Off Book: The Improvised Musical

The h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s  Alison Becker  joins Zach and Jess for a new musical packed with spelling, things you're into, clams, and Klevin: The Coolest Kid in School! With songs like "Can You Spell Relax?", "Orlando" and "Can We Be Real Friends?", this episode will definitely take you to 11. Plus, stay til the end for a special "deep cut" song from the musical "Blood Brothers".  T...

Podcasting king  Travis McElroy  (MBMBaM, Adventure Zone, Shmanners, Trends Like These, and Run: A Doctor Who Fancast) joins Zach and Jess for an all new, all-horse musical! With songs like "It's Grand To Be A Horse Of The Land", "H-O-R-S-E God" and "Three Little Sea Horses In A Human Suit", you won't say neigh to any of these new tracks. Plus, stay til the end for a fan-s...

It's an ultra spooky Halloween OFF BOOOOOK with the hilarious  Lou Wilson  joining Zach and Jess for sacks on sacks of candy, Pintrest pumpkins, half-monster dads, epic ghost stories and so many more treats! With songs like "Which Stuff is the Witch Stuff", "Wall Street for Candy" and "No Thank You, Too Scary!", you'll be howling at the moon to all of these scary new songs! This episode...

The one and only  Ross Bryant  returns to the OFF BOOK stage with Zach and Jess for a wild new musical jam-packed with sneaky booby-trapped letters, lasers, fart lockers, and Phoebe Thunderstein. With songs like "Powerful Woman in a Power Suit", "Straight to the Top / What's In The Box?!" and "Talkin' 'Bout My Best Friend", you'll wish you could be trapped in an elevator with these songs...

Jess and Zach are riding solo this week, live from the Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, performing the brand new musical "We Object To Fear"! With songs like "Legacy", "Codependent Bullsh*t" and "Looking At Clouds", you will have so many songs to dance to at your winter formal 6 months from now! Plus, stay tuned to til the end for a special audience talk-back! This episode is brought to yo...

Actress, writer and  Natch Beaut host  Jackie Johnson  joins Jess and Zach for a wild new musical packed with nature, camping, fancy people in the mountains, chippity-choppity chipmunks, and sex with ghosts! With songs like "We Call It Lamping", "Let's Barter!" and "That's Wild", this new episode will give you winnnngs!  This episode is brought to you by Evelyn and Bobbie (www....

They're hereee!  Scott Aukerman ,  Paul F. Tompkins , and  Lauren Lapkus  of  Threedom  are Jess and Zach's triple guests this week in a new musical packed with soft-serve caves, restaurant police, 68-ing(?) and Zendaya as Meechee. With songs like "...A Tree", "What Are We Saying?" and "Find That Owl!", you won't stop singing along to these t-hooo-nes! This episode is...

Get ready to get trippy with the amazing  Lauren Adams  (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Jess + Zach in a brand new psychedelic musical swirled with limitless pills, fruit bats, vampires, sentient vines and Brad! With songs "You Can Die Anywhere", "Walk Together, Not Alone" and "Cake Glidin'", you'll definitely have unlimited tunes to sing along to this ep! This episode is brought to...

Sean Clements  and  Hayes Davenport  aka "The Boys" of  Hollywood Handbook join Zach and Jess for a very van der Beek-y musical filled with Joshua Jackson, peak TV, and Eartha Kitt(?!). With songs like "That's What You Know Us From", "Banana King", and "Isn't Life Sweet with James Van Der Beek", you won't be a crying Dawson after listening to this ep.  See Privac...

The hilarious  Erin Gibson  (author of the new book  Feminasty and host of  Throwing Shade !) joins Zach and Jess this week for a dreamy new musical packed with time sensitive eggs, witch twins, and an alligator with a baseball bat. With songs like "You're Dreaming", "Straight Up Witches", and "Baby Boy, Not Yet a Baby Man", you won't want to wake up from this awesome rock musi...

The awesome  Tawny Newsome  is back on stage with Jess + Zach in a new musical with all your favs: The Rock, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Bezos (?!) and more! With songs like "Three Things (You Love Hot Springs)", "Put The Rock In 'Men In Black'", and "Everything's A Simulation", you won't want to leave this OFF BOOK universe. Plus, stay for an all new rap at the end!...

Comedian, writer, host and new author (!!!)  Guy Branum  ( My Life As A Goddess ) joins Zach and Jess on the OFF BOOK stage for a new musical filled with all the dogs, backflips, a florist named Daisy Violet, plus Stephen Sondheim and his wife! With songs like "Happy Days", "Do You Have Worth", and "See Less, Feel More", you'll be "In (Good) Company" with this new show! Th...

