Cari Champion and Jemele Hill Are Still Best Friends, Now With a Mic

Flagrant and Funny with Cari Champion and Jemele Hill is what happens when two of the most recognizable voices in sports media stop reading a script and just talk to each other, three times a week, cameras or not.

Cari Champion

Cari Champion is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and television personality who spent years at ESPN, including stints on SportsCenter and First Take. That's a résumé built on live TV, quick reads, and holding her own across from strong personalities on some of the network's biggest debate shows. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and former ESPN host who's now a staff writer at The Atlantic, and the show's own description calls her one of sports media's most prominent voices. That range, network TV host and magazine staff writer, shows up in how the podcast moves between sports and wider culture without treating either as the "real" topic. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.

Together

The show's own tagline calls Cari and Jemele "former ESPN hosts and best friends," and that friendship is the actual product here, not just a marketing line. The two debate the buzziest topics in women's sports and culture three times a week, and the recent run of episodes shows exactly how wide that net gets cast: a three-part conversation around Stephen A. Smith stopping by ("He's here: Stephen A. Smith Drops By...Pt. 1", "He's Still Here: Stephen A. Smith Pt. 2", and "What a week! Reflecting on the Stephen A. Smith Interview"), sitting a week away from something as low-stakes as "Wintering in Turks and Caicos".

That range is the whole appeal. Two women who built careers holding their own in rooms full of sports-debate noise, now doing it on their own terms, with the guardrails off and the jokes left in. The show promises "no filters, and lots of laughs," and the mix of a three-part newsmaker interview next to a vacation recap is exactly what that looks like in practice.

And they're not slowing down to catch their breath. Flagrant and Funny is still cranking out new episodes several times a week, with the most recent one landing September 4, 2026. This is very much a show in motion, not one coasting on old episodes.