Ask Me Another

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Packed with trivia, comedy and celebrity guests, Ask Me Another is like an amusement park for your brain. Host Ophira Eisenberg and musician Jonathan Coulton take brilliant contestants on a roller coaster that'll make you laugh and scream (out the answers)—and barely anyone throws up in a trash can.

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07.23.2021

Guests: Kenice Mobley & Rohan Padhye; Shalewa Sharpe & Gastor Almonte It's a friendtestants reunion! Kenice Mobley & Rohan Padhye, hosts of the podcast Love About Town, return to play a math game about pop culture numbers. Shalewa Sharpe & ...

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07.23.2021 MathNuggets Guests: Kenice Mobley & Rohan Padhye; Shalewa Sharpe & Gastor Almonte It's a friendtestants reunion! Kenice Mobley & Rohan Padhye, hosts of the podcast Love About Town, return to play a math game about pop culture numbers. Shalewa Sharpe & ...
07.16.2021 We Ship It Guests: Peppermint; Miracle Workers' Karan Soni & Geraldine Viswanathan; Naomi Ekperigin & Andy Beckerman. Ask Me Another returns to The Bell House for our final taping. Pre-sale tickets are available at nprpresents.org. Use the promo code: ASKMEANOTHER. RuPaul's Drag Race ...
07.09.2021 Fenway Bark And The Litter Box Disco Comedians Margaret Cho and Iliza Shlesinger from Good on Paper board a music parody time machine to several centuries' '70s. In Treatment and Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba says what she learned about therapy by playing a therapist, ...
07.02.2021 Rosie Perez, Fortune Feimster & Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri: Fight And Flight Rosie Perez talks about recording PSAs for the New York City Subway, meeting Muhammad Ali, and her role in HBO Max's The Flight Attendant. Plus, Fortune Feimster and Jillian Bell play a game about delicious musicians, and Big Mouth's Ayo ...
06.25.2021 Rita Dove: Set Phasers To Poem As Ask Me Another prepares for its final run of new episodes, enjoy this week's encore of a past favorite, taped at the Virginia Arts Festival. The guest is U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. She improvises a poem. She plays ...
06.18.2021 Better Call Saul & The Mandalorian's Giancarlo Esposito; Hacks Better Call Saul and The Mandalorian's Giancarlo Esposito talks Baby Yoda. Plus, games with duos Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs of HBO Max's Hacks; Tanya Morgan's Donwill & Bethany Van Delft (Parentalogic)
06.11.2021 Sara Bareilles, American Ninja Warrior & Rugrats Grammy-winning artist Sara Bareilles talks about how the musical Waitress changed her life and the harrowing experience of over-dressing to sing the national anthem at a Dodgers game. Then, the self-professed Golden Girls superfan puts it all on the line ...
06.04.2021 Sarah Silverman, Sarah Paulson, Rickey Thompson & Denzel Dion: Meme Machines Comedian Sarah Silverman (Wreck-It Ralph, School of Rock) plays a game about Law & Order and shares some strong opinions about Kit-Kats. Actor Sarah Paulson (Ratched, Run, American Horror Story) talks about running from clowns, and plays an R&B; music ...
05.28.2021 Andrew Rannells: The Truth About Cats And Dogs Actor Andrew Rannells looks back on his time as Elder Price in the Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon. Then, he plays a game about HGTV lingo. From the Hulu series Shrill, Lolly Adefope and E.R. Fightmaster play "Dolly Parton, ...
05.21.2021 Ryan O'Connell: The Real Housewives And The Olsen Twins Ryan O'Connell, creator and star of the Netflix series, Special, talks about the challenges of writing about his cerebral palsy for the first time. Then he plays a game that combines geography, the Olsen twins, and Bravo's, The Real Housewives. ...
05.14.2021 Sean Hayes & Ed Helms: Podcast No. 9 Will & Grace's Sean Hayes talks about his pandemic puppy, his new medical podcast HypocondriActor, and his early days working as a piano player for a dinner theatre. Then, he's challenged to two games based on his obsession with medical ...
05.07.2021 Rachel Bloom: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sane Current Guest Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom talks about her book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are. Plus, Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Karen Chee and illustrator Jonny Sun decipher kids' readings of song lyrics, and Orange is the ...
04.30.2021 Maria Bamford & Richard Kind: Yogurt Is Gold, Baby Rutherford Falls' co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas talks about Native American representation in her new sitcom, and explains what "bank plants" are. Maria Bamford & Richard Kind (Everything's Gonna Be Okay) learn about space cheese. Mary Holland and Maureen Bharoocha (Golden ...
04.23.2021 RZA & Busy Philipps & 'Woke' Creator Keith Knight & A Lizard The Wu-Tang Clan's RZA talks with Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton about his latest movie Cut Throat City, and the process of writing a new song for Good Humor's ice cream trucks. He also plays a game where he answers ...
04.16.2021 Yo-Yo Ma: Civic Duty Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Words + Music) talks about performing at a COVID vaccination site. Then, he's quizzed on classical music pieces quoted in pop songs. Chefs Sohla El-Waylly and Stella Parks help Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton create dishes from ...
