Carnival Personnel
375 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsJacques and Biff have been playing hockey and talking crap to and about each other for over 25 years. They don't have much to say but they say every week on the podcast. Sometimes ... they con smart, interesting and fun guest to come on.
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CCP Sideshow 124 - Alana Foden: Comedian, Producer, Sex Toy Expert!
April 18, 2024 04:01 - 59 minutes - 49 MBAlana 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 co...
CPP EP 245 - We Eclipses (Very Low) Expectations
April 15, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBHappy 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 Arlingt...
CPP Sideshow #123 - Dave Rattigan - The Scamps of New England Comedy
April 08, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDave 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 ...
CP EP 244 - Boston Comedy Festival Recap … Mostly
April 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBJacques 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 impressi...
CP Sideshow 122 - TONY V, The Comic, The Legend, The Trivia Question
March 25, 2024 04:01 - 59 minutes - 47.4 MB3/25/24 From losing track of days while playing cards at the infamous Ding Ho comedy club in the early 80s to being the FIRST comedian to perform at Fenway Park (opening for pal Bill Burr in 2023), comedian and actor Tony V has been a Boston Legend for over 40 years. TOMORROW March 25, 2024 at The City Winery in Boston as part of The Boston Comedy Festival, Tony will be getting his Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing all he has done and means to the City of Boston. If there was a fant...
CP EP 243 -Tigers and Lions and Bobcats ... OH MY!
March 18, 2024 04:05 - 1 hour - 68 MBBeen quit the yuk fest last two weeks for Joe and Jacques (SADLY, Biff is on ER this week) - but the numbers of shows they’re gone to and a couple nights of watching Joe’s Plex till 3am … they might have past the legal limit of laughter allowed. Jacques has had more “booked shows” in the last month then all last year and is hoping his 1 on 1 classes with mentor Mike Koutrobis and working with Jim McCue on HIS podcast and the Boston Comedy Festival (all next week) will lead to more spots ...
CP Sideshow 121 - Comedian/Actress Infini T & World- Renowned Pianist/Composer Sarah Infini Takagi (little secret … it’s the same amazing person!)
March 11, 2024 04:10 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBHilarious comedian, very talented actress, Composer and recently featured pianist at sold out Carnegie Hall concert – Sarah INFINI-T Takagi joins Joe, Jacques and her fellow native Japanese speaker Biff, for a really fun chat about balancing the many incredible arts she’s has made a name in! Jacques first chatted with Infini T six months ago about doing the show … but her non-stop tour de force schedule with music, comedy, acting and an over-do trip to visit family and friends in Japan –...
CPP EP 242 -A Couple Gabronies Yapping
March 04, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBJoe and Jacques chat a bit about the amazing wave of recent guest and the (3) sideshows with amazing guest already locked and loaded coming up the next few weeks! Joe has been dragged deeper down Jacques standup rabbit hole as both of them have been working with comedian (co-founder of the Boston Comedy Festival) Jim McCue gearing up Jim’s streaming podcast in prep for this months 24th annual festival. Also … has Jacques convince Joe too do the spinoff podcast of a Chris Elliott “Get A Li...
CPP Sideshow #120 -Dave LaPointe From Complaints & Observations Podcast (aka Who The Hell Is Dave LaPointe)
February 26, 2024 05:47 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBDave LaPointe is the host of Jacques’ favorite podcast Complaints & Observations (currently on hiatus) – and where it’s been a minute since C & O’s last episode … Jacques took matters into his own hands and had Dave on CPP! THIS is a two-part episode (the 2nd to drop … sometime soon is basically Dave explaining how the Euro Football leagues works to Jacques for 90 minutes… per Jacques request.) But here … Biff and Joe are (sort of) part of the chat as Jacques wouldn’t shut up … again...
