What do improv, boozy cupcakes, summer camp, and badly designed bathroom doors have in common?

Kate Legere has thoughts about all of them.

Gail sits down with Kate Legere, improviser, actor, educator, entrepreneur, and founder of The AND Camp, to talk about making things happen and bringing people together.

What began as improv weekends at the Jersey Shore grew into an adult camp complete with cabins, kayaking, shows, s'mores, and a dream lineup of teachers. But first, Kate had to send an email and survive the terrifying moment when Will Hines actually said yes.

Naturally, Gail also needs to discuss Kate's cookbook, Intoxicated Cupcakes. There's baking advice, a bottom-bunk upgrade, and an attempt to select just one favorite improv teacher.

Kate finds a loophole.

• An improv teacher pileup at the campfire.
• Why two mattresses are better than one.
• A cross-country car delivery arranged through Facebook and a remarkable amount of trust.
• Bailey's Irish Cream earning its place in the baking aisle.
• Airport bathroom doors receiving a long-overdue performance review.
• A "Shut Up Gail" so affectionate that Gail may need a moment.

Kate Legere is an actor, improviser, educator, and author of Intoxicated Cupcakes. She founded The AND Camp to bring comedy, creativity, and community together through an adult improv camp experience. Across her teaching, art, and camp-building, Kate keeps returning to the same idea: bring people together and see what happens.

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"Billy Merritt's Improv Spotlight" is part of The BIT (Improv) Comedy Network.

Visit www.BITComedyNetwork.com to listen to our other podcasts or apply to join the ensemble.

CAST
Gail: Hill Kane
Kate Legere: Herself

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Episode 2: Blazing in Brooklyn

The coffee is artisanal. The creamer is contraband. And HR definitely knows a guy.

This month on Dear Eunice, an office coffee feud spirals into beverage tampering, miraculous cholesterol, recreational sand-eating, Goat Get 'Em Coffee, and an HR department with disturbingly strong CIA connections.

Third-wave coffee. Questionable medicine. Weaponized Human Resources.

Welcome to Dear Eunice.

Creator, Producer, Director: Konrad Andrew
Exec. Producer: Billy Merritt
Editor/Post-Production: Hill Kane

CAST:
Konrad Andrew, Hill Kane, Don Slovin, Lisa Steckman, and Jim Tripp

"Billy Merritt's Improv Spotlight" and "Dear Eunice" are part of The BIT Improv Comedy Network.

Production Assistance, Audio Production, & Graphic Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

© 2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved.

Expanded Reality TV is a podcast where improv comedians create absurd audio performances based on behind-the-scenes stories of real reality television stars, building new weird worlds from the things that people don't see when watching their favorite "unscripted" TV shows.

Episode #3 features an interview with Ann Hirsch, a performance artist and former contestant on the reality television show Frank The Entertainer…In A Basement Affair (Vh1)! Inspired by Ann Hirsch's interview, our ensemble will take you on a deep dive into Frank Sinatra's unique songwriting process, obsessed fans of Jennie Wants A Billionaire, the new reality show Losers Seeking Losers, home renovation projects, shrubbery, an accounting firm with too many Jims, a sneaky Bartholomew, and the shocking horrors of…linoleum flooring!

Host: Angela Washko
Special Guest: Ann Hirsch

Improv Comedy Ensemble: Luke Bovard, Hillary Kane, Jim Tripp, Katya Vasilaky, Angela Washko

Theme Song Composer: Jesse Stiles

BIT Comedy Network Director & Founder: Billy Merritt
BIT Comedy Network Producer: Hill Kane