Introducing: Wayne Brady's What If?! with Jonathan Mangum

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Wayne Brady and Jonathan Mangum are improv nerds! They’ve made stuff up for shows like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and “Let’s Make A Deal”, and now they’re bringing that same energy to the podcast world with WHAT IF?!

On the podcast, Wayne and Jonathan invite smart, funny, and engaging guests from the worlds of comedy, science, & pop culture to have a conversation. The results are spontaneous scenes, songs, and riffs that explore the WHAT IFs of life, the multiverse, and everything!

Improvisation is a conversation baby! No script, no net, just WHAT IF?!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Wayne Brady.
0:01.2	And I'm Jonathan Mangum.
0:02.1	And we're two big improv nerds who get a chance to play and make stuff up on shows like
0:05.8	Whose Line Is It Anyway or Let's Make a deal.
0:07.8	And we're now hosting a new improvised show called What If on the Head Gum Podcast Network.
0:12.9	And on What If?
0:13.9	We believe that improvisation is a conversation.
0:17.1	So we get to have conversations with guests from the world of TV, film, tech, and literature.
0:22.1	Guests like Bobby Moynihan, Aisha Tyler, LeVar Burton, and Adam Conover.
0:26.2	We ask them the big, ridiculous questions like, what if you heard of Monke's feelings?
0:30.7	What if your grandma was a secret agent?
0:32.7	What if Jonathan was invited to the cookout?
0:36.7	I'm not?
0:37.2	And then we turned the conversation
0:38.7	into spontaneous scenes, songs,
0:41.3	well, because that's what we do.
0:43.1	No script, no net, just what if.
0:45.6	Subscribe to what if on Spotify,
0:47.6	Apple Podcast, Pocketcast,
0:49.5	wherever you get your podcasts,
0:50.7	and watch episodes on YouTube.
0:52.1	Our first episode drops March 6th
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