CPP EP. 241 - Taylor's Boyfriend Won The Big Sportsball Game
February 19, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBJoe and Jacques chat the AMAZING sideshows guest as of late and the ones already recorded coming up. As Jacques behest, Joe went with him to his first hosting for a Jim McCue headlining show last week … which lead to a slew of booked shows coming up …which means … Joe’s still on hook to help Jacques with his mid-life cry for help stand up mishaps. The Blizzard of 24 that wasn’t, car registration nightmare, is DECA (Distributive Education Club of America) a brilliant free business consultin...
CP Sideshow 119 - JOHN TOBIN - The Funny Guy Running Boston Comedy
February 12, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 80 MBJohn Tobin saw a show at Nick’s Comedy Stop in Boston in 1986 and his life has been running comedy venues ever since. “Look at him. He’s Adorable” – John’s aunt at his first hosting gig! Sure … Boston City Council for Boston’s 6tth District (2002-2010) and has been VP of Community Affairs at North Eastern Univ. since 2010 … but really … he’s never NOT been a key figure in the Boston comedy scene, which IS the great greatest comedy scene in the world. Graduation Summa Cum Laude ...
CP EP 240 - Taylor Swift IS A National Treasure Damn It!
February 06, 2024 04:52 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJust Joe and Jacques as Biff has “tech issues” or … better things to do (and who would blame him…) Chat the great guest we’ve had of late and some of the next few sideshows coming up.,. Chat the passing of legendary Carl Weathers … Apollo Creed through 2023 season 3 of the Mandalorian. Also, talk SNL original cast member - Garrett Morris getting his Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame (and Jacques insist on again telling his story of having breakfast with Morris in 2007) Jacque...
Maria Dennis – The 5 - 2 Giant Of Hockey (aka The Franchise)
January 29, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBMaria Dennis – Sr. Legal Counsel and Sr. Director of Player Health And Safety for the NHLPA (yeah, THAT NHLPA) is our guest this week. Are we bias? Yes. Is Maria a dear friend Biff and Jacques have admired and have skated with for close to 3 decades? Yes. So, when WE say, the contributions to woman’s hockey Maria has made since the early 80’s (on and off the ice) truly make her the shoulders every proceeding generations is standing on … that’s expected. But when writers from The Hockey N...
CP EP. 239 - Middle Aged Men In The Plastic Bubble
January 22, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThe only thing sadder then Joe and Jacques going out of their way to schedule watching the 1976 made for TV movie “Boy In The Plastic Bubble” together … is them talking abou it on the podcast! But at least they mix it up with a breakdown of the 1978 Battle Of The Network Stars. Jacques 13-yr-old futbol fanatic who has NOT been the biggest supporter of woman’s futbol saw the light … thanks to EA’s FIFA game he loves as they added current woman players and icons (like Mia Hamm) and now h...
CP EP 238 - Knife Fights With Grandma
January 09, 2024 17:39 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBIn midst of Snow-Magedon in Boston, we record this week’s podcast and chat Jacques little guy telling the school the cat scratches on his torso was via a knife fight with his grandmother. Do YOU know what 3 Kings Day (Little Christmas) is … Joe does… sort of. Joe and Jacques ring in the New Year by watching the 1977 classic Smokey And The Bandit as well as an episode of Streets Of San Francisco … and Norm McDonald on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire as Norms pal Kato Kaelin. Biff ta...
CP Sideshow 117 - 2023 Happy Look Back – 2024 Look Ahead
January 01, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBWe end a really good year of the podcast by looking back at a few things that went right in our lives this year… and a look ahead of to fun stuff we hope happens. Biff – Successful year of reconnections (having gone to his HS reunion in Hawaii), reconnected with old friends in Japan when he took his son on a trip to the home land (his sons first trip to the land of the rising Sun.) AND … Biff got a sweet new rescue puppy (that’s about 120lbs now) and yeah she barks a things at night but th...
