Podcasts about yuk yuks

This week we're talking about the original (no not the book you've gone back too far if you're thinking about the book), it's the 2010 FULLY animated, no flesh actors, How To Train Your Dragon. We talk about if Dragons understand what's happening, bad bangs, the tragedy of this father/son relationship, and what may be Gerard Butler's greatest acting performance. Host Andrew Ivimey will be performing in Vancouver July 19, 2025 with special guests Amber Harper-Young (JFL, SiriusXM, Yuk Yuks) and Juno award-winner Ivan Decker (Netflix, The Debaters, Conan). Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/comedy-show-andrew-ivimey-special-guests-vancouver-july-19th-tickets-1374966575039?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

It's time for One Funny Morning with special guest, Comedian Jordan Policicchio! A little more about Jordan: He is a multi-talented comedian, actor and podcast host who brings an electrifying energy to each performance. He can be described as “frustrated with the world” as he takes you through his childhood, marriage and hilarious stories about his life. You've seen him in over 10 commercials for major brands like McDonalds, DoorDash, RBC and more. He's a rostered Yuk Yuks comedian and been featured at The Haymaker Comedy and Vail Comedy Festivals ... and you can catch him at this year's Vail Comedy Festival, Memorial Day weekend.

Clint and Lewis investigate the Comedy Club Crime of the Century!

The Fight at the PickleBall Court boys are back, with a brand new segment: GUTTS TRIVIA? But they have to hurry, because they need to get to YUK YUKS for the greatest New Talent Showcase of all time. You think you know the Ottawa Comedy Community? Test your knowledge here!

Discover how chasing dreams and embracing spontaneity can lead to unexpected success. In this episode, host Dr. Peter Grossman  is welcomed into his guest's studio as he engages in an insightful conversation with comedian (and neighbor) Howie Mandel. Howie shares his personal experience about the power of saying "yes" and the importance of persistence. He also shares his journey from a lonely childhood in Toronto to becoming a renowned comedian, exploring how humor became both a coping mechanism and a career path. We delve into the serendipitous moment at Yuk Yuks comedy club that launched his comedy career and discuss the value of improvisation in life and art. Key Takeaways: - Embrace opportunities without overthinking; instinct often leads to unique paths. - Persistence is key—success comes from not giving up despite setbacks. - Authenticity shines through when you are true to yourself, resonating with audiences.  

The boys are fresh of the Northmen of Comedy weekend at Yuk Yuks! Fun times and unforgettable crowd interactions! Lewis pitches an idea to Clint and GUTTS listeners!

In episode 166 of The Johnny Rogers Show, I sit down with stand-up comic, actor, and writer JJ Whitehead. Known for his rangy swagger, electric wit, and fearless comedy, JJ has charmed audiences around the globe with his personal stories and razor-sharp social satire. In this episode, JJ's chosen word is Reprobate, and we dive into how he reclaims it as more of a compliment than its original definition. We also discuss his experience writing for The Jim Jefferies Show, the differences between doing stand-up in England vs. America, his many Edinburgh Fringe Festival performances, prepping for his Comedy Now special, and the advice he'd give to his younger self. JJ's unique journey—from headlining clubs like The Comedy Store and Yuk Yuks to slaying stages on Jim Jefferies' Night Talker Tour—offers a wealth of insight and laughs. Don't miss this conversation with one of comedy's most dynamic voices! Make sure to subscribe for more episodes, and let us know your favorite moments in the comments. - Get access to video for each episode by checking out ⁠The Johnny Rogers Show⁠ on YouTube - If you enjoyed today's guest, be sure to reach out and let them know: https://jjwhitehead.net/ https://www.instagram.com/jasonjohnwhitehead/ https://www.youtube.com/doubleJdoubleU https://x.com/JJWhitesnake https://www.facebook.com/jasonjohnwhitehead - Reach out in the comments below or find me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight

Comedy History 101 wraps up the year with our best interviews from 2024. Featuring episode excerpts from Arrested Development's Emmy-winning writer Jim Vallely, Paul Bellini from Kids in the Hall, Joel Thurm – casting director Airplane and Grease, plus histories of The Comedy Cellar, Yuk-Yuks, Moms Mabley with Rhonda Hansome, Sean Cullens, Susan Silver, Stan Zimmerman, directors Brent Hodge, Josh Forbes, Alan Bernstein, and more… Also, our friend Jean-François Brisson gives a recap of all our Canadian comedy episodes from the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lewis and Clint recap two very chaotic shows, and the Northmen show at Yuk Yuks. Clint barely escapes a canine attack!

Logan Brown is an Ottawa musician and comedian originally from Kingston ON. A full-time performer since age 14, Logan has made good use of his jazz background by being able to take requests and learn music on the spot. Logan is a stand-up comedian with regular work at Yuk Yuks and various other comedy clubs across the province, Logan brings his musical talent to the world of comedy penning joke songs and funny takes on popular music. Not your average "background noise" cover artist, Logan is sure to entertain with virtuosic guitar playing and vocals, astounding setlist selection, and side-splitting musical comedy! https://solo.to/logandoingstuffEgoandvicepodcast.com Ottawagigs.ca 

Connect with Marcel Strigbergerhttps://marcelshumour.com/booksMarcel has published numerous humorous articles in a variety of legal and non legal publications in Canada and the U.S.Marcel has written comedy sketches for CBC radio and television programs, such as “Funny You Should Say That” and “Royal Canadian Air Farce”.He has keen insight into human nature and this made him a hit while he practiced stand up comedy at Yuk Yuks and other comedy clubs, sharing the stage with the likes of Bob Saget, Howie Mandel, and Jim Carrey.Connect with Marcel StrigbergerMarcel has authored three books, namely a hilarious and thought provoking book entitled,Birth, Death and other Trivialities, which is a humourous philosophical look at the human condition, Poutine on the Orient Express: An Irreverent Look at Travel, and his most recent opus, Boomers, Zoomers, and Other Oomers: A Boomer-biased Irreverent Perspective on Aging.Marcel Strigberger is uniquely qualified to deal with life's so called serious issues in a whimsical and entertaining manner. And he's a lot more fun to read and to listen to than Rene Descartes, Jean Paul Sartre and Sir Isaac Newton. Maybe not Sir Isaac Newton.Connect with Host Terry LohrbeerIf you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: terry@kickassboomers.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2658545911065461/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylohrbeer/Instagram: kickassboomersTwitter: @kickassboomersWebsite: kickassboomers.comTerry's editing company:Connect to Premiere Podcast Pros for podcast editing:premierepodcastpros@gmail.com LEAVE A REVIEW and join me on my journey to become and stay a Kickass Boomer!Visit http://kickassboomers.com/ to listen to the previous episodes. Also check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Email terry@kickassboomers.com and connect with me online and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Lewis goes full Kurtz, with his Heart of Darkness home renos! Clint has teachable moment and a Yuk Yuks fundraiser!

It's 22 day, and Burgers to Beat MS day! Robbie's blisters have people curious. Pepper is having charger troubles and throws Dylan in the hot seat! New Fact of the Year! Dylan's 3 Things: Cuts for Class today. Pepper is headlining at Yuk Yuks this weekend!

Lewis is back from three vacations, Clint has two very different shows at Yuk Yuks, and a brand new Cesar's Undressing!

Lewis is back from three vacations, Clint has two very different shows, at Yuk Yuks, and a brand new Cesar's Undressing!

In 2016 he was Yuk Yuks top new comic, 2017 Edmonton's funniest person and since he's been banned by the CBC. He now travels with the Danger Cats and has performed at Joe Rogan's comedy club “The Mothership”. SNP Presents returns April 27th Tickets Below: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone/ Tickets for the Danger Cats in Lloydminster May 11th: https://vicjubatheatre.ca/ Let me know what you think. Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast E-transfer here: shaunnewmanpodcast@gmail.com Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/ Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.com Text: (587) 441-9100 – and be sure to let them know you're an SNP listener.

Being on the (D)ivorced List is never DULL……and in today's NEW laugh-out-loud episode, the Irish Queen of Comedy, Fiona O'Brien, finds the funny side of landing on the Divorced and Happy “D” list.Fiona shares how her first few years on the D(ivorced) List led to a comedic pot of GOLD! Listen in as she shares numerous post-divorce shenanigans along with how her divorce journey influenced her comedy career. Get your giggle-fix today at DivorcedandHappy.net Visit Fiona's website for her show info: https://fionaobriencomedy.com/Fiona O'Brien's Bio: After Emigrating from Dublin Ireland to Toronto Canada in 2012 Fiona began on a quest to stamp out the racism that the Irish face….One Lucky Charm at a time. Fiona quickly established herself by winning over audiences. Fiona has been featured on Funny Women UK, Halifax Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival. Winnipeg Comedy Festival. A regular on CBC's Lol and CBC's Because News. JFL Toronto. JFL Canada on Sirius XM. Yuk Yuks. Comedy Album ‘Magically Malicious' and EP ‘Finger Licker' out now on iTunes and Spotify.After providing the world with three future tax payers (all born by C Sections, just saying) Fiona has decided to dedicate her life to making sexually frustrated, disillusioned and bored people laugh with her no restraint provocative humour.Learn Your Dating Flavor Profile. Take the Vanilla, Strawberry, Sprinkles quiz for free here: https://www.divorcedandhappy.net/vssquizLeave Your Sweet and Creamy Quiz Comments Here: SpeakPipebit.lyFollow me on Social Media (IG, FB, Tiktok, Youtube and Pinterest): @sadies@divorcedandhappySponsorship: Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Email contact@divorcedandhappy.net to learn more. What's Your Burning Question? Leave me a burning question OR answer mine on Speak Pipe using this link: https://bit.ly/SDHSpeakPipeYou can also visit the home page of my website, DivorcedandHappy.net to leave your Burning Question! Rate & Review on iTunes and Spotify: If you found value in today's episode or have been enjoying the podcast for some time now, please rate, review and share with your community! iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sadies-divorced-and-happy/id1546035678Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3qyUfz9Podcast Episodes: Listen to all the Sadie's Divorced and Happy episodes at https://www.divorcedandhappy.net/podcastJoin the Twin Cities Divorced and Happy Meet Up Page: https://www.meetup.com/divorced-and-happy/Join the Chicago's Divorced and Happy Meet Up Page: https://www.meetup.com/chicago-divorced-singles/Join the Denver's Divorced and Happy Meet Up Page: https://www.meetup.com/denver-divorced-singles/Buy Me a Coffee: If you found value in today's episode please consider buying me a "cup of coffee" @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sadiemarieDivorced and Happy Blog: Visit my blog at divorcedandhappy.net/blog#sadiesdivorcedandhappypodcast #divorce #lifeafterdivorce #getsprinkled #divorcehumor #divorcecommunity #soloeposide #divorcedwoman #divorcedman #dessert #divorcepodcast #divorcedsingles #meetupevents #divorcedandhappymeetups #contestwinner #burningquestions...

In episode 123 of The Johnny Rogers Show I caught up with the founder of Yuk Yuks, Mark Breslin! We talk about what he looks for when signing a comedian, being protested, why he values independence & so much more! LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE: PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Thejohnnyrogers APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-johnny-rogers-show/id1652119790 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SeYAHbIbsxTf8UChBAUIy YOUTUBE: /@TheJohnnyRogersShow + everywhere podcasts are available Follow Mark Breslin on social media https://www.instagram.com/markbreslin1 https://yukyuks.com/ Follow Johnny Rogers on social media https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.facebook.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight https://www.twitch.tv/thejohnnyrogers https://www.spoti.fi/3uGt9U9

Clint slays Yuk Yuks, and witnesses a Maren! Lewis hosts a corporate, and overhears what people really think of him! All this and more hot dogs than you can shake a stick at!