04.09.2021 Spring TV: 'Chad' & 'Home Economics!' Also, Reggie Watts Reggie Watts (The Late Late Show) and Kate Berlant (POOG podcast) determine whether wellness products are real or fake. From ABC's Home Economics, Sasheer Zamata and Caitlin McGee learn what "holding the candle" means. Plus, Saturday Night Live alum Nasim ...
04.02.2021 Alfonso Ribeiro: Jokes About Butts And Mild Transgressions Comedians Demi Adejuyigbe and Gabriel Gundacker rise to the top as they answer trivia questions about bread. Star of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and host of America's Funniest Home Videos Alfonso Ribeiro talks about his Broadway days, epic fails, ...
03.26.2021 Jane Levy and Alex Newell: Zoey's Extraordinary Zoom Call From the NBC series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, actors Jane Levy and Alex Newell talk about the musical numbers on the show. Actor and comedian Baron Vaughn, of Grace and Frankie, talks about his SyFy Wire series The Great Debate and ...
03.19.2021 HAIM: Women In Trivia Pt. III Sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana of HAIM, discuss their third album Women in Music Pt. III, and being in a band with their parents. Then, they try to identify songs based only on the drum parts. Plus, comedians Greta Titelman, ...
03.12.2021 Justin, Travis And Griffin McElroy: My Podcast, My Podcast And My Other Podcast Podcast hosts Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy (My Brother, My Brother and Me) talk about their book, Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You). Then they fight off trivia-spouting monsters in a game that tests their D&D; knowledge and d20 luck. ...
03.05.2021 Eddie Huang & 'Judas And The Black Messiah' Writers: Who Tells Your Story 'Fresh Off the Boat' author and restaurateur Eddie Huang discusses Taiwanese buns, basketball, and his directorial debut with the new film, 'Boogie'. Story writers of 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Keith and Kenny Lucas learn about mushrooms, hacker aliases, and ...
02.26.2021 Home Cooking With Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Superstore's Nico Santos Jesse Tyler Ferguson discusses Modern Family, his Michelin-star restaurant research for his one-man show Fully Committed and his new cookbook Food Between Friends. Then, he plays a game about his home state, New Mexico. Nico Santos (Superstore) and Zeke Smith ...
02.19.2021 Kyra Sedgwick: Empty Nest, Barn Full Of Goats Emmy Award-winning actor Kyra Sedgwick discusses her nearly four decade spanning career and her new comedy series, Call Your Mother. Then, she is challenged to a game about G.O.A.T. goats. Late Night with Seth Meyers writers Jeff Wright and Ben ...
02.12.2021 Bob the Drag Queen And Camila Mendes: We're Here... To Play Games! Bob the Drag Queen is back! The drag star, from RuPaul's Drag Race, tells us about his HBO docuseries We're Here and plays a grab-bag game that finally brings together Whoopi Goldberg, Kesha, and... clowns? Plus, Cristin Milioti and Camila ...
02.05.2021 Keegan-Michael Key: Key & Peele & Penguins & Shakespeare Actor Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele) reveals which animal is the funniest, geeks out about Shakespeare and discusses his Audible Original series The History of Sketch Comedy. Actors Matt Wilkas and Brendan Scannell (Bonding) hear fictional animals introduced as if ...
01.29.2021 Ken Jeong: Mask Me Another Actor Ken Jeong talks about his journey from studying medicine to becoming an actor and chats about his time as a panelist on The Masked Singer and its new spinoff, The Masked Dancer. Then, he plays a music parody game ...
01.27.2021 Leslie Jones Reinvigorates 'Supermarket Sweep' A special bonus feed drop from the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Our producer and game show geek Travis Larchuk joined NPR's daily culture show, Pop Culture Happy Hour host Stephen Thompson to talk about the 2020 reboot of ...
01.22.2021 Michelle Buteau: 'The Circle' And Van Halen Comedian Michelle Buteau talks about her new book Survival of the Thickest and her gig hosting the socially-distanced Netflix reality series The Circle. Then she plays a game about Dutch things set to the tunes of Van Halen. Plus, Showtime ...
01.15.2021 The Daily Show & What The Constitution Means To Me: Kids In America Daily Show correspondents Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta play a game about Elvis and The Lord of the Rings. Heidi Schreck talks about her play What the Constitution Means to Me and audits the cutest civics class ever, where kids ...
01.08.2021 Mayim Bialik & Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang: Our Best New Show Of 2021 Comedian Bowen Yang talks about his work as a cast member on the latest season of Saturday Night Live. Then he plays a quiz about imaginary TV/video game crossovers. Plus, Call Me Kat actors Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson compete ...
01.01.2021 Kal Penn And Dan Soder: The Tournament Of Champions It's Ask Me Another's first Tournament of Champions! Plus, actor Kal Penn talks about his comedy series Sunnyside and plays a wrestling quiz against comedian Dan Soder, who stars in the HBO comedy special Son of a Gary. This episode ...
12.25.2020 Adam Lambert And Tony Hawk: A California Christmas Two San Diego legends return for the holidays: American Idol's Adam Lambert joins skateboarder Tony Hawk for trivia at the Historic Balboa Theatre. This episode originally aired on December 21, 2018.
12.18.2020 Andrew Bird: Mandatory Fun Office Holiday Party Musician Andrew Bird shares how composer Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas inspired his new holiday album Hark! Oscar Award-winning composers Robert and Kristen Anderson Lopez try to spot fake holiday album titles. The NPR Christmas Carols (NPR ...