CP EP 237 - Our X-Mas Present To You ... Us Yapping
December 25, 2023 21:27 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIt’s Christmas Day and what more could YOU want … then a freshly wrapped episode of CPP? Last regular episode of the year and it has stall…by all…more xmas special chat … a shout out to last weeks sideshow guest Bill Fay and chat about upcoming guest Maria Dennis (NHLPA lead legal council) Jacques chats having hard time coming up with gifts cause his spoiled kids have EVERYTHING… and sad news of his !st world issues of his 12 foot skeletons demise. Joe talks how got a PS4 VR headset from ...
CP Sideshow 116 - Bill Fay, Co-Founder of Legendary Pictures and for some reason ... friends with Jacques
December 18, 2023 05:07 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBLegendary Film Maker and … Co-Founder of Legendary Pictures, Bill Fay zooms in to chat with Joe, Biff and Jacques … who for reasons we still don’t understand has been a close friend and mentor to Jacques for 20 years! The first two film companies Bill worked for out of college went bankrupt … and then he learned to fly a plane to be Hollywood’s man on the ground in Africa ... along the way working with folks like James Cameron for (politely putting it) eccentric film maker Rodger Corman...
CP EP 236 -KFC IS Biggest Meal In Japan On Christmas. Not Kidding.
December 11, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBDid you know that KFC is the BIGGEST meal in Japan for Christmas? No really it is. Joe knew that. Biff, Jacques and Joe talk about their Christmas plans and how things are changing as their kids are older. Couple nice family Christmas stories from yesteryear. A little Christmas miracle is Jacques has unexpectedly fallen in love with the 2006 Twister Sister “A Twisted Christmas” album. Joe chats new documentary about the AWEFULSOME Star Wars Christmas Special. Rock-Paper-Scisso...
CP Sideshow #115 - Wayne & Anthony from Open Mic Pain Podcast
December 04, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBWayne and Anthony – The host of one of our favorite podcast Open Mic Pain zoom in to talk with Joe and Jacques about how to properly run a focused podcast with a point! Jacques met Wayne and Anthony on the comic open mic circuit and over last 8 months have become good pals. It was fun a month ago when they met Joe for first time but already felt like friends who knew each other from listening to each others podcast (sad really.) Super fun chat about Wayne and Anthony’s friendship, ...
CP EP 235 - The Fonz Is Still Cool!
November 27, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 70 MBBiff returns from The Land Of The Rising Sun after taking his son on his first trip to the home land! Hoping someday for a CP field trip with Biff to Tokyo (I call dibs on wearing the Lugi outfit doing the cart racing through the streets!) Joe and Jacques finally get to yap their outing to see the amazing Henry Winkler at a NRP book release event in Cambridge and the boys getting to shake hands with the Fonz (and yes, Jacques was latterly driven to tears … and more shocking, speechless!...
CP Sideshow #114 -Brain Longwell - The Corporate Comedian
November 20, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBJoe and Jacques saw Brian Longwell (The Corporate Comedian) a few weeks back and were blown away. Brian is more of an “act” then a stand-up comic. Part one-man show meets a half hour long hysterical Kids In The Hall sketch. Brian’s path to comedy included a long stop as an engineer at Bell Labs for years before starting his own wildly successful tech company. When we asked when Brian quite his day job and became a full-time comic … on the zoom he held up a circuit board he was designing ...
CP EP 234 - CABELO LONGO!
November 13, 2023 15:42 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBBiff and Jacques chat nick names as Jacques futbol son is on a team where lot of kids (including his 2 best pals) speak Portuguese and his name is Cabelo Longo (Long Hair) … it comes from a very sweet place … it will grow on him (see what I did there) but we LOVE it. ON OTHER HAND … Cabelo Longo’s U14 teammates had racist things yelled to them in Futbol championship game in Amherst NH. Biff and Jacques have a hockey brother (Guitar Center Scottie) in LA whose Japanese Boy Band model lookin...