In this episode, the boys are graced with the presence of Squirly, one of Perth's most attractive comics. Together the boys talk about Squirly's comedy origin story, the proper way to enunciate c*** and how the smell of deep heat reminds Jon of his dad's mate's penises'. A libidinously highbrow listen. Also, he's not a bogan... he's from the country. Mixed and Edited by Aaron MossProduced by Blake Richardson, Jon Pinder & Aaron MossKings InstagramSquirly's Fringe ShowSquirly's Instagram

Lewis goes full Walter Kurtz! Clint has a show at Yuk Yuks in Toronto! What could go wrong?

Welcome to the newest season of Not That Kind of Rabbi! Ralph's spiritual deep-dive podcast is back, now joining The CJN Podcast Network. After more than three years and 80 guests, we'll be focusing on Jewish Canadians, exploring the inner lives of public figures. To kick things off, we're hosting a special live taping on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, at the Prosserman JCC in Toronto. Ralph will sit down with his old friend and Yuk Yuks founder Mark Breslin. Get tickets here.

Lewis does four shows at Yuk Yuks! Clint hits the East Coast! Craft beer mishaps occur!

In this 1302nd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with That Canadian Guy Glen Foster about his 40 years of funny, from the early Yuk Yuks days, to the recent Just For Laughs controversy. Glen also shares his thoughts on political correctness, Spotify royalties, Norm Macdonald, Mike MacDonald, Ralph Benmergui, and rap music. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, The Moment Lab, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

In Episode 91, I sit down with comedian Luke Lynndale and we begin on the word entitled. We also discuss Luke's brand new venture, the Danforth Comedy Festival. In this episode, Luke shares his passion for comedy, the entitlement of comedians and the stresses of producing comedy. We also dive into Luke's early experiences in comedy, taking breaks, wild nights in Australia, and performing during the pandemic. Luke Lynndale is a Toronto-based comedian, writer and actor. When Luke is performing, hang on for the ride – it's fast and hilarious. Luke is high energy and rants about the absurdities that affect his life. His raw truth creates a visceral reaction in audiences while they laugh. Luke has toured Los Angeles and Michigan. He has performed at notable comedy clubs including Yuk Yuks, Absolute Comedy, New York Comedy Club, Flappers Comedy Club, and The Comedy Chateau. He's been featured at comedy festivals including – Salem Comedy Festival, NY Underground Festival, Nestival Festival, and Boston Improv Festival. In 2020, he was a finalist in the Comedian of The North comedy competition in Thunder Bay, ON. He is a graduate of The Second City Sketch Program, Montreal School of Performing Arts, co-founder of critically acclaimed improv duo, DUO DAD, and founding member of Shakespeare improv troupe, We Happy Few. Luke's acting credits include Betrayal (Montreal School of Performing Arts), and Arsenic and Old Lace (Village Players). Luke has studied improv at UCB, The Annoyance, iO, The Second City, Bad Dog Theatre, The Social Capital, and The Improv Retreat. He has taken improv classes led by some legendary teachers which include Will Hines, Hal Rudnick, Billy Merritt, Armando Diaz, Charna Halpern, Jill Bernard, Joe Bill, Dave Razowsky, Brandon Gardner, Toni Charline, Christian Capozzoli, Susan Messing, Rich Sohn, Rebecca Sohn, Tara DeFrancisco, Bruce Hunter, Jon Bander, Jan Caruana, Ken Hall, Lisa Merchant, Matt Folliott, Ralph MacLeod, Rob Norman, Ted Hallett, Isaac Kessler, Frank McAnulty, Paul Constable, Lindsay Leese, Todd Fasen, Becky Johnson, and Kevin Patrick Robbins. He is a graduate of longform programs at both The Assembly and Impatient Theatre Company (ITC). EP #91 - The Johnny Rogers Show LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE: PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Thejohnnyrogers APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-johnny-rogers-show/id1652119790 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SeYAHbIbsxTf8UChBAUIy YOUTUBE: / @TheJohnnyRogersShow  + everywhere podcasts are available Follow Luke Lynndale on social media https://lukelynndale.com/shows/ https://www.instagram.com/lukelynndale/ https://www.tiktok.com/@lukelynndale YouTube: / @lukelynndale  Follow Johnny Rogers on social media https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.facebook.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight https://www.twitch.tv/thejohnnyrogers https://www.spoti.fi/3uGt9U9

In Episode 90, I sit down with comedian Bobby Knauff and we get a surprise appearance by his hilarious puppet, Andre The Alien. In this episode, Bobby shares his passion for puppets, his creative process for writing jokes for himself and Andre, and his inspirations in the world of comedy. We also delve into Bobby's early experiences in comedy, his battle with addiction, and how comedy played a vital role in his journey to sobriety, including the transformative impact of Michael Pollan's book, "Change Your Mind," and the role of psychedelics in his healing. Originally from Thunder Bay, Bobby Knauff moved to Toronto in 2006 to pursue his comedy career. With achievements such as winning the 2012 Toronto Comedy Brawl, being a semi-finalist in SiriusXM Canada's Next Top Comic in 2013, and headlining with Yuk Yuks on a cross-Canada tour, Bobby has made a name for himself in the comedy scene. He has appeared on notable platforms like The Fresh Meat Showcase at The Second City, NXNE Music & Comedy Fest, JFL42, and has had numerous appearances on Much Music and MTV Canada. Additionally, Bobby's debut album, "Rock Bottom," released in May 2020, received widespread acclaim and can be heard on satellite radio and various streaming platforms. Beyond stand-up comedy, Bobby's versatile talents extend to commercials, guest roles on television, and voice acting in cartoons. He is also one half of the sketch duo "The Two Sues" alongside Josh Stone and is a skilled puppeteer, bringing joy and laughter with his puppet buddy Andre. EP #90 - The Johnny Rogers Show LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE: PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Thejohnnyrogers APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-johnny-rogers-show/id1652119790 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SeYAHbIbsxTf8UChBAUIy YOUTUBE: /@TheJohnnyRogersShow + everywhere podcasts are available Follow Bobby Knauff & Andre The Alien on social media https://www.instagram.com/bobbyknauffandcats/ https://www.instagram.com/andre_thealien/ https://twitter.com/Andre_thealien Follow Johnny Rogers on social media https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.facebook.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight https://www.twitch.tv/thejohnnyrogers https://www.spoti.fi/3uGt9U9

If you liked Season One of Canada's Got Talent, "You are going to be bowled over this year," says Howie Mandel, "because I don't think there's even a comparison." The talent search series returns  Tuesday, March 21 on Citytv.Mandel is joined once again on the judging panel by Lilly Singh, Trish Stratus and Kardinal Offishall. The talent on display hails from all across Canada, including, as Howie says, "The tundra!"Mandel, of course, is one of the most successful and enduring comedy acts in all of North America. He started making audiences laugh at Yuk Yuks in Toronto and The Comedy Store in LA before taking a dramatic turn as Dr. Wayne Fiscus in the groundbreaking NBC hospital drama St. Elsewhere.As he tells on this episode, young Howie loved watching daytime talk shows hosted by Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin, never dreaming he'd one day be a guest on these shows as well as The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Being on Merv, in fact, led to one of his first big breaks when he got a call from Gene Simmons of KISS. Listen here for the rest of that story.Mandel's other credits include Bobby World, Deal or No Deal and his seven-year stint on America's Got Talent. Plus now he's helping make or break the next generation of comedians as part owner of Montreal's famed comedy festival, Just for Laughs.

Spenny recently inducted Mark Breslin into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame, so we thought we would surprise Spenny by inviting Breslin on the show. Hilarity ensued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Ottawa-area stand-up comedian Wafik Nasralla.I have seen Waf perform at Yuk Yuks several times now and he is always open about being sober. He makes it funny and is very honest about it. I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Waf and hope to do it again!I hope you enjoy my conversation with Waf.Support the show

Today we have on Nebin Francis. Nebin is a young comedian with the spirit of a lion and the humour a rat (bet you didn't know rats get the giggles huh? Ya go google it) We think Nebin is the bees knees, and believe in his dreams and his success. This absolutely won't be the last time you see this guy and we hope this conversation gives you the same feeling you get when you watch Borat. A little uncomfortable, very enjoyable, and the sense that you know you're watching greatness in the making! Watch Nebin at Yuk Yuks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5zDBGNNYiY Thank you so much for watching/listening to our podcast. We are here to learn and offer valuable information about the cannabis and wellness space! Please like this video and subscribe for weekly podcasts, meditations, and affirmations. If you'd like to support us directly, check out our patreon here: www.patreon.com/disciplinedstoners Get Ellevan's book: STFU: Thoughts and Feelings shorturl.at/pIS08 Follow us on Instagram: Disciplined Stoners: #podcast #mindfulness #mindfulpodcast #podcasting #comedy #fun #podcasting #wellness #meditation #disciplines #entrepreneur Every episode we travel deeper into unfolding who we believe we are. Just as in every day you are alive. Through these conversations of self reflection, often comedic, often topical, but always grounded in trying to uncover a deeper meaning to this life. Thank you for joining us on this special discovery and we hope to continue to inspire you and the choices you make to better your life. You are loved. You are well. We are growing. Love n Light --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/disciplinedstoners/message

Kenny Robinson is one of the hardest working comedians in Canada & has been making his living as a comic/actor since 1984. Along the way, he has helped to launch careers for many upcoming comedians & has done so selflessly. I first took notice of Kenny when he hosted his TV show, "After Hours" in the early 2000s & his train has kept rolling on through the years. I met Kenny while I was performing with my band at a bar in London, Ontario circa 2008. He was working his show at the local Yuk Yuks & found his way to my show as he was looking to blow off some steam & relax after his set. He is one of the warmest & kind celebrities I've met to date. Known for his raunchy or "blue" comedy, Kenny has also done a lot of mainstream work in both comedy & acting, including regular appearances on the TV series "Doc" featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, movie roles alongside Chris Rock (2001 "Down to Earth") Jude Law & Forest Whitaker (2010 Repo Men). Most recently, he's appeared as "Reggie" on the Tv series "Coroner" & as "Earl" on "The Umbrella Academy" . Meanwhile, he is on tour creating laughs all over Canada. His "Nubian Comedy Revue" has been very well received as he continues to give younger artists a leg up. In this episode, we discussed his beginnings in show business & his successes along the way to the present.

Ariel Kagan (@arielkagancomedy) is becoming a mainstay of the Toronto & Canadian comedy community with a unique blend of comedic styles! Having his roots in South Africa, he has gone on to perform at JFL42, Yuk Yuks, Absolute, and opened for Hasan Minhaj (Patriot Act) & K Trevor Wilson (Letterkenney). With his career growing to new heights, he co-founded Bubbie's Boys Presents, The Backroom Comedy Club and is now the co-host of The Coke Dad's Podcast. ✔️ Subscribe

We chat to the brilliant, Jeff Leeson, a comedian who started at 14 and is now 37, he is a man who after getting rejected from Yuk Yuks has become a comedian who built his own tours and shows. He is now been dubbed the king of crowd work and is living his comedy journey on his terms,here is what we discussed : [10:48] How I adjusted to the owner of Yuk Yuks hating me [20:00] How I started touring [23:16] The problem with viral comedians and people doing spots they aren't ready for [[37:05]] What is a comedy superpower [[43:55]] My advice for crowd work [[47:24]] How I prepare for my shows [[57:13]]The truth about comedy  If you would like to know more about Jeff Leeson you can reach him on his website at https://jeffleesoncomedy.com/. If you enjoyed the episode you can , help support the podcast by donating to the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/thecomediansparadise or follow Marvin through his Linktree at https://linktr.ee/theflopmaster?fbclid=IwAR0rA0Ybj-P-sF1jpUdbl22JNpY8stfnZtM0QswrTea3frDvNl3sP0H6V1Q (https://linktr.ee/theflopmaster). 

