Billy Merritt
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An international cast uses their personal digital odyssey stories to inspire hilarious improvised scenes. You know... one moment, you're searching the origins of the French horn, and the next, you're on an obscure webpage obsessing over the migratory patterns of penguins. Time is of NO essence. Before you know it, hours have evaporated, and you're an armchair expert on everything from ancient Sumerian bread recipes to the biomechanics of dragonfly wings. Welcome to the world of endless clicks, where curiosity isn't just satisfied—it's insatiable. (The "Rabbit Hole" is a long-form improv format developed by Billy Merritt for The BIT Co...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
MAIN STAGE spins prompts, towns, and guest monologues into quick-building ensemble comedy with a sharp feel for absurd local detail.
BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE sits in Comedy and runs on ensemble improv: a prompt, a place, or a guest monologue gets stretched into a comic setting with its own rules.
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A loose, fast-moving improv set that keeps drifting into stranger territory.
Billy Merritt and Michael Delaney give the set a loose, easy center. Delaney comes in as a retired actor and director who now teaches at a university, and Merritt notes that they have known each other for more than 30 years.
A dinner party turns ceremonial, and the ghost-book reveal lands the whole joke.
A crystal chair at a dinner table sends the scene into its own ruleset. What starts as small talk turns ceremonial: the crystal gets passed around, people confess over their collections, and the meal keeps sliding toward something stranger.
A rodeo-town improv that keeps ordinary small talk swelling into a cheerful trap.
It turns a rodeo weekend into a bright little pressure cooker, with ad breaks, a misnamed Radiohead joke, and a local store regular who keeps steering the bit toward an odd closet gag.
Fast, strange improv that keeps turning one small idea into the next.
Rabbit Hole starts with a plain setup and then keeps drifting into its own chain of ideas: one word, one player, then a run of scenes that slide from prank-call banter to a cartoonish cereal feud. The appeal is in the pace.
An improvised hotel story that turns elegance into comic chaos.
Part one of The Grand Cosmic Hotel is an improvised salute to Wes Anderson, starting in desert countryside before rising to a mountaintop hotel with a rotating deck, a glass dome, and an observatory-like lobby lined with Italian frescoes, oil paintings, and astronomers on the…
A tiny suburb becomes a lively improv playground.
Podcast Town turns Beacon Hill, a tiny suburb of San Antonio, into a lively improv playground. The conversation draws on town lore from the name itself to HOA rules about four-leaf clovers, and the Sam Houston nap bit keeps ordinary civic detail moving at a comic clip.
An improvised hotel farce that turns etiquette, romance, and dinner service into one long bit.
This installment keeps The Grand Cosmic Hotel in motion, using the duke's room, candy pillows, animal towels, and the rest of the neatly absurd guest prep to build steady comic pressure.
A Spotify year-end prompt turns into grandmas, metal shirts, and a full improv detour.
Spotify year-end bragging rights set the stage, and The Rabbit Hole takes that idea into a long, sideways improv chase. Billy Barrett opens the frame, then the bit keeps veering into a bank-run panic, grandmas with opinions, metal shirts, secret identities, and a shop refurb…
Andreu Buenafuente and Berto Romero improvise unscripted, absurdist bits live for Cadena SER.
Original musicals, invented at stage speed.
Fast riffs from a crowded table.
Paranormal notes from the strange cellar.
Billy Merritt opens a BIT Comedy Network summer-blockbuster improv movie called "Mystic Timbers," with Marty DeBergeron filming a documentary about a hidden camp in Northern California.
Hillary Kane opens the show with a rabbit hole about a word that starts looking wrong after too many repetitions.
Billy Merritt opens Podcast Town with Peg Davis.
BIT Improv Comedy Network's MAIN STAGE episode "Movie!
North Caldwell, New Jersey is presented as a town with no traffic lights, no stores, Maserato's tomato farm, and an annual fireman's picnic with birch beer and grilled hot dogs.
