Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Thomas Jane and Grey DeLisle
- The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
Go Fact Yourself is a pop culture trivia show hosted by J. Keith van Straaten (he/him) (Ask Me Another, Senior Writer) and Helen Hong (she/her) (Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, recurring panelist).
On May 10th, actor Thomas Jane (he/him) and voice actress and singer-song writer Grey DeLisle (she/her), plus surprise guest experts will join J. Keith and Helen for a trivia show like no other!
Register for free for general admission or reserve a guaranteed seat for $20. Bar concessions available starting at 6 p.m.
Lineup subject to change. This program may contain some mature language or themes.
Go Fact Yourself can be heard on LAist 89.3 on Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Sundays at 8 p.m.
ABOUT J. KEITH VAN STRAATEN
J. Keith van Straaten is a content producer/writer for TV game shows, including The Hustler, Master Minds, Funny You Should Ask, and In the USA Today, and wrote trivia questions for Bally Sports. He was also a longtime senior writer on NPR’s Ask Me Another.
Previously, he wrote many of the games on GSN’s Chain Reaction and the iPhone trivia app Arena. He created and hosted the live matchmaking show The Fix-Up Show, as well as hosting What’s My Line? – Live On Stage and Comedy Central’s Beat The Geeks.
J. Keith has appeared on Best Week Ever, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beverly Hills, 90210, and a deleted scene in Gilmore Girls.
As a journalist, J. Keith has written about COVID and comedy for the Los Angeles Times, points and miles for ThePointsGuy.com, and theatre for tdf Stages magazine.
J. Keith has two cats and is an avid Angels fan.
ABOUT HELEN HONG
A fan favorite on the hit NPR podcast Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Helen Hong also co-hosts the celebrity trivia game show podcast Go Fact Yourself. Helen's acting credits include roles on Never Have I Ever, Silicon Valley, the Jennifer Garner Christmas movie Family Switch, and 5 seasons of The Thundermans on Nickelodeon.
A long-time touring standup comedian, Helen's comedy special Well Hong was co-produced by Comedy Dynamics and Tribeca Film Festival, and is streaming now on Amazon Prime & Apple TV+. Audiences love Helen's lightning quick crowdwork which can be seen on her Instagram and TikTok @funnyhelenhong.
A breast cancer survivor, Helen makes light of her cancer experience (and her "fresh new boobies") onstage. She also brings light to Asian-American issues with her family's YouTube channel "Old Korean Dad Stories."
If you bring Helen a Topo Chico and a mini Snickers bar, she will love you FOREVER.
ABOUT THOMAS JANE
Actor, Director, and Author Thomas Jane is a triple Golden Globe Award nominee for the comedy series Hung, and has starred in such classic films as The Thin Red Line, Deep Blue Sea, Boogie Nights, The Punisher, and The Mist. He won critical acclaim for his role as New York Yankees baseball legend Mickey Mantle in HBO’s 61* and was seen on TV in the Alcon/SyFy series The Expanse, which he also directed.
Thomas’s production company, Renegade, launched in 2019 and recently released the second season of their scripted series Troppo (based on the bestselling novel by Candice Fox). Thomas stars and directs in that series, for Amazon and AGC Studios.
During the 2020s, Renegade Entertainment completed production on: Murder At Yellowstone City(starring Gabriel Byrne, Isaiah Mustafa, and Thomas Jane); The Last Son (starring Thomas Jane, Sam Worthington, and Colson Baker); and the noir thriller Dig (starring Thomas Jane, Harlow Jane, and Emile Hirsch). In 2025, he wrapped the upcoming western Frontier Crucible with Armie Hammer, which Jane both produces and stars.
Thomas and Renegade co-created the comic book miniseries The Lycan, just released on ComiXology Originals. Thomas is also producing the thriller Gathering Dark for MGM, based on the novel by Candice Fox. In 2020, Thomas starred in 20th Century Fox’s The Predator, directed by Shane Black, and in 2025 he worked with Shane again on Play Dirty with Mark Wahlberg.
Thomas is currently completing his non-fiction book, A Human’s Guide to Visiting Aliens. After 80 years of first-hand eyewitness reports about what were once called flying saucers, then UFOs, now UAP, it’s time to ask: what kind of universe do we live in?
It turns out the real world is much more fantastic than what we were taught at school. The existence of visiting aliens radically alters the landscape of our reality, from evolution to the nature of consciousness, from God and love to our understanding of time and space, advanced visiting aliens will radically alter our concept of the universe — and ourselves.
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