Carnival Personnel

The brilliant, funny, world traveling host of the Any Given Yesterday podcast and the official CPP senior Futbol Correspondent, Dave LaPoint returns.

Does FIFA suck and somehow get worse EVERY day? Yes.

Was the 2026 World Cup amazing and a (mostly) incredible tournament, YES.  We were both pleasantly surprised … if not shocked … also .. yes.

Dave and Jacques chat the highlight and (few) low-lights and the evils that historically is VAR-gentina futbol.

Give Dave a follow across the socials and book mark Any Give Yesterday where are you down load your podcast AND get ready for the podcast I’m trying to talk Dave into: HAMMERS HOME … documenting West Ham United quest to return to the premier league in 2027-2028 season.

Open / Closing Song: CTID – Haaland Norway Song (Viking World Cup Remix)

Biff and Jacques got to play catch up and you get to hear it all.  You luck lucky bastards.

Jacques epic drive to LA with one kid and drive home 6ish weeks later with the other one … and all the world cup stand up hunt for munga figures in Little Tokyo LA chat you can want.

Biff talks deep sea fishing with son and grand kid and how awesome our mentor 98 year old Paul LaGlorie is and how awesome FNH still is even when it sucks.

Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (off The Stovin’ Years – On Spotify)

Closing Song: Bail Polish by Bantom Woods (off the album Bend 2026)

In honor of Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, enjoy this classic Carnival Personnel Sideshow #38 from July 26, 2018!

Jacques and Joe talk about their favorite Mel Brooks movies and TV shows! Your Show of Shows! Get Smart! The Producers! Blazing Saddles! Young Frankenstein! Spaceballs! Robin Hood: Men in Tights! Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, listen to this podcast party!

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Legend.  Truly.  Ritch Shydner is a comic legend.  Since 1977 Ritch has been a professional working comedian, writer, actor.   Endless Johnny Carson “The Tonight Show” appearances, IMDB page a mile long, PAID by Steve Martin to help right jokes for Roxanne!

A MUST follow across all the socials.  You like comedy, Hollywood … Ritch, The Stand-Up Historian is also a historian of Hollywood and Civil War Joke telling (I’m serious) and his content looks and sounds as amazing as the insane insider perspective Ritch is over flowing with.

His tips for dealing with joke thieves and how to really take advantage of every op that comes a comics way to learn and get better … this might be the funniest and longest PSA we’ve ever posted!

Opening: WKRP In Cincinnati parody by @Model_CHP3Y (on YouTube)

Closing Song: Donuts by Beyond Id (off The Stovin’ Years – On Spotify)

Gotta be careful and selective with your social media postings!  You put out fun, helpful and interesting content like – does and don’t on how to make REAL movies … then some weirdo will ask you to do their podcast and THAT … is how we got the beyond amazing JESSICA REDISH to chat with us.

Jessica … from starting a 99-seat musical theater in Chicago to film school in NYC to making movies in LA … Producer, Writer, Director, UCLA Adjunct Professor and … AND … Choreographer zoomed with us to talk her path in cinema and waging war on the rising tide of AI Slop!

 

Interested in how movies are made … take Jessica’s UCLA film 101 class this fall on line … and to get ready for the class or get ready to go shot your Citizen Kane – Jessica is a MUST follow across the socials.

 

And check out Jessica’s IMDB page and go watch her work!

 

Opening: WKRP In Cincinnati parody by @Model_CHP3Y (on YouTube)

Closing Song: New One by Beyond Id (off The Stovin’ Years – On Spotify)

Yes, Carnival Personnel Podcast has been on for over nine years! Now let's never speak of this again.

Jacques and Joe host another Biff-Free episode, with topics like Jacques hosting a comedy night with Steve Sweeney and Lenny Clarke, the World Cup coming to Boston, and Jacques preparing to drive cross-country with his older son to tour colleges in Southern California. Joe brags about his better half working on the Apple TV comedy-horror hit "Widow's Bay" and gives his first--and likely last--parenting tip of 2026 (also TV-related).