12.11.2020 Richard Kind & Nnamdi Asomugha: Seriously, Ask Me Another Actor and former Raiders NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha takes on Christmas movie trivia and talks about his new film Sylvie's Love. Hilarious actor Richard Kind gets super competitive with comedian Ray Ellin — founder of the digital standup company Comedy ...
12.04.2020 Rosie Perez, Fortune Feimster & Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri: Fight And Flight Rosie Perez talks about recording PSAs for the New York City Subway, meeting Muhammad Ali, and her role in HBO Max's The Flight Attendant. Plus, Fortune Feimster and Jillian Bell play a game about delicious musicians, and Big Mouth's Ayo ...
11.27.2020 Padma Lakshmi: Taste The Nation, From Your Couch Pack your knives and go turn on this episode! Top Chef and Taste the Nation's Padma Lakshmi talks to us about doing improv with her daughter and eating liver ganache. Then she helps Ophira and Jonathan create delicious dishes from ...
11.20.2020 Rachel Bloom: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sane Current Guest Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins us to talk about her new book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are. Plus, Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Karen Chee and illustrator Jonny Sun decipher kids' readings of song lyrics, ...
11.13.2020 Sarah Silverman, Sarah Paulson, Rickey Thompson & Denzel Dion: Influencers It's a Sarah-bonanza! Sarah Paulson talks about her new Hulu film Run, out 11/20, and her Netflix series Ratched. Sarah Silverman tells us how she came up with the name of her new podcast, The Sarah Silverman Podcast. Plus, Rickey ...
11.06.2020 Hong Chau & Nico Santos: Superheroes And Superstores Homecoming and Watchmen star Hong Chau plays a game about imaginary, misguided movie adaptations. Jordan Klepper (The Daily Show) and Jenny Hagel (Late Night With Seth Meyers) become amateur etymologists. Couple-testants Nico Santos (Superstore) and Zeke Smith (Survivor) try to ...
10.30.2020 Chelsea Handler & Sharon Salzberg: Guided Meditation It's a stressful time, so meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg begins the show with a guided meditation. Comedian Chelsea Handler talks about her new HBO Max special 'Evolution' and plays a game about actors and authors. Plus, comedians Dewayne Perkins and ...
10.23.2020 The Daily Show & What The Constitution Means To Me: Kids In America Daily Show correspondents Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta play a game about Elvis and The Lord of the Rings. Heidi Schreck talks about her play What the Constitution Means to Me and audits the cutest civics class ever, where kids ...
10.16.2020 D.J. "Shangela" Pierce: Quaran-Queen HALLELOO! We're Here and RuPaul's Drag Race star D.J. "Shangela" Pierce talks about 'quaranqueening.' Plus, comedians Aparna Nancherla, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Ashley Nicole Black, and Chelsea Devantez show off their smarts. This episode originally aired May 8, 2020.
10.09.2020 Zachary Quinto: Spock-tober Zachary Quinto, of Star Trek and Heroes, talks about the new Netflix film adaption of The Boys in the Band. Then he plays a game about famous pits and Pittsburghers. Plus, Welcome to Night Vale's Cecil Baldwin and The Neo-Futurists' ...
10.02.2020 TV Face-Off: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Superstore, Parks & Rec, Silicon Valley & Insecure This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Stephanie Beatriz and Superstore's Lauren Ash compete in a game about city nicknames. Middleditch & Schwartz performers Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz play a music parody game. Insecure's Natasha Rothwell tests ...
09.25.2020 Bobby Berk: Queer Eye For Home Design Queer Eye interior design expert Bobby Berk talks about learning from failure and tailoring designs for Queer Eye heroes. Then he plays an Animal Crossing-inspired game. Podcast hosts Sydnee Washington and Marie Faustin take a quiz on tall things. Comedians ...
09.18.2020 RZA & Busy Philipps & 'Woke' Creator Keith Knight & A Lizard The Wu-Tang Clan's RZA talks with Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton about his new movie Cut Throat City, and the process of writing a new song for Good Humor's ice cream trucks. He also plays a game where he answers ...
09.11.2020 Hilary Swank, Andy Richter & Yvette Nicole Brown: 'Away' We Go Hilary Swank joins us to discuss her new Netflix show Away, where she plays an astronaut on the first crewed mission to Mars. She'll also try to guess which luxury dog services are real in a game called "Swank Dogs." ...
09.04.2020 Marc Maron & Aimee Mann: The Option Of Mystique Stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer and actor Marc Maron talks about his Netflix special, End Times Fun, and takes a quiz about the 2019 movie, Cats (which he hasn't seen). Plus, two contestant couples go head-to-head: Musicians Aimee Mann and Michael ...
08.28.2020 QuaranTV: Ramy, Space Force And Lady Dynamite Actor and comedian Ramy Youssef chats about the new season of his Hulu series Ramy and working with Mahershala Ali — plus he gives some tips on persuading your dad to buy you Pokemon cards. Plus comedians Jimmy O. Yang, ...
08.21.2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Tony Shalhoub: 10 Things I Hate About Zoom Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins us to discuss wearing wigs and playing an old man alien trapped in a teenage body. Then he makes our dreams come true in a game about songs famously associated with movies. Plus, the Oscar goes to... ...

