The friendship of Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X expanded Ali's vision for what he could do with his platform as an athlete as he spoke out against the Vietnam War.

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Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield went from Olympic training buddies to such bitter rivals that Tyson bit part of Holyfield's ear off. But now they're chill. Find out how that happened!

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Alexander Graham Bell recommended Helen Keller's family to the school that provided Anne Sullivan, and Helen Keller's miraculous breakthrough and later celebrity helped bring attention and funding to…

While in Memphis, Harry Caray received a phone call from a fan that he never expected: Elvis Presley. The two struck up an immediate friendship bonding over baseball, booze, and barbecue.

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Seth Green & Breckin Meyer's friendship has weathered high school, competing for the role of Scott in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", and creating Robot Chicken and Stoopid Buddy Studi…

Simon Cowell plucked five teenagers, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, from obscurity and created the biggest boy band of the social media age. And those five kid…

Ben Marshall, John Higgins & Martin Herlihy's comedy examines male friendships in 2021 while reflecting on their own real-life friendship.


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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the comedy duo behind Who's on First,  met in the burlesque scene of the 1930s and went on to become the biggest box office draws of their time, working together for over…

Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter bonded in their first meeting & their comedic chemistry has helped sustain their 25+ year friendship off & on camera.


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Emmy Award Winning song writer and friend, Hughie Stone Fish joins Marc & Brian to talk about his friendships through his Jewish faith.

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Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Tacone have been creating stuff together since middle school, and their music, movies and SNL digital shorts changed the face of comedy forever.

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Mike Nichols & Elaine May's friendship started with the two doing a bit together on a bench as students at the University of Chicago. Their chemistry & brilliance influenced Steve Martin, Jane Curtai…

When Patti Smith was broke in New York, a total stranger paid for her sandwich. That guy was Allen Ginsberg, a poet whose work she loved. They talked that day, and reconnected later when Patti met ot…

W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive Boys are notorious for partying with the dead body of their friend John Barrymore but their friendship produced many more hell-raising moments in Hollywoo…

In 2019, Chase Hudson, Thomas Petrou and Daisy Keech decided to live, work and play together in a collab house that would change TikTok forever.

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In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book 8, Aristotle defines three types of friendship and gives his advice on how to be a great friend that still apply in the modern world.

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Penn & Teller describe their friendship as Aristotle's "Friendship of the Good". The legendary duo have used magic, comedy, television, & Broadway to bring skepticism, atheism, & libertarian ideals t…

Claude Monet, the most famous painter of the impressionists was close friends with Georges Clemenceau, the man who led France through the end of World War I shared a mutual love of art and nature. Mo…

Leonardo DiCaprio & Tobey Maguire's 30 year friendship has endured competition, fame, and  high-stakes poker games - producing multiple films by and about the two friends.

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Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall met as young actors in the 1985 John Hughes movie, Weird Science, and that meeting transformed both their personal and professional lives. Despite the ups a…