The Laughing Couple

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Marriage comedy with the awkward parts left in.

The gist

The Laughing Couple is a candid relationship-comedy show built around Brittany and Ryan Ostafi’s domestic play-by-play. Recent episodes swing from vasectomy logistics and kid playlists to therapy realizations, house-selling chaos, handyman pride, and the strange dignity of keeping socks on.

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About The Laughing Couple

The Laughing Couple is built from the stuff couples usually save for the drive home, the kitchen counter, or the exhausted hour after the kids are finally elsewhere. Brittany and Ryan Ostafi turn marriage into a running conversation, full of interruptions, callbacks, teasing, misreadings, and fast pivots from crude body logistics to real vulnerability. It can be very blunt. It is also more emotionally observant than the loose structure first suggests. Recent episodes find comedy in vasectomy recovery, bedroom awkwardness, socks, surgery-room visuals, kid music, slang, house-selling chaos, and the strange politics of asking for help with a repair. The rhythm is conversational rather than packaged. A joke lands, gets challenged, gets made worse, then somehow becomes a window into parenting, pride, friendship, or what long-term partnership actually sounds like when nobody is performing perfection. Brittany often pushes the practical or emotional point. Ryan often turns defensiveness, embarrassment, and overstatement into the comic engine. Their friction is the premise, but not the whole show. The better stretches come when a ridiculous argument reveals a recognizable pressure underneath it: wanting to seem capable, wanting to be understood, wanting the kids to grow without leaning on the same comforts forever. The show is comfortable sitting in that contradiction. It can joke about surgery and then move into a serious realization about Dave, friendship, and therapy. It can mock the language of younger people while admitting that parenting now means living inside the kids’ playlists. It can treat a Canadian concert memory as both a tangent and a mood-lifter. Jake, the producer, occasionally becomes part of the room rather than a hidden presence. That looseness gives the podcast its home-recorded texture. It feels like a couple trying to get back to laughter while life keeps interrupting the recording. The result is adult relationship comedy for listeners who want candor, chaos, and a little tenderness under the punchline. It is not polished advice. It is marriage and parenthood caught mid-sentence.

Made for: Best for adults who enjoy candid couple banter about marriage, parenting, sex, bodies, music, and household life. It especially suits listeners who like comedy that can turn serious without losing its loose, teasing rhythm.

What sets it apart: The show’s edge comes from how quickly ordinary domestic friction becomes revealing: a handyman dispute, a slang lesson, or a surgery story can expose ego, intimacy, and family stress. It feels less like scripted relationship commentary than a real couple arguing themselves into a laugh.

In their own words

An unfiltered and realistic conversation regarding the shitstorm we call; sex, marriage, parenthood and relationships, all with a healthy dose of humour.

Why you'd press play

A vasectomy debrief becomes relationship crowd work, and you get the seat closest to the overshare.

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  • Brittany and Ryan turning a handyman dispute into a full ego autopsy
  • parenting stories where the kids know the forbidden lyrics better than anyone planned
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  1. 1

    S5 E225 - Catch ya on the flip side

    Brittany Ostafi and Ryan Ostafi open The Laughing Couple Podcast with "she ate and left no crumbs," then turn to Rick Campanelli's "Rick the Temp" contest, which Ryan treats as an early reality-TV format.

    Aug 20, 2024·45m·4 clips
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    Catch ya on the flip side

    Hidden gem

    ["The Laughing Couple opens with Brittany Ostafi and Ryan Ostafi joking about \"she ate and left no crumbs\" while painters, pressure washing, FedEx, and playdates turn their house into chaos.", "They spend the middle of the episode translating Gen Z slang like \"rizz,\" \"no cap,\" \"sus,\" \"fit check,\" and \"yeet\" into millennial phrases such as \"that's the bomb,\" \"real talk,\" and \"huck.\"", "Ryan and Brittany then detour into Rick Campanelli's \"Rick the Temp\" run on Much Music, Dana Carvey's Lorne Michaels impression, and a TikTok interview where Elle King discusses Rob Schneider and a five-year estrangement.", "The episode ends with Brittany and Ryan saying they are selling their house and taking a break from the current weekly podcast schedule, with biweekly, monthly, or seasonal options still open."]

    Aug 20, 2024·51m·3 clips
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    S5 E224 - Taking Inventory

    Brittany and Ryan Ostafi examine how businesses, podcast growth, and added responsibilities displaced the family time and personal space they say they already wanted.

