Savannah Book Festival
I will be doing a reading and book signing as part of the 2026 Savannah Book Festival for my new book HUMOR ME: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy. I will also be visiting local schools, which I’m very excited about! You can find information and ticket details for all the events at https://www.savannahbookfestival.org/events/
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only - Ice Cream Science
Ice cream season is upon us so it’s time to prepare for sticky fingers, brain freezes, and absolutely no regrets. It’s also time for a brand-new episode of Wrong Answers Only!
Join host Chris Duffy, ice cream expert Dr. Maya Warren, and our panel of comedians to learn all about what makes the perfect pint!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
THE EXPERT
Often described as un-bounding and contagious energy, Dr. Maya Warren has a true zest for life shown by her positive and fun-loving attitude. She is a native of St. Louis, MO and always had a love for science and eating ice cream. Initially drawn to chemistry during her junior year of high school, she was later inspired to pursue a career in Food Science from watching Unwrapped on Food Network and after an internship at a cereal company, she was hooked!
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only
Love them or hate them, the parrots of Los Angeles are here to stay. Or at least that’s what the website of the Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project says…
Join host Chris Duffy, parrot expert Dr. John McCormack, and our panel of comedians to learn all about our colorful neighbors!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
THE EXPERT
Dr. John McCormack is the Director and Curator of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology and a Professor of Biology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. John is one of the lead investigators of Occidental’s Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project (FLAPP) where he studies parrot DNA to learn more about the ecology and evolution of LA’s parrot population.
Tickets: $15
Also available for livestream with RSVP!
LIVE IN NYC: How to Be a Better Human at On Air Fest
I’m going to be at On Air Fest doing a live recording of How to Be a Better Human. Tickets and more details at: https://www.onairfest.com
Rachelle Hampton, the new host of “Normal Gossip” and Chris Duffy of “How to Be a Better Human” dish on all the ways that gossip helps you connect to each other. Learn how to craft a compelling narrative, find out what makes juicy stories so irresistible, and discover the truth behind the chatter. And psst…stick around for some hot goss from an audience member that Rachelle will totally spin out of control.
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only
Attraction and relationships expert Dr. Paul Eastwick joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Karen Chee and Lisa Gilroy for this comedy game show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
THE EXPERT
Paul Eastwick is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis where he runs the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory. Paul studies how people initiate romantic relationships and the psychological mechanisms that help romantic partners to remain committed and attached.
LIVE AT SF SKETCHFEST: Wrong Answers Only
Live at SF Sketchfest, my favorite comedy festival in the world!
“Three comedians. One expert. So many ridiculously wrong answers. Wrong Answers Only is a hilarious, interactive live show that features celebrity guests, a scientific expert, and audience members learning about exciting research through games and quizzes. Hosted by Chris Duffy, with guests Samm Levine, Aparna Nancherla and Dulcé Sloan! Presented by LabX, a program of the National Academy of Sciences.” Get tickets here
RADIO INTERVIEW: All of It with Alison Stewart
I’m going to be taking calls and talking with Alison Stewart for All of It’s year end wrap-up episode. Alison is brilliant and I always have a great time on the show, so tune it. The broadcast starts at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. https://www.wnyc.org/
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only
Environmental and Chemical Engineer Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Karen Chee , Joanna Hausmann, and Lauren Lapkus for this hilarious panel show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. You can come to the show live in person or watch the livestream from anywhere you’d like!
THIS MONTH’S EXPERT:
Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz is an environmental and chemical engineer who specializes in turning trash into treasure. As Director of the USC Sustainable Lab, Leslie works on projects relating to carbon capture and developing technologies that turn agricultural waste into water filtration systems.
LIVE IN LA: Talkies (Standup Comedy)
TICKETS AND DETAILS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talkies-comedy-short-films-tickets-350801916977
Started in the basement of San Francisco’s Lost Weekend Video store (RIP), this experimental monthly show has a new home in LA at the Whammy Analog VHS store every third Thursday!
Featuring your hosts - George Chen Land Smith Nick Stargu Aviva Siegel
When: Thursday - October 17TH @ 8pm PT
Where: Whammy Analog - 2514 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026
Price: $10
Guest Line up:
Chase O'Donnell
Chris Duffy
Orion Levine
Christina Catherine Martinez
Arthur Steur
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talkies-comedy-short-films-tickets-350801916977
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only - Food Science
Food designer and molecular biologist Eric Schulze joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Aparna Nancherla, Rob Haze, and Jared Goldstein for this hilarious panel show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. You can come to the show live in person or watch the livestream from anywhere you’d like!
THIS MONTH’S EXPERT:
Eric Schulze is a professional scientist, entrepreneur, educator, and designer of food from the DNA up. He’s done it all so far: worked in the Obama administration as a novel food and drug regulator, built new food companies in Silicon Valley, and designed the very first ever cultivated meat you can buy today, and is now designing new species of animals. Yes, you heard that correctly. He was the founding host of The Smithsonian’s first ever digital show and has written for the voice of God himself, Morgan Freeman. Prior to recreating Jurassic Park IRL, Dr. Schulze failed at college basketball, portrait art, and selling women’s shoes. He teaches and works with companies all around the world and is happily based on LA with his wife.
