58: Audience Choice Show 2014
This week on Wits, a special audience choice episode. We asked listeners to tell us what segments they loved on Wits, and they picked their...
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Wits was a weekly national public radio broadcast produced and distributed by American Public Media. As of September 2015, the broadcast ended. The stage shows that provided material for the...
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20 of 97 episodes69: Music Wits
This week’s episode features some of our favorite musical moments on Wits, including performances from Har Mar Superstar, Thao Nguyen, Marth...
47: Paul F. Tompkins, Keegan-Michael Key, Patton Oswalt, Ellie Kemper and The Both (Part Two)
This week's show was recorded at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles. With the help of Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Keegan-Michael Key,...
22: Kristen Schaal with Rufus Wainwright
In this week's episode, comedian and actress Kristen Schaal appears as a jaded hamster and a cop who's just had her first ever cup of coffee...
28: Hannibal Buress with Open Mike Eagle
On this week's episode of Wits, top stand-up comedian, and 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live veteran, Hannibal Buress tells about the made-up...
60: Colin Hanks with Father John Misty (Part One)
On this week’s show, Emmy-nominated actor Colin Hanks tries to get kids to believe that math is cool (it does not go well), singer/songwrite...
14: Paul F. Tompkins with Aimee Mann
This week's show features comedian and actor Paul F. Tompkins (also host of the Pod F. Tompkast) with the Oscar and Grammy-nominated singer-...
37: Paul F. Tompkins with Rhett Miller
On this week’s episode, comedian Paul F. Tompkins tries to overcome a lifetime of servile conditioning as Mark, a newly liberated denizen of...
97: Fred Willard with Shinyribs and Carrie Rodriguez (Part Two)
This week’s show comes to you from the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas with legendary comedic actor Fred Willard. Plus, songs from belove...
96: Danny Pudi with Har Mar Superstar (Part Two)
This week on Wits, the hilarious actor Danny Pudi of TV’s Community and singer Har Mar Superstar. Star Wars gets all Ken Burns with tearful...
95: Cristela Alonzo with Ryan Bingham (Part Two)
On this week’s Wits, comedian Cristela Alonzo details the completely unique brand of nerditude she established in college, Oscar-winning sin...
94: Extra: Andy Daly, Monopoly, and the Wits Mailbag
On the Wits podcast this week, we talk with comedian and actor Andy Daly about his Comedy Central show Review – season 2 debuts in late July...
93: Paul Scheer with Neko Case (Part Two)
On this week’s Wits, comedian, actor, and podcaster Paul Scheer tells us about the time he burned down a dude ranch, Neko Case remembers whe...
92: Wits Extra: Conversation Parade Preview
On this first episode of Conversation Parade, hosts John Moe and Open Mike Eagle explore the relationship between Finn the Human and Jake th...
91: George Takei with Serengeti (Part Two)
On this week’s Wits, Star Trek actor George Takei tells us what event made him decide to come out as a gay man after decades in the closet....
90: Cary Elwes with Kat Edmonson
On this week’s Wits, actor and author Cary Elwes. He’s perhaps best known for his role as the dashing hero Westly in the movie The Princess...
89: Eric Stonestreet with Brandi Carlile (Part Two)
This week on Wits, Emmy-winning actor Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family tries to convince us all that clowns aren’t creepy, and we have a...
88: Fred Willard with Shinyribs and Carrie Rodriguez
This week, Wits is at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas with one of the all-time greats of comedy, actor Fred Willard. He shares some b...
87: Extra: Cameron Esposito and the Wits Mailbag
On this week’s podcast, we talk with Cameron Esposito. She's been on Conan, Maron, @midnight ... she's the voice of Carroll the cloud person...
86: Danny Pudi with Har Mar Superstar
On this week’s Wits, actor Danny Pudi of the beloved sitcom Community tells us what it was like to work with Chevy Chase, singer Har Mar Sup...