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An international cast uses their personal digital odyssey stories to inspire hilarious improvised scenes. You know... one moment, you're searching the origins of the French horn, and the next, you're on an obscure webpage obsessing over the migratory patterns of penguins. Time is of NO essence. Before you know it, hours have evaporated, and you're an armchair expert on everything from ancient Sumerian bread recipes to the biomechanics of dragonfly wings. Welcome to the world of endless clicks, where curiosity isn't just satisfied—it's insatiable. (The "Rabbit Hole" is a long-form improv format developed by Billy Merritt for The BIT Comedy Network.)

  1. Dinner Party 2 | Everybody's a Podcaster

    12/31/2025

    Dinner Party 2 | Everybody's a Podcaster

    Everybody's a Podcaster Feat. "Terry Gross" It's the end of the year, the end of the podcast, and the end of whatever was left in the fridge. Join us as the BIT Comedy Network wraps up 2025 with one final, chaotic, heartfelt, and slightly undercooked episode of Dinner Party. What's on the menu? 🎧 A "Podcast Party" hosted by the Double Ls (Luke & Laura), where microphones are hot and egos are hotter. 🐟 A shady fish-based gift from aquarium moguls Jim and Janet of "Something's Fishy." 🏛️ An unexpected guest: actual NPR royalty Terry Gross shows up, and things get even weirder. 🎮 Dean and Thea, the Bitcoin siblings, attempt to evangelize crypto in exchange for gas money and a meal. 🐠 A tragic culinary climax involving a 12-inc halibut, a mayor, and one very regrettable dinner choice. Unforgettable Highlights: 🥤 Mr. Sunshine: gift, friend, snack 🌍 Terry Gross discusses dried fish taxidermy. Seriously. 💋 Tense debates about fish hierarchy: are you a bottom feeder or a visionary? 🤔 Political intrigue, podcast sponsorships, and one potential fish conspiracy (cue new spinoff: Something Fishy: North Side Secrets) DIRECTOR/CREATOR:  Billy Merritt Editor/Producer: Hill Kane Guest-Starring: Luke Bovard + Yuehan Liu (The Double Ls - Luke and Laura) Brett Kohler (Luis, Roommate) Hill Kane + Jim Tripp (Janet + Jim, Something's Fishy proprietors) Flannery Wilson + Don Slovin ("Terry Gross" and her sidekick producer Don) Thea Marie Thorkildsen + Dean Aisles (Sibling Crypto Hacks) Featured Sponsors: 🔺 Butterball (for your poultry needs) 🔺 HomeGoods (pillows AND propaganda) 🔺 Something's Fishy Aquarium Supply 🔺 BitCoin Birthday Cards & Cult Merch Listen in and remember: 💔 Fish are friends...until they're the mayor. 🍽️ North side or south side, we all bleed chowder. 💬 And in improv, as in life: "Yes, and... please don't eat the guests." This is the final episode of the BIT Comedy Network for 2025. We'll see you in 2026 with more madness, more characters, and hopefully fewer fish-based tragedies. Apply to join the ensemble at bitcomedynetwork.com.

    41 min
  2. Dinner Party 1 | The Crystal Chair

    12/25/2025

    Dinner Party 1 | The Crystal Chair

    Billy and the BIT CREW players wish you the very merriest of Christmases, the happiest of Chanukahs, and a fantabulous and super-fun Holiday Season/New Year. As an homage to "holiday dinners." Billy insisted that we recreate that frenetic and sometimes awkward ritual with a special improv form called "Dinner Party." We even made a theme song. We hope you enjoy this special Christmas edition of Podcast Town. We are releasing a super, secret, double-dog-dared, New Year's bonus edition of DINNER PARTY at the stroke of Midnight on New Year's Eve. Listen to the full version of the Dinner Party Theme song! DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane CAST: Narrator/Director: Billy Merritt Hosts Ruby + Violet: Amber Bellsdale + Hill Kane Guests Brady + Greg: Konrad Andrew + Brent Kohler Semi-Dysfunctional Fam: Dad-Don Slovin; Mom-Terry Armstrong; and Football Bobby-Jim Tripp "Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network. MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B! Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing. Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    32 min
  3. rabbitHOLE 10 | Live from OSLO! - A Random rabbitHOLE

    12/13/2025

    rabbitHOLE 10 | Live from OSLO! - A Random rabbitHOLE

    Season Two Finale of rabbitHOLE - Live from OSLO!  - A Random rabbitHOLE OMG OMG! The BIT Comedy Network's first LIVE show was at the Oslo Impro Fest on October 24th. We have been performing together under the BIT marquee for about two years, but we had never met or performed live as a troupe.  Even with the wonky audio (it gets better after the introduction), we think you'll enjoy this RANDOM rabbitHOLE journey through rolling D20s, experimental medicine, the benefits of divorce and hot water, fruits with curative powers, and a costumed heist.  (We still don't know if Amber is a camel, in camo, OR a camel wearing camo ...) As always, rabbitHOLE is 100% unscripted. If you enjoy the show, do your part: 👉 Follow, rate, and share with your most unhinged friend. 🎙️ CREDITS Director/Creator: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane CAST (in alphabetical order) The OSLO FIVE: Amber Bellsdale Luke Bovard Hill Kane Yuehan Liu Thea Marie Thorkildsen Produced by: The BIT Comedy Network Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing Music: "Shark Bait" by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller (1959-2025 RIP Friend) 📍 Hosted on Libsyn.com 📧 Contact: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com ©2024–2025 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved "The BIT," "The BIT Comedy Network," and "rabbitHOLE" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.

