
Show overview
SmartLess Presents ClueLess has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 116 episodes, alongside 3 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 14 min and 19 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 76 episodes published. Published by SiriusXM | SmartLess Media.
From the publisher
SmartLess Presents ClueLess is a bite-sized, biweekly podcast (10-12 minutes an episode), in which our host, Emmy-winning writer Elliott Kalan, guides the listener through different puzzles, brainteasers, & conundrums to see if they’re faster than this season's contestant Sean Hayes!
Latest Episodes
View all 116 episodesRe-release: 217 - Take A Wild Guess/Tone Note (w/ Kristen Schaal and Matt Oberg)
Re-release: 216 - Word Sandwich/Word Centipede (w/ Kristen Schaal and Matt Oberg)
Re-release: 215 - Take A Wild Guess/This Or That (w/ Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero)
Re-release: 214 - Odd Throuples/Bot Bops (w/ Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero)
Re-release: 213 - Odd Throuples/Coupled Up (w/ Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero)
Re-release: 212 - Leg Day/This Or That (w/ Janet Varney and Neil Patrick Harris)
Re-release: 211 - Breaking The Law/Linkuistics (w/ Janet Varney and Neil Patrick Harris)
Re-release: 210 - Take A Wild Guess/Tone Note (w/ Janet Varney and John Hodgman)
Re-release: 209 - A Hello To Arms/Odd One Out (w/ Janet Varney and John Hodgman)
Re-release: 208 - The Sort ‘Em Consortium (w/ Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman)
Re-release: 206 - This Or That? (w/ Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman)
Re-release: 205 - Bizarro Movie Guide (w/ Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman)
While our host Elliott Kalan is otherwise engaged this week, putting the finishing touches on his 10-part documentary series New Jersey: Jewel Of The Americas, please enjoy another brain-twisting re-release! On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan welcomes back his friends, the hilarious Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman (married comedians and hosts of the podcast Couples Therapy) to flip through the uncanny pages of the Bizarro Movie Guide! A copy of the TV listings has fallen into Elliott’s possession from an alternate universe where things are pretty opposite, can you make heads or tails of the titles in their RomComs section, and translate them back into our world? Keep track of your answers, you’ll need them to solve the MegaClue! And before that: PHOBIAS. Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Re-release: 204 - Word Centipede (w/ Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman)
While our host Elliott Kalan is busy this week preparing his one-man performance of The Taking Of Pelham 123, please enjoy another hilarious re-release! On this episode of ClueLess, Elliott invites his friends Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman, married couple and hosts of the podcast Couples Therapy, to contend with the many limbs of our old foe, the Word Centipede! Elliott will give you three words, and you have to figure out which new word can be added either in front of or behind them to create three new compound words! Can you do it faster than Naomi and Andy? And can you keep track of your answers to defeat the MegaClue?! Puzzles in this episode are by Kevin Leman and Matt Pack. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Re-release: 203: Bot Bops (w/ Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman)
While our host Elliott Kalan is busy this week completing his scholarly tome on the social history of the chicken tender, please enjoy another repeat performance! On this episode of ClueLess, Elliott welcomes back comedians, best friends, and co-hosts of I Need You Guys, Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman, to attend another infernal recital of Bot Bops! Elliott’s non-branded digital assistant will regale you with five classic songs in its own cold, inhuman style, name the song for one point and the artist for another point! Keep track of your answers in order to solve the MegaClue! Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Re-release: 202 - Word Workout (w/ Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman)
While Elliott is otherwise engaged this week cataloguing his Oingo Boingo B-sides, please enjoy a repeat performance of this Season 2 episode featuring the hilarious Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman from the SmartLess Media show I Need You Guys! In this episode, Max and Gabe will tackle some out-of-this-world questions about astronaut movies, and then they'll help words get very slightly smaller in another round of Word Workout! Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond and Brock Mahan. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 97217 - Take A Wild Guess/Tone Note (w/ Kristen Schaal and Matt Oberg)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan welcomes back his hilarious pals Kristen Schaal (Bob’s Burgers, What We Do In The Shadows, The Last Man On Earth) and Matt Oberg (Abbott Elementary, The Real O’Neals, Harley Quinn) to get into the ballpark and Take A Wild Guess about the popularity of English words! Then, it’s a return of our old friend Tone Note, Elliott will give you a clue and the answer is a two word phrase where the words are anagrams of each other, just like the game’s name, Tone Note! The MegaClue will ask you for a monstrously complex anagram! Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 96216 - Word Sandwich/Word Centipede (w/ Kristen Schaal and Matt Oberg)
On this episode of ClueLess, it’s like a dang dictionary in here with all these words! Host Elliott Kalan invites his hilarious friends Kristen Schaal (Bob’s Burgers, What We Do In The Shadows, The Last Man On Earth) and Matt Oberg (Abbott Elementary, The Real O’Neals, Harley Quinn) to contend with both a sandwich made out of words and then, incredibly, a centipede also made out of words! Get your brain limber, get a pen and paper, and settle in for a hilarious bonus-length episode testing your word recall! Kristen would really like you to know: cigarettes are NOT cool. New episodes every Monday. Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Re-release: 201 - State Of Confusion (w/ Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman)
While Elliott is away this week constructing a life-sized butter sculpture of President Rutherford B Hayes, please enjoy a repeat performance of our Season 2 premiere episode, featuring the hilarious Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman from the SmartLess Media show I Need You Guys! In this episode, Max and Gabe will be put through their paces with an opening game about the periodic table of the elements (meet us on row 5), and then they’ll get the rambling bug with a return of our game State Of Confusion! Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Brock Mahan. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE. Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 95215 - Take A Wild Guess/This Or That (w/ Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan invites married comedians Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero (co-hosts of The Endless Honeymoon podcast) to get into the ballpark with our game Take A Wild Guess! You don’t need to actually know the answer, just estimate what you think it might be, and try to get as close as you can! Then, after a bit of friction about whether DJ’ing is actually playing a musical instrument or not, we’ll put them through their paces with a round of This Or That in which Elliott asks who said a famous quote: Yoda, or Yogi Berra! Follow Moshe @moshekasher on InstaFollow Natasha @natashaleggero on InstaListen to The Endless Honeymoon anywhere you get your podcasts! New episodes every Monday.Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Brock Mahan.Script by Elliott Kalan.Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE.Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 94214 - Odd Throuples/Bot Bops (w/ Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero)
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan welcomes back comedians and married couple Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero (co-hosts of The Endless Honeymoon podcast) to explore the intersection of pop culture and Presidents with another round of Odd Throuples. Then, it’s the return of our favorite non-branded digital assistant in Bot Bops - name the song title for one point, and the artist for another! Keep track of your answers, you’ll need them to defeat the MegaClue! Follow Moshe @moshekasher on InstaFollow Natasha @natashaleggero on InstaListen to The Endless Honeymoon anywhere you get your podcasts! New episodes every Monday.Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich and Brock Mahan.Script by Elliott Kalan.Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant. Buy Elliott’s book Joke Farming: How To Write Comedy And Other Nonsense HERE.Buy Devon’s album Blame It On My Zodiac HERE or stream it anywhere you listen to records. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.