Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast

A Four Tampon Polycule (D’Arcy Carden, Carl Tart, Erin Keif)

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Mar 9, 2026
D’Arcy Carden — actor/comedian known for The Good Place — talks about Sunny Nights and Wild Vacation Rentals. Ted Reddy — a fast-talking used-car salesman character — hawks cursed pre-owned cars and pitches a playful polycule. Puddlesby Bridgerton — a pompous fictional British nobleman — delivers aristocratic banter and courting comedy. They riff on plots, curses, romance tropes, dancing and absurd negotiations.
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ANECDOTE

How The Good Place Launched D'Arcy Carden's Career

  • D'Arcy Carden recounts her transition from understudy/bit player on The Good Place to feeling accepted in the LA comedy community.
  • She moved from New York, got recurring bit work and the show provided early TV exposure and community connections that jumpstarted her career.
INSIGHT

Sunny Nights Blends Small Business Comedy With Crime

  • Sunny Nights is a darkly comic buddy series where D'Arcy Carden and Will Forte play siblings running a spray-tan startup that spirals into mob trouble.
  • The pilot hooks with a beauty-con hookup, blackmail, and an escalating debt to an Australian crime ring mixing small-business hustle with crime comedy.
ANECDOTE

Wild Vacation Rentals Took Them To A Potato House

  • D'Arcy describes Wild Vacation Rentals: she and Sherry Cola stay overnight in extreme listings like treehouses, caves, missile silos, and a potato house.
  • The show is hands-on: they evaluate, stay, and often highlight uniquely built properties rather than standard hotels.
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