    19 min
  4. MOVIE ! 9 | The Primrose Inn VII

    11/27/2025

    MOVIE ! 9 | The Primrose Inn VII

    Happy Thanksgiving from the BIT Comedy Network! We bring you the next installment in The Primrose in VII. Many years have passed and the Inn is spookier and more dastardly than ever. We don't have nipples in this episode, but there is a lot of other weird stuff. ENJOY! As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post. This was our season two finale. See ya next year! If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt CO-EDITORS/PRODUCERS: Hill Kane + Jim Tripp CAST: Dean Aisles Luke Bovard Margot Escott Yuehan Liu Don Slovin Jim Tripp Flannery Wilson Thea Marie Thorkildsen Musical compositions and sound effects are licensed from Pixabay.com (a very cool royalty-free resource). "Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network. Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing. Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt © 2024 - 2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    31 min
  5. rabbitHOLE 19 | Wordnesia

    11/13/2025

    rabbitHOLE 19 | Wordnesia

    Wordnesia | Frogs | Math Teacher President Ever stared at a word until it stopped being a word? That's where this week's rabbit hole begins—when Hillary's brain short‑circuits over the word speaker and takes a detour through psychology, frogs, and semantic satiation. 🐸💭 From there, the BIT crew spins a surreal chain of scenes featuring: Two frogs debating existence (and auditioning for a Budweiser commercial) A crappy math teacher turned football coach turned U.S. President Nine‑year‑old engineering prodigy designing roller coasters and performing surgery Captain  Mouse trying to make it big at Disneyland And a funeral so wild it probably shouldn't be this funny Somewhere between linguistic collapse and theme‑park chaos, we even manage to learn why you should always show your work—and never praise your principal in private. 💬 Favorite Quotes: 🧠 "A frog does not repeat. A frog resonates." – Actual comment from a frog fan forum (via Hill's monologue) 🧮 "Budget cuts is math, so if you get rid of the math teacher, maybe the budget works itself out." – Coach Brent, Bad Math Teacher & U.S. President 🎢 "He flew off that rollercoaster and did three sick flips. It was so f*cking cool." – A eulogy you'll never forget 🚫 APOLOGIES TO: Frogs, Budweiser, Disney, Mickey Mouse, math teachers, grammar purists, law‑school pedants, lovers of the subjunctive tense, roller‑coaster engineers, safety inspectors, the guy who IRL flew off the roller coaster, Captain Mouse and the entire Mouse family, adjunct professors, insurance, semantic satiation, and anyone who still believes words have meaning. rabbitHOLE is 100% unscripted and fueled by the BIT CREW's real-life internet spirals, nostalgic chaos, and shared trauma. If you enjoy the show, do your part: 👉 Follow, rate, and share with your most unhinged friend. 🎙️ CREDITS Director/Creator: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane CAST (in alphabetical order): Terry Armstrong, Amber Bellsdale, Luke Bovard, Hill Kane, Brent Kohler, Don Slovin, Thea Marie Thorkildsen, Jim Tripp, Flannery Wilson,    Produced by: The BIT Comedy Network Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing Music: "Shark Bait" by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller (1959-2025 RIP Friend) 📍 Hosted on Libsyn.com 📧 Contact: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com ©2024–2025 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt

