In Take My Wife, Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher find that daily struggles make for good comedy -and stand-up makes for good couples therapy - in this charming and personal show created, starring and produced by an actually gay, actually married couple.
Wives, Rhea and Cameron, navigate life as comedians. Rhea struggles balancing a day job and her life on stage. Cameron experiences online backlash for her comedy.
Onstage and offstage, entirely within a single performance of their weekly stand-up show, Cameron and Rhea wrangle the chaos that comes with hosting a bunch of comics. This episode gives a first-person view into those things a live stand-up audience doesn't get to see.
In her newfound free time, Rhea finds increasingly silly reasons to avoid focusing on comedy. Cameron gets some harsh lessons in stand-up while opening for a big-deal headlining comic on tour.
Cameron and Rhea discuss their future, and get in over their heads babysitting an infant. While Cameron and Dave try to get out of trouble one way, Rhea finds help from Frances, their eccentric neighbor.
Cameron begins coaching a famous actress on how play a comic, but finds out the actress has other ideas. After a financial disaster, Rhea secretly returns to her old job.
When Cameron is tempted by Melina the actress, and Rhea has to confront her student loan debt, they face a big decision together. Their neighbor Frances offers more surprising insight.