![]() ![]() "Hot White Heist" transcends this trend simply by embracing what it is and having a great time with it. And while there have been a few solid listening experiences, like the first season of Gimlet Media's "Homecoming" and Radiotopia's "Passenger List," even those can feel like a prototype for the TV adaptation. The resulting podcasts are mostly pedestrian. I find most of those projects cynical, meant to market test new intellectual property that can later be adapted into more profitable mediums. ![]() Combine celebrity A with unproduced script (ph) B, flip it into a podcast and then hope it becomes a TV show later. On its surface, the celebrity-heavy cast might make it seem like yet another Hollywood cash grab in the podcast world. Suffice to say, high jinks ensue as Judy's motley crew stumbles through various misadventures as they try to pull off the heist. Rodriguez, the drag queen Bianca Del Rio and "Broad City's" Abbi Jacobson. QUAH: Consider "Hot White Heist," a queer-centric cross between "Ocean's Eleven" and "30 Rock." The show possesses the zany cartoonishness of Tina Fey's beloved sitcom as Judy cobbles together a team played by a star studded cast including "Pose's" M.J. YANG: (As Judy) They're also the only people I know, so. But how are you going to know that everyone we're talking to is queer? (SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, "HOT WHITE HEIST")īOWEN YANG: (As Judy) We're only recruiting queers for this. Judy reluctantly agrees but on the condition that he gets to assemble his own team of friends to do the job. In this new comedic fiction podcast released on Audible this month, a fortune teller named Judy Fink, played by "Saturday Night Live's" Bowen Yang, is recruited by his estranged aunt to steal samples from a secret government bunker that's housing the country's archival sperm bank. NICK QUAH, BYLINE: What's being stolen in "Hot White Heist" is a little racy to describe on the air, so I'm going to focus on the plot instead. Podcast critic Nick Quah has this review. It showcases "Saturday Night Live's" Bowen Yang and an all-star queer cast and a sound design that's as daring as its subject. But "Hot White Heist," the new comedy fiction podcast from Audible and Lorne Michaels' production company, centers on the theft of something else entirely. When we think of a heist thriller, we may think of a ragtag crew stealing precious jewels or a safe full of cash. ![]()
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