Samantha Bee Presents: WITS END

DOORS 6:30PM | SHOW 7:30PM

SMASH HIT COMEDY STREAMER THE GEORGE LUCAS TALK SHOW’S CONNOR RATLIFF AND GRIFFIN NEWMAN BATTLE TRIVIA ON SAMANTHA BEE’S WITS END, WITH SPECIAL GUEST KENICE MOBLEY - MARCH 17TH @ LITTLEFIELD BROOKLYN!

“Be sure to come up with a clever team name—some .. favorites include Jodie Foster's Privacy, Fartin' Scorsese, Air Will Be Bud and Nicholas Cage Fighters.” GOTHAMIST

WITS END is a live comedy game show, Hosted by Adam Kesner and presented by Samantha Bee, where two celebrity comedians lovingly compete in a game ofTrivia. Every show is written to reflect the celebrity contestants' specific interests and areas of expertise, and contestants are given trivia experts to have on their teams - you'll never be in the dark, and you'll be sure to have a great time.

Yes, it's trivia, but with some crazy anarchic elements - think Jeopardy, if it was run by Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

WITS END is created and hosted by Adam Kesner, who has a 20 year career as a Trivia host, and owns and operates TRIVIAL DISPUTE which provides his unique blend of comedy and trivia to bars in NYC as well as events around the country. This show is his dream.

THE GEORGE LUCAS TALK SHOW is a Variety Spoof Show that began at the UCB Theatre over a decade ago -- created by Connor Ratliff, who hosts the show as "Retired Filmmaker George Lucas" and is joined by his talk show sidekick, "Watto," played by Griffin Newman. It evolved from a midnight cult comedy show to a pandemic livestream to now a touring multi-format phenomenon that tours wherever they are invited, from L.A. to London to Austin and beyond.

Connor Ratliff is a New York-based actor/comedian and creator of the award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast, Dead Eyes. His film & TV credits include The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Ghosts, Bob's Burgers, The Great North, Jellystone, Étoile, Search Party, Orange Is The New Black, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, The Daily Show, Don't Think Twice, Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game, and the Mean Girls movie musical.

Griffin Newman is known for starring as Arthur Everest in the Amazon Studios television series The Tick, as the voice of Orko in the Netflix animated series Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021, 2024), cohosting the film podcast Blank Check with Griffin & David alongside critic David Sims,and for acting as cohost and sidekick Watto on The George Lucas Talk Show. He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of box office charts and his affection for movie merch.

Kenice Mobley is a standup comedian and filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Kenice made her late night debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She’s been featured as one of Vulture’s Comedians You Should and WiIll Know, performed at the Netflix is A Joke Festival and premiered her solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kenice worked on the BET Awards, By Us For Us (Color of Change), and the Creators Program at Comedy Central. She hosted Complexify on ViceNews, the Love About Town podcast, and Make Yourself Cry.

Her debut album Follow Up Question is available now through Blonde Medicine.

WITS END past guests include David Cross, Eugene Mirman, Wyatt Cenac, Samantha Bee, John Hodgman, Josh Gondelman, Phoebe Robinson, Jon Glaser, H. Jon Benjamin, Dylan Adler, Sam Morrison and Martin Urbano + many more

"I didn't realize this was a career," said ADAM KESNER - Wall Street Journal

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Hosted by:

Adam Kesner is the Minister of Information at Wit’s End. Under the name Trivial Dispute, he’s spent the past 15 years writing and hosting the most raucous, high energy trivia nights in NYC, as well as corporate workshops, team-building events, and private events for clients like Google, American Express, Tommy Hilfiger, A24, Magnolia Films, and more. He’s hosted games everywhere from bars to breweries to Brooklyn block parties to under the Blue Whale in the Museum of Natural History. For the past 5 years, he’s also hosted a weekly streaming Trivia Game Show on Twitch, with hundreds of teams playing from around the world.

Presented by:

Legendary Comedian and host Samantha Bee received global recognition from the success of her weekly comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which was nominated for 70 awards and ran for seven seasons on TBS. Bee has personally been nominated for 18 Emmy awards, winning for both writing and executive producing the longest running satirical late-night show hosted by a woman.

Directed by:

Ryan Cunningham is a queer writer/director and Emmy & Peabody award-winning producer in film, television, and theater. Directing credits:

Sugar Daddy’s extended, award-nominated off-Broadway run (SoHo Playhouse, SoHo Theatre London), Samantha Bee presents Wits End

(NYCF, SXSW), Alan Cumming’s Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! (Showtime),

Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning, (Amazon), Expecting Amy (HBO Max), and the upcoming award-winning feature Lone Wolves. TV Producing credits include Broad City (Comedy Central), Search Party

(TBS/HBO Max), Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central), The Last O.G. (TBS) & Ziwe

(Showtime). Ryan is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and a Trustee on RISD’s Board.

Produced by:

Olivia Wingate’s credits in TV include: MARON (IFC) which ran for four seasons, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT’S MISFITS & MONSTERS (Tru TV), and JOE MANDE’S AWARD WINNING STANDUP SPECIAL (Netflix), WHY SHIT SO CRAZY (Netflix), JOHN HODGMAN’S RAGNAROK (Netflix), WYATT CENAC’S BROOKLYN (Netflix) and AN EVENING OF COMEDY IN AN FAKE UNDERGROUND LABORATORY (Comedy Central). In film, Olivia produced the documentary feature IT STARTED AS A JOKE which premiered at SXSW 2019, and premiered her narrative feature WE STRANGERS at SXSW 2024. Upcoming projects include features by BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT, STEPHEN BELBER and SAMUEL D HUNTER.

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