Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
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Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts 

Live Wire! Radio Episode 173 - Special Studio Session NEWSHOLE VERSION

Series: Live Wire! Radio
From: Live Wire! Radio
Length: 00:54:58

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Brilliant, improvisational comedian REGGIE WATTS was featured as "Hot Comedian" in Rolling Stone's Hot Issue 2010, named SPIN Magazine's "Best New Comedian" and "Best of CMJ" 2010, and a featured profile in GQ's Man Of The Year issue 2010. Reggie released his debut comedy cd/dvd 'Why $#!+ So Crazy?' on Comedy Central Records in May 2010.  He is currently touring on both the West and East coasts. www.reggiewatts.com/

Gifted novelist, JOSH RITTER is also an acclaimed musician.  Bright's Passage is his first novel which was published in 2011.
joshritter.com/

PETER SAGAL is the host of one of the most popular shows on public radio, NPR's, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!  He has been hosting this gem of a show since it's debut in 1997.  He is also a playwright, a screenwriter and an actor.  
petersagal.com/

SARAH VOWELL is the author of Unfamiliar Fishes. She is also a journalist, essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996–2008. 

With your host Courtenay Hameister comedy by Faces for Radio Theater, house poet, Scott Poole and, House band Ralph Huntley and the Muttonchops. 

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Brilliant, improvisational comedian REGGIE WATTS was featured as "Hot Comedian" in Rolling Stone's Hot Issue 2010, named SPIN Magazine's "Best New Comedian" and "Best of CMJ" 2010, and a featured profile in GQ's Man Of The Year issue 2010. Reggie released his debut comedy cd/dvd 'Why $#!+ So Crazy?' on Comedy Central Records in May 2010.  He is currently touring on both the West and East coasts. www.reggiewatts.com/

Gifted novelist, JOSH RITTER is also an acclaimed musician.  Bright's Passage is his first novel which was published in 2011.
joshritter.com/

PETER SAGAL is the host of one of the most popular shows on public radio, NPR's, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!  He has been hosting this gem of a show since it's debut in 1997.  He is also a playwright, a screenwriter and an actor.  
petersagal.com/

SARAH VOWELL is the author of Unfamiliar Fishes. She is also a journalist, essayist and social commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996–2008. 

With your host Courtenay Hameister comedy by Faces for Radio Theater, house poet, Scott Poole and, House band Ralph Huntley and the Muttonchops. 

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