CP Sideshow # 113 - Sounds That Shaped Us
November 06, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBWe each came up with a list of 10 sounds from our childhoods (to early adulthood) that defines us. We knew we’d have some cross over but there were a lot of fun surprises – Here were our list. Biff: Bionic SFX from 6 Million Dollar Man, Space Invaders Aliens Descending, Radio Fuss, Japanese Paper Trucks, Godzilla Cry, Answering Machine Beeps, WKBS Do You Know, Ultra Man Transforming Sounds, Soda Can Tabs, 8-Track Changing Song Chuck. Joe: Loony Tunes Theme, Super Mario Bros Theme, PBS Cl...
CP EP 233 - FNAFMovie ... and stuff
October 30, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBSure, they could have stayed home and watched it for free on Peacock BUT Jacques kids have been waiting nearly 10 years to see the long rumored FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy’s) movie hit the big screen for off to the big screen they went. Joe and friend of podcast Jim went to Jacques show this past week at Luna Theater in Lowell and they chat headliner Brian Longwell and his MOCK motivational speaker corporate presentation routine. GOLD. We chat Joe’s latest curations to his Plex acco...
Sideshow 112 -Hafen Is A Spy. Maybe. Maybe Not. But Yes. He’s Totally A Spy. Part 2 (of 2)
October 23, 2023 23:44 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBHOW did we talk Hafen doing weather mapping in Africa and NONE of us made a Toto reference? WOW! So part 2 of our talk with long time pal Hafen (allegedly) zooming in from Sweden where (allegedly) he has become a citizen. We get more into the weeds where I put the case out there that this guy … who has ALL the intangibles a government toppling clandestine black ops off the books organization would recruit – SO well rounded with degree in mechanical engineering / applied physics from...
CP Sideshow #111- Hafen Is A Spy. Maybe. Maybe Not. But Yes. He’s Totally A Spy. Part 1 (off 2)
October 16, 2023 19:37 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBBiff and Jacques have been pals with Hafen for over 25 years. 1998 to 2004 Jacques doesn’t think he hung out with any one person more. Joe first met Hafen when they were in Jacques’ Starter Wedding together in 1999 (bit of talk about that infamous wedding event on this episode.) THIS is our first 2-part episode. Part 2 will drop next week. It was decided that we will have Hafen back in a few months to let Biff and Joe formulate more questions and ponder am I (attempting) to be...
CP EP #232: Listen To Strike Force 5 and Open Mic Pain
October 09, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBNo Biff … mostly because Jacques is too dumb to know how the days of the week work. Jacques had a few “Booked” shows cancel (studio audience sighs) BUT some time the comedy gods (small G) take away and sometimes they give as just as quickly a couple very cool comedy ops fell his way. Joe, Jacques and his managers wife’s life are so much better with the podcast Strike Force 5 (and Open Mic Pain) bringing so much joy into their lives. Give em a listen. Joe game system tinkering co...
Special RE- POSTING: Sideshow # 67 Paul Devers From Carvers And Creators
October 02, 2023 16:32 - 54 minutes - 51.1 MBWith Halloween season upon up we decided to do a special re-posting of Sideshow # 67 from 4/19/21 - Paul Devers: Champion – World Renowned Pumpkin (Food) Carver. Since winning Food Channel’s “Outrageous Pumpkins” years ago, Paul has been a Food Network judge and personality. Paul is the creator of the wildly successful YouTube series: Carvers And Creators. Carvers and Creators few years back grew to the point where Oscar and Emmy winners (set designers, Prop experts, Special Effects … ect...
CP EP 231 - CP Takes A Comedy Field Trip
September 26, 2023 13:44 - 1 hour - 146 MBJoe & Jacques (and our friend Julie) headed over to the mecca of comedy rooms inside Chine’s restaurants in the Merrimac Valley (China Blossom N. Andover MA) to see last weeks guest Lauren Sims host an amazing line up. Biff SADLY wasn’t part of the field trip or this recording. We chat Jacques breaking thru the glass ceiling of Lowell comedy and doing the cable access show The Golden Toilet … and going to a reverse ambush mic to see friend James Hamilton do what he thought was a “real” ...
