House of Crouse
549 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhere is the House of Crouse? It's everywhere and nowhere. It's in your imagination and in your headphones.
Hosted by Richard Crouse, it's a gathering place for interesting people to hang out and share stories. Upcoming guests to the House of Crouse include Amy Schumer, Josh Gad, Daniel Radcliffe and many more!
Come by every Monday for a new episode, curl up on the coach and see who has stopped by.
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ELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD + MARTIN FREEMAN
May 29, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Elamin Abdelmahmoud. He is the host of CBC's weekly pop culture podcast POP CHAT, co-host of CBC's political podcast PARTY LINES, and a frequent culture commentator for CBC News. He's a culture writer for BuzzFeed News, and now adds author to his list of cr4edits with the release of a memoir called “Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces.” In this interview we discuss moving to Canada from Sudan at age twelve, in addition to wrestling, turn of the ce...
Eugene Marten + Mark O'Brien + Sunnie McFadden-Curtis
May 22, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet author Eugene Marten. His latest powerful new novel “Pure Life” is the sprawling story of the rise and fall of a former professional American Football player, Nineteen, who claws his way from a working-class background to wealth and fame before losing everything. Then, we get to know Mark O’Brien. As an actor, Mark is one of the stars of Showtime’s "City on a Hill," starring opposite Kevin Bacon and produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. You’ve s...
Kevin Doyle + Shyam Selvadurai + Roger Christian
May 21, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Kevin Doyle. He is one of the stars of “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” the big screen continuation of the adventures of the aristocratic Crawley family. Doyle plays the Abbey's former second footman, and now village school master, Joseph Molesley and was a regular on the beloved television series for all six seasons. I spoke with Kevin Doyle during the release of the first Downton Abbey movie, on the show’s popularity and learning the ins and outs of...
Gilbert Gottfried + William Irwin + Daniel Ingram
May 15, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we revisit an interview with the late, great Gilbert Gottfried. As you probably already know, the legendary comedian passed away last month at the age of 67. I saw him perform just two weeks before his died, and while he looked frail, he delivered a show that was sweet, funny and incredibly rude, sometimes all at once, and that was Gilbert’s magic. There was no one else quite like him, no one as fearless as he was on stage, or as funny. This conversati...
Dave Foley + Don Pyle Kids in the Hall
May 08, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we have a look at a new series on Prime Video that reunites one of Canada’s favorite comedy troupes. From 1989 to 1995 the Kids in the Hall, comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, bounced around the dial, with their eponymously named television show, bringing with them subversive comedy and loads of laughs. These days there is a Kids in the Hall renaissance of a sort happening. A biography by Paul Myers t...
Jessica Kirson + Michael Barclay + Raeann Brown
May 01, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet comedian Jessica Kirson. We talk about how her grandmother influenced her to follow her dreams and how she cultivated her talent. Keep up with Jessica check out her website jessicakirson.com and check out her entertaining podcast, “Relatively Sane Podcast,” which is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Then author Michael Barclay stops by. His book “Hearts on Fire” is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s. In th...
MAYIM BIALIK + JAMIE CHAI YUN LIEW + NOVIOLET BULAWAYO
April 24, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we get to know Jamie Chai Yun Liew. She is a lawyer and law professor specializing in immigration, refugee, and citizenship law and the creator of the podcast Migration Conversations. She brings that experience to her critically acclaimed debut novel “Dandelion,” the story of an Asian woman who traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs. Then, we meet Mayim Bialik. She has played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fo...
Katherine Ryan + Tim Roth + Charlie Demers
April 17, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Katherine Ryan. She is a Canadian who moved to England in 2007 and now Brits know and love her from the many panel shows she’s appeared on, her wildly popular no-filter podcast Telling Everybody Everything or her Netflix comedy-drama “The Duchess.” On this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Katherine Ryan. She is a Canadian who moved to England in 2007 with a boyfriend who wanted to start a comedy She's known for being hilariously herself in a non...
Rest in Power Gilbert Gottfried
April 12, 2022 20:48 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBAn in-depth conversation with the late, great Gilbert Gottfried.
KE HUY QUAN + NICOLE LUNDRIGAN
April 10, 2022 12:51 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Podcast we’ll meet Ke Huy Quan, the star of the most aptly titled movie of the year. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a wild and woolly adventure where the quirk factor is turned up to 11 and literally anything could happen. It’s a full tilt boogie story about a laundromat owner in trouble with the IRS who is sent off to another dimension to battle an evil spirit called Jobu Tupaki. You know Ke Huy Quan as Short Round, the plucky kid companion to...