Opening Song: Gomer by Beyond Id (on Spotify on album “The Stovin’ Years)

Comedian, Actress, Comedy Shows/Game Show Producer … and Ghost Hunter, Rae Brain is our very fun guest on this weeks sideshow. From the lead in a dinner theater troupe in Vegas to her shows at Cube Underground … if it falls under the comedy umbrella, Rae is knee deep in it – she’s recording her music comedy album, is developing a legit comedians ghost hunting show (Scared Stupid), runs live gameshow events like The Dating Game and of course … lots of stand up. A fun person, a fun follow on line and someone who should be on your radar. Raebraincomedy and thecubeunderground on IG Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)   Closing Song: Laid by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)

Making up for last time (no regular episode of CPP in a few weeks … and still, sadly, no Biff) Joe and Jacques record this super long fun filled ADHD all over the map episode.

We start with going deep into the CPP vault and playing a fan favorite Joe – Self Indulgent Theater (which really, it’s not Joe being indulged ... but at Jacques demanding) … John Oliver doing the theme from Cheers.

Start off talking the fun new Eddie Murphy doc (and the need for him to do a puppeteering special) … which led to talking Dolemite Is My Name bio-pic Murphy did  …  which led to us watching and talking Rudy Ray Moore (the real Dolemite’s movie) The Human Tornado!

Into the weekly, this is why Tony V is the greatest talk and how awesome the Kristin O’Brien Town and City Fest show was couple weeks ago, 

Like to say thanks to Jim Gaffigan for I’m sure he’d say yes had we asked, uses of his clip on “Spring”!

Dominik Lay on the School Committee in Lowell has become Jacques “Public Enemy Number Dumb” and has set Jacques down path of getting more involved in local government … but also Jacques and Management did met Ed Markey this week!

Chat Managements amazing humanitarian trip to Ukraine last week to … driving a donated car from London to Lviv Ukraine and working at a dog sanctuary in Lviv.

Chat VAR questionable call in Westham Arsenal game being THE most consequential call in VAR Premier League history — giving Arsenal the title (over City) AND relegating the Hammers!

Chat the great Siskel and Ebert long run of shows of movie reviews, Dare Devil Reborn season 2, Maul – Shadow Lord and YES … squeezes in some Resident Evil 9 gaming talk.

… And … a parenting tip?

Opening Song: Gomer by Beyond Id (on Spotify on album “The Stovin’ Years)

Ending Song: Gates Of Hell – Sebadoh Cover by Beyond Id (live on WMFO 1994)

Comedian.  Producer. Booker … Latin Major in college and now comedy contest founder, Allison Dyen is our super fun guest this week on CPP Sideshow 161.

 

Jacques crossed paths with Allison last year JUST before she relocated to Palm Springs (where Frank Sinatra farted in pools) when she competed in the Miked-Up Comedy (Mike Koutrobis) South Shore Comedy Clash.

 

NOW Allison is now in the “stepped in old Hollywood” desert playground, where come THIS October 10-11^th 2026, she’s producing the inaugural DyenForLaughsComedyCompetition.com (Submissions open now.)

 

Follow Allison across the socials and comics, get your submissions in NOW.

 

Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)

 

Closing Song: Laid by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)

Joni Grassey is your favorite comedian’s favorite comedian.  Go on … Go ask Ken “The Viper” Rogerson … go ask Sir Lenny Clark or the GREAT Mr. Tony V … ask bookers like Mike Smith …

 

Insane (and true) stories for days!  A walking spark-plug!

 

This episode does with a warning, “Joni Grassey is captivating and addicting, listen at your own risk!”

 

Joni’s roots in comedy start by watching Johnathan Winters with her dad on The Ed Sullivan Show to being a beloved Vegas stand-up for two decades to currently wooing audiences all over New England.

 

Super funny, super smart, super adorable and dorky! Again, you were warned.

 

Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)

 

Closing Song: Recess by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years album on Spotify)