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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)

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)

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)
 
 

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)