CP Sideshow #110 - Comedian Lauren Sims Wants PJs with Pockets!!!
September 18, 2023 04:18 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBLauren Sims is a comedian Joe and Jacques caught last month at Greg Boggis’ “Mondo Comedy” at The Luna Theater In Lowell. A Gen-X comic whose material really landed and hit home with us! Joe’s under the weather and Biff has grown up stuff so the for mentioned lovely and talented (and former guest) Mr. Greg Boggis stepped in to co-host this episode with Jacques. Lauren on somewhat of a whim and maybe dealing with a mid-life awakening in 2019 decided to check out Boston comic legend T...
CP EP. 230 -The Elephant In The Room
September 11, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 126 MBBig Day at CPP as this was the FIRST of what we (Jacques) really hopes is many recordings to come at Joe’s Los-eum 2.0 … and … AND the return of The Random Video Game Review Of The Week! Before we lose Biff 20 minutes in to tech issues, Biff was able to join in with Jacques lumping due praise to our friend JT who AGAIN was named a top 100 lawyer (as was 9 folks from HIS Law Firm) Joe chats Jacques on one of our favorite podcast @Openmicpain and having meet one of the shows host Wayne...
CP Sideshow # 109: Dalya Black – Comedian, Cannibalistic Mermaid Grind Core Fan
September 04, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBDalya Black is a super smart and funny LA based comedian (writer, director, producer). Dalya who has “only” done stand up in Los Angeles AND London hails from the cold hard streets of Medford MA. Not wanting to be a medium fish in a small pond (the Boston film making scene) they pack a bindle and headed for LA LA Land. Dalya and Jacques were both on bill at really fun showcase in July (Tao Comedy Club) in LA. Dalya’s focus right now is all stand up all the time but do enjoy the trip ...
CP EP. 229 - Do You Know Who I AM? My Mail Carrier Does!
August 29, 2023 01:12 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBThe entire CPP family (Biff and Jacques) are wishing a happy birthday to our brother Joe! In a slow news week where nothing happened (other than Donny 5-Scoops being indicted for 4th time – 1st mug shot) Joe and Jacques chat Jacques being publicly recognized from recent FRONT PAGE of the Lowell Sun (while standing in his drive way) by a mail carrier dropping off …BEST part is Jacques 13 year old was right there and now considers this the WORST moment of his life! Stay with me he...
CP Sideshow #108: LA Comedian Lauren Caputo Is Funny
August 21, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBLauren Caputo is a Los Angeles based comic by way of San Francisco by way of New Jersey. Jacques met Lauren in LA a few weeks ago when they were both featured at an amazing show at Tao Comedy. Lots of Lauren’s hysterical bits are pulled from growing up very Jersey Italian in a very Jersey Italian town … while also being very Canadian. Lauren also pulls great material from the world having certain stereotypical “expectations” and she is not gonna play those reindeer games. Lauren ha...
CP EP 228 - An Atheist’s Comedy Crisis Of Faith or Now What?!?!
August 14, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis episode is mostly Jacques babbling his (atheist) crisis of comedy faith of how to go back to doing “ambush show” open mics after getting to do booked showcases in some of Los Angeles best clubs (thanks you Sally Mullins) Note: shout out for proper term to Greg Boggis to describe mics at venue where folks DO NOT know a comedy show is about to happen. Example: few girlfriends who haven’t seen each other in 4 months get together at a restaurant they’ve been to 10x and never had a show goin...
CP EP 227 - LA Confidential
August 01, 2023 03:27 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBJoe and Jacques (Biff is on IR) chat the passing of a childhood hero, actor Paul Reubens… Pee Wee Herman (a special CP Sideshow is forthcoming.) Rough couple weeks since the last recording as we also morn the loss of our friend (former guest) Woody’s dad who was a true 1000% WW2 hero! And also, Sinead O’Connor, who was shunned and essentially ruined her career for calling out the Catholic Church on SNL in 1992. All 3 of these people, true heroes who made the world a better place. Jacqu...
