Wits™ Returns in 2012

Get information about our upcoming season

We're planning a big season with guests like Andy Richter, Paul F. Tompkins, Fred Willard, Tim Meadows, Wyatt Cenac, Reggie Watts, Aimee Mann... and more! Follow John Moe on Twitter @johnmoe and/or sign up using this form to be one of the first to learn about the full season dates and line-up!

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Note: Wits™ tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Feb. 14.

What is Wits™?

Twitter is a huge part of the show. When host @johnmoe announced the 2011 season last year, we captured some of the responses. Get a feel for what the show is all about:

Thank you for a wonderful season of Wits™!

Host John Moe and producer Larissa Anderson reflected on some of the amazing moments from the 2011 season.

The Neil Gaiman/Josh Ritter show was responsible for a video that has gone turbo viral on the internet. We were joined by phone by Mythbusters host Adam Savage who performed a cover of the disco classic "I Will Survive" in the voice of Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Hard to imagine? You bet. So watch the video. - John Moe

Rosanne Cash just killed at Wits™. She played "Seven Year Ache" just ahead of the song's 30th anniversary of hitting number one on Billboard's country album chart with John Munson, Joe Savage, Steve Roehm and Janey Winterbauer. It's a song that Rosanne's friend Sandra Bernhard said she played over and over in her gold Acura back in Los Angeles. Bernhard said it was just "the right song." Still is. - Larissa Anderson

There were so many amazing moments in this past season of Wits, it's pretty hard to narrow a list. I'll always remember our Dungeons & Pattons game during the Patton Oswalt/Grant Lee Phillips show. It was so thoroughly nerdy on so many levels and delighted Patton immeasurably, and when he's delighted, we all are. - John Moe

At the Chuck Klosterman/Craig Finn show, Craig debuted three brand new songs for our audience. One of them, Western Pier, is just haunting. It's a great example, from a Minnesota native and one of my favorite singers in the world, of how live music can fill a theater and a radio and an entire internet with tremendous beauty. - John Moe

Explore the archived pages for even more video and extras!

2011 Guests Archive

Archive! Patton Oswalt

with Grant Lee Phillips and Paul F. Tompkins
and Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as the Box Dwellers
For bios, video, audio, photographs and Twitter capture visit the archive page of the Patton Oswalt program.

Archive! Chuck Klosterman

with Craig Finn, Maria Bamford, and Nikki Sixx
and Bill Corbett and Joseph Scrimshaw as the Box Dwellers
For bios, video, audio, photographs and Twitter capture visit the archive page of the Chuck Klosterman program.

Archive! Sandra Bernhard

with Rosanne Cash and Eugene Mirman
and Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as the Box Dwellers
For bios, video, audio, photographs and Twitter capture visit the archive page of the Sandra Bernhard program.

Archive! Neil Gaiman

with Josh Ritter, Adam Savage, and Wil Wheaton
and Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as the Box Dwellers
For bios, video, audio, photographs and Twitter capture visit the archive page of the Neil Gaiman program.

Archive! Special Program: John Hodgman

with John Darnielle
and Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as the Box Dwellers
For bios, video, audio, photographs and Twitter capture visit the archive page of the John Hodgman program.

2010 Archive

Listen to each show audio and watch videos of the Wits™ 2010 archive shows!

Host and Musical Director

John Moe spends his days as host of Marketplace Tech Report. Author of "Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky," Moe has also written humor pieces for McSweeney's and the New York Times Magazine. In its top 25 Best Twitter Users of 2010, Paste Magazine put John in at #7 - that's below Kanye West, above Steve Martin.

John Munson, wrote, sang and played in 90's cult favorites Trip Shakespeare as well as the multi-platinum selling hit-makers, Semisonic. His current projects include founding and playing bass with jazzy revisionists (and hosts of the wildly successful annual Holiday Show at The Fitzgerald!), The New Standards, and his latest rock group, The Twilight Hours. He's both funny and a snappy dresser.