“Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang” starts streaming on Disney+ and Hulu on Nov. 18, with a new video episode every week, iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network announced Oct. 15.
The release sells the show on “unfiltered takes and candid conversations with some of the biggest names in entertainment about the latest pop-culture moments and experiences.” Audio fans don’t have to switch. The podcast stays on the iHeartRadio app and wherever else people already listen, iHeart said.
Rogers and Yang launched the show in March 2016. “And then I started the podcast Las Culturistas with Bowen Yang, and I sort of discovered my own comedic voice,” Rogers told CBC Arts.
How to Watch ‘Las Culturistas’ on Disney+ and Hulu
New episodes land weekly starting Nov. 18. iHeart’s announcement names both services, and it didn’t give a release time or say whether older episodes will be added. Laughing Place, which covered the news Oct. 16, listed past guests including Mariah Carey, Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan and Nicole Kidman.
Disney has pitched video podcasts as a way to keep fans close to the people they already follow. “Fans can’t get enough of the stories and talent they love, and podcasts have become one of the fastest growing ways for audiences to connect with them,” Lauren Tempest, who runs content planning and partnerships for Disney’s streaming business, said in August.
The iHeartMedia Video Podcast Deal Behind the Move
That August announcement was a deal between Disney+, Hulu and iHeartMedia for six iHeartPodcasts titles. “Hey Jonas!” arrived first, on Aug. 14. “Pod Meets World” followed on Disney+ Aug. 24, and “Desperately Devoted” was set to begin streaming on Hulu Nov. 2. “Fake Doctors, Real Friends,” “StraightioLab” and Big Money Players’ “Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim” were slated for Hulu in the fall.
“Podcasting continues to evolve as audiences increasingly want to engage with the shows and personalities they love in more ways and across more platforms,” iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman said when the deal was announced.
“Las Culturistas” wasn’t on that original list. iHeart now says its addition “further expands iHeartPodcasts’ growing video lineup on Disney+ and Hulu.”
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, From ‘SNL’ to the GLAAD Stage
Yang is no longer on “Saturday Night Live.” He left after the Dec. 20, 2025, Christmas episode, midway through Season 51, CNN reported. He joined as a writer in 2018, became a cast member in 2019 and picked up five Emmy nominations.
“i loved working at SNL, and most of all i loved the people,” Yang wrote on Instagram, as CNN quoted him.
Both hosts have talked openly about being gay. On Joel Kim Booster’s radio show “Joy F*ck Club” in 2021, Yang said “holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker,” People reported.
Rogers grew up on Long Island. “I was a gay kid growing up on Long Island, so I was very concerned about remaining in the closet,” he told W magazine in 2022.
On March 5, the pair received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton, which Gayety covered at the time. They used the speech to announce a $10,000 donation to Equality Kansas, TheWrap reported, after the Kansas Legislature passed a bill invalidating transgender residents’ driver’s licenses.
Rogers said “we cannot accept this award without condemning the rampant active transphobia from this administration,” TheWrap reported. He closed with a line for people who weren’t in the room: “Our message to those people who are not here tonight, many in frightening places, is that you are not alone.”
Las Culturistas Culture Awards, Podcast of the Year and More
The podcast has its own awards show, too. The fifth annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards “premiered for its second televised installment on Bravo and Peacock on June 17,” according to iHeart.
The show was named Podcast of the Year at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards in 2023 and 2025. iHeart says it also has comedy wins from the GLAAD Media Awards and the Ambies. Gayety’s preview of the GLAAD honors has more on the Kolzak Award.
Ferrell and iHeartMedia are executive producers, and iHeartPodcasts distributes the show. The first Disney+ and Hulu episode drops Nov. 18.
