Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast
Sup Doc is the comedy podcast where docs get reviewed and recapped! Hosts Paco Romane and George Chen dive into docs with sharp takes, big laughs, and cool guests from the worlds of tv, movies and music.
No homework required—just show up and have fun.
“A fun way to pore over docs” – Vulture
“Enlightening” – The A.V. Club
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 234
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
156 - THE VOW w Johnny Pemberton
SVP DOC looks at NXIVM and episodes 1 through 5 of the HBO docuseries The Vow with comedian Johnny Pemberton.
01:05:01 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
155 - CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS w Curtis Cook
The story of Capturing the Friedmans is harrowing stuff, and Paco and George really go through it with guest Curtis Cook.
01:21:07 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
154 - ROBIN'S WISH director Tylor Norwood
An intimate portrait of Robin Williams and his invulnerable spirit, Robin's Wish is the story of what really happened to one of the greatest entertainers of all time - and what he was fighting.
00:57:19 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
153 - THE GO-GO'S w Dakin Hardwick
Spinning Platters' Dakin Hardwick joins Paco and George to share his love of all things Go-Go and female-fronted pop-punk.
01:17:51 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
152 - CIRCUS OF BOOKS director Rachel Mason
Director Rachel Mason documents her parents' surprising decades-long gay porn empire from LA's Circus of Books.
01:02:41 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
151 - A GENUINE FORGER w Scott Simpson
Comedian and podcaster Scott Simpson shares his love of con men and art world grifts in the form of the Guy Ribes documentary, A Genuine Forger.
01:04:00 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
150 - MARWENCOL
Mark Hogancamp comes out of a coma from a violent beating. When his state-funded therapy runs out, he puts his recovery into intricate scenes using dolls in a village he's created called Marwencol.
00:44:01 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
149 - ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
From the Ontario metal scene to the Czech Republic, follow forgotten '80s metal strivers Anvil as they plow into their fifties doing what they love, in spite of the overall indifference of the indust…
00:47:19 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
148 - GRIZZLY MAN
Put together a failed actor, the Alaskan wilderness, wild grizzly bears, and Werner Herzog and what do you get? A brutal classic.
00:41:30 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
147 - ROGER AND ME
Paco and George look back at the debut Michael Moore documentary, 1989's Roger & Me, and ask the eternal question: "you want pets or meat?"
00:52:49 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
146 - JEFFREY EPSTEIN: FILTHY RICH w Haley Hoffmeister
TRIGGER WARNING: comedian Haley Hoffmeister joins Paco and George to discuss the four-part docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich on Netflix.
01:03:39 |
Mon 08 Jun 2020
145 - FAT: A DOCUMENTARY w Priyanka Wali
Physician/comedian Priyanka Wali comes on to break down the science behind the Vinnie Tortorich keto documentary FAT for our Munchie May food series.
01:05:50 |
Mon 25 May 2020
144 - CITY OF GOLD director Laura Gabbert
We remember the life of Jonathan Gold with City of Gold director Laura Gabbert, who is also working on a new documentary on restaurants handling the COVID crisis.
00:59:15 |
Mon 18 May 2020
143 - GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS w Richard Parks III
Richard Parks III (Richard's Famous Food Podcast) shares his love of Les Blank and Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) for our Munchie May food documentary series.
01:04:00 |
Mon 11 May 2020
142 - NOMA: MY PERFECT STORM w Derek Sheen
For our Munchie May food documentary series, comedian Derek Sheen joins us from to talk Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015) about René Redzepi world-class restaurant in Copenhagen.
01:17:47 |
Mon 04 May 2020
141 - KID ICARUS director Mike Ott
Leigh Harkrider takes a film course in 2007 that is still being talked about in 2020. Kid Icarus director Mike Ott talks to us about the making of his making of doc.
00:33:12 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
139 - THE TIGER KING AND I
We recap Netflix's own recap of Tiger King with Joel McHale and a bunch of other doc subjects (no Doc Antle though) plus documentary roundup news.
00:48:49 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
140 - OTHER MUSIC directors Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller
When the beloved New York record store Other Music announces plans to close in 2016, filmmakers Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu have about a month to document its last days.
01:15:42 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
139 - TIGER KING: MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS
How can we sum up the Joe Exotic/Carole Baskin story in one sentence when it took Netflix 7 episodes? So much straight up weirdness lurks in the heart of America- let Paco and George be your guides.
01:03:22 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
138 - MCMILLION$
Paco and George recap the six part docu-series that has taken America by storm (a McFlurry if you will); HBO's McMillion$ explains how the McDonald's Monopoly game was rigged for over a decade.
00:52:50 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
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