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The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

A TOP’S PRIORITY Ft. Anania | Episode 205

21 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What heated rivalry do Drew and Anania discuss?

0.031 - 4.671 Drew Afualo

I'm not going to the gladiator for the plot. Take your shirt off and stab him.

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4.691 - 5.555 Anania

Hurry up.

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5.936 - 6.157 Drew Afualo

Oh my god.

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6.177 - 7.905 Anania

I'm trying to see some tits immediately.

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8.005 - 9.13 Drew Afualo

Immediately.

16.231 - 35.836 Anania

Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show. Sorry, me, your fave, everybody knows me, who cares about me. On to the guests. Today we have an iconic all-star, the one, the only, the iconic, the talented, Ananias! You're not better than me. Go ahead and take that down.

35.856 - 38.66 Drew Afualo

I live for that. It's like prison in here. I live for it.

39.161 - 42.265 Anania

I live. Hey, Miss Thing. Oh my God. I'm so happy to see you.

Chapter 2: What are Anania's thoughts on the Stranger Things finale?

42.425 - 47.551 Anania

It's nice to see you. You are a sight for sore eyes. I'll say that much. I'll take it. You look great. I'll take it. Thank you.

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47.671 - 51.917 Drew Afualo

You look fantastic. How are you? It's been a while since I've been back here. I know. We were just chatting. I like what you've done with the place.

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52.157 - 55.381 Anania

Thank you. Very orange. Low key real wall.

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55.542 - 56.222 Drew Afualo

Low Quinley.

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56.262 - 56.683 Anania

Yeah.

57.49 - 60.301 Drew Afualo

I just learned what that was like three days ago and I keep stemming on it. I can't.

60.321 - 60.722 Anania

You have to.

61.144 - 61.726 Drew Afualo

Stemming on it?

62.188 - 66.424 Anania

Are the girls saying stemming on it? Like bouncing on it, but stemming on it. That's fine.

Chapter 3: How did Anania's show Gaydar rise to popularity?

91.912 - 109.532 Anania

I wrote them an essay. Hopefully they used the whole thing. But in there, I literally wrote how one of your tweets that I remember to this day all the time is you said, if Tupac Shakur was alive today, he would be he, they, down. It's imprinted behind my eyelids. I literally go to sleep thinking about it.

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109.913 - 124.09 Drew Afualo

When I think about it, I go. They would. You know what? It's actually kind of dangerous, my oracle abilities. Because I tweeted, I tweeted, and this is crazy, this is crazy. I tweeted, I think D'Angelo, the singer, is bisexual. Three weeks later, he died.

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126.433 - 128.215 Anania

Now, who says God doesn't hate gay people?

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130.698 - 141.794 Drew Afualo

Me. It was me who said it. Period. It was in the tweet roundup. Yeah. Yeah. You're just watch out. Your third eye. Right. I think you queer. I don't I don't. Hey, who knows? Who knows what might happen?

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141.814 - 143.236 Anania

You should already be dead just in case.

143.256 - 144.257 Drew Afualo

But rip D'Angelo. I love you.

144.497 - 146.74 Anania

Yeah, I do. I did love D'Angelo, too.

147.261 - 155.451 Drew Afualo

When I was like, OK, when I found out that he died, I was like, OK, 2025 has to come to a close. Yeah. If anybody else. Wrap it up. You know what I mean?

155.531 - 156.332 Anania

Yeah, we can't have that.

Chapter 4: What dream Broadway roles does Anania aspire to?

161.339 - 165.025 Drew Afualo

We need you. We need it desperately. If you're watching this, Tina and Eartha, come on. Come on the show.

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165.787 - 166.628 Anania

Just come on the show.

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166.668 - 168.992 Drew Afualo

Come on the show. Come defend yourselves.

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169.393 - 175.103 Anania

Well, speaking of coming on the show, you're here. What's new with you? You've been busy. You've been a busy, busy girl.

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175.123 - 190.346 Drew Afualo

I've been a busy, busy girl, which is nice. I feel like everybody wants me. Yeah, period. I'm like a lamb in the middle of wolves. It's about time, shit. You know. Yeah, I've just been really busy. I closed an off-Broadway musical not too long ago. Yes.

191.668 - 193.15 Anania

Please tell me about it. I want to know all about it.

193.17 - 211.41 Drew Afualo

Saturday Church. Yes, how was it? It was at the New York Theater Workshop in New York. It was really, really fun. It's this new musical, and I was able to, like, originate a role. It was just, like, so much fun about, like, I just felt like a part of community, and I was, like, pushing myself artistically. It was great. And, you know, like, that's the things that I want to be doing with my life.

211.39 - 213.853 Anania

Yeah, absolutely. You are meant for the stage.

213.913 - 214.614 Drew Afualo

Thank you.

Chapter 5: How do Drew and Anania plan to create a sitcom?

226.269 - 231.015 Anania

Careful. You dodged a bullet there. That was a close one. You could feel them.

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231.256 - 233.078 Drew Afualo

I feel them chomping on my ankles.

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233.75 - 259.048 Drew Afualo

um yeah i produced the holiday show and this was at the huntington theater in boston and it sold out which was really exciting um yeah and now i'm just um buying my time until i can announce my next thing but i don't know when this episode will come out in relation to it check check my page and see if there's something cool going on if you follow ann and i you'll find it there might be something cool that might happen before or after this just i i'm cooking local winley

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260.682 - 261.223 Drew Afualo

Is that how you say it?

