Carnival Personnel

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

 

 

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)

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 11^th 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)

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)

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 3^rd 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)

Casey Crawford, Co-Champ of the 24^th 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)