CP Sideshow #108 - Comedian, Producer, Teacher and Cool Dad. Mike Koutrobis
July 24, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBComedian (Producer, Comedy Teacher, Actor, Cool Dad) Mike Koutrobis talks with Jacques about a ton of stuff, including how becoming a dad a little late in the dance for the first time JUST before Covid threw the world a curveball has shaped his comedy. Mike is the ONLY comic we've had on who is willing to honestly answer the biggest question facing Boston (New England based) comedians: Knights of Columbus or VFW shows! Also, turns out Mike's closest friends, call him Steve. Wait. Wha...
Sideshow 107 - Dante The Comic (the activist, the manager, the teacher ...)
July 17, 2023 04:01 - 55 minutes - 45.9 MBIf you’re a regular listener to this podcast (or follow Jacques on socials) and don’t follow Dante The Comic … well … you go right that wrong, NOW! A personal hero of ours, Dante the Comic (Rusciolelli) zooms in (from the very cool Hollywood Forever Cemetery) to chat with Joe and Jacques about… SO MUCH. Danta is a headlining (national and internationally) touring comic for 36 years. We chat with him about balancing his career as a comedian, as a manager-promoter and co-owner of Gol...
CP EP 226 - Roast Battle Foreboding
July 10, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 80 MBJacques and Joe chat the prep work they’ve put in for the Roast Battle Jacques has reluctantly agreed to be part of in Lowell … yesterday (but we recorded this episode before hand … ssssooo…) Jacques also hosted his first open mic this week. Went great … went awful. Jacques son is loving his first job (he’s a Life Guard) in rough neighborhood of their city and is learning first hand … WOW … people can suck. We stand with the WGA … and seems so will SAG soon (let’s hope.) Li...
CP Sideshow 106 - Comics Xtine and Nick Fcking Powell
July 04, 2023 14:06 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBNothing says 4th of July like talking with two of the funniest comics (host/producers) in the Boston scene today – XTina and Nick Fucking Powell. I’ll apologize for some of the audio issues … I WILL NOT apologize for all of the funny they bring!!! We chat XTina’s path to the open mic circuit and 5 months later getting booked shows and producing shows … chat her bravery to do her NSFW hilarious bit about crashing with her dad … in front of her dad (and ALL her co-workers). Chat with Nick ...
CP EP 225 - They Bought Their Tickets...
June 26, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 134 MBIn this somewhat Big Gulp Super-Sized episode …Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) we chat Jacques sons starting his 1st job this week as a lifeguard, Jacques’ house plumbing nightmare and a few billionaires getting in a homemade submarine and who but EVERYONE could have told them it was a bad idea (no refunds.) Turns out there is NO real Mario Bros Plumbing company (for now) to help with Jacques raining ceiling! Messi coming to US/MLS is such a big dea...
CP Sideshow # 105 - Crowd Work Black Belt Jim McCue
June 19, 2023 04:01 - 51 minutes - 45 MBIf you can’t get to see Jim McCue work live … then move to a place you can! And if you can’t do that … check out Jim’s DryBar Comedy Special on YouTube … which they shot in Utah … lot less drunks at shows in Utah! Joe and Jacques WILL be seeing Jim in person this Thursday (June 22) in Lowell at The Luna Theater (inside Mill #5) for Mondo Comedy (hosted by past CPP guest Greg Boggis!) Jim start in comedy, in part thanks to Richard Belzer … talks playing cat and mouse with hecklers, preppin...
