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Podcast Town 17 | North Caldwell, NJ

Release Date: 10/31/2025

Dinner Party 2 | Everybody's a Podcaster

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Everybody's a Podcaster Feat. "Terry Gross" It's the end of the year, the end of the podcast, and the end of whatever was left in the fridge. Join us as the BIT Comedy Network wraps up 2025 with one final, chaotic, heartfelt, and slightly undercooked episode of Dinner Party. What's on the menu? 🎧 A "Podcast Party" hosted by the Double Ls (Luke & Laura), where microphones are hot and egos are hotter. 🐟 A shady fish-based gift from aquarium moguls Jim and Janet of "Something's Fishy." 🏛️ An unexpected guest: actual NPR royalty Terry Gross shows up, and things get even...

Dinner Party 1 | The Crystal Chair

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Billy and the BIT CREW players wish you the very merriest of Christmases, the happiest of Chanukahs, and a fantabulous and super-fun Holiday Season/New Year. As an homage to "holiday dinners." Billy insisted that we recreate that frenetic and sometimes awkward ritual with a special improv form called "Dinner Party." We even made a theme song. We hope you enjoy this special Christmas edition of Podcast Town. We are releasing a super, secret, double-dog-dared, New Year's bonus edition of DINNER PARTY at the stroke of Midnight on New Year's Eve. Listen to the full version of the song!...

rabbitHOLE 10 | Live from OSLO! - A Random rabbitHOLE

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Season Two Finale of rabbitHOLE - Live from OSLO! - A Random rabbitHOLE OMG OMG! The BIT Comedy Network's first LIVE show was at the Oslo Impro Fest on October 24th. We have been performing together under the BIT marquee for about two years, but we had never met or performed live as a troupe. Even with the wonky audio (it gets better after the introduction), we think you'll enjoy this RANDOM rabbitHOLE journey through rolling D20s, experimental medicine, the benefits of divorce and hot water, fruits with curative powers, and a costumed heist. (We still don't know if Amber...

MOVIE ! 9 | The Primrose Inn VII

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Happy Thanksgiving from the BIT Comedy Network! We bring you the next installment in The Primrose in VII. Many years have passed and the Inn is spookier and more dastardly than ever. We don't have nipples in this episode, but there is a lot of other weird stuff. ENJOY! As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post. This was our season two finale. See ya next year! If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt CO-EDITORS/PRODUCERS: Hill Kane +...

rabbitHOLE 19 | Wordnesia

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Wordnesia | Frogs | Math Teacher President Ever stared at a word until it stopped being a word? That’s where this week’s rabbit hole begins—when Hillary’s brain short‑circuits over the word speaker and takes a detour through psychology, frogs, and semantic satiation. 🐸💭 From there, the BIT crew spins a surreal chain of scenes featuring: Two frogs debating existence (and auditioning for a Budweiser commercial) A crappy math teacher turned football coach turned U.S. President Nine‑year‑old engineering prodigy designing roller coasters and performing surgery Captain ...

Podcast Town 17 | North Caldwell, NJ

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

North Caldwell, New Jersey - with Special Guest - Margot Escott Tiny town. Big secrets. One suspiciously spiritual traffic light. Birch beer, buried mafia lore, an abandoned sanitarium, and a Church of the Traffic Light that really leans into metaphysics — Margo Escott brings us back to North Caldwell, NJ, and Podcast Town builds a delightfully deranged local variety show around it. Expect tomato politics, a Sopranos-adjacent tour, electrocution "illuminators," and at least one tomato to the face. In this episdode: Host Billy Merritt interviews Margo about growing up in a town with no...

MOVIE! 8 | The Primrose Inn III

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Just in time for Halloween! A BIT Comedy Network mini-feature film with all the fixings of a Halloween classic. A haunted inn, storms, knitting/crocheting, tea, bad weather, and of course...nipples! As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post. If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it. DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt EDITOR/PRODUCER: Hill Kane GUEST EDITOR: Jim Tripp CAST: Dean Aisles Konrad Andrew Terry Armstrong Luke Bovard Margot Escott Brent Kohler Don Slovin Jim...