Tickets: $5
Also available for livestream with RSVP!
Tickets and details here
LIVE IN NYC: Wrong Answers Only - Data Privacy
Wrong Answers Only is an interactive comedy show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. This installment features guest comedians Ziwe, Wyatt Cenac, and Michael Cruz Kayne. Computer security and data privacy expert Rebecca Wright is our guest. Hosted by Chris Duffy.
LIVE IN SF: Wrong Answers Only
Dark matter expert Risa Wechsler joins host Chris Duffy and an incredible panel of comedians for this science comedy game show! This installment features Josh Sharp, Aparna Nancherla, and Joanna Hausmann.
LIVE IN NYC: Wrong Answers Only - Bugs!
Wrong Answers Only is an interactive comedy show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. This installment is all about dragonflies, cockroaches, termites and other bugs featuring Dr. Jessica Ware (American Museum of Natural History) and comedians Josh Gondelman, Alison Leiby, and more.
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only - Monsters
Monster expert Emily Zarka joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Aparna Nancherla, Rob Haze, and Guy Branum for this science comedy game show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. You can come to the show live in person or watch the livestream from anywhere you’d like!
THIS MONTH’S EXPERT:
Emily Zarka is a professor, writer, TV host, and most importantly a monster expert. She earned her PhD in English, specializing in British Romantic literature with an emphasis on the Gothic. Emily now uses that degree to approach literature and film through monsters, applying the theory that human history is monster history.
Tickets: $5
Also available for livestream with RSVP!
LIVE IN VANCOUVER: TED2024 "The Brave and The Brilliant"
I’m going to be giving a mainstage TED Talk at the conference in Vancouver this year. I’m very excited about the opportunity. It will certainly be the first time I’ve been on a lineup with RuPaul, Kesha, and the governor of Utah. Classic comedy stuff! For more details (and info on how to attend in person or watch via livestream) click here: tedtalks.social/3tU9KUD
LIVE IN NYC: Wrong Answers Only - Swarms!
Wrong Answers Only is an interactive show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
THIS MONTHS EXPERT
Simon Garnier is an Associate Professor of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and head of the Swarm Lab. His research aims to reveal how collective intelligence works in systems as diverse as ant colonies, human crowds, and robotic swarms.
GET TICKETS HERE: https://caveat-website.herokuapp.com/events/wrong-answers-only-11-9-2023
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only - Impulse Buying
Behavioral economist Alison Sanchez joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Lauren Lapkus, Paul F. Tompkins, and Zac Oyama for this science comedy game show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert. You can come to the show live in person or watch the livestream from anywhere you’d like!
THIS MONTH’S EXPERT:
Alison Sanchez is an associate professor of economics and business analytics at the University of San Diego, a former runner-up for homecoming queen, and a huge fan of The Great British Bake Off. Her research combines behavioral economics with techniques and insights from neuroscience, psychology, information theory and machine learning with a focus on consumer behavior.
Tickets: $5
Also available for livestream with RSVP!
LIVE IN NYC: Wrong Answers Only
Music & memory expert Pablo Ripollés joins host Chris Duffy and our all-star panel of comedians for another episode of Wrong Answers Only! Featuring comedians Karen Chee, Jo Firestone, and more!
https://www.caveat.nyc/events/wrong-answers-only-9-14-2023
21+/PG-13ish (Are we going to curse? Yes, yes we probably will.)
Wrong Answers Only is an interactive show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
ONLINE: Roy Wood Jr. interview for TED "How comedy can make us better humans"
There’s a saying that comedy is tragedy plus time. Perhaps that’s why some of our biggest problems feel easiest to manage with a dose of humor. Comedian and actor Roy Wood Jr. has spent his career finding silly in the serious and using this tactic to influence real change. Join us for a live conversation hosted by How to Be a Better Human’s Chris Duffy where Wood Jr. shares how we can confront history with humor and use comedy to improve ourselves and our world.
Unprecedented Times (IMPROV IN L.A.)
UNPRECEDENTED TIMES brings together a group of Los Angeles’ funniest improvisers to create a night of hilarious comedy based on U.S. history. Featuring performers from HBO, The Onion / Clickhole, Improvised Shakespeare, The Second City, and more.
A middle school history teacher does their best to tell us everything they know about a time period or event in U.S. History picked at random by the audience. A group of hilarious comedians then grills the teacher about what they’ve said and uses that interaction to create a night of truly unprecedented comedy. Tickets/more info
LIVE IN LA: Wrong Answers Only - Guardian of the Galazy
Real life Guardian of the Galaxy Moogega Cooper joins host Chris Duffy and comedians Emily Heller, Aparna Nancherla, and Lauren Lapkus for this science comedy game show!
Produced by LabX, a public engagement program at the National Academy of Sciences, Wrong Answers Only is science comedy game show featuring celebrity guests who play games and quizzes while learning about exciting research with the help of a scientific expert.