ZOE HOPKINS + DAKOTA RAY HEBERT + CHRIS HADFIELD
April 03, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show I’ll tell you about a new movie playing in theatres right now. “Run Woman Run” is the story of Beck, an Indigenous single mom at a crossroad. Ambitionless, when she isn’t binge eating, she’s hopping in the car to go check the mail… from the mailbox at the end of her driveway. Following a health scare, she decides to change her life through marathon running. "Run Woman Run" is a lighthearted film with serious messages of recovery from residential school trau...
Andy Garcia + Jim Piddock
March 27, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we chat with “Big Gold Brick” star Andy Garcia. In the off-beat comedy he plays an enigmatic, middle-aged father of two who enlists the help of a fledgling writer to pen his biography. He stars alongside Emory Cohen, Megan Fox, Lucy Hale and Oscar Isaac. “Big Gold Brick” is available on digital and on demand. We also talk about the scene that scene that made him a star, the Odessa Steps sequence in “The Untouchables.” Then, we’ll meet actor and writer Jim...
Annmarie Morais + Ronnie Rowe Jr. + Daniel Stolfi + Mark Williams
March 20, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Annmarie Morais and Ronnie Rowe Jr, the show runner and star, respectively of “The Porter,” a great new CBC drama, set in the 1920s, about the moment when railway workers from both Canada and the United States joined together to give birth to the world’s first Black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. We also get to know meet author Daniel Stolfi, author of “The Comedian Vs Cancer” a raw, moving and comedic memoir detailing his j...
Shawn Levy + Julie Nolke + Akilah Newton + Mark Williams
March 20, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Shawn Levy, the Montreal born producer and director, known for Stranger Things, Real Steel, the Night at the Museum franchise and the recent mega hit Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds. He has reteamed with Reynolds for the Netflilx sci fi family drama The Adam Project. He joined from Los Angeles via Zoom to talk about the why the film isn’t simply a sci fi epic and finding a child actor who could keep up with Ryan Reynolds. Then, Canadian comedian, act...
Kevin Hearn + Manny Jacinto + CS Porter + Aba Amuquandoh
March 13, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet multi-instrumentalist and Barenaked Ladies pianist Kevin Hearn. The Canadian Hall of Famer has just released a beautiful new solo record titled “There and Then: Solo Piano Improvisations” and he joined us via Zoom to talk about it. Then, actor Manny Jacinto stops by to talk about how = his character in the new Amazon Prime rom com “I Want You Back,” was inspired by two characters from his last TV show, the great sitcom, “The Good Place.” Then we...
Keara Settle + Nick Offerman
March 06, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Keala Settle. If you were a fan of the musical The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman, and who wasn’t?... then you’ll know her as the powerhouse voice behind the Academy Award nominated song This is Me. Today, we’ll talk about why she had such a difficult time singing that song, a brain disease she says has changed her life and we’ll find out all about her new project, Murder in Provence, a new detective series now available on BritBox that ...
Sarah Weinman + Tara McKenna
February 27, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Sarah Weinman. Her new book Scoundrel, is the wild and true story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including neo-conservative thinker and National Review founder William F. Buckley—into helping set him free. Then, Tara Mckenna stops by to talk about her book Don't Be Trashy: A Practical Guide to Living with Less Waste and More Joy. The author says she’s always been environmentally aware, but seriously began my low waste journe...
Booze 'n Reviews NewsTalk 1010 Friday February 18, 2022
February 19, 2022 15:41 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MBRichard joins host Jim Richards of the NewsTalk 1010 afternoon show The Rush for Booze and Reviews! Today we talk about the Tom Holland action adventure “Uncharted,” the newfangled werewolf tale “The Cursed” and the man-and-his-dog tale of “Dog” with Channing Tatum. Then, instead of ordering in a pizza, why not try a pizza beer?
Haley McGee + CelestE Bell + Clark Backo
February 13, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Haley McGee, a Canadian living in London, England, who has written a book called “The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale,” a memoir about her attempt to pay off credit card debt by selling gifts from her exes. In the book she tries to calculate exactly how much romantic relationships cost in time, money and effort. Then we’ll get to know Celeste Bell, co-director of a great new music documentary called “Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché.” It’s the story of...
