Go Fact Yourself LIVE with Alex Borstein and Ego Nwodim
- The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
Go Fact Yourself – “the podcast where we quiz the smartest celebrities we know, and find out why they love what they love” – is back at The Crawford! The show will be recorded as a podcast, but you'll be able to see and hear it weeks before the rest of the world.
Hosts J. Keith van Straaten (he/him) and Helen Hong (she/her) will welcome special celebrity guests Alex Borstein (she/her) and Ego Nwodim (she/her) and plus super-secret experts to try to stump them in their self-proclaimed areas of expertise.
Register for free for general admission or reserve a guaranteed seat for $15.
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
Helen Hong is a fan favorite on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and is also known for her scene-stealing roles on Silicon Valley, Never Have I Ever, and The Unicorn. She brings awareness to Asian-American issues with her family’s YouTube channel Old Korean Dad Stories, and hosts the trivia podcast Go Fact Yourself.
Helen was featured in the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis, and is a recurring character in two series, The Thundermans on Nickelodeon and Blunt Talk on Starz. Helen has also guest starred on Jane the Virgin, Parks and Recreation, Pretty Little Liars, and Splitting Up Together.
Helen’s sharp wit on current events have been featured on CNN, PBS, The Young Turks and The Stephanie Miller Show. A proud feminist and political progressive, her opinion videos on NowThis have surpassed 7.1 million views.
Helen has performed for the troops in the Middle East and for international audiences in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
She always wants to pet your dog and have a bite of your donut. DO NOT LET HER HAVE THE WHOLE DONUT.
ABOUT ALEX BORSTEIN
ALEX BORSTEIN is a multi-hyphenate talent who wrote for Showtime’s long-running series SHAMELESS as well as FOX’s FAMILY GUY. She then followed that by starring along-side Laurie Metcalf in HBO’s, GETTING ON, where she brought the vulnerable character of Dawn Forcehette to life. Getting On rose to critical acclaim during its three seasons as it followed the daily lives of put upon nurses and doctors as they struggle with the dark comedic realities of caring for the elderly in an overwhelmed healthcare system.
Alex won two Emmy’s for her turn as Susie Myerson on Amazon Prime’s award winning series, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL. She also took home an Emmy for her voiceover work as Lois Griffin on FOX’s long-running, mega-hit, FAMILY GUY.
Most recently you can see Alex on her critically acclaimed Amazon Prime comedy special, ALEX BORSTEIN: CORSETS & CLOWN SUITS.
On the film front, Borstein was recently seen in Love, The Coopers with Alan Arkin and Diane Keaton. She also appeared in Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways To Die in The West as Millie, the madam in the town’s brothel. In the summer of 2012, Borstein also appeared in MacFarlane’s directorial debut Ted, also released by Universal. The film became the highest-grossing original R-rated film of all time, bringing in $545 million dollars worldwide. Previously, Borstein appeared opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Scott Frank's The Lookout, in Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton and in The Lizzie Mcguire Movie withHilary Duff. Not just a comedic actress, Borstein starred alongside George Clooney in the six-time Academy Award-nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck. Her role as Natalie also earned her a Screen Actor’s Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in Motion Picture. The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, and was awarded Movie of the Year by the American Film Institute.
Originally from Chicago, Borstein graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Rhetoric.
ABOUT EGO NWODIM
Ego is in her fifth season as a main cast member on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. She can be seen in Jeff Baena's SPIN ME ROUND, opposite Allison Brie, Alessandro Nivola, and Aubrey Plaza. She also appears in the film LYLE LYLE CROCODILE for Sony, directed by Speck & Gordon, alongside Javier Bardem and Constance Wu, as well as the Netflix romantic comedy PLAYERS with Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr. and Tom Ellis, to be released later this year.
Ego also appears in the second season of HBOMax’s LOVE LIFE opposite William Harper Jackson, the Apple Anthology series ROAR, written by GLOW’s Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive, and the upcoming fourth season of the HBO Max series MIRACLE WORKERS.
Other credits of hers include Hulu's SHRILL, IFC's BROCKMIRE, and THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY. She is a fan favorite and regular on the Comedy Bang Bang Podcast. Ego was recognized by Variety as part of their 2021 New York Women’s Impact Report.
Prior to SNL, she was a mainstay at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles and performed as a New Face at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2016. She was also featured in the 2016 CBS Diversity Showcase. Her first ever one-woman show, GREAT BLACK WOMEN…AND THEN THERE’S ME had a sold out run in 2017 at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles.
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