WITS END with Nico Carney & Conor Janda | Comedy Trivia Night

DOORS 7PM | SHOW 8PM
From the podcast and web series Boy’s Club, Nico Carney (Seth Meyers, She’s the He SXSW) and Conor Janda (Comedy Central, Vulture) bring their beautifully unhinged brains to WITS END, the live comedy trivia game show presented by Samantha Bee and hosted by Adam Kesner, where comedians compete in trivia tailored specifically to their weird little niches.
Every show is completely new and written just for that night’s players. Expect the kind of competitive energy usually reserved for siblings who’ve been training their whole lives for this moment to crush each other.
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 of trivia built around their personal obsessions and areas of expertise. Contestants get real trivia experts on their teams, the audience plays along, and everyone leaves feeling 52% smarter and 90% sillier, with some pulls from the bags of mystery and misery along the way. Oh, and if no one knows the answer, the funniest wrong answer wins.
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.
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, Kristen Schaal, Kurt Braunholer, Martin Urbano, Reggie Watts + many more
"I didn't realize this was a career," said ADAM KESNER - Wall Street Journal
FOR MORE INFO PLEASE GO TO WITSENDGAMESHOW.COM OR CONTACT [email protected]
Featuring:
BOYS CLUB is a podcast from two dudes who were never part of the "boys club" and want to invite you into theirs. Join queer comedians Conor Janda and Nico Carney as they bring on guests to discuss the boys clubs that exist all around us. The scripted webseries of the same name starring the real life best friends recently launched on YouTube.
Boys Club podcast
Boys Club webseries
Nico Carney is a Brooklyn based standup comedian, writer and actor. His standup covers his experiences as a trans man, growing up in Savannah, Georgia and whatever else he finds silly and interesting. As A Standup, Nico Made His Late Night Debut In 2024 On Late Night With Seth Meyers, And Was Named A 2024 Comedian You Should And Will Know By Vulture. He Was Also Named The Future Of Funny: 15 Comedians Ready To Break Out In 2025 By Deadline. Nico Was Selected As A Jfl New Face In 2023 And Was Part Of The Inaugural Netflix “Introducing….” Showcase At The 2022 Netflix Is A Joke Festival. Nico Is Currently Touring His First Standup Hour Which Headlined At New York Comedy Festival And Netflix Is A Joke Festival In 2024. You Can See Nico Regularly In New York At The Comedy Cellar. As An Actor, Nico Starred As "Alex" In Writer/Director Siobhan McCarthy's Feature "She's The He," which premiered at SXSW Film Festival 2025.
Conor Janda is a Brooklyn-based comedian and was recently named one of the 2025 New Faces of Comedy at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. He has been featured on Comedy Central and in Vulture, and he’s opened for Kevin Nealon, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Mary Beth Barone. Contrary to one angry Instagram comment from a man with a squirrel as his profile photo, Janda doesn’t only talk about being gay. He also talks about growing up Catholic (which made him gay), being an alcoholic (which is because he’s gay), and having a stay at home dad (which is a pretty gay thing to do). One time, a woman on a podcast said Janda “tells stories like he’s running out of time,” which is a nice way of saying he has anxiety and a lot to cover.
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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