---
title: "Episode #363 \u2013 Being the Ricardos, with Alison Rosen"
url: "https:\/\/www.flophousepodcast.com\/2022\/02\/episode-363-being-the-ricardos-with-alison-rosen\/"
date: "2022-02-26T13:30:00+00:00"
episode_number: 363
movie: "Being the Ricardos"
guests: "Alison Rosen, Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, Stuart Wellington"
---

# Episode #363 – Being the Ricardos, with Alison Rosen

We’ve got [a new best friend](http://apple.co/alisonrosen), and it’s [Alison Rosen](https://twitter.com/alisonrosen)! She drops by to discuss the Oscar-nominated [Being the Ricardos](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4995540/), a movie that expresses Aaron Sorkin’s deep and not at all bizarre understanding of how TV comedy works, and how it’s the most solemn, earth-shaking thing that could ever exist, filled with people staring very seriously at jokes until their genius strikes them and they spew an impeccably-worded monologue about someone slipping on bananas, or whatever.

  
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Comedy? You’re sorkin’ in it. Download the MP3 directly, [HERE](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/fd7fc5f6-2d39-4a19-a56f-c31910966c15/episodes/c65934e7-d2cb-4533-8272-a00183c10ab6/audio/f3c116f1-927b-4eba-b0fa-6fb9a1cb86a8/default_tc.mp3).

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 [Wikipedia entry for Being the Ricardos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_the_Ricardos)

 Movies recommended in this episode:

 [Jackass Forever](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11466222/)

 [The Card Counter](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11196036/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

 [I’m Your Man](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13087796/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

 [The Stepford Wives](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)

 
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Alison Rosen