Haley McGee + Celeste Bell + Clark Backo
February 13, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Haley McGee, a Canadian living in London, England, who has written a book called “The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale,” a memoir about her attempt to pay off credit card debt by selling gifts from her exes. In the book she tries to calculate exactly how much romantic relationships cost in time, money and effort. Then we’ll get to know Celeste Bell, co-director of a great new music documentary called “Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché.” It’s the story of...
Jann Arden + Kevin Smith
February 06, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Jann Arden. With 19 top ten singles, like “Could I Be Your Girl,” “I Would Die For You” and “Insensitive,” she is one of Canada’s best-known singer, songwriters. She has also written five books and has a hit sitcom on CTV called “Jann.” Her latest project is an album of new material called “Descendant,” a 15-song collection that represents the last 18 months of her life and headspace. Then we’ll get to know multi-hyphenate Kevin Smith. He’s a f...
David Pevsner + K. Trevor Wilson
January 30, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet David Pevsner. Over the course of his 35-year career in show business, David has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds. Now he has added author to his resume… Damn Shame is his new memoir. It is a passionate and poignant look at one journey from a thin, shy boy ashamed of his body and sexuality to a defiant, fearless ...
Michael Harris + Drew Shannon + Nathan Page
January 23, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet best-selling author Michael Harris. In his new book, “All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy,” Michael has a look at consumer culture and finds a roadmap to a healthier future through three realms… the worlds of Craft, the Sublime, and Care. Then, “The Montague Twins: The Witch's Hand,” is a graphic novel written by Nathan Page and illustrated by Drew Shannon, and available now wherever you buy fine books. The book, the first in a se...
Andrew Phung + Kaya Usher
January 16, 2022 14:08 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Podcast we meet Andrew Phung. You know him as the award-winning actor who played Kimchee in the CBC Television sitcom "Kim's Convenience," and have seen him in guest starring roles on shows like "The Beaverton" and "Wynonna Earp" but he’s back with a new show, now playing on CBC. On "Run the Burbs," he plays Andrew Pham, a suburban stay-at-home dad of two children whose wife is an entrepreneur. Then, we spend some time with Kaya Usher. Her new album, "All This...
Mark Critch + Malcolm McDowell + Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
January 09, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet the cast of a new CBC Television show called “Son of a Critch.” If you are a fan of the political commentary and social satire of “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” you already know Mark Critch. Since 2003 he has starred on the political parody show. He’s photo-bombed Justin Trudeau, offered Pamela Anderson a million dollars to stop acting, and poked fun at characters like Rex Murphy, Don Cherry and Donald Trump. His latest project is much more person...
Christina Crook + Jon Batiste + Robert Matzen + Jaimie Weinman
December 12, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 54.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet the "Marie Kondo of Digital." Her name is Christina Crook, and she has written a thoughtful book about realigning our energies, increasing intentionality, and prioritizing our well-being in the digital age. She is a pioneer and leading voice in the field of digital wellbeing and the author of a new book called "Good Burdens: How to Live Joyfully in the Digital Age.' Then, musician Jon Batiste stops by. Perhaps you know him as the bandleade...
Leonard Maltin + Helen Walsh
December 05, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know legendary film critic Leonard Maltin. His new book “Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood,” is on shelves now and details his 30-year run on Entertainment Tonight, his interviews with golden age of Hollywood elites like Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Shirley Temple, and Jimmy Stewart and insights into moviemaking with stories from the past, present, and future stars of film, like George Lucas, Kevin Feige of Mar...
Rick Mercer
November 28, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast. If you are like my wife and I, for the better part of fifteen years, most Tuesday nights you would tune into "The Rick Mercer Report," hosted by my guest, Rick Mercer. Part travelogue of our beautiful country, part news satire, part sketch comedy. He golfed with Anne Murray, climbed to the top of a roller-coaster at Canada's Wonderland and even skinny dipped with Bob Rae. Find out how that happened later in the show. And don’t forget the Rants, h...
Danny Goldberg
November 21, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Danny Goldberg. Regular listeners of this show may remember my interview with him from a year or two back when we talked about his rock ‘n roll life as the manager of Nirvana, the publicist for Led Zeppelin and record a company executive who released Stevie Nicks’ solo records and Warren Zevon's Grammy winning "The Wind," Steve Earle’s Grammy winner "The Revolution Starts Now," and the Baha Men’s "Who Let The Dogs Out." What you may not kn...
