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.

If you want to yell at Gail, please email us at TheBITComedyNetwork@gmail.com

"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

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

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT," "The BIT (Improv) Comedy Network," "Billy Merritt's Improv Spotlight," and "Shut Up Gail" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.

©2025-2026 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved
Send inquiries + notices + requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

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

(Grandpa) Once Said is a podcast where real stories about the people who shape our lives become inspiration for improvised comedy. We listen to stories about grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, and friends of friends—the memorable people whose personalities, quirks, wisdom, and experiences stay with us—and we use those stories as jumping-off points to create improvised characters, scenes, and worlds.

This episode features stories from Laura Powell. Laura shares stories about her hilarious Aunt Connie, who was known for saying "It's better to burp and taste it, than fart and waste it!"

💔❤️💞🩷 RIP Aunt Connie, you are missed.

CAST
Host: Katya Vasilaky
Special Guest: Laura Powell
Improv Comedy Ensemble: Dean Aisles, Konrad Andrew, Luke Bovard, Hill Kane, Thea Thorkildsen

Bit Comedy Network Director & Founder: Billy Merritt
Bit Comedy Network Producer: Hill Kane
Intro Music: "Unlock Me | Amapiano Music" by kontraa (Pixabay)

© 2026 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved

One hundred episodes. One comedy network. And somehow, they let Gail host the celebration.

The BIT Improv Comedy Network has officially hit Episode 100, so Gail sits down with the man who started this whole ridiculous experiment, Billy Merritt, to look back, look ahead, and ask the thoughtful, penetrating questions befitting such an important milestone.

Just kidding. It's Gail.

Billy talks BIT, improv, the people who made the first hundred episodes possible, and what he'd like to see happen in the next hundred. Gail does her best to derail the proceedings.

There are memories. There are rapid-fire questions. There is yelling.

There may be a pastrami sandwich.

To every performer, director, host, guest, collaborator and listener who helped us get here:

Thank you for 100 episodes.

Now shut up, Gail. We've got another hundred to make.

If you want to yell at Gail, please email us at TheBITComedyNetwork@gmail.com

"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
Billy Merritt: Himself

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

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT," "The BIT (Improv) Comedy Network," "Billy Merritt's Improv Spotlight," and "Shut Up Gail" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.

©2025-2026 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved
Send inquiries + notices + requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

Episode 1: Blazing in Boston

The letters are absurd. The advice is questionable. And somehow, everything ends with a burning tire and a rat.

In the debut episode of Dear Eunice, Eunice tackles a very medieval school bake sale, "historically accurate" Renaissance customs, a rat roast, a deranged beer hall, and the dangers of letting a 10-year-old become your business consultant.

New show. Terrible advice. No rats were harmed.

Welcome to Dear Eunice.

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

CAST:
Konrad Andrew, Luke Bovard, Hill Kane, Brent Kohler, and Lisa Steckman

"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 reality TV shows.

Episode two features an interview with Alex Lake, an artist working in film post-production and a former contestant on the reality television show The Circle (US)! Inspired by Alex Lake's interview, our ensemble will take you on a deep dive into vacation kidnapping, new NASA recruiting initiatives, the inner lives of Nokia phones, cartoonish bank teller personas, online hamster raters, a disconcerting dating game show, sentient houses, and the shocking horrors of…stand-up comedy.

Host: Angela Washko
Special Guest: Alex Lake

Improv Comedy Ensemble: Hillary Kane, Jim Tripp, Katya Vasilaky, Lisa Steckman, Angela Washko

Theme Song Composer: Jesse Stiles

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

Today on Bit Public Radio, hosts Snick and Snack tackle the questions nobody else in public radio has been brave enough—or hungry enough—to answer.

Is a hamburger a sandwich? Are French fries ever acceptable inside one? Does accepting a free sandwich with double bacon and a pickle create a romantic obligation? And when a sandwich shop asks if you want it "their way," just who the hell put them in charge?

Inspired by their considerably more successful cousins in automotive broadcasting, Snick and Snack open the phone lines to sandwich eaters across the globe seeking expert guidance on bread, fillings, condiments, relationships, and several problems that probably should have been directed to licensed professionals.

Callers include a Seattle grunge survivor whose sandwich habits are threatening his marriage, a Long Island fitness influencer facing an ethically complicated amount of free bacon, a Pittsburgh woman fighting the tyranny of French fries, an angry New Jersey man demanding to know exactly what "fresh" means, and a French woman whose devotion to croissants raises legitimate concerns about her husband's life expectancy.

There are also Dagwoods, tacos, questionable romantic metaphors, the culinary oppression known as "Mike's Way," and a surprisingly useful tip involving mayonnaise and grilled bread.

Sandwiches were discussed. Advice was given. Relationships were endangered. Condiments remained optional.

Jersey Mike's, Primanti Bros., French people, Pittsburgh coal miners, Seattle grunge musicians, Kurt Cobain, Long Island delis, fitness influencers, cardiologists, croissants, Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Pearl Bailey, chicken salad, pimentos, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Chinese restaurants, hot dogs, hamburgers, tacos, tortas, French fries, mayonnaise, mustard, bacon, pickles, people named Mike, anyone currently eating in bed, anyone who has ever accepted free bacon without understanding the emotional consequences, and the entire nation of France.


CAST:
Snick - Michael Delaney (Special Guest)
Snack - Billy Merritt
Gail + Shari from Massapequa (Long Island), NY - Hill Kane
Greg from Seattle, WA - Luke Bovard
Ruby from Pittsburgh, PA - Angela Washko
Frank Furter from New Jersey (Exit 35) - Don Slovin
Celeste from France - Flannery Wilson
Blondie Jr. from the Funny Papers - Jim Tripp
Carol from Pensacola, FL - Lisa Steckman

CREW:
Director/Creator: Billy Merritt
Co-Creator: Michael Delaney
Editor/Post-Production: Hill Kane

"Billy Merritt's Improv Spotlight" and "Sandwich Talk" 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.