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Like Mother

By: Alison Stevenson
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Episodes
  • Episode 1: Home Sweet Home
    Oct 22 2020
    After Allison gets fired from her job, she leaves San Francisco and moves back in with her mother, Sarah. Back in Davis, Allison finds her new hustle. [Contains sensitive content].
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    22 mins
  • Episode 2: The Set Up
    Oct 22 2020
    Allison goes on a date with Josh, the nice Jewish lawyer her mother pressures her to meet. Things start to unravel the next morning when Sarah wakes up to an unexpected visitor. [Contains sensitive content]
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    22 mins
  • Episode 3: The Counselor
    Oct 22 2020
    Allison decides to get a new tattoo, but things go awry when Sarah shows up unexpectedly. Allison and Sarah finally give therapy a whirl. [Contains sensitive content].
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    23 mins

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About the Creator

Alison Stevenson is a comedian, writer, and creator of Like Mother. As a stand-up, she has two full-length comedy albums under her belt, *Eat Me (2017) and Mommy Issues (2019). Since the start of her career, Alison has centered her work on both analyzing and dissecting her personal life – specifically dating, body image, Judaism, feminism, and how they all intersect with one another. She first gained popularity as a VICE columnist and has since written for various publications such as Glamour, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and MAD Magazine. She also wrote and starred in two short films, Thirty-Six and A More Modern Romance. Currently, she co-hosts a weekly livestream show called The Perfect Women (Adult Swim streaming), and can be heard on her dating podcast, V Single. If you ask her though, she’ll tell you her greatest accomplishment was being featured in an Ariana Grande music video.
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About the Performer

Susie Essman has played the sassy Susie Greene for all ten seasons of the critically-acclaimed HBO comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and is in production for season eleven. Her hilarious bouts of withering sarcasm and uninhibited insults have become her character’s trademark.
The Los Angeles Times calls Susie, "The most lyrical purveyor of profanity on television. She makes the entire cast of The Sopranos look like rank amateurs. It really is a gift." The New York Times called Susie "one of the most vivid characters in the show, whose off-color tantrums have become an audience favorite the way Kramer's clumsy entrances once were." The New York Observer (which calls her "fantastic") says "she's taken female cursing to longshoreman levels, pummeling her bumbling, barrel-bodied husband with potty-mouthed invectives like 'You fat fuck!'."
Susie’s streetwise vernacular is perfectly suited for her life in Manhattan where she has been a veteran of the world of stand up comedy for thirty seven years. Currently, while performing recurring roles on Comedy Central's Broad City; Tru TV's *Those Who Can't; and NBC's Law & Order: SVU, Susie divides her time between New York City and upstate New York where she lives with her husband, four step-children, and a dog.

About the Performer

Labeled "one of the greatest live performers he has ever seen" by Jerry Seinfeld, "a mouthy, flesh-jiggling early Bette Midler" by The New York Times, Bridget Everett is a singer, actress, comedian whose explosive and unpredictable performances have taken comedy festivals all over the world by storm.
Bridget can next be seen in Tate Taylor's Breaking News in Yuba County opposite Alison Janney, Mila Kunis, and Regina Hall and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal. It was recently announced that HBO ordered Bridget's series Somebody Somewhere from Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, which Bridget will star in and produce alongside Bos, Thureen, Carolyn Strauss and the Duplass Brothers. On the feature side Bridget has co-starred in Pattie Cakes$ and Fun Mom Dinner. She recently co-starred in the HBO limited series Camping. Bridget has also appeared in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck and Girls along with 2 Broke Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, and Netflix’s Unbelievable, Lady Dynamite, AJ and The Queen, and Living With Yourself.
Everett and her band, The Tender Moments, perform regularly to sold-out crowds and have welcomed special guests as varied as Fred Armisen, Flea, Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Peaches, and Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters). Their album, Pound It, is available now on iTunes. Bridget recently starred in the hit off-Broadway show "Rock Bottom" at the Public Theater in New York.

Additional Details

Director: Ben O’Brien and Isabella Kulkarni
Supporting Actors: Cricket Arrison, Lola Blanc, Cynthia Darlow, Joe Kwaczala, James Ludwig, Thea Luxe, Emily Maya Mills, Lydia Popovich, Clare O’Kane, Brodie Reed, Luke Taylor, Tony Tsendaes, Julian Silver, Nadia Vazquez and Casey Wortmann.
Executive Producers: Isabella Kulkarni and Nick Stargu
Producers: Ben O’Brien and Alison Stevenson
Sound Design: Chester Gwazda

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Great podcast!

I love the storyline and the characters growth. I can't wait to hear more from Alison Stevenson.

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Excellent!

Written exactly the way it was supposed to be. Such an enjoyable series. I'd listen to more especially because there's profanity written in the story!

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Entire series is excellent!!! Loved it!!

Narration is wonderful! The story is, even for Non-Jewish people, a perfect mix of the love-hate relationships between mothers and daughters.

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Unexpected

Not my usual listen but I gave it a chance, finished it and thought it was very cute and entertaining. A sitcom type short podcast.

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Story with a Moral

Loved this-short and perfect length-great narration and characters! Looking forward to new stories of Allison, Sara, and Josh!

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Love this. Relatable in so many ways.

I love this so much. The relationship between mom and daughter is so relatable even without having the same beliefs. It’s very real on a daily basis and is very encouraging and thoughtful about the mother/daughter relationship. How they deal with relationships with men in their life and their family opened my eyes. How we are and how we try to be so different from our mom’s is proven to be silly and this shows we just need to let it be and cherish it. I listened as a daughter as well as a mother. I smiled, I laughed, I cried. I related and am so glad I came across this. I listened to every episode in 1 sitting and want more.

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This is a treasure!

After getting past the first chapter, the rest of the series had me snorting and cackling with laughter at the most unexpected places!

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So Relatable, even for a 35 yr old nondenominational black girl!

I’m on episode 8 right now and seriously, I’m loving this! I had honestly never heard of the main character (Alison) before this, but “Like Mother” made me look her up, and I’m a fan now. Just downloaded her 2 albums also! Thanks for the amazing work!

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Entertaining Series

Great acting all around. Also loved the stories. Can’t wait for more from this author!

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I’m not Jewish, but, boy can I relate

Full disclosure, I’m the mom. My daughter, and only child, has a very good professional life and owns her own hone, yet, she’s 43 and I’m mostly never going to be a grandmother. Enough said!! Listen to this, you’ll laugh a lot, cry a bit, but it will truly make you think.

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