    34 min
  6. Podcast Town 17 | North Caldwell, NJ

    10/31/2025

    Podcast Town 17 | North Caldwell, NJ

    North Caldwell, New Jersey - with Special Guest - Margot Escott Tiny town. Big secrets. One suspiciously spiritual traffic light. Birch beer, buried mafia lore, an abandoned sanitarium, and a Church of the Traffic Light that really leans into metaphysics — Margo Escott brings us back to North Caldwell, NJ, and Podcast Town builds a delightfully deranged local variety show around it. Expect tomato politics, a Sopranos-adjacent tour, electrocution "illuminators," and at least one tomato to the face. In this episdode: Host Billy Merritt interviews Margo about growing up in a town with no stores and no traffic lights — until suddenly there is one. The town's favorite podcast - "Tonight in North Caldwell," complete with call-ins, commercials (Tony Soprano Tours; Freddie's Funeral Home), and a fireman's picnic parade gone very, very sideways. Highlights include: the Overbrook Sanitarium ruins, Big Al's Maserati Tomato Farm and its overprotective daughter, the Church of the Traffic Light, and the surprise Tomato Queen pageant (chaos, chanting, and tomato splatter included). Standout lines (for the quote-tweet pile) "Praise all stoplights." "Traffic light be with you." "Who dat bitch?" Cast & Credits Host: Billy Merritt. Guest & town chronicler: Margo Escott. Full Podcast Town improv troupe — characters include Mildy/Lisa, Tim, Luke, Big Al, Tia (Traffic Light priest), and more. Heads up / Trigger note Contains playful references to mental-health institutions, prisons, and mock electrocution scenes (improv, not real). Listener discretion advised for anyone sensitive to those themes.\ Enjoy — and remember: if you're ever confused by a new traffic light, consult the parish. 🚦 Sponsors: Annual Firemen's Picnic, Church of the Traffic Light, Big Al Maserati's Tomato Farm, Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist and Child Illuminator, Tony Soprano Tour Guide Company, Freddie's Funeral Home. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane CAST: Luke Bovard: Host Luke - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast Hill Kane: Alison Maserati (Big Al's kid), one of Tim's kids Brent Kohler: Producer - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast Don Slovin: Big Al, caller, one of Tim's kids, Freddie Lisa Steckman: Host "Mildie" - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast, "Bianca" Thea Marie Thorkildsen: Priest of the Holy Traffic Light Church Flannery Wilson: Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist And special guest, Margot Escott as the real Tomato Queen. "Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network. MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B! Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing. Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    34 min
  7. MOVIE! 8 | The Primrose Inn III

    10/31/2025

    MOVIE! 8 | The Primrose Inn III

    Just in time for Halloween! A BIT Comedy Network mini-feature film with all the fixings of a Halloween classic. A haunted inn, storms, knitting/crocheting, tea, bad weather, and of course...nipples! As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post. If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt EDITOR/PRODUCER: Hill Kane GUEST EDITOR: Jim Tripp CAST: Dean Aisles Konrad Andrew Terry Armstrong Luke Bovard Margot Escott Brent Kohler Don Slovin Jim Tripp Katya Vasilky Musical compositions and sound effects are licensed from Pixabay.com (a very cool royalty-free resource). "Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network. Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing. Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt © 2024 - 2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    30 min
  8. Podcast Town 16 | Lakeside, California

    09/27/2025

    Podcast Town 16 | Lakeside, California

    Rodeo clowns. Radiohead. Room 105. Welcome to Lakeside, CA—population: weird. Host Billy Merritt welcomes ER doctor–turned–improviser Devlyn Corrigan, who takes us on a tour of his dusty hometown: Lakeside, California. What starts as a stroll down Main Street quickly gallops into full-blown rodeo madness, local teen drama, and a possibly haunted motel room. Then, the Podcast Town players transform this dusty slice of Americana into a fully improvised audio fever dream, featuring: 🎸 A Radiohead benefit concert at the rodeo (yes, that Radiohead) 🏨 Creepy conspiracies about Room 105 🐄 Clydesdales, clown training, and hitching fees 🎤 A shaky rendition of the national anthem 🧶 Crochet horse blankets, Dairy Queen showdowns, and mysterious spring water (bonus scene) 💥 Featuring: Billy Merritt (Narrator/Director) Devlyn Corrigan (Special Guest and real person) Fananary Wilson (Not a bananary) Brett Hickory (Clown-in-Training) Gail (Podcast Town's ultimate producer… maybe witch?) 🎧 Best Lines: "Don't stick it in your mouth. ...Sorry, it tastes delicious." "If anything weird happens in Room 105, I'd love to interview you about it." 🛒 Sponsors & Local Businesses Bukkee's Radio Head (not the band) Supply Shop Bud's Big Ass Horse Watch Tilly's Tack Shop Maya's Main Street Crochet Caravan 7-Eleven (Unofficial) 🚨 PSA: Avoid Room 105 at the Lakeside Hotel. Just... trust us. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane CAST: Terry Armstrong - Bud, Todd, etc. Amber Bellsdale - Dottie (ex rodeo/prom queen turned DQ manager) Luke Bovard - Mysterious man in 105 Peg Davis - Tilly Hill Kane - Gail (be sure to watch SHUT UP Gail on the BIT spotlight) Brent Kohler - Brett Hickory, Horsin' Around Podcast Host Don Slovin - Bukkee and various weirdos about town Jason Spiro - Thom Yorke of Radiohead and the ghost in 105 (bonus scene) Jim Tripp - 7/11 Owner and Thom Yorke fan Flannery Wilson - Fananery Wilson, Horsin' Around Podcast Host "Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network. MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B! Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing. Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    37 min
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An international cast uses their personal digital odyssey stories to inspire hilarious improvised scenes. You know... one moment, you're searching the origins of the French horn, and the next, you're on an obscure webpage obsessing over the migratory patterns of penguins. Time is of NO essence. Before you know it, hours have evaporated, and you're an armchair expert on everything from ancient Sumerian bread recipes to the biomechanics of dragonfly wings. Welcome to the world of endless clicks, where curiosity isn't just satisfied—it's insatiable. (The "Rabbit Hole" is a long-form improv format developed by Billy Merritt for The BIT Comedy Network.)

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