Guest: Mark Breslin, co-founder and CEO of Yuk Yuks, comedian, author, and producer.

Winnipeg braces for April blizzard, Remembering Gilbert Gottfried, The inspiration behind the Pay Gap App & Canada's COVID 6th Wave and what lies ahead  - April 12th, 2022   Winnipeg braces for April blizzard Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host of The News CJOB   Remembering Gilbert Gottfried and his comedic legacy  Guest: Mark Breslin, co-founder and CEO of Yuk Yuks, comedian, author, and producer   The inspiration behind the Pay Gap App and calling out companies for hypocrisy on gender pay equity   Guest: Francesca Lawson, co-creator of the gender pay gap bot @paygapapp   Canada's COVID 6th Wave and what lies ahead  Guest: Dr. Tara Moriarity, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry with cross appointment to the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Lori Gibbs has been described as a human anti-depressant. She is a rare commodity - a stand up comedian with a sunny disposition. She and Bob talk about how she knew at 20 that she wanted to be a stand-up - however she didn't take the plunge til after her 40th birthday. Lori has also been a morning show host in Calgary over the years. If you want to hear Bob give a curse laden rant about what is "wrong" with radio (and some of those who run it) take a listen to this episode...there is a NSFW rant after Lori shares an anecdote about a radio "consultant" she once encountered.

For today's episode we welcomed back local Edmonton comedian Lars Callieou to the podcast for his second appearance!  As you will hear in both our first conversation as well as this one I am obsessed with stand up comedy so opportunities like this to ask all the inside questions I wonder about daily means more to me than I will ever be able to express! Whether you are a comedy nut like me or not, I don't think you can go wrong with a conversation about a topic where both parties have a genuine passion. Lars has performed all over the world, for the troops, for specials and most of all for his love of the game! Please check out Lars on social media @extralars and Christmas party season is coming maybe think about hiring Lars or any other local acts to really spread the love around this holiday season! I hope you all enjoy and I'll see you guys on the next one! Xoxoxo

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Canadian Comedy Award recipient Briane Nasimok, has been telling stories from an early age, a talent he primarily used in those days to get out of trouble. When he was ten, Briane went to live theatre for the first time which inspired him to pursue his dream – but instead it led him to an usual career, appearing in over 30 operas and nearly 300 performances, without uttering a word. Canada's Foremost Operatic Mute went on to a career in stand-up comedy as one of the earliest featured performers at Yuk Yuks. He is an award-winning television writer/producer with shows ranging from Sesame Street to The Giller Prize and was 9th runner up in CTV's Thrill of a Lifetime's Male Beauty Pageant. His life experience as a mute performer led to the creation of an acclaimed one-person show. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mostlyjuststories/support

Hot Dang! This weeks episode is a comedy deep dive, with a true comedy badass.  Fresh off a Yuk Yuks show, I welcome comedian, screenwriter & filmmaker Line Woods to the podcast.   Line is a true powerhouse in the maritime comedy arena. She has proved herself as a killer on stage, and has a logical and proactive approach to producing high quality shows. Line is the first woman to have won the Hubcap Comedy Festival's Stand Up Comedy Contest, where she took home the prize in 2020.   In this episode her and I dive into: post show vulnerability, the art of giving & receiving feedback, protecting comedy highs, types of crowds, the business of comedy, navigating both french and english comedy scenes, the importance of diversity on shows and much more.    PLUS: at the top of the show we discuss our weird and kind of straight up awful week, and our favourite/least favourite parts of doing stand up.   Follow Line: @linewoods   Leave us a voicemail Email intalksicatedpodcast@gmail.com Don't miss an episode! Make sure you subscribe to InTalksicated Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Follow Intalksicated: Facebook: @intalksicatedpodcast Instagram: @intalksicatedpodcast Twitter: @in_talksicated Follow Sarah: @sarah_macl Subscribe on YouTube!

I think thus far into podcast no type of guest gets me quite as excited as stand up comedians! Something about the difficulty, vulnerability and what it brings into the world that I just can't get enough of. Our guest today Todd Ness has been on the podcast before but this time it was much much sillier! Todd has a very infectious personality and 5 minutes in he had us both in fits and it didn't stop the entire time. I often sit in awe listening to Todd's podcast “Nessin around” at just how rapid fire the jokes are without missing a beat and I wondered how it could be possible to do that over an extended period of time. After today's episode I got to see it first hand and it only reinforces my take from the first episode that Todd is a special type of comedian that is going to be headlining huge venues all over the world in just a few years!  Get following him now so you can come along for that ride! But if you are lucky enough to be in Alberta in August you can come see Todd perform at Yuk Yuks in Calgary the weekend of the 14th and at Yuk Yuks in Edmonton the weekend of the 28th. It's been a huge dream of mine since I started the podcast to help people chase their own dreams by talking about them here and this is the first real opportunity to make that happen! So if you are a fan of stand up comedy or have a hankering to give it a try go see Todd perform and please let him know you heard him here! 

Hosts Dean Young // https://twitter.com/comicdeanyoung Vince Tedesco // https://www.instagram.com/bigvinniestyles/?hl=en  Guests Mark Breslin // https://yukyuks.com/?action=aboutUs.markbreslin  Ben Bankas // https://twitter.com/BenBankas  It's another Sunday night in comedy and this week, Dean and Vince check in with Yuk Yuks founder and Canadian comedy kingpin Mark Breslin. How essential and telling is it to see a major festival like JFL make its return, after such a surreal year? They are also joined by comedian and podcast host Ben Bankas. Known for his blunt observations and darkly dry world view - how much has the turmoil and chaos of the past year further flavored his standup?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 27 features my chat with entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, teacher, member of The Order of Canada, and the founder and CEO of the Yuk Yuks stand-up comedy club chain, Mr. Mark Breslin.

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Inside Jokes - Sunday, April 4th, 2021 - Horse Farm & Wrestling Puns  Hosts Vince Tedesco // https://www.instagram.com/bigvinniestyles/?hl=en  12:05PM - CARLA COLLINS Carla Collins, Tommy Marshall, and Chris Robinson On this week's episode, Vince chats with Canadian comedy heavy-hitter, Carla Collins about transitioning from a life in Hollywood to a horse farm in Northern Ontario. He also chats with comedian Tommy Marshall on his new album, "Into the Weeds" - out now through Comedy Records. In addition, Vince catches up with Chris Robinson and his self-titled show, back in action from a weekend stint at Yuk Yuks in London.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Breslin is the founder and CEO of Yuk Yuks. Mark Breslin was born and raised in Toronto, Canada in 1952. He graduated York University Honours with a B.A. in English Literature in 1974. In 1976, Breslin opened the first Yuk Yuk's, in the basement of Toronto's Church Street Community Centre. Four years and many sweaty shows later, the Yuk Yuk's flag ship was moved to 1280 Bay Street in the trendy Yorkville district. Over the next decade, Yuk Yuk's would expand to its present reach with over 15 clubs across Canada.

