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Ask Me Another

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.

Episodes

The Final Round

Series finale. Ophira and Jonathan look back on nine years of puzzles, word games and trivia by playing puzzles, word games and trivia. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Jan 28, 202249 min

Alfonso Ribeiro: Jokes About Butts And Mild Transgressions

Comedians Demi Adejuyigbe and Gabe Gundacker rise to the occasion in a game about bread. Alfonso Ribeiro ( AFV ) talks about the Carlton dance. Alex Moffat ( SNL ) and Jen Spyra learn about baby animals. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Jan 14, 202250 min

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. Plus, comedians Shalewa Sharpe and Gastor Almonte (The War Report podcast) listen to sped-up versions of slow jams and play a hilarious round of "Bridgerton character, sweatpants brand or potato?" Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/...

Jan 07, 202250 min

Chelsea Handler & Sharon Salzberg: Guided Meditation

Sharon Salzberg leads a guided meditation. Chelsea Handler talks about her special, 'Evolution.' Plus, comedians Dewayne Perkins, Aasia LaShay Bullock, Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte play games. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Dec 31, 202150 min

Richard Kind & Nnamdi Asomugha: Seriously, Ask Me Another

Hilarious actor Richard Kind takes on Comedy Cloud founder Ray Ellin. NFL player-turned-actor Nnamdi Asomugha geeks out about holiday films. Ashley Nicole Black and Chelsea Devantez are back for more! Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Dec 17, 202150 min

We Ship It

RuPaul's Drag Race alum and Call Me Mother co-host Peppermint talks about the origins of her name, and why it was a bit of "a dumb mistake" to choose "Peppermint." Plus, Couples Therapy hosts Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman attend Masterclasses taught by animals, and Miracle Workers stars Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni play a game about some smokin' hot topics— that's 9.9 trillion degrees hot, baby. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Polic...

Dec 10, 202150 min

Nice Guys: Ted Lasso & Bob Ross

Ted Lasso stars play a film score themed music parody. Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone ( Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed ) do a quiz about tests. Lingthusiasm hosts play an emoji speed round. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Dec 03, 202150 min

Molecular Gastrivia

Rev up those fryers, it's the Ask Me Another Food Show! The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain ( Nadiya's Time to Eat , Nadiya Bakes ) dishes about baking for the Queen and digs up the truth in a game about plant family trees. Plus, James Beard Award-winning chef Gabrielle Hamilton ( Blood, Bones and Butter, Prune) & Top Chef alum and National Arts Club head chef Ashley Merriman play a saucy music parody game, and Food Network hosts and judges Carla Hall (​​ Carla and the Christmas Cor...

Nov 26, 202150 min

Padma Lakshmi: Taste The Nation, From Your Couch

Padma Lakshmi talks about her series Taste The Nation. Jenny Hagel, Amber Ruffin, Margo Price, and Jeremy Ivey play games about long things and events in history set to the tune of Billy Joel songs. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Nov 19, 202150 min

Yo-Yo Ma: Civic Duty

Yo-Yo Ma ( Beginner's Mind on Audible) talks pandemic performance, chefs Sohla El-Waylly and Stella Parks play "Food Jazz," Timothy Simons ( Veep, The Pole ) & Teddy Bressman hear "bald metal." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Nov 12, 202150 min

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

Eddie Huang talks directing his first film, Boogie . Keith and Kenny Lucas ( Judas and the Black Messiah ) discuss pitching movies. Emily Heller and Emmy Blotnick meet guest host Oak-phira Eisen-birch. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Nov 05, 202150 min

Ken Jeong: Mask Me Another

Ken Jeong chats about The Masked Dancer . Actors Skylar Astin and John Clarence Stewart hear unconventional instruments. Comedians Cameron Esposito and Beth Stelling cruise through a game about maps. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Oct 29, 202150 min

Michelle Buteau: 'The Circle' And Van Halen

Michelle Buteau chats season 2 of Netflix's The Circle. You're Wrong About 's Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes meet a mysterious whale. Love Fraud' s Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady play, is it a Lizard? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Oct 22, 202150 min

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

Giancarlo Esposito talks Gus Fring and Baby Yoda. Plus, games with Hacks creators Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs, and Tanya Morgan's Donwill & Bethany Van Delft (Parentalogic). Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Oct 15, 202150 min

