New Milford Man Readies for His Game Show Episode to Air

Matt Austin is a New Milford resident and stage actor preparing for his TV debut. He recently appeared on the NBC game show Password, and his episode will air next week. We caught up with Matt on the Wednesday (12/03/25) edition of the I-95 Morning Show to hear about his experience, and these were some of the highlights from our conversation.

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Lou: This is exciting for you, we read in the News Times that you've been a lifelong fan of game shows. How did you find your way onto Password?

Matt: "Yeah, growing up I used to watch the old game shows like Match Game and Password when I'd come home from school with my grandmother. So, it's been like a life goal to be on a game show for me. And it's a long story, but I was supposed to be on Press Your Luck last summer — no whammies — but the tape dates were the week of my honeymoon, so I unfortunately couldn't do that. So they put me in a little file, and they reached out to me. They were looking for someone for Password and it was great, it was really great."

Lou: And you say Jimmy Fallon is on there too, did you get to interact with him, was he on your team?

Matt: "Yeah, so half of the show I got to play with Jimmy Fallon and half the show I got to play with Jonathan Groff from Broadway and Frozen. So it was really fun. I was Jimmy's partner for half of the show and Jonathan's partner for the other half. So it was really cool, and Jimmy Fallon is exactly as he is on television. The amount of energy is crazy. I had been sitting there for three hours in a green room and I was exhausted, and I couldn't believe he was taping three that day, so that was crazy."

Matt's episode will air twice, this Monday (12/8/25) at 10pm, and then they are showing it again, Thursday, December 18th at 8pm. Be sure to tune in and see how Matt did.

You can listen to out complete interview with Matt Austin below.

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