Richard Balls + Anyma
November 14, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet “Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan” author Richard Balls. The best-selling biography is a portrait either in self-destruction or the indomitable spirit of someone whose demeanor suggests a hangover come to life. It is also a vivid look at the life of the complex, contradictory and talented man best known as the lead singer of The Pogues. Then, we’ll get to know Indigenous singer-songwriter Anyma, whose debut, 6-track...
Commander Chris Hadfield + Katherine Ryan
November 07, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Commander Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and served as commander of the International Space Station. Now, on earth, the astronaut and bestselling author, is turning to fiction for the first time. James Cameron, director of “Avatar” and “Titanic,” called Hadfield’s new book “The Apollo Murders,” “Nail-biting. I couldn’t put it down,” he said. The new thriller is set in 1973. In this alternative history the Cold War is s...
Halloween Special with The Rocky Horror Picture Show + Guillermo Del Toro + Matt Reeves
October 31, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we celebrate Halloween with two of the stars of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,”Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell. They both appeared in the original stage production and the movie, as castle maid Magenta and the tap-dancing Columbia respectively. Then, we’ll spend some time with horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro, director of movies you love like Academy Award winning “The Shape of Water,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Pacific Rim” and many ...
Hilary Brown + Samantha Fish
October 24, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know Hilary Brown, author of the new book War Tourist, available now on Amazon and Barnes and Nobel. In a career that spanned almost four decades, she was ABC’s first female foreign correspondent, and reported from every continent except Antarctica. TVO’s “The Agenda” called her “Canada’s best-ever female foreign correspondent.” She was one of the last journalists to be lifted by helicopter from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon i...
Rob Lindsay + Rebecca Ferguson + Elaine Plummer
October 17, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know Rob Lindsay, director of “No Responders Left Behind,” a documentary about the fight waged by former “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, social activist John Feal and FDNY hero Ray Pfeifer to get health benefits and compensation for 9/11 first responders. The film is now streaming on Discovery Plus in Canada. Then, Rebecca Ferguson, star of the much anticipated sci fi movie “Dune” stops by to talk about her character Lady Jessica, and...
Danis Goulet + Humble & Fred + Hugh Jackman
October 10, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know Danis Goulet who wrote and directed “Night Raiders,” a timely sci fi apocalyptic film set in the near future. In her dystopian drama cities in North America are run by the military and all children are property of the state. This Taika Waititi-executive produced film sees a Cree woman team with a group of vigilantes to free her daughter from a “children’s academy.” Goulet, who is of Cree and Métis descent, says everything in the film...
Rik Emmett + Donna Morrissey
October 03, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Rik Emmett. The musician, professor, writer and sometime cartoonist is in three Canadian “Halls” and two “Walks of Fame.” After 12 platinum LPs in his years as one third of the rock band Triumph, he went on to produce 20 indie projects, from rock and blues to jazz, folk, and classical. These days Emmett is trying something new. He’s reinventing himself as a poet. “Reinvention,” his new book of poetry, is available now wherever fine books are sol...
Ivan Doroschuk + Emm Gryner
September 26, 2021 10:59 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: Remember “The Safety Dance”? Of course you do. The Men Without Hats song was a worldwide hit in 1982 and earned them a Grammy nomination but it didn’t end there. It has since been covered by everyone from “Weird Al” Yankovic to the cast of Glee to a recent version by Angel Olsen. The song’s writer and lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, joins me today from his home on Vancouver Island to talk about some new music and a reimagination of his biggest hit. ...
Guy Vanderhaeghe + Shaun Majumder
September 19, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know best-selling author Guy Vanderhaeghe. His previous fiction includes the award winning "A Good Man," "The Last Crossing," "The Englishman’s Boy." He is a three -time Governor General’s Award winner. He has the Writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Literary Prize. He has received many other honours including the Order of Canada. His first novel in nearly a decade is "August Into Winter" is an epic story of crime an...
Amanda Parris + Lucius Dechausay + Al Val + Linden MacIntyre
September 12, 2021 13:23 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast I want to tell you about a new short film called Death Doula co-directed by my guests CBC radio and television host Amanda Parris and Lucius Dechausay. It’s the story of a dystopian near-future where our date of death is predicted by an app… but there’s a twist. The death doula, who helps people cope with their deaths, is then tasked with aiding his first love as she nears her final day. It’s an interesting piece of speculative fiction and will be ...