THE EXPERT
A real life “Guardian of the Galaxy,” Dr. Moogega (Moo-ji-gae) “Moo” Cooper holds the awesome responsibility of keeping the red planet safe from any of the Earth’s contaminants. Moo is the planetary protection lead of the famed NASA 2020 Mars mission—with its highly viewed landing on February 18, 2021.
THE COMEDIANS
Emily Heller
Aparna Nancherla
Lauren Lapkus
Also available for livestream with RSVP!
6:30pm Doors
Lineup subject to change | No item minimum | No late entry
Unprecedented Times (IMPROV IN L.A.)
UNPRECEDENTED TIMES brings together a group of Los Angeles’ funniest improvisers to create a night of hilarious comedy based on U.S. history. Featuring performers from HBO, The Onion / Clickhole, Improvised Shakespeare, The Second City, and more.
A middle school history teacher does their best to tell us everything they know about a time period or event in U.S. History picked at random by the audience. A group of hilarious comedians then grills the teacher about what they’ve said and uses that interaction to create a night of truly unprecedented comedy. Tickets/more info
Butterboy (STANDUP IN NYC)
Butterboy is a weekly stand-up comedy show hosted by two chuckle monsters (Maeve Higgins and Jo Firestone) every Monday at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY. Each week they come clutching with them a horde of the freshest, silver-tongued comics and phone sex operators this world has to offer. Legends in their own right, these three friends Maeve Higgins and Jo Firestone combine forces to host the funniest and best show in town! Accompanied by the musical stylings of Donwill and the sensual silence of a rotating Idris Elba impersonator, you won't want to miss it. Plus, find out which parts of this blurb are bold, unapologetic lies! TICKETS AND DETAILS HERE
Wrong Answers Only LIVE! (PANEL SHOW IN NYC)
After a sold out show in November, Wrong Answers Only returns to NYC for a special one-night only live event featuring comedians Josh Sharp, Maeve Higgins, and Michael Cruz Kayne interviewing Dr. Mandë Holford about her research on killer snails. https://caveat.nyc/events/wrong-answers-only-3-9-2023
Doors 7:00 PM, show 7:30 PM. Tickets are FREE but you need to register online
Wrong Answers Only (STREAMING ONLINE)
Thursday, February 9th at 5:30 p.m. Pacific / 8:30 p.m. Eastern. This month, we’re talking all about ANIMAL POOP with the Oregon Zoo’s Dr. Laurel Fink and comedians Naomi Ekperigin, Chrissy Shackelford, and Zac Oyama. You can watch the show from anywhere, it’s interactive, hilarious, and best of all, it’s FREE! Register online here
Unprecedented Times (IMPROV IN L.A.)
UNPRECEDENTED TIMES brings together a group of Los Angeles’ funniest improvisers to create a night of hilarious comedy based on U.S. history. Featuring performers from HBO, The Onion / Clickhole, Improvised Shakespeare, The Second City, and more.
A middle school history teacher does their best to tell us everything they know about a time period or event in U.S. History picked at random by the audience. A group of hilarious comedians then grills the teacher about what they’ve said and uses that interaction to create a night of truly unprecedented comedy. DETAILS AND TICKETS HERE
Peacock Comedy (STANDUP IN L.A.)
I’m telling jokes on one of my favorite standup shows in LA!
PEACOCK COMEDY Live stand up comedy at Club Tee Gee in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. / show starts at 8 p.m. Hosted by Kiran Deol & Danny Jolles. $10 suggested donation LINK
Wrong Answers Only (STREAMING ONLINE)
Thursday, January 12th at 5:30 p.m. Pacific / 8:30 p.m. Eastern. This month, we’re talking all about VOLCANOES with comedians Aparna Nancherla, Josh Sharp, and Danielle Perez. Our guest is Dr. Diana Roman, a volcanologist whose goal is to understand the likelihood and timing of volcanic eruptions. You can watch the show from anywhere, it’s interactive, hilarious, and best of all, it’s FREE! Register online here
Romantic Comedy (LA)
Hosted by Jenny Chalikian and Erin Judge, this monthly show features an all star line up of standups at the famous Ripped Bodice Bookstore (3806 Main St in Culver City).
7pm show, doors at 6:30pm
Hilarious comics, sexy books, free wine.
FREE but RSVP appreciated. LINK
Stage Fright LIVE at the New York Comedy Festival (NYC)
Stage Fright is a hilarious night of comedy all about confronting (and maybe even overcoming) your biggest fears. Watch as NYC's funniest performers tackle what terrifies them, everything from airplanes to public speaking to giant spiders. Bravely hosted by Chris Duffy and Ashley Brooke Roberts. Featuring Jo Firestone, Cocoon Central Dance Team (Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel, and Eleanore Pienta), and more surprise guests! Get tickets here
Wrong Answers Only LIVE! (NYC)
We’re bringing the popular streaming science comedy show Wrong Answers Only to NYC for a special live event featuring Josh Gondelman, CJ Hunt, and Karen Chee interviewing Dr. Alexandra Horowitz from the Dog Cognition Lab. https://caveat.nyc/series/wrong-answers-only/
Doors 7:00 PM, show 7:30 PM. Tickets are FREE but you need to register online