BGBS 042: Ron Tite | Church + State | Everyone Loves a Funny Business GuyWith experience writing books about branding and creativity, founding Church+State, and headlining his own comedy show, we think it's safe to say that Ron Tite is a well-rounded guy. Luckily for us, he doesn't stop there. Ron has written, produced, and performed a hit play, been a creative director for some of the world's most respected brands such as Volvo and Intel, and created a branded art gallery. Ron also inspires us with the skillset to blend his experience with art and commerce to speak all over the world. As we sit down with Ron, we touch on how Church+State unifies the worlds of content and advertising and why agencies shouldn't compromise the soul within it all just for scale. Working in an ever-changing industry, it comes as no surprise to us that Ron is all about redefining and adapting to change. We learn that at the precipice of each great decision, Ron asks himself, “How can I pursue this feeling?”, motivating us to do the same. In this episode, you'll learn…The name Church+State comes from the fact that the worlds of content and advertising used to be kept separate—like the separation of church and state—and they are now being unified within this agency With the low cost of content production and distribution, the result is the “expression economy” where anyone can express themselves, thus challenging large media companies to make a disruption and stand out from the average person With startup culture, it's all about the pivot. The industry is moving too quickly to always know if a strategy is going to work, so you need an agency that may not know all the answers, but is committed to getting it right Ron's company wasn't always called Church+State, but he decided to spend his weeks building the business and letting the name come over time rather than finding the perfect name from the start Ron originally went to university to complete a degree in physical education and later become a teacher At 17-years-old, Ron got a job at a camp with no experience of ever going to camp as a child. This was his first exposure of ever doing things on his own The way Ron's family would tell these amazing, animated stories with the same beats and energy every time is what inspired his love of comedic storytelling Ron's first-ever stand-up comedy set was 45 minutes long because he produced the show and made himself the headliner One of the most powerful moments that Ron ever had on stage was not of uproarious laughter, but during the silence of strategic thought and emotion among the audience There is an aspect of advertising that is “assembly-line driven”, but you need to add original thinking and “soul” to keep up with the changing tides of humanity ResourcesRon Tite Website The Coup Podcast Church + State Website Ron Tite Instagram Ron Tite Facebook Quotes[32:02] There's a rule in comedy and it's either they laughed or they didn't…I love that it's the ultimate accountability. [37:57] I think that we have to be greedy with our chasing emotions, as opposed to chasing ego. [38:16] Nobody wants to listen to a comedian who knows about business. No one believes that guy because comedians don't know about business. But everybody wants to listen to a funny business guy. [44:44] Consumers go to a website, they look at a pair of shoes, and the pair of shoes follow them around for the next month. I mean, it's just constant pitch-slapping from every angle, and we just have to be better than this…We can't lose the soul of this. Podcast TranscriptRon Tite 0:02And so what I did was I just kind of thought, let's start from birth. And I started there, you know, as you start to go through the bits, then you end up going or what links the bits like, “What's the thread that goes through all this?” And so it was really about my life growing up quite poor. And then the name of the show was Captain Crunch flashback. So it was really just about growing up in a hand me down clothes kind of environment in a blue-collar town. And my mom was there. It was, which was amazing that my mom got to see it, because it really it's kind of a backhanded homage to my mom who is an incredible woman. Marc Gutman 0:46Podcasting from Boulder, Colorado. This is the Baby Got Back story Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like backstories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman, Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby got backstory. We are talking with Founder and Chief Creative Officer Ron Tite from the advertising agency, Church and State out of Toronto, Canada, where to cool name Church and State. A best selling author, speaker, producer and entrepreneur, Ron Tite has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. And he has been an award-winning advertising writer and creative director for some of the world's most respected brands including Air France, Evian, Fidelity, Hershey, Johnson and Johnson, Kraft, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo and many others. If you're listening now, do you recognize any of those brand names? I'm sure you do. Those are all heavy hitters. He is founder of Church and State, host and executive producer of the hit podcast The Coup and publisher of This is That travel guide to Canada, a best selling an award-winning satirical book. He has written for television, penned a children's book, wrote, produced and performed a hit play, created a branded Art Gallery, then was executive producer and host of the award-winning comedy show, Monkey toast. If that's not enough, he's an in-demand speaker all over the world. And Ron speaks to leading organizations about leadership disruption, branding, and creativity. All topics that we are going to cover on today's episode. Ron's first book, Everyone's an Artist, or At Least They Should Be, which was co-written by Scott Kavanaugh and Christopher Novice was published by HarperCollins in 2016. And his most recent book, Think Do Say: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy, Busy World hit store shelves in October of 2019. Hey, now, if you like and enjoy the show, please take a minute or two to rate and review us over at iTunes. iTunes uses these as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on the Apple charts. And we like ratings. So please, if you haven't rated us or if you know someone who's listening who hasn't given us a good five-star review, please hop on over there and do that. It is a tremendous help to the podcast. Back to Ron Tite. I had a lot of fun with this interview. Ron is well, A funny guy, and he's made a career out of what I've longed to believe the secret recipe, blend two things that you're good at that aren't necessarily related. And Ron's case, he took advertising and his love for stand up comedy in the stage and combined it into a creative career, leading him to work with some of the world's biggest brands. Let's not waste any time and let's get right into it. with Ron Tite. So I'm here with Ron Tite, the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Church and State out of Toronto, a creative agency up in Toronto, Canada. And so Ron, thanks for coming on the show. And if you could just launch right in. Let's not waste any time watch it tell me about Church and State what is Church and State and what makes you so interesting? Ron Tite 4:20I'll leave it for your listeners to decide whether I've interesting or not. But thank you, Mark, thanks for having me on. And yeah, well, let's just jump right into it, church and state and I feel like I should go into this like scripted elevator pitch kind of thing. Church and State is a multi-dimensional cross solution provider of dissolute Asia… This is what we are. We think that, you know, the worlds of content and advertising used to be separate and kept separate. It was the separation of church and state and we think that those worlds are now unified. And so we have unified the worlds of content and advertising in convenient agency form. And so we do it, you know, stuff that can be defined as pure pure pure-play content, stuff that can be defined as pure play advertising. And as we all know, most of this stuff is kind of somewhere in the middle. And so we work with large global clients like Walmart and Doordash. And we just want scouts, Scouts Canada, and we do some work with Microsoft and to shield insurance and a whole bunch of other friendly lovely people. Marc Gutman 5:34That well I love that the tie in of your positioning to your name, church and state and your worldview on how you're approaching brand and marketing and communications. I mean, how did that come about? Like, you know, that is a little bit? You know, there has been a shift, you know, I mean, there, there was content, there was advertising, there's all these different, you know, disciplines within brand and marketing, but now, it's all kind of blending and it's all it's all and we never know like where does one start? One does? One does, where does one leave off? You know, when do you stop bleeding into another discipline or area or department of marketing or brands? So how did that all come about for you? I mean, it's I find that really intriguing, really awesome. Ron Tite 6:19Yeah, well, thank you. It started when I was so I was before I started Church and State I was Executive Creative Director at an agency called Havas, in Havas Khanna Havas Toronto. And I would it started with me but you know, I was at a shoot in Montevideo, Uruguay, and kind of looked back and saw this crew shot of all these people. And it was like, Hi, that how the hell and we said like it literally turned on producer and said, How the hell are we still doing that? Like, how are we so flying halfway around the world to shoot 15 seconds, for medium that fewer and fewer people are watching. And so it started there. And then and then I realized, like, I gotta I gotta quit. So I quit. I just resigned to figure it all out. And what I as I dug into it, and I started, I thought that nobody was talking to the entire ecosystem. There were some people who were saying, oh, the national newspapers and the TV networks, those people are dead. And other people saying, oh, the big cpgs and big traditional marketing companies, they're dead and other using a big agencies are dead. But nobody was looking at the interplay between all those things. And that, while completely different ecosystems are both completely different worlds of, you know, the worlds of television content, and television advertising. They were completely dependent on one another. And I thought that all of those worlds were being disrupted, and no one was looking at it. And when you look at you know, the lower cost of production meant anybody could produce content, the relative ease of global and immediate distribution meant that anybody could distribute content. A nd when you combine, you know, low cost of content production with low cost of content distribution, you end up with this dynamic where, you know, it's something that I called the expression economy, which is like, Well, everyone is just expressing themselves. And that the large media companies have to disrupt themselves just as much as the large marketers and large agencies. So I wrote this line that was just about to succeed, brands need to act like media properties and media properties need to act like brands. And then I thought, well, what the hell is that? That's a great line. I don't know what it meant. So I just need to just roll up my sleeves and figure it out. But what did that actually mean? And how would one go about solving that problem? And I thought, I'm gonna solve it on my own. And so I started the tight group first. And I call it the tight group, because I wasn't exactly sure what problem I was solving. I wasn't exactly sure whether I was gonna solve that as a consulting firm or as an agency or as a production company. I didn't know I just wanted to solve the problem the best way possible. So I started out called the tight group and then eventually, like, three years into it, it was like, Oh, this is what we do. This is the perspective we have that name no longer matches with what we do. We need to we need to rebrand Marc Gutman 9:24and so about when was it when you kind of had this epiphany of what this new era was going to look like, as I heard you speaking like I don't want to say like it's happened overnight because you know, we've been a part of this sort of movement where like you said everyone's a content creator. I mean, what we can do with the phone in our pockets amazing like you don't need you know, huge television crews and I don't think you know this about me when I came out of the movie industry. I worked in the movie industry. Yeah, first first part of my career so very familiar with at all and but I but I also as I heard you talking I was kind of chuckling to myself because I remember not that long ago. I want to say maybe my memories like, like rough for myself. But maybe 5, 6 years ago, I thought to myself, wow, I probably will never cut the cord. I love my direct tv and my sports and things like that. And now like I sit today and like I watch no tell it like traditional television and if i do i watch it as a streaming device. My children don't even know what cable is they watch YouTube and everything else and TikTok so like, like for you? When was this like revelation? Like, when did you like really see it in Ron Tite 10:291968? No. It was in 2011. Marc Gutman 10:36So yeah, I mean, that's that's like still nine years ago. I mean, that's like crazy to me that that's really visionary in terms of making a bet. On where you think this is all going? Ron Tite 10:46Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think and I didn't know, I know. It's just like, I think this is where things are going. And I know, why isn't anybody talking about this? And one of the things I that that really solidified it for me, I remember turning on the television back when I had cable, and like you, I've completely cut the cord. But I remember turning in and sometimes was this young child in Detroit, you may have come up to Toronto to watch a Blue Jays game to play your beloved Tigers, see your beloved Tigers play the Blue Jays, well, I turned on the television to watch a sports program. And so I turn on the TV and the show was called primetime sports. Now, Primetime sports was a discussion, sports show. And primetime sports was a radio show, owned by Rogers Communications. And it aired on a radio station called the Fan 590. owned by Rogers Communications. It was- they put a couple of cameras in the corner. And they shot the discussion. And that TV show that was generated out of filming a radio show was owned by Rogers. It was then aired on a national television network called sports net owned by Rogers. And when they cut to commercial break, they advertised cell phones owned by Rogers Communications, the only thing missing was out of that entire ecosystem was the thing that they were talking about. And oh, that was the Toronto Blue Jays owned by Rogers Communications. So the content that was being discussed was owned by the parent company on a platform on television owned by the parent company, on radio owned by the parent company. And when they cut to commercial break, it was products owned by the parent company. And so the pessimists may look at that and go this is corporate greed. This is you know that we've lost the editorial credibility, the optimist or the or those who are biased, would say this is a glorious thing. This is a glorious thing, because the viewer doesn't care. They don't care who owns what, now it does raise some questions. It raises questions around when the when, when that show airs. The top story is of the Toronto Blue Jays. Is it really the top sports story that day? Or is it because they want to drive bumps in the seats? Again, the viewer will decide when they've walked across that line. I just think that it's amazing that a brand is both owning the content and owning the advertising, then the entire revenue ecosystem. And when I saw that I was like, this is a changed game. And why aren't we watching our television news broadcast be the Wall Street Journal news hour? Why is it the CBS Evening News. And it's because the traditional media companies think of themselves as the media in which they are deployed in and they're not their brands, they need to extend into other areas. Marc Gutman 14:03And then so what was your first sort of taste or or use case of how you actually deployed that or saw that work in it in the new era? Ron Tite 14:13I did some consulting before I was it was kind of under the agency banner, but it was really just me and I went into consulting to a radio show. And what they wanted to do was, you know, increase viewership or listenership and stuff. And so I, you know, develop this platform, and it was like, Look, this is you're going to get behind at all conversation, because great things and issues are solved when we just sit down and have adult conversation. That was the brand belief. And then I said, you know, there's a neighborhood in Toronto where there's always a debate as to whether you call the beaches versus the beach, and I said, so if there's a town meeting behind, whether it's called the beaches or the beach, you need to get behind and sponsor that conversation. You need to be there live. And they said, do we go and record it for the radio. And I said, Well, you Maybe, but that doesn't really matter that you're just gonna you're gonna sponsor the live conversation. And they're like, but we're a radio show, you know, they just they didn't get the world of branding that they could actually be something else other than radio if they built the brand. So that was the first thing was like, Oh yeah, this is where I need to extend. And then the first traditional client was a client called AB world foods, which owns pretax Indian sauces and Blue Dragon Asian sauces. And I was like, what could we do for that a really traditional CPG? And what did we do? Of course, we did recipe videos, and we did, we did cookbooks, and we deployed through social media. And it was, you know, the goal of the business was to double in five years, and then we beat that timeline. Marc Gutman 15:46Yeah, then, you know, thanks for sharing that. And I really loved your explanation of how you started the Tite group, and then morphed into Church and State. And so like, I think that's really interesting. I think a lot of people, especially creatives, those that are in this space, think, you know, I have to figure it all out. Before I get into business, I have to have the perfect name, I've got to have the perfect positioning. And what I heard from you is like, you know, you wanted that I'm sure, I'm sure you've wrestled with some of those questions. But at the same time, it was more important to get in business and kind of figure it out, like kind of get your hands a little dirty, and figure out where the problems were and what you were passionate about. And so did I reflect that pretty accurately? I mean, is would you say that that was a good recipe to get to where you are today? Ron Tite 16:33Yeah, I agree with you. I think, I felt a little bit of that pressure, like, oh, what's it gonna be called? And what's it, you know, and I just, I kept telling myself, to push my ego to the side. And because that's what we want, right? We want to go out, the first thing that people see in here is they have this amazing idea where they shower us with, you know, appreciation and confetti. And the reality is, like, I don't know, many businesses that go that way. I mean, we look at startup culture, it's all about the pivot. And so I just wanted to give myself the opportunity to do it, right. And I knew, I even told our client, our AB world foods client, when we first pitch them. And when they say I presented this whole new strategy and this approach, and they're like, Okay, give us some examples of it working. And I suppose I don't have any I've never done it before. And then I said, Look, if an agency tells you that they have all the answers, they're lying, they're just lying. Because stuff is moving way too quickly, for people to have definitive answers. And what you should really want is a partner who's committed to getting it right hundred percent. But who's collaborative in nature since that, because we're all going through a lot of these things from the very first time. And so let's just have that as our, you know, as this core belief that we're gonna figure it out. And we'll be really, really collaborative, but I just, I didn't feel the pressure to have it on day one. And I also gave myself six months, and said, if this doesn't work in six months, I don't see a hint that you know, there's a market for this, I'll just shut it down. I didn't, I didn't care. And then the name the Tite group, because I didn't know what precisely it was going to be. And I thought, I can either spend weeks on coming up with the perfect name, or I can spend weeks on building the business. I'm going to build the business and I didn't have a website at first and I didn't like all that was, I don't know, I just find people. They feel like they've got to have all that promotional stuff. Like what are you promoting, if you haven't figured it out yet? So I just focused on building the business. Marc Gutman 18:38And so did you grew up in Toronto? Ron Tite 18:40Well, similar to you, Marc, I'm not from Detroit. But I originally from Montreal, but I grew up in a city about an hour east of Toronto called Oshawa, Ontario, home to the largest General Motors plant in the country, at least it was at one point, it is no longer. So I grew up a mile down the road from the largest General Motors plant in the country. Marc Gutman 19:04And as a young lad, were you outside the General Motors plant? Did you think that that was going to be more your future? Or were you having early signs? Like, hey, like, I might be into this for advertising/branding/marketing thing? Ron Tite 19:18Yeah, no, I had no, I had nothing to do with marketing advertising didn't know it existed as a profession or anything. I was the first one in my family to go to university. So I didn't, I didn't have that internal mentorship at home to go like, hey, these are all the amazing things you could do with a career. And certainly there are amazing sorry, there are amazing things that one can do without a university education and absolutely amazing things. I was maybe just a little bit more curious about the life that existed beyond the Oshawa borders. And so I know I just I was never really that into it. I didn't feel like I fit in there. I didn't have that as an interest in any way, shape or form. I just went to university because I thought I was going to be a teacher. I did a phys ed degree because I wrestled and I knew, you know, some of my mentors were great coaches and phys ed teachers. And then I got in, I was like, oh, there's a whole bunch of other stuff I could do here. And it was what's really weird was when I was 17. I saw or it may have come beforehand, but I saw the movie meatballs, have you seen the movie meatballs? Marc Gutman 20:26Bill Murray, Rudy the rabbit. Yeah. Ron Tite 20:32Right? So I saw that movie. And I went to my mom. And I was like, What is this? What do you mean, people go to camp? And she's like, well, we could not afford for you to do that. And it's like the people that go and they sleep away in a ca- like, what the hell? What is that? So when I turned 17, I realized I could go and get a job at a camp. I'm like, yep, let me do that. I want to check this out. No history of ever going to camp, no idea what took place there. And I went to camp. And I think that was, I think, the biggest change in my life where I was like, Oh, I could actually do different things and experience different things on my own. And that's actually not that difficult to do. You just have to be willing to do it. And so I did a phys ed degree and then started working in the business school at the University, and then started kind of helping marketing out. And it was this interesting period when the internet had just been created, right. And this is I graduated University in 1993, didn't have an email address my last year of university, but had one my first year of work. So I could immerse myself in that, and know that nobody else knew what to do, because it was so new. So that's what I did. Marc Gutman 21:49And when you say you immerse yourself, like, what, what was going on? What were you immersing into,like? Ron Tite 21:56I liken it a lot to like, you know, like, we could never afford for us to ski grow. I didn't ski I didn't know what skiing culture was. And so in university, I never went on ski trips, because I didn't want to be the idiot who you know, kept falling. You know, people would have to wait for me. But when snowboarding came out, I was like, ah, nobody knows snowboarding. So I'm just going to go and snowboard and I'm going to leapfrog everybody. And so I did that same thing with the internet. Nobody knew about internet marketing, it didn't exist. So I got a job, I put my hand up to be the client on the first ever queens Business School website, we developed that I developed it with a web company. Then I went to work for that web company, and started being an account person who also taught myself a little bit of HTML. So I could now code and like in a really basic level, and then I was like, Oh, you're tech-savvy. And I was like, well, that means I'm not geeky. They're like, No, you understand the internet? And I was like, Ah, yeah, okay, I guess I kinda understand the internet. Marc Gutman 23:01And then what happened? And so like, so you understood the Internet, and then and then what was going on? Ron Tite 23:07So I was at this agency at the time, called sharp Blackmore, and we were the web partner for that agency. And I remember like that company, that web company I was with was just kind of going through a little bit of difficulty, and I just volunteered to leave and I was like, I'm just gonna go. And and they're great, lovely people. And the chairman of the agency goes, I hear you're like, you're leaving, like, why? And he's like, would you ever think of working in advertising? I was like, no. And he's like, well, it's not rocket science. It's basically making a list and checking it off. That's what being an account person in advertising is. And the reason that he made the offer to me was because they knew that I was funny. So I hadn't I wasn't quite doing stand up comedy yet at this point. But I had done a couple of things. And they're like, that guy's really funny. So I'm willing to bet that they made the decision completely to bring me aboard. Not just because I knew the internet and could walk into and manage the Intel business. But because I was funny, and that they saw that I could, I would be a good relationship person and that I would fit well, culturally. But I think my sense of humor had more with me getting that job than my tech-savviness. Marc Gutman 24:28Yeah, and I'd noticed and doing a little pre-research for the interview that you interweave stand up with, when you keynote and things like that, and you refer you you say that you do stand up. Like we're I'd like to get into that like how you kind of discovered comedy and how that kind of pairs with your business. But also like before we get into that, like I like where does your sense of humor come from like, like you said, you were funny. So I'm guessing that you know, throughout you know, your middle school, you know, high school years university like yeah, they're like Ron's a funny guy? Well, you're like, Where did that come from? Like that? Was that- was there humor in your house? Or do you trace that back to you? Ron Tite 25:07It's a great question. And I wasn't the class clown. Like, I wasn't that I wasn't the guy