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 Jul 22, 2024
Monday Jul 22, 2024
I don’t think we ever had REAL breaking news while recording an episode … but news broke (sadly) Biden is stepping aside … and we talk about … The passing of the GREAT Bob Newhart.
Joe chats the new NES Champions DELUX he picks up this week and the history of “The Golden” cartilage!
Chat more dead New England comedy summer shows and the few bright spots along the way.
Jacques chats his sons sad trip to St. Louis (and taking them 3 days to get home cause Delta Airlines SUCKS)
Little Godzilla Minus One talk with Biff and well … that’s mostly it.
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Beyond Id “Gomer” (off The Stovin’ Years on Spotify)
Closing Song: Reunion Café by Dan Cray (of Wetbrian album on Spotify and DanCray.Net)
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Career hockey referee turn headline comedian (turn podcaster) – Mark Riley was our guest this week.
It was just Jacques and Mark, so it’s not that the chat went off the rails … there were no railed to keep them on tract to start.
Mark has one of the most interesting paths to the mic of any comedian quest we’ve had.
Mark’s podcast Chirping Zebra is a must subscribe to if you're a hockey person … who also likes to laugh a lot.
MarkRileyComedy and Chripingzebras on IG on Facebook - MarkRiley And FrankieChrips is also a fun follow on IG
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: WKRP Parody by Joe and Youtuber: Chipboy
Closing Song: Laid by Beyond Id off The Stovin’ Years (on Spotify)
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
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1986 Jacques went to Nick’s Comedy Stop with a buddy from his hockey team … a short 38 years later – He (with Joe there to make it a great night) did a set on the stage the truly launched hundreds of comedy careers. Thank you Mr. Mike Koutrobis! On the other side of the comedy coin, Jacques chats the epidemic of dead shows in the summer and looking forward to LA trip and working with Danta and Sally. When Joe hears “bike shop” he goes to a happy place (Pee Wee’s Big Adv) … Jacques goes to Bike Shop from Different Strokes. W – Joe. July 11th – the one and ONLY chance for a judge to sentence POS Trump (but we’re not holding our breath) – and credit where credit is do, once again the DEM Party masterfully demonstrating their skills of the circular firing squad NOW, with 3 months to go, saying Biden shouldn’t run. GOP – Evil, DEMS – Morons. Some football (soccer) talk, some tv talk, parenting tips … and live song (crappy quality) from Jacques’ band Beyond Id playing The Rat in 1993. Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4 Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Beyond Id “Gomer” (off The Stovin’ Years on Spotify) Closing Song: Beyond Id – Live At The Rat in Boston 1993
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Monday Jul 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
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Working comedian Liam Hales was our super fun guest this week. Liam can be seen somewhere in New England every weekend hosting or featuring. Most Saturday’s Liam is at McCue’s Comedy Club in Portsmouth – Also a regular at Smitty’s Cinema’s (in Maine & NH) as well as City Winery in Boston to name a few places. He is also an integral part of the Boston Comedy Festival production team. After time in a college improv troop, Liam spend a few years in Los Angeles working the comedy scene (where he cross paths with our great friend of ours Sally Mullin’s - Sleazy Does It On Amazon Prime) Liam’s material is very open, personal and relatable. He’s liked by and he cracks up all the big name comics (like Tony V) he works with and also goes out of his way to help the new comics (like Jacques) get stage time (as a comic and a host0 and is always so encouraging and supportive. Between his kindness and being 6-6 and build like a lot 70s Buick station wagon, Liam exemplifies the term gentle giant … but I still wouldn’t want to heckle him. Also, a big thank you to Liam for letting us use clips from his awesome comedy album: Please Forgive Me (available on Apple Music and other places … and there are some fun clips on YouTube as well). Always posting fun clips from shows, Liam is a great follow at: LiamHalesNH and McCuesComedyPortsmouth on IG Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4 Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Joe’s acapella of The Sugerhill Games “Rappers Delight” Closing Song: Building A Wall by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (Check out video Dan made for song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnlObttN-I)
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Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Biff and Jacques fly solo this week – chatting Jacques recent comedy adventures: Opening and hosting for ex NHL ref Mark Riley and another show with Steve Bjork where after, Jacques Mom let’s Steve know he is very funny and should stick with this comedy thing.
The only thing worse then everything in your house breaking at once is a repair person who tries bullying your wife into writing a better review as you catch him in the act of trying to mark up a part 600%.
Jacques has a St. Louis trip and a few weeks coming up then a few weeks in LA – doing comedy, yes. Play hockey … we’ll see.
Very little talk about the (hopefully but unlikely) jail time in Spray Tan Comb Overs July 11th sentencing … but then onto Stanly Cup and Celtics championship yapping.