Podcast Town 16 | Lakeside, California

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Rodeo clowns. Radiohead. Room 105. Welcome to Lakeside, CA—population: weird. Host Billy Merritt welcomes ER doctor–turned–improviser Devlyn Corrigan, who takes us on a tour of his dusty hometown: Lakeside, California. What starts as a stroll down Main Street quickly gallops into full-blown rodeo madness, local teen drama, and a possibly haunted motel room. Then, the Podcast Town players transform this dusty slice of Americana into a fully improvised audio fever dream, featuring: 🎸 A Radiohead benefit concert at the rodeo (yes, that Radiohead) 🏨 Creepy conspiracies about Room...

rabbitHOLE 18 | Thank You Fluoride!

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

Ever stared at a toothpaste tube and wondered if it could take you higher? In episode 18 of Rabbit Hole, Billy Merritt and the BIT Comedy players tumble from dental conspiracies and Norwegian stop-motion cartoons to hoarding hotel soaps, prank-calling Captain Crunch, and even a pirate gang in juvie. Along the way, fluoride turns into Flo Rida, the Soggies declare war, and toothpaste becomes the most questionable substance at the Cannabis Cup. It’s improv chaos at its finest: absurd connections, quick character swaps, and the kind of storytelling detours only this ensemble could conjure....

MOVIE! 8 | Camp Mystic Timbers - A Documentary

BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE

What would summer be without a blockbuster movie set in a summer camp? It would be sucky...that's what it would be! Never fear, Billy Merritt and his BIT Comedy Network Players have released a new summer camp classic full of fantastical creatures like wizards, dragons, krakkens, centaurs, goblins, milipedes, and more! Did I mention it's a documentary? BIT loves releasing movies in conjunction with holidays, and it's Labor Day Weekend in the U.S. YOU ARE WELCOME. Why not grab an adult beverage and some snacky snacks and enjoy this improvised masterpiece? As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100%...

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North Caldwell, New Jersey - with Special Guest - Margot Escott

Tiny town. Big secrets. One suspiciously spiritual traffic light. Birch beer, buried mafia lore, an abandoned sanitarium, and a Church of the Traffic Light that really leans into metaphysics — Margo Escott brings us back to North Caldwell, NJ, and Podcast Town builds a delightfully deranged local variety show around it. Expect tomato politics, a Sopranos-adjacent tour, electrocution "illuminators," and at least one tomato to the face.

In this episdode:

Host Billy Merritt interviews Margo about growing up in a town with no stores and no traffic lights — until suddenly there is one.
The town's favorite podcast - "Tonight in North Caldwell," complete with call-ins, commercials (Tony Soprano Tours; Freddie's Funeral Home), and a fireman's picnic parade gone very, very sideways.
Highlights include: the Overbrook Sanitarium ruins, Big Al's Maserati Tomato Farm and its overprotective daughter, the Church of the Traffic Light, and the surprise Tomato Queen pageant (chaos, chanting, and tomato splatter included).

Standout lines (for the quote-tweet pile)

"Praise all stoplights."
"Traffic light be with you."
"Who dat bitch?"

Cast & Credits Host: Billy Merritt. Guest & town chronicler: Margo Escott. Full Podcast Town improv troupe — characters include Mildy/Lisa, Tim, Luke, Big Al, Tia (Traffic Light priest), and more.

Heads up / Trigger note Contains playful references to mental-health institutions, prisons, and mock electrocution scenes (improv, not real). Listener discretion advised for anyone sensitive to those themes.\

Enjoy — and remember: if you're ever confused by a new traffic light, consult the parish. 🚦

Sponsors: Annual Firemen's Picnic, Church of the Traffic Light, Big Al Maserati's Tomato Farm, Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist and Child Illuminator, Tony Soprano Tour Guide Company, Freddie's Funeral Home.

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt
Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST:

Luke Bovard: Host Luke - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast
Hill Kane: Alison Maserati (Big Al's kid), one of Tim's kids
Brent Kohler: Producer - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast
Don Slovin: Big Al, caller, one of Tim's kids, Freddie
Lisa Steckman: Host "Mildie" - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast, "Bianca"
Thea Marie Thorkildsen: Priest of the Holy Traffic Light Church
Flannery Wilson: Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist

And special guest, Margot Escott as the real Tomato Queen.

"Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B!

Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

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