# NPR's quiz and comedy show "Ask Me Another" ending in September **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** radio-podcast\ **Created:** [July 11, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235 "2021-07-11T20:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/1 "2021-07-11T20:05:23Z")
I know this show never got the love that “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” (which precedes AMA on Saturdays here) gets but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Ophira Eisenberg is a great host and quite funny but I am an equal fan of Jonathan Coulton. He’s also very funny and quick witted as well as being an excellent guitarist with a talent for writing and singing funny and clever lyrics to the tune of well known pop songs as clues to the quizzes. They are not quitting, NPR is ending it. Sadly this probably means that my local NPR station will be replacing it with cheaper (and lamer) local programming. That seems to be the trend. Anyway…I will miss it . > **[The Final Round](https://www.npr.org/programs/ask-me-another/)** > > Series finale. Ophira and Jonathan look back on nine years of puzzles, word games and trivia by playing puzzles, word games and trivia. > **[Ophira Eisenberg](https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/)** > > Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian and writer. She hosts NPR’s nationally syndicated comedy trivia show Ask Me Another. Her comedy special, Inside Joke can be found on Amazon and iTunes,... [https://www.jonathancoulton.com/](https://www.jonathancoulton.com/) Podcast > **[Ask Me Another](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510299/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... ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/2 "2021-07-11T20:08:52Z")
I think I’m mixing this one up with another show that had already ended. Before this, wasn’t there a really laid back sounding host who had another quiz-type show? Obviously not Wait, Wait, but another show that came on the same day. I didn’t realize Ask Me Another had continued. I kind of lost touch after I moved to listening to everything like a podcast instead of live on air. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/3 "2021-07-11T20:14:26Z")
Are you thinking of Whad’ya know? with Michael Feldman? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/4 "2021-07-11T20:17:03Z")
There’s also _Says You!_, which I quite like. I’ve been to a few tapings, and you could hear me yell out an answer in one of them. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/5 "2021-07-11T21:10:46Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Are you thinking of Whad’ya know? with Michael Feldman? Not much. You? Loved it for the same reason I loved Fargo: people didn’t talk funny, and knew the correct response . ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/6 "2021-07-11T21:28:34Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Are you thinking of Whad’ya know? with Michael Feldman? Yes, and it has apparently also continued but not on the radio? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/7 "2021-07-12T00:14:44Z")
I’m a fan of all three mentioned here, as well as “My Word” from the BBC. Sad the world doesn’t better appreciate learning things. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/8 "2021-07-12T11:17:11Z")
I once had a brief (pleasant) back-and-forth with Ophira E on Twitter. I’d asked if anyone had actually written a piece called “Hot Heel Blues”, which they hadn’t (not sure if anyone subsequently has, although she said she’d put Julian Velard on it). I can’t remember the rest of the conversation other than me making a “[thing I can’t remember] is the name of my one-woman show in Canada” joke; it was a long time ago. Anyway, it was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/9 "2021-07-12T11:35:25Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Are you thinking of Whad’ya know? with Michael Feldman? > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes, and it has apparently also continued but not on the radio? OK - I’ll bite, where is it available now? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/10 "2021-07-12T14:08:39Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > OK I’ll bite, where is it available now? [I think this is it?](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whadya-know-podcast/id1164743623) ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/11 "2021-07-12T16:55:40Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/12 "2021-07-12T17:14:52Z")
Covid wasn’t kind to AMA. I think they really tried to revamp over the past year of quarantine but it turned into a celebrity interview show with trivia breaks (with celebrities kind of failing at pub trivia) and away from a pub trivia show with celebrity interview breaks. And that wasn’t as fun for me even though it was obvious why they did it. I used to listen to the podcast every week. I don’t anymore. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There’s also _Says You!_ , which I quite like. I’ve been to a few tapings, and you could hear me yell out an answer in one of them. Says You drives me nuts. I feel like there’s a good show in there trying to get out, but sadly it’s stuck to its current format with some kind of ok quizzes, a few frequent panel guests that are nowhere near as funny as they think they are and are allowed to go on laughing at their own unfunny jokes for way too long, and the audience submitted entries that are invariably written by people who don’t really understand quizzes so they’re stupid and unbalanced and don’t have any progression and often break their own themes. (Maybe that’s the joke?) I want to like Says You. It’s exactly the kind of thing I should like. But it needs to be ripped apart and redone from the ground up. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/13 "2021-07-12T18:11:39Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > I want to like Says You. It’s exactly the kind of thing I should like. But it needs to be ripped apart and redone from the ground up. Agree. It feels like what you’d get if you recorded me and my friends playing trivia/word games. Unfortunately, we are never as funny as we think we are. I wouldn’t spend an hour listening to me. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/14 "2021-07-12T18:17:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’d asked if anyone had actually written a piece called “Hot Heel Blues” Hey, my name anagrams to Wet Tidal Wham! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-quiz-and-comedy-show-ask-me-another-ending-in-september/946235/15 "2021-07-12T18:23:50Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Says You drives me nuts. I feel like there’s a good show in there trying to get out, but sadly it’s stuck to its current format with some kind of ok quizzes, a few frequent panel guests that are nowhere near as funny as they think they are and are allowed to go on laughing at their own unfunny jokes for way too long, and the audience submitted entries that are invariably written by people who don’t really understand quizzes so they’re stupid and unbalanced and don’t have any progression and often break their own themes. (Maybe that’s the joke?) I think _Says You!_ is meant to be in the mold of _What’s My Line_ or _QI_; the quiz is just an excuse to get a bunch of clever people together and give them things to make jokes about. I still remember a round called “common threads” where the question was “banjo, bloodsucker, and Bartok” and Tony said "those are my attorneys. I laughed. I sent in some questions many years ago, but none of them got used. My trivia questions tend to be way too difficult. Maybe it could use a revamp, though. It hasn’t been quite the same since the original host, Richard Sher, passed away a few years ago. I got to meet him a couple times. I’d still take Arnie for my pub trivia team any day, and I have a not insignificant crush on Carolyn.