From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the theater at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles,

it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia. Ask me another. I'm Jonathan Colton.

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Thank you Jonathan. We are so excited to be here in Los Angeles for a special celebrity

edition of Ask Me Another. Four famous contestants are here to play our nerdy games,

Darcy Carden, Brett Gellman, Missy Pyle, and Paul Sheer. But only one will win a prize, more

coveted than a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award. And that is an Ask Me Another Rubik's Cube.

And to top it off, our special musical guest is Amy Mann.

I love coming to Los Angeles, and now I even love it more because it is the future home of the Olympic Games.

Yeah. I love the optimism of this place because you guys actually think there will still be a

Los Angeles in 2028, yeah. But then again, it's Hollywood, right? Maybe we can just fake the whole thing

on a sound stage on the moon. Let's meet our first to Celebrity Testants. First, you know him from Human

Giant, the league VEEP, and he has a podcast called How Did This Get Made. Please welcome Paul Sheer.

Thank you so much. Paul, you played Stevie, a TV producer on the HBO series VEEP. I feel like working on VEEP

would be incredible, a comedic dream come true, but I don't know. Tell me your thoughts.

No, it was an amazing show. One of the best parts of that show though was I got a call from the showrunner Dave Mandel

who worked on Seinfeld and Kerb and all these great shows and he said, here's the deal. I can't tell you who you're playing

and you don't have a name, just come to set and we'll figure it out. And I said great. But I think the one thing is like people

come up to me like, wow, you're really like a real a-hole on that show. And I'm like, I don't think so, but I think everyone is so nasty

that I didn't even realize, like by levels, I'm pretty much on the same level. I'm like, yes, there's no way.

For someone to say, wow, you're a real a-hole in the show, is like either they don't understand the show

or they really think that you're doing like a really top a-hole show. Yeah, I actually take it. That's actually the feather of my butt, my a-hole.

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