    Aug 6, 2024·38m·2 clips
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    Taking Inventory

    Hidden gem

    Brittany and Ryan Ostafi use vasectomy recovery, summer-camp stories, and a memory of Ryan's late friend Dave to examine how their family keeps adding responsibilities.

    Aug 6, 2024·45m·3 clips
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    Socks on or off?

    The Laughing Couple’s “Socks on or off?” centers on Ryan Ostafi’s recent vasectomy, including his anxiety about an erection and his description of lying on the table in socks, a golf shirt, and no pants.

    Jul 30, 2024·51m·3 clips
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    S5 E223 - Socks on or off?

    A comedic couple discusses their unfiltered views on sex, marriage, and parenting with humor.

    Jul 30, 2024·45m
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    S5 E222 - The Handyman

    Jul 23, 2024·40m
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    The Handyman

    Hidden gem

    Brittany and Ryan Ostafi turn a neck-pain complaint into a long argument about a Mercedes battery, a $1,500 electrical repair, and who should have asked for help sooner.

    Jul 23, 2024·47m·2 clips
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    S5 E221 - Give me a (summer) break

    Jul 16, 2024·41m
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    Give me a (summer) break

    Jul 16, 2024·48m
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    Have an Orgasmic Day

    Jul 9, 2024·56m
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    S5 E220 - Have an Orgasmic Day

    Jul 9, 2024·49m
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    S5 E219 - Ambivert

    Jul 2, 2024·42m
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    Ambivert

    Jul 2, 2024·48m
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    The Invisible Backpack

    Jun 25, 2024·49m
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    S5 E218 - The Invisible Backpack

    Jun 25, 2024·45m
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    Humble Badass

    Jun 18, 2024·46m
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    S5 E217 - Humble Badass

    Jun 18, 2024·42m
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    S5 E216 - Are you okay?

    Jun 11, 2024·40m
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    Are you ok?

    Jun 11, 2024·44m
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    S5 E215 - Another Dimension

    Jun 4, 2024·37m
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    Another Dimension

    Jun 4, 2024·41m
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    Drifting

    May 28, 2024·45m
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    S5 E214 - Drifting

    May 28, 2024·42m
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    Ask away

    May 21, 2024·53m
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    S5 E213 - Ask away

    May 21, 2024·50m
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    S5 E212 - How do they know that?

    May 14, 2024·44m
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    How do they know that?

    May 14, 2024·48m
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    Yeah but, what If?

    May 7, 2024·52m
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    S5 E211 - Yeah but, what If?

    May 7, 2024·49m
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    Bedroom Blunders

    Apr 30, 2024·45m
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    S4 E210 - Bedroom Blunders

    Apr 30, 2024·42m
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    Dear Clev,

    Apr 23, 2024·40m
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    S5 E209 - Dear Clev,

    Apr 23, 2024·37m
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    S4 E208 - Scheduled Spontaneity

    Apr 16, 2024·43m
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    Scheduled Spontaneity

    Apr 16, 2024·47m
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    Sticks & Stones

    Apr 9, 2024·44m
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    S4 E207 - Sticks & Stones

    Apr 9, 2024·41m
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    S4 E206 - My "Pleasure"

    Apr 2, 2024·44m
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    My "Pleasure"

    Apr 2, 2024·48m
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    S4 E205 - Operatic regrets

    Mar 26, 2024·42m
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    Operatic regrets

    Mar 26, 2024·45m
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    S4 E204 - Stranded in Sin City

    A comedic couple shares unfiltered, humorous stories about their marriage, parenting, and relationship mishaps.

    Mar 19, 2024·45m
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    Stranded in Sin City

    A comedic couple shares unfiltered, humorous stories about their marriage, parenting, and daily mishaps.

    Mar 19, 2024·48m
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    Sorry about my adolescence

    Mar 12, 2024·42m
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    S4 E203 - Sorry about my adolescence

    Mar 12, 2024·39m
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    Put me in, coach

    Hosts Brittany and Ryan introduce a guest who shares his journey of overcoming fears through extreme activities, blending humor with self-coaching insights.

    Mar 5, 2024·41m
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    S4 E202 - Put me in, coach

    A comedic couple interviews a guest about self-coaching while sharing unfiltered humor on relationships and parenting.

    Mar 5, 2024·37m
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    A pie in the sky kind of guy

    A comedic couple recounts an impromptu shared shower attempt while their kids are occupied.

    Feb 28, 2024·44m
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    S4 E201 - A pie in the sky kind of guy

    A comedic podcast where a couple discusses sex, marriage, parenthood, and relationships with unfiltered humor.

    Feb 28, 2024·40m