The episode opens in a scramble, with Billy expected and Gail pulled into the interview seat.
rabbitHOLE 12 | Your Spotify Year turns a Spotify Wrapped premise into a sequence of family and identity reveals, starting with Johan’s coworker who reports 300,000 listening minutes and a household split across a Swifty mother, a tools-loving girlfriend, and a child-program father.
BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE turns Pennon, Scotland into a comic town built around a red phone booth on the beach, the film Local Hero, and a BBC-style Doctor Who crossover.
Billy Barrett opens BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE: rabbitHOLE 11 | Improvised Shakespeare by defining a rabbit hole with Vienna sausages, the Habsburg dynasty, and a three-and-a-half-hour search.
BIT Improv Comedy Network’s Podcast Town 14, “The Willoughby Zone,” turns a fictional town into a community-radio scramble of flooding, food, French cinema, and rock music.
Podcast Town 10 centers on Tønsberg, Norway, which Taya describes as the oldest city in Norway, with about 40,000 inhabitants and a strong Viking influence.
BIT Improv Comedy Network | MAIN STAGE turns a dinner party into a podcast party, with Billy Merritt and Don Slova kicking off a “podcast party” after a numbered-list prompt.
Billy Merritt opens Podcast Town 13 by introducing Bigford and its running problems with volunteer firefighting, trash pickup at Lake Button, and a town 100th-episode broadcast.
The Bit Comedy Network presents *Movie Movies* as an improvised salute to Wes Anderson, unfolding like a novelization of the Grand Cosmic Hotel.
Billy opens by introducing Podcast Town and welcoming Hillary as the guest.
Movie Movie returns to the Grand Cosmic Hotel for part two of a novelization.
The host and his AI sidekick interview a mayor, then the cast will improvise scenes based on the interview.
Billy Merritt opens by crowding Gail out so he can get to Michael Delaney.
An improvised dinner party at a crystal collector's home turns chaotic as guests navigate quirky hobbies, a surprise engagement, and a shocking revelation that they are all in the afterlife after the crystal chair explodes.
Key insight from segment 5
Key insight from segment 5
In this improvised comedy episode, host Billy Merritt and guest Devlin Corrigan explore the quirky town of Lakeside, California, discussing its rodeo culture, teenage hangouts, and local legends, while weaving in humorous scenes and a mysterious missing persons subplot.
In this improvised comedy episode, host Billy Merritt guides players through a 'rabbit hole' starting with the word 'fluoride', leading to absurd scenes about toothpaste smoking, hotel soap hoarding, prank calls, cereal mascot wars, and storytelling fatigue.
This improv comedy episode explores rabbit hole stories, from the etymology of Google to a mob-linked dojo, blending humor with absurd tangents.
In this improv comedy episode, host Billy Merritt and guests explore tangential thoughts starting from the concept of 100%, leading to skits about baseball statistics, texting history, magic tricks, collectible cards, and quantum physics.
Host Billy Barrett explores rabbit hole stories with improvisers, starting with Amber's humorous tale of breaking up with hair salons, which spirals into absurd improvised scenes involving piñata violence, childhood games, and surreal breakups like an egg leaving its chicken.
Billy Merritt introduces Podcast Town, where improvisers create a fictional small town filled with podcasts and characters based on a real or fictional town's claim to fame.
Host Billy Barrett and improvisers create scenes inspired by their personal rabbit hole internet searches.
A comedy show where improvisers share their personal rabbit hole stories and create hilarious scenes based on them.
An international cast uses personal digital odyssey stories to inspire hilarious improvised scenes.
An improv comedy show where performers share personal rabbit hole stories and create improvised scenes based on them.
A comedy show where improvisers create a fictional town and its podcasts based on a real town's claim to fame.
Host Billy Barrett and improvisers turn personal internet rabbit hole stories into hilarious improvised scenes.
An improv comedy show where performers create a fictional town where everyone has a podcast, starting with a parody ad and setup.
A comedy podcast where improvisers share their internet rabbit hole experiences and create spontaneous scenes.