Marc Maron & Aimee Mann: End Times Fun

Marc Maron talks about his comedy special, End Times Fun . Aimee Mann and Michael Penn face off, and cartoonist Emily Flake takes on husband John Pastore. This episode originally aired April 10, 2020. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Oct 01, 202150 min

The Final Round

Series finale. Ophira and Jonathan look back on nine years of puzzles, word games and trivia by playing puzzles, word games and trivia. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Sep 24, 202151 min

The Penultimate Puzzles

This show is packed with returning friends of AMA! Comedians Aparna Nancherla and Joyelle Nicole Johnson are subjected to Kidz Bop, Welcome to Night Vale 's Cecil Baldwin and musician Julian Velard decipher poorly-researched podcast ads, and Wandavision song writers Robert and Kristen Anderson Lopez show off their theme classic TV theme song knowledge. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Sep 17, 202151 min

Sonia Manzano: These Are The Muppets In Your Neighborhood

This week it's a classic episode from 2015. Actor Sonia Manzano talks about retiring from her role as Maria on Sesame Street after 44 years. Then, she and her TV husband Luis, played by actor Emilio Delgado, think back on all the Muppets they've encountered in their neighborhood. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Sep 10, 202150 min

William Jackson Harper: Getting To The Good Place

William Jackson Harper shares where he was physically and emotionally when cast on The Good Place . Plus, ethics columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah. This episode originally aired on March 16, 2018. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Sep 03, 202150 min

Molecular Gastrivia

Guests: Nadiya Hussain; Gabrielle Hamilton & Ashley Merriman; Carla Hall & Nancy Fuller Rev up those fryers , it's the Ask Me Another Food Show! The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain ( Nadiya's Time to Eat , Nadiya Bakes ) dishes about baking for the Queen and digs up the truth in a game about plant family trees. Plus, James Beard Award-winning chef Gabrielle Hamilton ( Blood, Bones and Butter , Prune ) & Top Chef alum and National Arts Club head chef Ashley Merriman play a saucy musi...

Aug 27, 202150 min

Javier Muñoz And David Harbour: The World Turned Upside Down

From the Broadway musical Hamilton , Javier Muñoz leads a game about presidential pets. And from the Netflix series Stranger Things , actor David Harbour is challenged to a game about Shakespeare with a Dungeons & Dragons twist. This episode originally aired on October 14, 2016. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Aug 20, 202150 min

Nice Guys: Ted Lasso & Bob Ross

Guests: Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone; Brett Goldstein & Hannah Waddingham; Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne Ted Lasso 's Brett Goldstein & Hannah Waddingham score points in a game about scores. Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone take a 180 from making R-rated comedy to producing a Bob Ross documentary . Lingthusiasm hosts Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne explain who's in charge of making new emoji. Speaking of which... hey, Unicode Consortium! Where's our fact bag emoji? Learn more about sponsor...

Aug 13, 202150 min

Sir Patrick Stewart: Brush Up Your Shakespeare

In this encore episode from 2015, Sir Patrick Stewart talks about life in Brooklyn, becoming a knight, and his deep knowledge of all things Shakespeare. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Aug 06, 202153 min

Awkwafina And Sasha Velour: New York City Queens

Two queens take the stage! From Raya and the Last Dragon and Crazy Rich Asians , Awkwafina recommends the best public restrooms in New York City. And RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour talks about the incredible final lip sync that snatched her the crown. This episode originally aired August 17, 2018. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Jul 30, 202150 min

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 & Gastor Almonte, hosts of The War Report podcast, take on a music parody that's delicious and definitely not nutritious. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Jul 23, 202150 min

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 alum and Call Me Mother co-host Peppermint talks about the origins of her name, and why it was a bit of "a dumb mistake" to choose "Peppermint." Plus, Couples Therapy hosts Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman attend Masterclas...

Jul 16, 202150 min

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, and how she and her sister annoyed her brother by speaking in gibberish. Quinta Brunson ( She Memes Well ) and Taylor Garron ( As of Yet ) put their middle school science class knowledge to the test in a game about the periodic table. Learn more about sponsor me...

Jul 09, 202150 min

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 Edebiri and comedian Olivia Craighead tackle animal kingdom quandaries. This episode originally aired December 4, 2020. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Jul 02, 202152 min

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 a game about Star Trek: The Next Generation . Everything you love about this show is well-represented. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...

Jun 25, 202150 min