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Gomer (by Beyond Id off album Stovin’ Years On Spotify)
Closing Song: Dan Cray “Quieter Now” Off album Best Ever (Dancray.net/Spotify)
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
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Comedian and a non-toxic middle-aged guy who is NOT afraid to tell his friends he loves them OR to openly talk mental health issues, MYSTARU is our guest this week. Rapper – Break Dancer – DJ – PROUD former Dunkin Donuts alumni turned comic and clearly the guy Ben Affleck modeled his Dunkings persona after – Mystaru is ALSO a pod (Vlod) cast co-host of “Real Or No Reelz” A competitor in McCue’s 2024 BCF – Mystaru is booked on shows (and hosting shows) all over New England on a constant basis. We chat how blown away we are of the mentoring some of the biggest and best names in New England comedy are constantly doing (like the great TONY and Steve) and how, yeah there are some tool bags in this club but the friends we’re making and the fun we’re having … It’s a heck of a ride. If you can’t find MYSTARU (Shawn Ruiz) or Real or no Reelz on ALL the socials – then you’re not looking very hard! (and YES we do chat his possible MySpace channel) Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4 Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Twilight Zone CPP Parody Closing Song: Best Ever by Dan Cray (off Best Ever on Spotify, DanCray.Net)
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Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Been a bit since Biff was on the podcast! Was a delight to have the whole starting line up back.
Joe gifted Jacques TWO awesome T-Shirts for his birthday this weed and we talk Jim McCue’s 3rd year anniversary shows at his comedy space in Portsmouth NH … and how Jacques did at that show!
We chat the run of great guest and plug next week’s sideshow with comedian Mystaru.
A debate raged over Monkeys riding Swans was a possibility and it was Ostriches in the video game Joust. You know – totally current and not insanely 1984 jr high stuff.
Some video game chat, so parenting tips and can Biff adopt Joe and marry Jacques and move to Japan if election in November doesn’t go well for democracy?
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Beyond Id “Struggly” (off The Stovin’ Years on Spotify)
Closing Song: Sin Pathetic by Dan Cray (off The Salad Days 1997)
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Casey Crawford, Co-Champ of the 24th Annual Boston Comedy Festival 2024, a Jimmy Kimmel Alumni and most likely the ONLY guest we’ll ever have on from South Dakota!
Casey made up for a (very) late start in comedy with an insanely meteoric rise the first couple years in comedy … and to do so from Nebraska’s 5-person comedy scene … WHAT?
Casey is an absurdist comedian who delivers his out of left field jokes while in a semi crazed, let’s give THIS guy some space when he gets on the subway, character.
We had the most insanely fun and cerebral chat regarding breaking down the mathematics of a good fart joke.
Casey Crawford – IG: CaseyCrawford1978
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: WKRP Theme Song Parody (By Joe and YouTuber: Chipboy)
Closing Song: Beyond Id – Laid off “The Stovin’ Years” (BeyondId/Spotify)
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
HOLY SNICKIES – 7 YEARS OF OUR CRAP.
Yep … 1st CPP was Memorial Day Weekend 2017 – Insane. Pats were GREAT. My kids liked me … but 1600 Penn Ave was … not good.
Highlights from THIS episode … talking Jacques ripping a tooth out opening his pool (who had THAT on their bingo card), Joe’s kid graduating highschool and on to college, some celeb deaths (Dabney Coleman, Steve Lawrence, Morgan Spurlock)
Actual sports chat (briefly) as Jacques went to HISTORICAL game 2 of PWHL inaugural Walter Cup, Man City (predictable) wins Premier Leauge, and Joe watched B’s break Boston’s hearts again.
TV chat – Joes loving Fall Out and Jacques could only stomach ep 1 of 3 of Ashley Madison doc.
Little gaming talk. Parenting Tips and much much more … like too much … we gotta keep this to an hour.
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: WKRP Theme Song Parody (By Joe and YouTuber: Chipboy)
Closing Song: Beyond Id – Lepton’s Bingo Teddy (BeyondId/Spotify)
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
83-Year-Old-Jewish-Vaudevillian trapped inside a 24-year-old’s body, Joseph Katz is our guest this week.
A finalist in the 2024 Boston Comedy Festival – Joseph Katz chats with OUR Joe and Jacques about their mutual love for the Dick Van Dyke Show, Jack Benny and pre-Carson Tonight Show (Note: we all also LOVE Carson’s Tonight Show.) Katz had a cable access (Daily Show) type program in high school, followed by his college radio comedy talk show at WMUL at UMass Lowell (about 3 miles from Jacques’ shack) – Comedy IS his life! And his life is pretty good!
Katz falls somewhere between the great Emo Phillips and the Boston Legend Steven Wright. An “absurdist” style of very smart humor with hard to see coming, sharp right turns.
The youngest comic on the finals stage at BCF this year and he’s only going to get more seasoned. He is truly one to watch as he’s just that lucky break from becoming a nationally known comic.
Follow Joe Katz: JooeKatzComedy on IG
Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny
Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Opening Song: Welcome Back Kotter Parody (By Joe and YouTuber: Chipboy)
Closing Song: Dan Cray “Where U Been” Off album Best Ever (Dancray.net/Spotify)