Kyle Dunnigan  (Inside Amy Schumer) is back in the Earwolf studios to join Zach and Jess for a new musical with husbands and wives, World of Warcraft, and of course: bears. With songs like "Little Bit Trish", "Big Ideas" and "Gettin' Up the Stairs", you'll definitely have "Great Taste" if you listen to this ep. more than once.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Jess and Zach are live with the hilarious  Baron Vaughn  (Grace & Frankie, Corporate) from the JFL Comedy Festival with a brand new musical packed with fun on the bus, a guy name Brackets and bird friends! With songs like "My Clothes Are Dirty", "Stalk That Guy", and "Stop", you definitely won't stop listening to this ep.  This episode is brought to you...

This week on OFF BOOK,  Mary Sohn  (AP Bio) joins Zach and Jess for a teen-aged adventure musical filled with crushes, 7-11, horse girls, S&M and more! With songs like "Clean Your Plate", "Not Ready to Be A Big Girl", "Can I Still Like Horses?" and more, you'll be blasting these tunes out of your Lamborghini for sure. Plus, guest pianist Dan Wessels! See Privacy Policy at h...

The lovely and talented  Jean Villepique  (AP Bio, Sharp Objects) hits the stage with Jess and Zach this week for an icy new musical with Buzzfeed listicles, yetis, Hell('s Kitchen) and more. With songs like "PropertyPropertyProperty.com", "Perfect For Kelsey" and "Living Wage", you won't be in hell listening to this new ep! This episode is brought to you by Mack Weldon (www.mackweldon.c...

The insanely hilarious  Bryan Safi  ( Throwing Shade ) joins Jess and Zach for the quickest conceived musical to date! If you ever wanted to hear a rock musical about a talent competition reality show, One Direction-esque kid contestants, "Oasis", the Pope, and more, this is the show for you! With songs like "Dear Lord", "When's The Worst Time For Divorce" and "Ghost Coconut", you'l...

It's OFF BOOK 's one-year anniversary and we have a blow out episode with all your favorite characters old and new! With Scott Aukerman, Paul Scheer, Paul F. Tompkins, Nicole Parker, Zeke Nicholson, John Hartman, Erin Whitehead, Eliza Skinner, Tawny Newsome and Ashley Ward, plus a very special surprise ending for all you Sleepy Babies! Is this OFF BOOK's real final episode?! Yo...

Zach  &  Jess  take the stage solo for the first time on  OFF BOOK  with king of pianist, pianist of kings  Scott Passarella  joining behind the mic for a bit! It's a musical revolution packed with talking animals, harpsichords, and Tom Ka soup. With trippy songs like "Soup to the Troops", "Sherbert von Vanilla" and "Stupid Stupid Stupid Motivation", you'll b...

It's an ultra meta-musical this week on OFF BOOK with guests  Matt Rogers  and  Bowen Yang  of the  Las Culturistas [foreverdogproductions.com]  podcast. Musical tropes! "Let it Go" in every Broadway show! The Disney corporation! Minions! Showmances! RENT references! And more! With songs like "You Gotta Push Merch", "(Let's Put) 'Let It Go' In The Goddamn Show", and "...

Improv and film superstar  Eugene Cordero  (Kong: Skull Island,  The Dumbbells ) joins Jess & Zach this week for a musical packed with old time-y movie stars, mom-agers, and Ryan Lochte (?!). With songs like "Party! Pizza Party!", "Boom Boom Hollywood", "A Movie Star & A Legally Blind Man", you'll want to audition for this show in a heartbeat.  This episode is brought t...

Special guest  Chris Redd  (Saturday Night Live, POPSTAR) joins Zach and Jess live from Clusterfest in San Francisco for a brand-new improvised musical filled with spies, geocaching, Paddington bear and more! With songs like "Stop Using Sex As A Weapon", "Who Is Q-Tip?", "We Got Some Boyz Rollin' Up" you won't want to miss this one. Listen 'til the end for a special talk-back "...

Hillary Anne Matthews  joins the OFF BOOK crew this week for a new musical packed with literary men like Faulkner and Twain, Harry Potter hats, bushy mustaches, lineage mysteries and more! With songs like "What Do You Want Here Faulkner?", "You Ain't Ready Pa", power ballad "When Will We Have Time?", and a killer rap at the end, you won't stop listening to these (railroad) tracks! This e...

This week on OFF BOOK,  Mano Agapion  joins Jess and Zach for a new musical filled with attic-drinking, mushrooms, princesses and LiveJournal entries packed with feelings. With your "Current Music" being songs like "Pounding Vodka In An Attic", "Put it on the Internet" and "It's Fun to be Kidnapped", your "Current Mood" will be: so excited! Plus, a new in-studio surprise instrument? Yes!...

The incredible  Nicole Byer  (Nailed It!) and  John Gemberling  (Broad City) join Jess and Zach live at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles for an all new weather, sex-ed, and Lean Cuisine-filled rock musical improvised on the spot! With songs like "Through To Them", "What The Weather Do", and "Beep Beep Goes the Lean Cuisine", you'll finally graduate "Punk Rock Aca...