Clipping has become a new metric for success—subscribers and viewers of the full product are great and all, but maybe not as great as doing numbers on social media. And Friends Keep Secrets—the hybrid podcast/celebrity talk show from Dave Burd, Benny Blanco, and Kristin Batalucco—is practically designed in a lab to create great clips.
Burd, a.k.a. Lil Dicky, and Blanco are besties, and Burd and Batalucco are married, so the dynamic of the show is more like three close friends hanging out than Dick Cavett. And because of that, there’s no roadmap—no attempts to cover the usual celebrity interview questions—and instead it jumps from topic to topic like a dog chasing tennis balls at Wimbledon. This makes for excellent clips.
How did Ed Sheeran end up sniffing Dave’s bellybutton? How did Selena Gomez end up arm-wrestling Kristin? Even if you watch the whole episodes for yourself, it’s not always entirely clear. So don’t worry about context—there often is none, anyway.
Here are the 10 funniest moments from the show so far.
Benny Farting on Camera While Displaying His Dirty Feet
It didn’t take long for Friends Keep Secrets to break containment. Within minutes, the pilot episode created the show’s first viral moment—a shot of Benny deliberately farting for Dave and Kristin with his dirty, bare feet on full display. “Wait, see if you guys can pick this up,” he says, raising a cheek, testing the room’s microphones. Benny’s lack of modesty ruffled plenty of feathers (the general response from many online was “Selena Gomez is married to this guy?”), but it’s actually a perfect litmus test for viewers to decide if this show is for them. If you think the Blazing Saddles campfire scene is comedic brilliance, carry on. If you don’t, maybe it’s best to turn the other cheek and look elsewhere for your celebrity-hangout-multimedia-podcast-slash-show.
Benny Completely Unimpressed By Ed Sheeran’s Movie Prop Collection
It starts off strong, anyway. Ed Sheeran tells the gang that he collects movie props, and cites a recent purchase: the Edward Scissorhands hands. (Say “Ed’s Edward Scissorhands hands” five times fast.) Everyone, appropriately, oohs and ahhs at this revelation. “You couldn’t have hit on something I care about more,” Blanco gushes. Sheeran then makes the mistake of continuing to list some of his other movie props: Rufio’s sword and Pan’s costume from Hook; Batman and Robin’s costumes from the George Clooney Batman movie. “Don’t care about either one of those,” Blanco says, deflated. For a pop star, this is the kind of brutal honesty that can only come from someone, like Blanco, who helped them make who they are. If this were The Tonight Show, Fallon would still be clapping like a seal.
Kevin Gates Shows Off His Sweatsuit Tuxedo
“I should’ve dressed up,” Kristin says when she sees Kevin Gates walk in, and she ain’t kidding. Gates is in a full-on tuxedo—more ready for an award show than a talk show—except it’s not what it seems. It’s a formalwear mirage. “I made it custom,” Gates explains, as everyone touches the material to see that it consists of tracksuit materials. “If I can’t do yoga in it, I ain’t goin’ in it,” he says. Really, really.
Kristin and Lizzo Talk Girl Farts
You didn’t think this was just a Benny thing, right? Granted, this is just a conversation about how girls pull off quieter farts than guys. (It’s all about grace, dignity, and spreading the cheeks when you sit down on the toilet.) But if you were one of the many fans who got hooked on Friends Keep Secrets by The Benny Incident, this is also why you’re here. This was giving the people what they want.
FaceTiming GaTa to Ask Him a Question About the Male Orgasm
One of the joys of Friends Keep Secrets is finding out that Dave and Benny are just as close in real life as they are in the show Dave. So when Dave randomly FaceTimes GaTa with one of the stupidest questions of all time—do you clench or push when you’re having an orgasm?—the real delight is seeing that their friendship is just like it is on the show too. “Hmm,” GaTa says, like this is a normal reason to receive a call from someone in the middle of the day. “I probably clench it, bro.” A beautiful window into a beautiful friendship.
Jonah Hill Saves Finneas’s Life, Maybe
Finneas didn’t hesitate when Benny asked him what the stupidest thing he ever bought was: A hydrofoil, he said, which is a surfboard that’s hoisted above the water by a submerged fin. As soon as he took the hydrofoil out of the box, Finneas said, he had a premonition of it causing his death—but it was probably Jonah Hill, an avid surfer, who really hammered home the point: “You’re gonna die!” Finneas remembered Hill telling him at a party about how dangerous the beach where he surfed was. Finneas got the message; he gave the cursed surfboard to someone else.
Sean O’Malley Almost Punches Benny Through a Window
It’s not exactly Johnny Knoxville v. Butterbean, but Benny Blanco v. Sean O’Malley still offers the rare exhilaration of watching a celebrity get punched by a professional fighter. Even with multiple layers of catcher’s gear on—and with the UFC star O’Malley instructed to keep it to limited strength—Benny still instantly turns into an extra in a kung-fu movie as he gets sent flying backwards. “Did it look cool?” Benny asks. Sure, buddy.
Harry Styles Makes Benny Blanco Think He’s About to Die
Benny’s biggest fear in life is flying. He essentially can’t do it, and will take a boat to Europe if he has to. It’s such an issue that he once had to get off Justin Bieber’s private jet after they had already boarded—so the fact that he once managed to get off the ground in a plane with Harry Styles is surprising on its own. As Benny remembers it, when this plane, which was headed from Los Angeles to Coachella, hit some turbulence, Styles decided to mess with him. “I think this is the one!” he said to Benny, “I think we’re going down!” Very funny for everyone else on the plane (and for us). Very traumatizing to poor Benny.
Paul Rudd Explains the Origins of “Jobin”
The FKS hosts seem pretty comfortable with their megastar guests, but one time Burd seemed a little starstruck was when Paul Rudd was on, and they were talking about the “Jobin” joke in I Love You, Man. “Was that improv?” Burd asks, to which Rudd explains that “most of the movie was.” A lot of that, Rudd explains, came from the sense of humor he had with his college friends, including one guy who called everyone “Shayeb” for some reason. (And yes, that is how you spell “Shayeb.”) “I don’t know if Jobin happens without Shayeb,” Rudd says, to the clear delight of Burd, who looks like he’s hearing about how Abbey Road was made.
The Great Sauce Debate
At its best, Friends Keep Secrets feels like it exists in the Curb Your Enthusiasm extended universe—and this has never been more clear than during the infamous and heated Sauce Debate of 2026. Benny asks Dave, who had barbecued some chicken for them to eat, if he ever makes his own sauce to marinate a dish with. Dave finds the very question preposterous, and insists that “no one does that.” Eventually, the debate comes down to one question: Is the average American person more or less likely to have ever made their own marinade from scratch, as opposed to relying on pre-made sauces? If Dave is Larry David, then Kristen is Cheryl, of course—meaning that she’s unafraid to tell Dave in this instance that she thinks he’s dead wrong. Dave then takes this debate onto Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel tells him he thinks he’s wrong. Benny—who in this Curb dynamic must be considered something like a Leon/Jeff hybrid—then polls the late-night audience, who seem to suggest by a show of hands that Dave is wrong again. “I don’t know who these people are,” Dave says, undeterred. The great debate rages on.