who was like, oh, that guy's gonna go- In fact, when I remember going back and my wrestling team got together. And my wrestling coach showed up a guy named Craig Mathew, who's a wonderful human being. And he just looked at me and goes, a comedian, who would have thought? He didn't even I, you know, wasn't, I think they could say I was funny in high school. But I'm not that traditional class clown sense of funny. But where it came from was my, my mom's side of the family was like half Quebecois, and half Italian. And so I would just sat around the dinner table and heard these stories from my uncles, and my cousins and my aunts and my grandparents. And what I think was really great was that, not only when I hear these great animated, very detailed stories, but when somebody new would come to like a family celebration, and somebody would say, Tell him that story. And even though everybody around the table already heard the story, they would tell the story again, for the new person, but they tell it the same way. All the beats were in there, all the accents were in there, all the specific lines of dialogue. So my family knew the art of working a bit long before I did as an official comedian. Because you know, that's what you do with a bit is you come up with an interesting insight, you build the story, you build the performance. And then when it's, you know, to bring the car life back in. Once it's on the assembly line, you duplicate it over and over and over again. And that I think, was like, oh, that like, they tell the best story possible. And then they retell it and retell it and retail. And that I think is a is a great approach for comedy. Marc Gutman 27:08This episode brought to you by Wildstory. Wait, isn't that your company? It is. And without the generous support of Wildstory, this show would not be possible. A brand isn't a logo, or a tagline, or even your product. A brand is a person's gut feeling about a product service or company. It's what people say about you, when you're not in the room. Wildstory helps progressive founders and savvy marketers build purpose-driven brands that connect their business goals with the customers they want to serve. So that both the business and the customer needs are met. This results in crazy, happy, loyal customers that purchase again and again. And this is great for business. And that sounds like something you and your team might want to learn more about. Reach out @ www.wildstory.com. And we'd be happy to tell you more. Now back to our show. Yeah, and so then when did you actually get into to doing comedy, turning being a natural storyteller into to stand up and I've got a real interest in this. I just published an Instagram carousel the other day kind of relaying my experience about this, but like I, I speak as well. And to be honest, like when I get on stage, I'm like, scared and one of the things I did to overcome that, and I used to write comedy and in the movie business, alright, so like, I, you know, I have that background. But I do not like being on camera or having the mic in my hand. And so I worked with a comedian and I delivered a set in New York City about a year ago. And it was like, the most terrifying thing I've ever done. And I could talk for you know, like, so long about why but I mean, it's a lot of it's your truth and you're putting something out there. You're like, Hey, I think this is funny, not just like, Hey, I think this is a good ad, right? Yeah, you know, it's way different to me and I had a panic attack the night before and pulled it together for the show. And I look back finally is like that's one of the biggest growth experiences I've had as an adult like I really, you know, that really meant a lot to me that I was able to do that. So like When did you get into it? And how did that like fit into your career and you know, you're on this advertising, you know, career path, not a stand-up comedian career path? Ron Tite 29:23Yeah, I had always loved it. I'd always loved the craft of stand up and in grade 10 I got up in front of like, 1000 people and did it it's horrible to say this now a Bill Cosby bit called The Dentist and, and I just did like an impersonation of him, but him doing the bit. And when I did that, and the first time I made the laugh, the crowd laugh. That's pretty powerful. A thousand people laughing at something you did on stage with the spotlight on you. How's that? Oh, I'm more like how do I get that feeling again? Because that's pretty cool. So I kind of always just, I was a fan of stand up. And then I was doing stuff at second city from an improv standpoint. And then I was like, ah, but I'm not an improviser. Like I really want to do stand up. I really want to see the method to the madness. So I went to my friend, Steve, I was like, I want to do stand up. How do I how do I do it? He's like, go to Yuk Yuks downtown, you sign up to do a Monday night, open mic, you do five minutes. You just keep going back every week. And then once your five minutes is good enough, they'll invite you to come on a Tuesday night and do seven minutes as an opener, then you get a midler than a headliner, blah, blah, blah, after 10 years, whatever. So I went down and checked, I was like, I'm just gonna go check it out. So I go check it out. And it was a shit show. It was like, This is not fun. These people aren't funny. That guy lost a bat. That guy's drunk, like Forget it. I'm, I'm already better than this. I know, I'm better than this. I'm not doing it. So I went back. I was like, What else can I do? It's like, Well, the only other thing I guess is you can find a producer who's producing a live show, convince them to give you five minutes, even though you've never done it before. And maybe someone will let you on their show. And then I just thought, Well, why don't I just make myself the producer? And I'll just make myself the producer. So my very first time doing stand up comedy of my own material ever. I would did a 45-minute headlining set, because I produced the show. So I just made myself the headliner, and did 45 and brought in some friends to open up and sold it and gave the money away to charity from the dorm sold out the room. And if you can do a 45 minute stand up set if you're a comedian. So after one night, it was like, Oh, you're a comedian. Okay, so then I people are like, can you come do a 20-minute set? And I'm like, whew, for 20 minutes. Yeah, I can cut it down to one minute set. And then I what's great, and I think was probably behind your panic attack, is that there's no excuses. Like, there's literally no excuse, and you could blame the crowd. And you can blame the environment, everything else. But there's a rule in comedy. And that's either they laughed, or they didn't. And if you can't figure out a way to make them laugh, then that's on you. And there's just there's nowhere to run. It's you and a mic. And that's it, figure it out. And I love It's the ultimate accountability. Marc Gutman 32:18Yeah. And it's so cool. I mean, you know, people want that, you know, people want to laugh, like they're in the club to laugh, right? And so if you can't do it, it is on you, for sure. And within that first set, like, how did you come up with 45 minutes material? Where you, did you like, check out a book at a library? How do you stand up to just read your own jokes, and were some of the jokes that were in there, Ron Tite 32:40I wrote it. And because that what's interesting is as a comedian, then you and you can appreciate this as a speaker, right? That it's very rare for you to get up and go, like, I've got 45 minutes of brand new material that I've never done before. Like, it's usually like, I got five new minutes, and then you just, you know, like sourdough bread or just over the year, you end up duplicating and replacing your material. But I just, and there were no, I didn't want to go to open mic night to test it out. So I just tested this out on my own. And I just kept working the materials, not like I sat down on one sitting, I just kept working the material in my head in the shower, I'd stand up, I deliver it to myself in the mirror kind of thing. Like I would just continue to do the material over and over and over and over and over again. And then you just it gets better and it gets better, it gets better. And so what I did was I just kind of thought, let's start from birth. And I started there, you know, as you start to go through the bits, then you end up going well what links the bits? like what's the thread that goes through all this? And so it was really about my life growing up quite poor. And then the name of the show was Captain Crunch flashback. So it was really just about growing up in a hand me down clothes kind of environment in a blue-collar town. And my mom was there and it was, which was amazing that my mom got to see it. Because it really it's kind of a backhanded homage to my mom who was an incredible woman. Marc Gutman 34:05So you produce your own show. So like, let's kind of catch up with what's going on at this time. You've produced your own show, what's going on in your career? Ron Tite 34:13I was in at that point, I was an account guy running the Intel business. And then I decided the next big kind of pivot was that I decided to wreck take my Standard material and write it into play form. So I wrote a one-man play. And the way to do that is you can take the stand up material as its base, but to make it a play, you have to expose the emotional underbelly that has informed the comedy. But why are you looking to make fun of that situation? What's the emotional reason you're looking for laughter or for justification or for acceptance or whatever? And what does that narrative like? And so I wrote this play called the Canadian Baby Bonus and went out and delivered it at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, which is the largest Fringe Festival in North America. Sold out a bunch of shows and, you know, did this play and it was like a completely different experience. And two things happened in that performance that I think that drastically altered my life. The first is that I was performing and there's a moment in the play where it's a call back to something rather poignant earlier in the play. And it is a silence. You know, it's a line you deliver in silence. And so and the line is, be careful. And so I said, So hey, and the room was silent. And all I heard was this woman in the front row go, Ah, and she knew precisely what the next line was going to be before I said it. And that is the most powerful moment I've ever had on stage, where you've got somebody emotionally in the palm of your hand, and you can take them wherever the hell you want to take them. You could I could have followed up with a joke. And she would have laughed her face off, I could have followed up with something emotional, she would have cried out could have followed up with something direct and poignant. She would have been, you know, we should have stopped to think about it. So that was a really powerful moment, and that I appreciated the emotional feeling that I got from that moment from the silence way more than I did the uproarious laughter, it was way more fulfilling. And so began, like, how do I pursue that feeling? The feeling of Yes, setting them up with the laughter, but silencing them with strategic thoughts, or emotional thoughts? How do I do that? The second thing that occurred was that I was caught in the hotel fire on my final night of the performance, and so mad, I mean, there's somebody that hated this job, that torched the hotel. But I ended up getting plucked from the window by a cherry picker on a fire truck The next morning, and I returned the agency and said, my life flashed before my eyes and accounting services didn't make the final cut. And I'm going to move into the creative department. And, and I did what I wanted my, my comedy life on my advertising life to be more closely aligned. Because I just thought that was, instead of chasing these two things, that maybe actually chase one thing that had complementary skill sets. And so I immediately joined the creative department as a junior copywriter. And I said I would take a pay cut to do it. And to their credit, they told me that I should screw off and never take a pay cut. And then I just, you know, became senior writer, you know, associate creative director, creative director, Executive Creative Director, and then left and started my own thing. Marc Gutman 37:37Yeah, I mean, I'm so fascinated that you had, what, to me sounds like, some real momentum going behind your comedy, behind the play. Why not continue down that path? Why come back to advertising, even in the copywriting realm? Ron Tite 37:56I think that we have to be greedy with our chasing emotions, and opposed to chasing ego. Because I'll be honest with you, like when I, when I started dialing up my comedy in the move to speaking was like, nobody wants to listen to a comedian who knows about business. No, no one, no one believes that guy, because comedians don't know about business. But everybody wants to listen to a funny business guy. So that was the ultimate pivot was to the point that I went to my- the speaker's bureau and said, Never refer to me as a comedian again, because I lose credibility by going and I don't want to be a comedian. I'm a business guy who just happens to be funny. But they'll buy that. And they'll pay more for that than they will for the, you know, the after-dinner entertainment. I didn't want to do that anymore. But the biggest difficulty was the ego difficulty, because man, you know how cool it is to be at a party and somebody say, what do you do? And you say, I'm a comedian. Like, you're suddenly the coolest guy in the room. Marc Gutman 39:01Yeah I've done it once and I've been riding it ever since. Ron Tite 39:06But you have to be honest with yourself. It's like, but what, but in the moment, do you really, really love it? And I loved aspects of it. But I just saw that I was more interested in pursuing a speaking life that used comedy, The said about more important messages. And I thought, I'm gonna be more fulfilled with that, you know, and I've had opportunities where it's like, hey, do you want to host this TV show? It's like, it's a Reno Show. I'm like, now I'm not doing that. It's not I'm just at that point in my career where I know what I need to do to continually get better at the thing that I'm already good at. And these outside things that I maybe would have pursued in my 20s and 30s. Like, I just don't, I don't really do those anymore. I try and live within a tighter circle, if that makes sense. But I think it just comes down to what do you really want to do and I didn't really Want to, here's what I didn't want to do, I didn't want to be a waiter, waiting on tables during the day waiting for my comedy career to take off. Because I had seen people who were brilliantly funny, but who just lacked some other skills, that that and so they never made it. And they're still, you know, kind of doing the same seven minutes. And I don't want to be that person. Now, that's not to say I don't respect that person, I completely respect the person who says, There's only one thing I ever want to do. And I will wait tables all day all night, if that allows me to pursue it. I totally respect that person. I just don't want to be that person. Marc Gutman 40:43Thanks for sharing that. And then so was it really that easy? When you made the jump to copywriting? Was it just like, Hey, I'm going to join the creative department and start writing copy. And away I go, it was it? Was it a little bumpy? Ron Tite 40:56It was it was bumpy. In that I, the writing part, like, you know, my creative director at the time was a guy named Tony Miller. And I still say Tony kind of taught me how to write for advertising. And so the writing part was, was okay. The conceptual development was fine. Obviously, it got better with partners and you know, experience and stuff. But it was about but it was more, the more difficult part was leaving the role, the other aspects of my account roll behind. And so like, you'd walk into a meeting, and I and I, what I should have been doing was like, constantly just taking up ideas like in the meeting, like what do I have an idea for that? Do I have an idea for that, and just keep going and writing lines and everything in the moment, what I was doing initially was like, Oh, I'm getting all the details of the meeting down, because that's what account people did, right. And I had a lot of difficulty shutting my brain off from doing those things that I had done. But what really, really helped was that I knew how to, I could own a room, from my stand up experience. And from my experiences in account person, I can immediately make the client feel at ease. I wasn't coming in as some cool, edgy comedian, who they had to buy into those, you know, I was always a good client-facing creative. And so those skills aren't taught enough to young creatives, and they help you go a long way, they help you sell your thinking. Marc Gutman 42:27Yeah. And so what don't we know about the advertising business? Like what's what's hard about it? Or what's, you know, for those of us on the outside, like, you know, just like, what, what don't we know? Ron Tite 42:38Well, it surely is being redefined and redeveloped from a bunch of different angles, from, you know, basic core marketing, what, what, what's working in the minds of consumers and what isn't working, the integration of data is changing the game, the integration of development and technology, obviously, and how it's applied to consumer behavior is changing things. The players are all changing. I mean, now that, you know, the fourth, I think, largest agency in the world is Accenture. So you know, the Deloitte and Accentures and E wise, and PwC, are all playing in their big holding companies being redefined. Small boutiques are chasing really Nishi areas. So all of that stuff, the business of how an ad gets made, is completely changing. And the dollars around who gets paid to do what is completely changing. So that's all to me really exciting, because we have a chance to redefine it. And then, you know, when you look at man, during a pandemic, like how does that change? It's fundamentally changing everything because people's viewing habits are changing. And their, their consumption of advertising is changing. So there's just a lot of potential to make it what it could be. And it's not there yet. The promise as a guy who used to write a whole bunch of TV commercials, and the promise of digital marketing was about targeting that finally people could you know, see the ad what for what they want, when they want it and how they want to deliver it and all of that stuff. That was the promise. Where are we it's a shit show the whole thing. If people have taken digital and made it about scale, not about targeting, and customization. So now we're just pitched slapped from every possible angle. I can't go into LinkedIn without eight LinkedIn messages pitching me people service asked me to book a time on my calendar for the next day. I get emails pitch laughing as consumers get, they go to a website, they look at a pair of shoes and the pair of shoes follows them around for the next month. I mean, it's just constant pitch lapping from every angle, and we just have to be better than this. We just have to be better. And while data is important, and infrastructure is important and efficiencies are important. We can't lose the soul of this. And that's my biggest complaint is that there are a lot of players within the advertising marketing ecosystem, who have no soul. And those people need to go away. Marc Gutman 45:17And so how do we change this behavior? Because I agree, like, you know, my, my LinkedIn is overrun with, you know, people that don't even like, don't even know who I am, or research who I am. And so they're, they're, they're pitching me stuff that's not even relevant, you know, to talk about, like, not targeting or not being clear. You know, I click on one, one ad for soap, and I'm getting that for the rest of my life. And, you know, I couldn't agree more like I'm, like, fatigued with, with what's hitting me. And there was this promise that I was going to get the ads that I explicitly wanted and deserved, and, and none of that's happening. And so, and I think that we've become beholden to this idea of metrics and impressions and getting it out there and eyeballs. And so like, how do we start to change the script on this thing? And how do we start to redefine what digital is as we move forward? Because I agree, it's completely broken? Ron Tite 46:18Yeah, I think there's, you know, back to our car example, I think there's a, if you look at the car business, there's two parts that manufacturing process, and that one is the assembly line. And on the assembly line, everybody knows specifically what their job is you they've worked at all the inefficiencies, you know, you had you do this spot well, you hand it off to the next person, they do their thing. And when you do that, and it's repeatable behavior, well, then you end up with the same product with the same margin, the same cost and everything at the end of the day. So you guarantee quality, you guarantee a margin. And that's a good thing. And that's where you should make your money is on the assembly line. So there is an aspect of advertising that needs to be assembly-line driven. If you know specifically that this offer with this photo with this headline is what's driving, you know, an acceptable amount of performance, then you need to put that on the assembly line and make it as efficient as possible. But the problem with that is saying, oh, we'll make so much more money on the print than we do on the original, which is true. But if you don't have an amazing original, the prints gonna suck. And so you need to have original thinking. So if that's the assembly line, you need the concept car, you need people who are working on things that have never been done before, that have no benchmarks for performance. Because if all you do is assembly line behave, you're going to lift your head up one day and realize you're out of business, we need to constantly be pushing new things, new thinking, new approaches, and see what that does and see what we can learn. And in the concept car example, it's like, oh, you know, the car is never gonna go into production. But this gas cap works really well, I'm going to move that in onto the assembly line. So I innovate in a really responsible way. So you can do that. And that's, I think, a responsible way to do it, you need to make an amazing original before you start making the print. And I think brands have forgot that, that they're only doing the assembly line work. And they're trying to cheat the system. By going, you know, we found out that a headline with the word click in it performs 76% better, so we're just going to have a bunch of headlines with click in it, and you've completely lost your soul. And by the way, you're using the same benchmarks that everybody else is using. And so it's a law of diminishing returns, you're never gonna, you know, outperform the first person that thought of it. You're just now just a carbon copy of everybody. That's the same carbon copy of everybody else's. So it is that balance between concept car and assembly line. Marc Gutman 48:59I love the car analogy. It's great. It's something that I think everyone can really understand and puts it into perspective. So with the sort of the negative out of the way, what do you love about advertising? Ron Tite 49:09I love that, that this is a business that's been around for a long time. And we're talking about completely redefining it in not so subtle ways in from every possible angle. Absolutely love it. I also love that there's a lot of stuff out there and people just that again, they don't care. They don't care who pays for it where it comes from good shit's good shit. And if it's a six-minute video or a 25-minute video or a three-hour movie, they don't care whether Lego paid for that, or what you know, whether ESPN paid for it, or who good stuff is good stuff. Now when it's not good stuff, and it sucks. Then we look to justify why and often we go like oh it was too pitchy was, it was because of was a brand that did it. No, because there's a lot of television programs that don't have brands behind that suck too. So I just think it's amazing that we can, that we can put things in front of people that inspire and inform them to do things. Marc Gutman 50:17So what are you most looking for forward to next? Ron Tite 50:20Um, a vaccine, would be nice. Marc Gutman 50:25We're all looking forward to it. Ron Tite 50:27Yeah, I'm in lockdown in a home with a baby that was born two days into the pandemic and a two and a half year old. So when you've done that vaccine, If you could send that over, that'd be great. Thanks so much. But I really, you know, we've got some amazing clients and I, the job I'm most excited about is the one I'm working on tomorrow. And, you know, like, whatever the one I'm working on tomorrow, like, we're just, we're like, right now we're working on stuff for scouts, for example. I mean, and that, that has so many interesting angles to it. How do you talk to kids about getting outside again? How do you know, help an organization who has been putting kids forward and developing kids for so many years? How do you help kids reconnect with the great outdoors? How do you help parents who are concerned with their you know, what their kids are learning and socializing? Like all that stuff? I'm really excited about that. But tomorrow, there'll be a different client with a different ask, and I'll be excited about that. That's a lame answer is that's a lame answer. Marc Gutman 51:28We can always give you a chance to restate it. But I liked it. I thought it was. So Ron, like if you could run into that 20-year-old self of yours, that young, that young guy just kind of out there, in his first job in the advertising biz, and he ran into you today? What do you think he'd say? Ron Tite 51:48He'd say, you know, I, my, my friend shared a photo of us at I think at 23 years old. The other day, there were three of us in the photo, and she texted it out. And I said, we're so young, we had our whole future ahead of us. And I wish I knew then how amazing it would be. And so I think my in both, like professionally, I'd never saw being this fulfilled. But also like, I you know, I was, I didn't get married till I was, you know, 40, 43, 42 and so I became a dad like, I'm 50 and I just, you know, my wife and I just had a baby. I didn't expect that to happen. even like as late as 40, Im like this isn't gonna happen. So I don't know. I guess the advice that 20 year old like, just keep at it and don't follow the script, right? Because I've I haven't followed the script on how to get into comedy how to get into advertising or how to be a dad, this isn't the script I'd recommend but write your own script. It's all good. It's all gonna be alright. Marc Gutman 52:57And that is Ron tight. I love the idea of approaching life as an unscripted script. Keep moving, keep reinventing, keep evolving. And a big thank you to Ron and his team for waging the war against pitch slapping. I think the whole world is pulling for you. I know I am. Thank you again to Ron Tite and Church and State for stopping by. And before I go, if you know of a guest who should appear on our show, please drop me a line at podcast@wildstory.com because our best guests like Ron, come from referrals from past guests and our listeners. well, That's the show. Until next time, make sure to visit our website www.wildstory.com where you can subscribe to the show in iTunes, Stitcher or via RSS so you'll never miss an episode. I love big backstories and I cannot lie. You other storytellers can't deny.

