Mayim Bialik & Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang: Our Best New Show Of 2021

Ask Me Another

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Bowen Yang talks about his work as a cast member on the latest season of Saturday Night Live. Then he plays a quiz about imaginary TV/video game crossovers. Plus, Call Me Kat actors Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson compete in an audio game about vintage toy commercials. And comedian Baron Vaughn and musician Open Mike Eagle compete in a music parody game about things you definitely remember learning in high school.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is M. P. R. Ask me another. I'm your host,
0:03.1	Ophira Eisenberg, and joining me as always is Jonathan Colton.
0:06.7	Hi, Ophira. Hello, everybody.
0:08.6	How are you doing?
0:10.0	I'm okay. It is a weird time.
0:13.9	Just everybody knows we are taping this on Thursday morning.
0:16.7	Right.
0:18.0	And some rather important historical events happened yesterday on Wednesday.
0:22.7	So that's the backdrop for what we're doing right now.
0:25.2	So here we are, and we have this show that we recorded a lot of the segments in this
0:31.4	show earlier in the week and even the weeks before.
0:36.5	So I'm just saying that Jonathan, so the listeners know that it's not like we recorded this,
0:41.7	I don't know, yesterday or today.
0:44.4	Yes, yes.
0:45.4	And to be clear, we are an entertainment show and not an entertainment show.
0:48.9	I don't think anybody is tuning in so that they can hear our cogent analysis of the current
0:53.3	political climate.
0:54.3	You know what we are and we understand what is happening right now.
0:58.7	And I myself, you know, I was joking that I made a resolution last year to be more informed
1:03.9	and read more news and take in more news.
1:06.3	And as the year progressed, like everybody else, I took breaks from current events for self-care
1:12.3	insanity because it can be extremely overwhelming.
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