Jacques & Joe (in Boston) have been doing comedy stuff since 94. Jacques & Biff (LA by way of Toronto/Tokyo) been on hockey team since 96. Yap pop culture and have cool guest - comedians, respected authors, renown scientist & scholars, prominent music folks, tv/film makers and just cool friends.
Episodes
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Buckle Up … this is a long one ... (that’s what she said) … no … no she ever actually said that ever.
Management and Jacques boys are in LA … Oasis and Halloween Horror Nights – While Jacques has Joe over to watch more early 70s Match Game
Chat passing of the great Ken Dryden, new season of Dexter, playing Atari 2600 games … and parenting tips.
Oh … and Jacques plugs some comedy stuff coming up,
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Opening: Welcome Back Kotter parody by @Model_CHP3Y (on YouTube)
Closing Song: Bitter Old Man (by Dan Cray off “Bitter Old Man” EP on Spotify and Youtube.)
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Kathe Farris got a late start in stand up … and laser tag … but has more than made up for lost time and is one of New England’s favorite headlining comics and she is willing to ruin any 9-year old’s birthday to get on the leader board.
Kathe also works with John Tobin Presents booking the most icon comedy spaces like Off Cabot (Beverly MA), Laugh Boston (Seaport area Of Boston) and The Comedy Scene (Patriots Place in Foxboro MA).
But maybe what she’s most proud of (other than her daughters) … Her Wine Cork Figures.
Treat yourself to some great laughs with Kathe’s Dry Bar Special “Stay At Home Super Hero” (on YouTube) – Her album “Have You Seen This Woman” (everywhere you get your podcast) BUT really – go see her this fall with the Mother Of Comedy Shows.
Follow Kathe on IG & FB: @GoCorkYourself & @Kathefarris
And gocorkyourself.com
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Thanks to Kathe for use of clips at beginning and end of the show from her Dry Bar Special
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
What a way to boost listener ship of a comedy – pop culture podcast … start with 15 minutes of football (soccer) … BIG news for LAFC (Jax family MLS team) .. Son Heung-min, greatest Korean Footballer signs.
Then we chat some of this and some of that.
First time in a spell the three clowns are in the same car (on same pod) together in a while.
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Opening: Welcome Back Kotter parody by @Model_CHP3Y (on YouTube)
Closing Song: Lepton’s Bingo Teddy by Beyond Id off The Stovin’ Years (out on spotify)
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Joe talks his epic trip to Mecca (Fun Spot Arcade in Laconia NH) and Jacques chats his current trip to Mecca (Los Angeles).
Bit of a long episode (your welcome) … cause it’s been a minute.
Joe is having a great vacation full of family time AND candle pin bowling.
Jacques LA time … Universal and LAFC games with his kid and meetings with friends of the podcast Dante The Comic, Ronak and Jenna. And some great and bad open mics.
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Opening: Welcome Back Kotter parody by @Model_CHP3Y (on YouTube)
Closing Song: Bitter Old Man (by Dan Cray off “Bitter Old Man” EP on Spotify and Youtube.)
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
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Producer. Director. Comedian … and easy on the eye, Mr. Glovebox Comedy, Cam is our super fun sideshow guest this week.
If you were looking for a podcast with two production nerds talking the importance of 1st meal on set being hot … then THIS is the podcast for you,
Jacques crossed paths in the stand-up circles with Cam pretty early on when he fell down this rabbit hole of weird people seeking approval from strangers by telling jokes about how bad at sex they are.
Cam, unlike so so many in this comedy thing – has actually real big-time credits on major TV and Movies AND … AND … again, unlike most talking about using those skills to do SOMETHING in comedy … Cam has turned Glovebox Comedy from occasionally producing booked shows and a weekly open mic into a full on comedy production (burgeoning) empire. Producing like stand up, comedy gameshows events, sketches and improv events.
Cam is a super fun follow on the social. Loving his tours of MBTA stations.
