Carnival Personnel

CPP Ep 248 - Seven Years Of Bad Luck

HOLY SNICKIES – 7 YEARS OF OUR CRAP.

Yep … 1^st 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)

CPP Sideshow 127 - Joseph Katz - Comedian and Possible Time-Traveler

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)

CPP Ep. 247 - Better Than The Brady Roast

Been a minute since Biff Joe and Jacques were on a pod together! Chatted being on a show (and Joe being part of the fun) this past weekend (thanks to pals Wayne and Anthony from Open Mic Pain Podcast) – with them AND Boston Comedy Fest 2024 Co-Champ Casey Crawford (who is our guest in 3 weeks!) As a legit news source for so many, we’d be doing a disservice if we didn’t weigh in with our well-educated opinions on the Kendrick v Drake kerfuffle, the Tyson v Jake Paul upcoming bout and Netflix editing Kim Kardashian being boo-ed edit out of Brady Roast. Also yap - Jay Weinberg being MORE then Max Weinberg’s son, Boston’s PWHL triple OT playoff win (a little NHL stuff), New Batman video game JUST being on Meta VR (maybe), parenting tips and a show stopping – pulled from the CPP Vault, Joe’s self-indulgent theater rendition of Paul Lynde singing Sinatra’s “My Way!” Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny                  Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast @TheJacques4 Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber   Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years On Spotify)   Closing Song: 614 by Beyond Id (The Stovin’ Years On Spotify)

CPP Sideshow 126 - Anjelica Scannura! 2024 Boston Comedy Festival Co-Champ and World Renown Belly Dancer

Anjelica Scunnura is our amazingly brilliant guest this week!

World Renown Dancer – Actress - Host of the popular YouTube show “Angelica’s Daily Surprise” and … AND the co-Champion of the 2024 Boston Comedy Festival!

Zooming in to chat with us from arguably one of the top 10 cities in the world over all and top 5 (maybe top 3) for comedy, Toronto!

Incorporating a life time of professional dancing (Belly, Irish Step, Ballroom … not sure about Breakin’) into her comedy – really makes her stand out!

Super fun chat in which Anjelica does argue the fact that YES, the driving 6 hours to gigs DOES count as part of your 10,000 hours IF … your working material and coming up with bits (as she does with her boyfriend who is also a comedian) … Jacques listening to Pavement albums and Jack Benny Radio shows from 1938 on his drives … Not as much.

Anjelica is a unique voice in comedy – expressive, physical humor and someone whose bandwagon you should be jumping on now.

Subscribe to her YouTube show: Anjelica’s Daily Surprise                                            Follow her on IG/TT/FB @SCANOOCH

Jacques on IG/FB: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast – TiKTok: JacquesFunny

                 Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

 

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

 

Closing Song: Dumb Irish Poet (by John Hunt /FiveHead)

CPP EP 246 - Jacques Fall Down Go Boom - Calls Joe

Jacques and Joe chat how aside from Jacques sister having a surgery and his brother having a work accident breaking 6 ribs and being in hospital a few days … he not wanting to be left out … took a spill and used his “phone a friend” final answer to say to Joe … hey, keep an eye on me as I might be concussed … again.

Jacques chat’s his comedy progress and his trying to be more active for comedy AND pod on the socials and feeling like Willy Lowman from Death of A Salesmen more and more each day – good thing his 13 year old is willing to help the old man out.

Talk a little video games (Strays .. where you play as a lost cat) – and talk a LOT of Doctor Who rabbit hole.

Jacques on IG: Carnivalpersonnelpodcast Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert AND @CarnivalPersonnelpodcast AND @jacquesfunny

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

 

Opening: Joe singing JUMP by Van Halen AS Adam Sandler

 

Closing Song: Gates Of Hell (Sebadoh Cover by Beyond Id of The Stovin’ Years on Spotify … 1994 WMFO live recording)

CPP Sideshow 125: Katherine Rye Jewell – Author of LIVE From The Underground – A History Of College Radio