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Acceptable ways to take your shirt off, more Karen footage, famous athletes getting catfished, stories that matter and details on the new 2 Meers Showcase night at Yuk Yuks. Use promo code 2MEERS for 10% off your order at https://www.commoncrown.ca (https://www.commoncrown.ca/) And visit https://www.rootsoffight.ca (https://www.rootsoffight.ca/) for their site-wide sale now. Appearing this week at Yuk Yuk’s Calgary: Lori Ferguson

Great interview with Mark Breslin CEO of Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs.Mark shares the beginning, the challenges through COVID19, and the dynamics of a comedian with an audience.Mark Breslin. Not only the CEO of Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs for 44 years but also my mentor 20 years ago when he accepted to be the Chair of the Canadian Federation of Executive Entrepreneurs with Rodney De Freitas and me, presented at my Gala Dinner when I became the President of the Oakville Chamber of Commerce and supported #entrepreneurship across Canada. Inspirational and fun interview with my friend, my supporter, my mentor. THANK YOU so much for your time!We really appreciate Mark's time at #thatgalwiththatguywww.thatgalwiththatguy.comwww.iamthatgal.com#comedy #MarkBreslin #entrepreneur #yukyuk #yukyuks #Canada #CanadianComedians #RussellPeters #SamKinison #iamthatgal