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MathNuggets

We Ship It

Fenway Bark And The Litter Box Disco

Rosie Perez, Fortune Feimster & Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri: Fight And Flight

Rita Dove: Set Phasers To Poem

Better Call Saul & The Mandalorian's Giancarlo Esposito; Hacks

Sara Bareilles, American Ninja Warrior & Rugrats

Sarah Silverman, Sarah Paulson, Rickey Thompson & Denzel Dion: Meme Machines

Andrew Rannells: The Truth About Cats And Dogs

Ryan O'Connell: The Real Housewives And The Olsen Twins

Sean Hayes & Ed Helms: Podcast No. 9

Rachel Bloom: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sane Current Guest

Maria Bamford & Richard Kind: Yogurt Is Gold, Baby

RZA & Busy Philipps & 'Woke' Creator Keith Knight & A Lizard

Yo-Yo Ma: Civic Duty

Spring TV: 'Chad' & 'Home Economics!' Also, Reggie Watts

Alfonso Ribeiro: Jokes About Butts And Mild Transgressions

Jane Levy and Alex Newell: Zoey's Extraordinary Zoom Call

HAIM: Women In Trivia Pt. III

Justin, Travis And Griffin McElroy: My Podcast, My Podcast And My Other Podcast

Eddie Huang & 'Judas And The Black Messiah' Writers: Who Tells Your Story

Home Cooking With Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Superstore's Nico Santos

Kyra Sedgwick: Empty Nest, Barn Full Of Goats

Bob the Drag Queen And Camila Mendes: We're Here... To Play Games!

Keegan-Michael Key: Key & Peele & Penguins & Shakespeare

Ken Jeong: Mask Me Another

Leslie Jones Reinvigorates 'Supermarket Sweep'

Michelle Buteau: 'The Circle' And Van Halen

The Daily Show & What The Constitution Means To Me: Kids In America

Mayim Bialik & Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang: Our Best New Show Of 2021

Kal Penn And Dan Soder: The Tournament Of Champions

Adam Lambert And Tony Hawk: A California Christmas

Andrew Bird: Mandatory Fun Office Holiday Party

Richard Kind & Nnamdi Asomugha: Seriously, Ask Me Another

Rosie Perez, Fortune Feimster & Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri: Fight And Flight

Padma Lakshmi: Taste The Nation, From Your Couch

Rachel Bloom: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sane Current Guest

Sarah Silverman, Sarah Paulson, Rickey Thompson & Denzel Dion: Influencers

Hong Chau & Nico Santos: Superheroes And Superstores

Chelsea Handler & Sharon Salzberg: Guided Meditation

The Daily Show & What The Constitution Means To Me: Kids In America

D.J. "Shangela" Pierce: Quaran-Queen

Zachary Quinto: Spock-tober

TV Face-Off: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Superstore, Parks & Rec, Silicon Valley & Insecure

Bobby Berk: Queer Eye For Home Design

RZA & Busy Philipps & 'Woke' Creator Keith Knight & A Lizard

Hilary Swank, Andy Richter & Yvette Nicole Brown: 'Away' We Go

Marc Maron & Aimee Mann: The Option Of Mystique

QuaranTV: Ramy, Space Force And Lady Dynamite

Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Tony Shalhoub: 10 Things I Hate About Zoom

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