For well over a year before it came out, Jacques has been following on social media, the process and progress of author Katherine Rye Jewell while writing: LIVE From The Underground – A History Of College Radio. As Katherine would unearth believe to be lost treasures (like CMJ charts, schools play list from 1978, articles in favor of censorship for a college radio station from the same colleges student new paper) she’d post these finds and allow you to ride shotgun through every step of the way. Being a tiny world, Katherine is a professor at Fitchburg State … The same Fitchburg State (somehow) Jacques graduated from AND where he was a DJ on their station WXPL (which is where he met his bandmate/brother John.  And either John or friend of podcast Professor Chris Cook brought Katherine to Jacques’ radar!) This is a DEEP dive into the over-all history of college radio – how senate land grand acts of the 1930s… led to Pixies and Mission Of Burma becoming college music darlings despite EVERYTHING working against college radio from existing – unsupportive school administrations AND student organizations, record companies not seeing them as worth sending free records to … to Tipper Gore – Parent Music Council and the Batman-forsaken FCC! GET THIS BOOK and get it on Audible too! Follow Katherine on Twitter @Katisjewell, Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert   Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years on Spotify)   Closing Song: Other Break by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years on Spotify)

CCP Sideshow 124 - Alana Foden: Comedian, Producer, Sex Toy Expert!

Alana Foden got a late start in comedy and build up her confidence in the most unique way – fighting a traffic ticket in court and running sex toy parties! Right!!!

Instantly seeing how awful trying to get booked on “real” shows can be, the scams and how some venues just can’t work for comedy shows, she started producing her own shows.

Being very funny, knowing how to produce events and a relentless work ethic – Alana’s has earned so much respect from all in the New England scene.  As a comic putting in the time towards her craft and as a producer who only wants to create win-win-win (for comics, for the venues and for herself) PLUS prioritizing giving new comics stage time on REAL shows, she has fans in all corners of the industry!

AND … she is a RIOT!!!!

Reach out on socials to: Alana Foden BUT best way to connect is: ComedyOnPurpoose@gmail.com

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on IG @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast, Twitter @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert

 

Comedy clips from Alana Foden from The Steve Katsos show 

 

Closing Song: Laid by Beyond Id (off The Stovin’ Years)

CPP EP 245 - We Eclipses (Very Low) Expectations

Happy Tax Day – To those who pay them!

Joe and Jacques flying solo, they chat this past weeks Eclipses, Joe’s kids being 1 of the 12 Angry Men in the high school play, and semi legit parenting tips (what?  Asshole OJ Simpsons dies (of Asshole cancer … as rare “W” for cancer).

We chat seeing last two sideshow guest, Legendary Tony V and the very funny very busy producer, Dave Rattigan at a wanna-be Knights Of (not that) Columbus function hall on a beat up dead end industrial road in Arlington … and that show was awesome. 

Jacques weekly 1v1 beatings from comedy mentor Mike Koutrobis continue and Jacques opened another Mike show with headline and at this point, legit pal, Steve Bjork.

Chat some 2006 Doc Who and friend of podcast, C & O’s Dave FINALLY getting to see his beloved West Ham play live in London.

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert

 

Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id 

 

Closing Song: Struggly by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years)

CPP Sideshow 123 - Dave Rattigan - The Scamps of New England Comedy

Dave Rattigan, headlining comedian and one of the regions busiest comedy show producers - jumped into the world of stand up a little later than most but quickly made up for lost time. Starting with a gift for comedy classes from (his then wife) and being a teacher of public speaking, Dave quickly climbed the ladder. We chat with Dave about (of course) his Dick Doherty stories (and YES, somewhere in his house he DOES have Dick Bucks!)  How Dave grew as a comic and how his comedy navigated covid (parking lot comedy baby!) Through his company Scamps Comedy, Dave runs well over 200 shows a year all over New England while still carving out time to write new material. Nothing is better than live comedy so get out an see one of Dave’s shows ASAP! Give Dave a follow on IG: Scamps Comedy and FB: Scamps Comedy Productions Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert But mostly on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast   Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id  Closing Song: Wedding Present by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years)

CPP EP 244 - Boston Comedy Festival Recap … Mostly

Jacques spent 6 days – working the Boston Comedy Fest and was able to con Joe into helping a couple times … and having a blast. Hanging with Tony V a couple times, meeting Michael Gross (Dad from Family Ties) and lining up a whole bunch of amazing comics from all over to do up-coming sideshow! Biff is off the injured reserves list and back in the game … talking Baltimore Bridge and INSTANTLY debunking Jacques conspiracy theory! Little chat about new Ghost Busters movie and a NEW impression from Joe (Bill Burr) in a great “Self-Indulgent Theater” CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast, Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast                                                                                            Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert   Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id    Closing Song: Wedding Present by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years)