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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 11th 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 3rd 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 24th 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 … 1st 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)