Go off-script, from improvised sci-fi drama to freewheeling conversations with Chris Gethard VIDEO
You never know what’s going to happen next with these improv comedy podcasts that take the form of musicals, short sketches, and long-form conversations and performances. A team of planetary ambassadors take to space for diplomatic relations in the Zyxx Quadrant of the Tremillion Sector in this new improvised science fiction drama. Host Chris Gethard can’t hang up, and he (and we) will never know who is on the other end of the phone line during their hour-long call. As the veil of anonymity is drawn, the conversations that ensue are nothing short of honest, insightful and touching. Improvisors Jesse Rogers and Josh Lindgren pluck one word from Twitter, then it’s off on a jaunt of free association in weekly short-form installments. It’s a McElroy family affair: Justin, Travis, and Griffin and their dad embark on a 70-episode arc of one epic D&D campaign. Pressing interpersonal issues get resolved with the expert judgement of John Hodgman. Reporting live from the magical land of Foon, Arnie Niekamp brings you interviews with the wizards, monsters and adventurers he’s met while traveling in the secret portal located behind a Burger King.