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261.243 - 262.004 Anania

That's all you need to know.

262.065 - 265.07 Drew Afualo

I have no clue to be quite honest with you. It's low key and genuinely, right?

265.15 - 271.863 Anania

Yeah, I think I've seen it spelled out. I have no idea how to pronounce it. And I don't want to humiliate myself trying, but like, it's something like that.

271.883 - 275.309 Drew Afualo

Yeah. Genuinely. Innuently. Locuinually.

275.529 - 276.591 Anania

Yeah. You know what?

Chapter 6: What experiences does Anania share about getting confused with famous actors?

301.351 - 308.839 Anania

Yeah, seat fillers have better seats than us, honestly. Like, every time. I was like, whoa. I saw some of my friends. I was like, did y'all go?

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308.999 - 309.34 Drew Afualo

Yeah.

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309.36 - 312.544 Anania

Did you see it? I'd be closer if I was at home watching it from the TV.

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312.564 - 336.132 Drew Afualo

Exactly. There's a more immersive experience to be had. Right, exactly. They put me in the front row of the mezzanine. Oh, my God. And mind you, Audra McDonald went up there, snot, blubbering, tears. I felt like I could hug her. I said, oh, oh, help her. Oh. She didn't win the Tony, but that's okay. We'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that behind a paywall. About how upsetting that was.

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336.212 - 336.752 Drew Afualo

That was sad.

336.953 - 337.654 Anania

Yeah, it was.

337.674 - 339.676 Drew Afualo

Did we watch the same thing? Are you a musical girl?

339.736 - 359.225 Anania

Yes, I love theater. I've talked to Dylan Mulvaney about it a lot. Because when we gag about theater, she's like, oh my God, you're for real. Because I was telling her about Cynthia Erivo. Obviously, I love Cynthia. She's amazing. But I said I used to watch, which obviously her role as Celie in The Color Purple was the first time I watched her, like, for real, for real on Broadway.

359.525 - 369.622 Anania

And I said her performing I'm Here at the 2016 Tonys, I had that on a loop in my house, bitch. And she was like, oh, my God, you're fucking for real. And I was like, of course I'm for real. I love theater.

Chapter 7: What insights does Anania provide on the challenges of stand-up comedy?

379.501 - 387.619 Drew Afualo

I'm addicted to her. And then you're on like a 40 minute rabbit hole. And you're like, wow, I can't believe she's saying it like that. And then you go back and you go to the most replayed. That's my girl.

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387.639 - 414.37 Anania

And if I may speak, when she sings like that, when she sings like that, I believe in a higher power. Amen! I said there's no way it can't exist. I was like, there has to be a higher power of some sort. Hallelujah! Because she's anointed. Amen. Amen. Whatever she has, I need her larynx. No, for real. I feel like that picture of Ursula, like, sucking it into the shell. I'm like, give it to me.

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414.65 - 434.794 Anania

need that give it to me give it to me give it to me it's also just like if I sounded like that I would never shut the fuck up me too you bitches wouldn't even know me oh my god I literally you bitches wouldn't even know me oh I said before I would be I would grow ten times the size of this building I would be I would be unbearable honestly if she put She's the sweetest person ever.

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434.834 - 451.654 Anania

She is the nicest. And she's funny as fuck. Funny! I joked with her when she was on the show. I made a joke about her. I was like, oh, you're like being kept away in a tower like Rapunzel. And she was like, careful with that. Hold up. My bad, girl. Bald by choice, though.

451.714 - 463.045 Drew Afualo

Honestly, when you did that episode as Elphaba, there was something in me that was like, I'm happy that she didn't do that in front of Cynthia, but then I'm also mad that you didn't do that in front of Cynthia.

463.085 - 473.695 Anania

And I was like, wow, that's crazy. I thought we were going to match today. You could have gotten green twice. We'll talk about it. You know what? It's okay. Honestly, I get a lot of comments about looking good green, which feels like shade, low-key.

474.035 - 474.556 Drew Afualo

I don't know.

474.576 - 475.977 Anania

You look so much better like that.

Chapter 8: What fun facts about Anania's background are revealed?

476.159 - 480.708 Drew Afualo

Someone said better? They said better.

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480.728 - 492.169 Anania

Yeah, they're like, you should always look like that. We get a lot of backhanded compliments, especially as big, powerful women. The things they consider a compliment to me, mama.

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492.65 - 511.449 Drew Afualo

It's called the comment section. Somebody, I was talking, heated rivalry. I was talking about, I tweeted that the Hudson and Connor, they weren't gonna come on Gaydar because they are too busy. And then somebody was like, oh, I can't believe it's not their top priority. Like, this is gay, blah, blah, blah. They were like, come on, get on Gaydar, blah, blah, blah.

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511.73 - 514.814 Drew Afualo

Someone commented, when has Ananias ever been a top's priority?

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517.158 - 524.509 Anania

Right, okay. So that's one that makes me think for a bit. A hush fell over the room. I said, what the fuck? I'm like...

526.075 - 536.372 Unknown

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Fuck 50, what'd I do? If it wasn't funny, I'd block. You're right. If it wasn't funny, I'd be like, damn. You know what? That was rude. That's my rule of thumb, too. But I was like.

538.856 - 542.842 Anania

Oh, oh, oh. Oh.

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What?

543.98 - 544.761 Unknown

That can't be me.

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