19, coping with Passover and Lent and all the feels while trapped like germs in a petri dish. It’s not all doom and gloo…
Cowboy Twitter | Brilliant Observations 134
The Lost Episode! In our original, we asked: do Millennials ruin everything? To which the world answered, kinda. Featuring your favorite replay of Cowboy Twitter.
Reposting this episode that was brie…
Rob Lowe Is Not a Quitter | Brilliant Observations 140
Listen up, Quitters! Missy digs deep with a sudden realization about giving up on things, habits, emotions, and yes, people that just might turn that L into a great big WIN. All that, plus mocking th…
Amy Feels All the Feels | Brilliant Observations 139
What day is this? Oh, RIGHT. It's time to feel every single emotion simultaneously day. Join us as we process all the madness that is life in the slow, sad, solo lane — complete with noisy visits fro…
What Day Is It? The Late-pisode | Brilliant Observations 136
With so much extra content, I got ahead of myself... and then fell behind. Thankfully, a few blessed fans reminded us both to look at a friggin calendar. Apologies, friends. Call it a covid-fart.
Farewell Kenny | Brilliant Observations 133
As if we didn't have enough to deal with, good ole Kenny Rogers up and cashed in his chips. (He always said you gotta know when to fold 'em.) Hear the shocking degree of investment Melissa has in the…
Do You Have a Heart On? | Brilliant Observations 132
Not gonna lie, kids. This covid thing is making us all a little skitchy. We take a stand on paper displays of affection — public displays of affliction? — throughout our respective neighborhoods and …
Neighbor Rage | Brilliant Observations Podcast 131
Neighbor Rage | Brilliant Observations Podcast 131Coronavirus Bonus Episode!
What’s more fun than a bucket of rocks? Throwing them at your bat sh*t neighbor. It’s a Social Distancing, Shelter-In-Plac…
Why So Distant? | Brilliant Observations 130
Talk about social distancing... What do you do with a neighbor who throws rocks at your dog BEFORE we even start to quarantine? Gear up for a bumpy fence line, kids, it's going to be a loooong shelte…
My Hero & Covid-19 Quiz | Brilliant Observations 129
My Hero & Covid-19 | Brilliant Observation Podcast 129Novel Coronavirus Quiz: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
If you thought the novel coronavirus was confusing, imagine how you'll feel when Miss…
Anal Tots | Brilliant Observations Episode 128
Potatoes are not suppositories. If that’s where we start, you can imagine where the conversation flows on the latest episode of your favorite comedy conversation podcast, Brilliant Observations. In T…
Dear Listener, Who Hurt You? | Brilliant Observations Podcast 127
What’s better than a vagicle? How about a chocolate boob? Good news, dear listener! In this episode of your favorite chat podcast, Melissa and Amy serve up BOTH!
It all starts when Amy accidentally d…
Hard N'oitch | Brilliant Observations 126
Hard N’oitch | Brilliant Observation Podcast 126Penis Beacon, Facebook Flooding and Doggy Nose Juice
Wanna take your Facebook page from 82 followers to 1,764 in four days? Use the hashtag #porn in …
Stop Sh*tting Rainbows!
Sh*tting Rainbows | Brilliant Observations Podcast 125Money, Milkshakes, Beauty Pageants and Porn
It’s the humiliation episode, friends! Listen with judgy fascination as Missy shares tales of frien…
Not the Fruits You Want To F**k | Brilliant Observations 124
Like fruit… a lot? We give #FoodPorn a whole new meaning in our latest Brilliant Observations comedy chat cast featuring cohosts and NSFW friends Melissa Brilliant and Amy Fugazi. We’re talking banan…
No Vision, No Problem | Brilliant Observations 123
New driver, who dis? No really, who dis, said the woman renewing her license who happens to be LEGALLY BLIND. Host Melissa Brilliant spins a horrifying tale of DMV-induced woe as she witnesses a mist…
Whose D!@k Is This??
Ever wonder what Gwyneth Paltrow’s privates smell like? I sure didn’t. Unfortunately for us both, the Goop Guru has answered all our unasked, self-involved questions once again with a whole new produ…
Bonus Boogies | Brilliant Observation Podcast 121
It’s a Bonus Boogies Bonanza as Amy unwittingly discovers the joys of grooming the facial hair of a neighboring labradoodle. Follow that with some mouthwatering birthday party recipes and a drunken t…
New Year, New TV Reccos | Brilliant Observations 120
Melissa and Amy dive deep into holidays past… and delight as Stuart throws himself out of the frying pan and lands nut-first into the firey hot, soup-making, song-singing blender. (To be fair, the nu…