Keesha Brownie joins Jimmer Lowe for an Episode of Q’d Up. Keesha Brownie is one of North America’s most candid comedians to watch. This Montreal bornCanadian with Jamaican Roots has graced comedy clubs across the country.A unique blend of her Canadian & West Indian Heritage in her piercingly comical style and likeable approach has earned her a spot on last year’s 2019 SiriusXM Top Comic competition. She’s also appeared at Just For Laughs Festival Montreal, live Taping for Kevin Hart LOL Network, Best of Absolute Comedy at Toronto’s annual comedy festival, JFL42, and most recently, Keesha’s performed at the official pre-show for the “100% Fresher Tour” with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. Brownie, founded and produced her own comedy series in hometown Brampton, entitled Jokers Corner. She also lent a hand in co-producing Canada’s first All Black Canadian Comedy Tour, The Underground Comedy Railroad Tour and she headlined Kenny Robinson’s Nubian Disciples All-Black Comedy Revue, a monthly showcase of Black comics at Yuk-Yuks in Toronto. Whether touring across North America or the Caribbean, Keesha makes you feel as though youhave been a part of her journey the whole time.

Comedian Arthur Simeon is grateful to be a Canadian, but he's not 100% sure he has it takes to MAKE it as a Canadian. And Brittany Lyseng shares how her ice hockey-playing-past and her elevator mechanic career have made it a little challenging to find a good man! Recorded at the Cottage Comedy Festival and Yuk Yuks in Calgary a few years ago.

Yuk Yuks founder and CEO Mark Breslin talks all things Jewey and funny with lifelong friend and one time comic Not That Kind of Rabbi host Ralph Benmergui.

Mike Payne joins Jimmer Lowe for an Episode of Q'd Up.Mike Payne is a nationally touring stand-up comedian based in Toronto. Mike's style can be described as having a unique point of view or simply as fat and loud. Mike has opened for prominent headliners including Jeremy Hotz, Ali Seddiq, Pete Zedlacher, Martha Chaves and performs regularly at Yuk Yuks, Rick Bronson's The Comic Strip and Comedy Bar. Mike was the winner of the 2018 Etobicoke Top Comic competition and has performed in the Brantford Comedy Festival and the Dirty Bird Comedy Festival. Follow Mike on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - @mikepaynecomedy

Improviser, actor, and die-hard Tampa Bay Bucaneers fan, Paul Pallotta, sits down with Larry to talk football, basketball, wrestling, and more. We also hear from Brooke, a sports fan and entrepreneur looking to sell used jock straps.

We have been waiting for the return of comedian JJ Whitehead and he is back!!! JJ Whitehead’s rangy swagger and fearless, electric wit has charmed audiences around the world.  Disarmingly comfortable, JJ delivers unabashedly personal stories and blistering social satire in a unique performance style that can only come from a North American who cut his comedy teeth in Great Britain. He has been a welcomed regular on British and Canadian TV; at international comedy festivals and as a headliner at such clubs as The Comedy Store, Jongleurs, Highlight, The Glee Clubs, Manfords and Yuk Yuks. Join the fun and make sure you check out JJ's content and where you can go see him at his website here.... https://www.jjwhitehead.net Also follow JJ on Twitter...  @JJWhitesnake (https://www.twitter.com/jjwhitesnake) Become a patron and gain access to Jackwagon Madlibs along with other content not released to the public!  BECOME AN OFFICIAL JWAG HERE (https://www.patreon.com/jackwagonpod) Leave us a VOICEMAIL (https://www.speakpipe.com/pod30network) !  It's free and you can have your voice heard on the pod! You are just one click away! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejackwagonexpress/message

We have been waiting for the return of comedian JJ Whitehead and he is back!!! JJ Whitehead’s rangy swagger and fearless, electric wit has charmed audiences around the world.  Disarmingly comfortable, JJ delivers unabashedly personal stories and blistering social satire in a unique performance style that can only come from a North American who cut his comedy teeth in Great Britain. He has been a welcomed regular on British and Canadian TV; at international comedy festivals and as a headliner at such clubs as The Comedy Store, Jongleurs, Highlight, The Glee Clubs, Manfords and Yuk Yuks. Join the fun and make sure you check out JJ's content and where you can go see him at his website here.... https://www.jjwhitehead.net Also follow JJ on Twitter...  @JJWhitesnake (https://www.twitter.com/jjwhitesnake) Become a patron and gain access to Jackwagon Madlibs along with other content not released to the public!  BECOME AN OFFICIAL JWAG HERE (https://www.patreon.com/jackwagonpod) Leave us a VOICEMAIL (https://www.speakpipe.com/pod30network) !  It's free and you can have your voice heard on the pod! You are just one click away! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejackwagonexpress/message

James Schrader is just your typical stand-up comic, former male cheerleader, theatre kid, the guy who broke the internet with 200 million views on his commercials, sailor, and high school football star. You've probably seen his sweet bearded face on a screen near you, but now we have him inside our sleeping bag. We talk to James about how he got out of the 9-5 world and into a successful comedy career, the set that changed his life, and how much we all love eating alone.

On this weeks episode I talk about the 81 year old woman who was blocked from entering a conversation at Mohawk college with Dave Rubin and Maxime Bernier.  I also break down a review in NOW! magazine about Louis CK at Yuk Yuks.   All of that and my "Long Term Hate", "Trump Roundup" and "Micro Aggressions" segments. Follow me on Twitter: @Nick_Beaton and the podcast: @_ThirdRailPod

On this week's episode I begrudgingly talk about Greta Thunberg, and Louis CK performing at Yuk Yuks in Toronto.  All of that and my "Long Term Hate", "Trump Roundup" and "Micro Aggressions" segments. Follow me on Twitter: @Nick_Beaton and the podcast: @_ThirdRailPod  

This weeks guest is dynamite touring comic Tyler Morrison! His credits include many comedy festivals (including The Boston Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs 42, CBC's Winnipeg Comedy Festival and more), The Roast of Ron Jeremy, CBC's The Debaters and much more! I join him on location before his headlining show at Yuk Yuks to talk about his comedy style, recovering from confrontational hecklers, cancel culture, that time he bombed in front of Joey Fatone, his podcast Fight Stories and lots more! Follow Tyler: @tylermorrison123 http://tylermorrison.ca/ Get tickets for Yuk Yuks Halifax! Don't miss an episode! Make sure you subscribe to InTalksicated Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Make sure to also subscribe to InTalksicated Reviews on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting ap! Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram & Twitter! Support us on PATREON! Make a one time donation on PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/intalksicated Subscribe on Twitch and YouTube! You can also email us at intalksicatedpodcast@gmail.com Check out our website http://www.intalksicatedpodcast.com

Issue # 110 ... Terry Clement Terry Clement could be defined as a hilarious alternative stand up comedian. He's been touring Canada with Yuk Yuks for years. He's also a wrestling fan who has even incorporated wrestling into his stand up act. Most of all he's a wrestling fan. Learn how he discovered wrestling in the '80s. We discuss Colosseum Videos, Hulkamania, Andre the Giant, Ric Flair. Terry also tells us about the time Bret Hart was at his show in Calgary and the conversation afterward. Also discussed is the current state of women's wrestling, ECW, NXT & AEW. So spend a bit of time with us here on Talk'N Wrestling, where wrestling and comedy collide!!

