Bobby Finger


Bobby Finger is an American journalist, podcaster, pop culture critic, businessman, and house music producer. He hosts the popular Who? Weekly podcast with his friend and fellow writer Lindsey Weber. Finger's bylines have appeared in New York Magazine, New York Times, Vanity Fair, and he is a regular contributing writer to the website Jezebel.

Career

Finger, originally from Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. He worked as a copywriter in new York City until transitioning to becoming a full time pop culture writer and podcaster in 2015.
Who? Weekly initially started in 2016 in as a newsletter that lovingly poked fun at the tabloid, Us Weekly. The podcast's fans are collectively called Wholigans. The Wholigan Facebook group has over 15,000 members and includes not only listeners but industry insiders who discuss celebrity sightings, news, rumors and deep dives. Notably, the search for "who-y" behavior has led the group to discover in 2017 that then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had an open account on mobile payment service Venmo.
Celebrity callers to Who's There have included Lena Dunham, Lea DeLaria, and Richard Curtis.
In 2019, Vuture named Who? Weekly one of the ten conversation podcasts that shaped the genre.