The Richard Crouse Show Podcast Extra with Barry Avrich on Oscar Peterson: Black + White
September 12, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 29 MBOn this special Richard Crouse Show Podcast we talk to "Oscar Peterson: Black + White" director Barry Avrich. "Oscar Peterson: Black + White" is billed as a “docu-concert,” featuring rare concert footage as well as interviews with family members and musicians who performed with Peterson.
Martha Wainwright + Nicole Dorsey + Simu Liu
September 02, 2021 19:04 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show our first guest today comes from a musical family. Martha Wainwright is daughter of folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. Her older brother is Rufus Wainwright… but she has made her own mark with a series of critically acclaimed albums. Her latest is “Love Will Be Reborn,” a record that appears to cover the period of time where Wainwright divorced her husband after about a decade of marriage. “Love Will Be Rebor...
Rachel Yoder + Terry Fallis + Ali Liebert
August 28, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Rachel Yoder, author of a new novel called Nightbitch, the story of a stay-at-home mom who becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. The book is a best seller and has been optioned by Amy Adams to be turned into a film. Then bestselling author Terry Fallis stops by to talk about the long-awaited follow-up to his chart-topping books The Best Laid Plans and The High Road. It’s called Operation Angus, and it’s a comic spy story that heralds...
Joy Fielding + Billie Piper + Rebecca Silver Slayter
August 22, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding, author of twenty-nine novels, including acclaimed books like Someone Is Watching, Now You See Her and Still Life. In her most recent psychological thriller, Cul-de-Sac, a shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac. Then, English actress, filmmaker, and former pop star Billie Piper, joins me via Zoom from London to talk about her challenging n...
Jena Malone + Omar El Akkad + Jennifer Dodge
August 14, 2021 20:12 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Jena Malone. She is a Golden Globe nominated actress known for her roles in “The Hunger Games” franchise and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” She returns to theatres and VOD in the critically acclaimed film “Lorelei.” The gritty story of a man released from prison after 15 years who reunites with his high school girlfriend, who is now a single mother of three, has been called a “moving character study” and that contains some of Jena Ma...
Brittlestar + Shelley Hamilton
August 08, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: Do you like to scroll through twitter looking for laughs? If so, I’m sure you already know about my guest today. The Toronto Sun called him Canada’s Funniest Comic recently… and his videos, parody songs and commentary frequently grab hundreds of thousands of likes and views on Twitter. On-line he is known as @Brittlestar but in life his pals call him Stewart Reynolds. In this conversation we talk about his new brand of booze… that’s how you know...
Tim Long + Jessica Kirson
July 25, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Tim Long. The Canadian comedy writer has been an executive and consulting producer on The Simpsons for more than twenty years, has written for The New York Times and The New Yorker and on July 30th, a movie he wrote called The Exchange, the true story of a socially awkward teen who discovers that a French exchange student is not as sophisticated and cultured as he hoped, will be available on VOD. Then comedian Jessica Kirson stops by. We w...
Sex, Drugs and Alan McGee (and "Creation Stories")
July 20, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBScottish-born Alan McGee is one of the most famous British record label bosses. He co-founded Creation Records in 1983, and released classic albums by Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub and his most famous discovery, Oasis. "Creation Stories," a new biopic starring "Trainspotting's" Ewan Bremner, and now on VOD, is the complete story of sex, drugs and Alan McGee.
Alonzo Bodden + Tracey Deer
July 18, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Tracey Deer, director of "Beans," which opens in theatres in July 23, joins me to talk about how the Oka Crisis in 1990 affected her life and eventually became the basis for her new movie. Then, comedian Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around North America laugh for more than 20 years. He’s a winner of the reality show Last Comic Standing, the podcast host of Who’s Paying Attention? (part of All Things Comedy), and a television hos...
Booze and Reviews NewsTalk 1010 Friday July 9 2021
July 12, 2021 21:57 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBRichard joins Ryan Doyle and guest host Tamara Cherry of the NewsTalk 1010 afternoon show to talk about Squirt soda and the origin of the tequila-based cocktail the Paloma, and some movies to watch on the weekend, including "Black Widow" and "No Sudden Move."
Johnny Sweet + M. Leona Godin + Eric Bauza
July 11, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show director Johnny Sweet joins us from Queens, New York. Johnny is a filmmaker and director who watched his industry come to a halt in the early days of the pandemic, and then turned his eye to another industry… the bar business. His new film asks a question… What happens if the entire bar industry in New York City is laid off in a single day? His film “Last Call : The Shutdown of NYC Bars” explores the social and economic impact of COVID-19 on the NYC hospit...