CPPEP #224 - Never Meet Your Heroes
June 12, 2023 16:28 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBLoyal listener and 20-year (plus) pal of Biff and Jacques’ … the beloved AST (All-Star Tommy) was in Boston with his All-Star wife and daughter last week … and long last Joe and All-Star got to meet. It was all we could hope for and more… Including a trip to Boston’s famed, “Nick’s Comedy Stop.” It’s a 21 plus club … but getting Jacques’ 13 year old in … no problem! This episode was recorded on Jacques’ Birthday … again, we breakdown the greatest birthday gift Jacques got … in 2012 on hi...
Sideshow # 104 -Comedian (and sweetest guy we know) Lloyd ”Legacy” Sharp
May 31, 2023 18:07 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBLloyd “Legacy” Sharp is one of the best New England based comics on the circuit today. You will not find anyone who disagrees with that fact or who won’t go out of their way to tell you, there is not a sweeter or nicer human walking amongst us. If you’ve shared a mic or stage with Lloyd … even once … I’m pretty sure on this episode of endless shout-outs, he found a way to work you into our chat. If you’re a long time New England comedy staple like (former guests) @comedianstevebjork @boggi...
CP EP 223 - Three Host For The Price Of One!
May 22, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBFirst time in a bit that Biff, Joe and Jacques are all on the pod together. Admit it … 3 host are better than one! Joe and Jacques talked going to see recent Sideshow guest Steve Bjork show last weekend and what’s in store for Jacques’ Phase II of his stand-up comedy mid-life crisis. Biff gives the history of The Beaver Cup a yearly hockey game between M.I.T. (yes, THAT, M.I.T.) and Cal Tech … yes, THAT, Cal Tech and how it’s come to bitter sweet conclusion … and how the fck did Jacques ...
CP Sideshow # 103 - Martin Adkins ... Yes, THAT Martin Adkins
May 15, 2023 04:49 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB20- year-old Martin Adkin’s joined Johnny Rotten’s (Lydon) Public Image Limited (PiL) in 1980 and co-writing the bands best/most well-known album, This Is What You Want … This Is What You Get .. and his career only went up from there! Going from being a part of the Post Punk scene to being a staple of … if not a founder of, the industrial music movement- NIN, Ministry, Killing Joke, Pigface … Martin, whose published several books on the music industry and is currently the coordinator of m...
CP EP. 222 - Writers’ Strike … So This Is All Us!
May 08, 2023 16:22 - 1 hour - 76 MBSo you guys aren’t in WGA … this strike doesn’t effect YOU and your crappy podcast … oh no?!? Joe and Jacques has tickets to THIS coming SNL! So yeah … this hits home. Sadly, no Biff … math and time zones are tough … especially for Jacques. Biff will be back soon. We PROMISE. Jacques talks the legit comedy explosion in Lowell MA and surrounding area and how he was able to put together a panel for local (awesome hysterical comic friends) to talk with Lowell Sun reporter about how this ...
CP Sideshow # 102 - Comedian Steve Bjork (Bjork, like the singer but not AS weird)
May 01, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBFirst off – Steve knew right away that the title of our podcast is a nod to The Jerk. Come on now! How awesome is that! Steve has been Jacques’ favorite New England based comic since his sister (Kim) gave him the heads up on Steve AND gave him Steve’s hysterical book, “Almost Domesticated” nearly a decade ago. Steve’s evergreen “Family/Everyman” comedy always delivers and we can’t stress enough how he truly is one of those, “YOU really have to see in person” special talents. Steve chats w...
Special *RE-POSTING* CP Sideshow #73 RONAK (from 8/9/21)
April 24, 2023 17:25 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBLast minute scheduling hic-cup means no new Carnival Personnel Sideshow this week ... yes, we know the sadness you feel ... so this is a special REPOSTING of one of our favorite episodes ever! Enjoy! Jacques and Biff’s long-time friend Ronak zooms in to chat She-Hulk v. Wonder Woman, give advice on the best way to figure out what you want to do in “the biz” if you know you want in and aren’t sure where you should be AND she answers honestly, “does Jacques hold the record for most shows pitc...