Camkmorton on IG Also: @glovebox.tv and @gloveboxcomedyclub
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Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (on “The Stovin’ Years on Spotify)
Closing Song: Bitter Old Man (by Dan Cray off “Bitter Old Man” EP on Spotify and Youtube.)
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Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
Worse schools in the industrialized world but cutting the Department Of Education is somehow … gonna help us catch up to German, Japan … and everywhere else with Math skills?
Same way bombing a country in the middle east is gonna make us all safer?
What?!
That … and some Stanley Cup chat, some video game talk and for those saying I wonder is Joe can channel the late great Scatman Crothers … the answers is a resounding YES. Also, a treat for music lovers as our comedian friend Anthony Eugenio recently gifted us his old bands CD! Pretty damn great.
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Opening: Joe singing couple verses of The Sugar Hill Gang “Rappers Delight”
Closing Song: The Waiting Place “Send Me A Sign” of The Waiting Place 5.8.10
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
The thing Joe loves MOST on this planet (sure sure wife and kids …) Old Game Shows and the thing Jacques loves MOST on this planet (comment censored) … old Sitcoms.
So when recently watching an episode of The Golden Girls … in which Dorothy ties out for Jeopardy (yes the great Alex Trebek AND Merv Griffen are on this episode) this send the boys down a rabbit hole which resulted in Joe’s Plex becoming a cornucopia of (mostly) sitcom’s in which one of the characters wound up on a REAL game show.
Starting with The Jackie Gleason Show in which the entire episode was a “Honeymooners” sketch where Ralph and Alice go on “Beat The Clock”
We have a hat trick of different sitcom’s crossing over with The Gong Show.
There are 8 billion people on this planet and 9 billion podcast … but only ONE which brings you a beat by beat breakdown of the October 3, 1986 magical cross over of the sitcom 227 and Wheel Of Fortune!
Yes, I DID say this is part 1 or … how many … let’s just say MORE then 2. You’re welcome ‘Merica.
Oh … the Golden Girls, Odd Couple and Mama’s Family (yeah, Mama’s Family) clips are used under the “Fair Usage” doctrine and we thank all for not suing us.
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Jacques takes a well-deserved break from helping an elderly woman get their house in order on the other side of the country to tell Joe and Biff all about the grueling--yet fulfulling (?)--ordeal in great detail. TL;DR: Set up your family trust TODAY!
Plus: Biff is watching anime and the Stanley Cup Final, and Joe is watching episodes of the 1980s game show "Scrabble" and his life slip away. Jacques also brings up a classic episode of "The Golden Girls" where Dorothy dreams of going on "Jeopardy!" and Joe is finally listening to what Jacques has to say on the podcast!
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Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Just kidding, it's not spectacular in the least.
Enjoy another regular old episode of Jacques, Joe and Biff talking about standup comedy, NHL hockey and TV watching. Oh, and Jacques does a very good deed for someone on the end of the country... the better end, some might say. Not to be confused with the "bitter end", to which is what we encourage you to listen to this whole episode.
And, you're welcome, no opening or closing music. Joe took over the "editing" for this one, and he don't got a lotta time for caring about production. No, sir, he has to devote what little free time he has to spending time with his friends (old game show episodes) and family (comments section on retro video game YouTube videos).
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
Joe and Jacques (and shockingly, more Joe then Jacques) talk the new movie based on the infamous 1984 episode of Press Your Luck where an Ice Cream truck driver from Ohio won over 100k in one day.
Was he cheating? Was it an inside job? Was it dumb luck? Is this guy who he says he is?
We had fun talking what the movie got right and what (admittedly) they took “artistic licensing with”.
40 years in the making and the movie and stars Paul Walter Hauser and Walton Goggins do not disappoint.
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Opening: The Press Your Luck 1984 Show Opening
Closing Song: The Press Your Luck 1984 Closing Theme