This week's guest is stand up comic and writer, Hoodo Hersi. Passionate, brilliant, and hilarious, Hoodo is already making her name as a trailblazing newcomer in the comedy world. We talk about who she is, how she got here, and how comedians affect our current social discourse. "No one's writing rules for someone who looks like me." - Hoodo Hersi Hoodo Hersi LOVES comedy. She loves how she can wield it to present her audience with a tremendously fun yet enlightening experience. Hoodo shares how growing up, she and her brother enjoyed watching the Chappelle's Show, and it was at that moment when she realized and acknowledged that comedy is a career. As a creative individual with a penchant for humour, Hoodo Hersi was naturally drawn to this pursuing this path herself. Despite being the rising star in the industry, Hoodo had her fair share of struggles. First and foremost, she's of African descent, a Muslim, AND most noticeably a woman. She didn't have any role model in the field that looked like her, so how exactly was she going to make it on her own? Hoodo says it was her naiveté that ultimately helped her overcome personal and external obstacles. She first tried her hand in stand up comedy when she was fresh out of high school. Hoodo had booked the open mic at Yuk Yuks in Ottawa, which pretty much was her “Las Vegas” moment. No one knew her there, she thought to try this gig and if it didn't work out then she could just as easily walk away. But she obviously made enough people laugh because she's been getting all sorts of amazing opportunities. Hoodo had gone on to perform in events all over Canada and the US, hosted the TEDxToronto 2018, and even got featured in TVO's documentary, "Stand Up Toronto." "I want people to laugh, but I also want people to really think. I care about getting laughs, but I also want to challenge people's ideas -- in a good way." - Hoodo Hersi Hoodo shares how the climate in comedy has started changing. Where there used to be some tension upon seeing her on stage, she's now being met with some excitement and careful anticipation. She takes on a very straightforward approach when writing her set, "these are the things I want to talk about and I'm not shying away from it." It's this mindset and her authenticity to her craft that allows her to help shift the conversation to more pressing issues such as racism and sexism. Hoodo brings in a refreshing standpoint on how resilient African women are and why we shouldn't let other people's expectations hold us back from speaking our truth and sharing our humour in this complicated yet incredible world. What You Will Learn: Who is Hoodo Hersi How she stumbled upon the colorful world of comedy What led her to pursue a career in comedy Who are the people who inspire her the most How does her heritage affect the content she creates What piece of advice would she give others and herself Her greatest dream, failure, and fear How Hoodo finishes this sentence, "I am..." Follow NDINI on: Website: http://www.ndini.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NDINImedia/ Twitter: @NDINImedia Instagram: @ndinimedia Follow The NDINI Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher and SoundCloud  

This is from a stand up comedy set in Ottawa Canada on May 11th 2019. This is getting out of your comfort zone in a BIG way! Thank you to Felice Miranda and Ari Black for the spot on the roster of the Don't Quit Your Day Job Comedy Night at One Up Club above the Royal Oak on Beechwood . Here's to you getting at least a little chuckle! The original stand up outing at Yuk Yuks is on my website..

You guys are gonna love this one! The awesome and talented Sunee Dhaliwal swings by the sad girl studios, fresh off his headlining weekend at Yuk Yuks! We chat about his start in comedy, childhood, what we would do if we won the lottery, second impressions, celebrities, concerts, going into "performance mode", halifax nightlife, social media and so much more! Follow Sunny: @sunnydcomedy Get tickets for Yuk Yuks Halifax! Don't miss an episode! Make sure you subscribe to InTalksicated Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Make sure to also subscribe to InTalksicated Reviews on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting ap! Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram & Twitter! Support us on PATREON! Make a one time donation on PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/intalksicated Subscribe on Twitch and YouTube! You can also email us at intalksicatedpodcast@gmail.com Check out our website http://www.intalksicatedpodcast.com

Mike Payne is a rising star hailing from the Toronto comedy scene. His style can be described as self-deprecating virtue signaling, or, simply as fat and loud. Mike is the winner of the 2018 Etobicoke's Top Comic competition, was selected to participate in 2018 Brantford Comedy Festival, and has routinely appeared at comedy venues including Yuk Yuks, Absolute Comedy and Comedy Bar. Mike has opened for Martha Chaves, Sandra Battaglini, Arthur Simeon and other prominent Canadian comedians. Mike hosts a long-running weekly show in Leslieville, called Comedy Appetizer. Instagram and Twitter @mikepaynecomedy. Video of episode: https://youtu.be/-MYaKiE4IYQ Web: http://markhughescomedy.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PTT604/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/markhughescomic

Hello beautiful. You look great. Thanks for listening again. I'm lucky to have had the charismatic Lauren Deborah and the lovable Tyler Middleton on the show this week to tell great stories. Some involving meth labs, some involving partying on Christmas with Dave Chappelle. Music Played: Beastie Boys - Get it Together Black Flag - Room 13

In this episode, Jessie Bach and Isaiah discuss political correctness with comedians Brett Forte, Brian Stollery, and Yuk Yuks roast champion Sam Walker. We aim to find out how PC culture is transforming Calgary’s comedy scene. We tackle the role free speech plays in creating and performing comedy, and how the comedians feel about it. In this podcast, both sides of the political spectrum are discussed from extremely clean comics to radically vulgar comics. This podcast attempts to bridge the cultural divided that has formed by showing both sides’ legitimacy and some of the problems surrounding the issue. Logo created by Adnen Kadri and BirVa Mehta of Noun Project. This episode was produced as part of the Winter 2019 session of COMM 3727. Special thanks to Ricardo Andres-Garcias for creating our theme song.

Death Riffs is a Canadian born and bred sketch troupe comprising of one Luke Rainbird, Sam Pichonsky, Joey Thompsongriffin, and Taylor Templeton-Smith. The troupe came together in their first year at Humber College's Comedy Writing and Performance program, and since then have been taking the comedy scene in a very quiet, organized revolution. The Troupe performs consistently at Comedy Bar and it's members at Yuk Yuks. “Yeah, it's smart.” -Bruce Pirrie, on something they wrote. Death Riffs on Facebook

Inside Jokes – Sunday November 4th, 2018 – Everything About Comedy Guests Mark Breslin // https://www.yukyuks.com/index.cfm?action=aboutUs.markbreslin Host Dean Young // https://twitter.com/ComicDeanYoung

I caught up with former London resident Dylan Gott (@dylangott) to figure out why he left. Dylan's from Toronto in Canada, and lived in the UK for just over 2 years before retreating back home with his wife. He told me why London's the best live comedy scene in the world, about bumping into people and not fighting them, and how weird it is that English people who live in the country are normal people.  Dylan Gott's back headlining Yuk Yuks all around Canada, but he returns to the UK in May 2019. Get around his podcast if you're into wrestling, and check out the links to his $1000 albums 'Thank You I Farted' & 'Still Farting' below: The Wrestler Review Podcast with John Hastings Buy/Listen Thank You, I Farted Buy/Listen More Farting If you're wondering about the incredibly cheap year long comedy ticket I mentioned in Melbourne, it's at The Comic's Lounge and costs you $60 for a double pass. If you want to get in touch with me, I'm on Twitter & Instagram @danmuggleton - please let me know anything you've noticed about the UK, people to interview etc. Like, share, subscribe and rate us on iTunes so people stumble across us! The Union Jack Off on Facebook Daniel Muggleton on Facebook

Comedian Greg Proops on what he talks about on his podcast. See him at JFL42 in Toronto this weekend! Tonight at 7 pm at the Royal Theatre, Friday night at midnight at Second City, Saturday at 8:45 pm at the Royal and Sunday at 8 at Yuk Yuks!

Comedian Greg Proops on what made him laugh as a youngster. See him at JFL42 in Toronto this weekend! Tonight at 7 pm at the Royal Theatre, Friday night at midnight at Second City, Saturday at 8:45 pm at the Royal and Sunday at 8 at Yuk Yuks!

Comedian Greg Proops on why he loves podcasting. See him at JFL42 in Toronto this weekend! Tonight at 7 pm at the Royal Theatre, Friday night at midnight at Second City, Saturday at 8:45 pm at the Royal and Sunday at 8 at Yuk Yuks!

I talk with Laura Tennisco and Mat Mailandt of Obviously Improv and Notorious about some of the artistic experiments they have been working on over the last year. TheFresh Notes Festival of musical comedy runs March 26-29.Tickets are still available for the Saturday finale with Notorious at Yuk Yuks: Buy now Improv Games Fundraiser Info:The Improv Games: Catching FundsApril 4thFestival Hall1215 10 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0W6Facebook EventTickets are still available: Buy Now Find Obviously Improv online:Website: www.obviously.coTwitter: @ovprovFacebook: Obviously Improv Music Credits:“Surf Inspector” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Dumb Question” Andrew Ferris (fiverr.com/andrewferris)

Dr Russell Kennedy is a medical doctor and anxiety expert, certified yoga teacher, neuroscientist, a corporate speaker with National Speakers Bureau and has toured with the Yuk Yuks comedy chain as a stand-up comedian (no joke). He's researched the brain for over thirty years, from academic institutions in North America to living and studying at a temple in India. He's taken medications from Ayuhausca to Zoloft in an effort to understand and treat his own anxious mind and understand mental illness from both the inside out and the outside in. He is also a Dog lover, a semi-pro worrier, quite mechanically disinclined, and loves short cuts. He has infinite patience for people but gets ragey and starts throwing stuff if anything from IKEA isn't coming together the way it looks on the box. Check out our Facebook Page and join the community. For more information about ManTalks or to join a ManTalks Mastermind: Click Here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com
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On this week's edition of Wrestling with Ideas, “The Music Man” Colin Scully and “The Man with No Excuses” Jonathan Skuce run the show while “The Man they call Gibby” Zach McGibbon is out of action. The guys talk the latest goings on in WWE and discuss a little bit of New Japan! PLUS, Colin Scully chats with “The World's Most Dangerous Man” Ken Shamrock for an exclusive interview taking a look at his entire wrestling career and how he broke in, working in UWF, His special guest referee spot in the famous Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin match, his part in the Corporation, and so much more! Ken will be in Ottawa for a special Yuk Yuks event Tuesday June 5th!   Follow Gibby on Twitter: @RawIsGibby or @WrestlingWIdeas Follow Colin on Twitter: @CD_TheMusicMan Follow Skuce on Twitter: @NoExSkuce Like the Wrestling with Ideas Facebook page! Follow us on Instagram: @wrestlingwithideasra [...]

On this week's edition of Wrestling with Ideas, "The Music Man" Colin Scully and "The Man with No Excuses" Jonathan Skuce run the show while "The Man they call Gibby" Zach McGibbon is out of action. The guys talk the latest goings on in WWE and discuss a little bit of New Japan! PLUS, Colin Scully chats with "The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock for an exclusive interview taking a look at his entire wrestling career and how he broke in, working in UWF, His special guest referee spot in the famous Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin match, his part in the Corporation, and so much more! Ken will be in Ottawa for a special Yuk Yuks event Tuesday June 5th!   Follow Gibby on Twitter: @RawIsGibby or @WrestlingWIdeas Follow Colin on Twitter: @CD_TheMusicMan Follow Skuce on Twitter: @NoExSkuce Like the Wrestling with Ideas Facebook page! Follow us on Instagram: @wrestlingwithideasradio Sen

Issue # 38… Ryan Horwood!!Ryan Horwood is a professional comedian / actor. As a comedian he tours with Yuk Yuks in Canada. As an actor you might have seen him in commercials, or YTV’s Monster Warriors, “Howie Do It” with Howie Mandell and A&E’s Breakout Kings. Today he joins us in the TNW/Comedy Dojo as we discuss what our gimmick would be if we were wrestlers. Who throws the best dropkick? WCW Mayhem and Nitro in Toronto. He was at one of them. The pre attitude era when wrestlers had day jobs such as dentists, hockey players, pig farmers, race car drivers and on’n on. All of this and so much more. So spend an hour’n a bit with us here on Talk’N Wrestling, where wrestling and comedy collide!!!Ryan on TwitterRyan's InstagramRyan Yuk Yuks PageCasey CorbinHalifax Comedy FestTalk 'N WrestlingTalk 'N Wrestling Twitter

Kyra is the Vice President of Yuk Yuks but it was her daddy issues that brought her to me. Kyra on imbd Shoelesscomedy.com

Issue #19 …Tyler Morrison & Jeff McEnery. Billed as the tag team Beautiful Disaster, Tyler Morrison is a roast joke writing machine & Jeff McEnery is one of Canada’s top headliners with Yuk Yuks. Jeff was in our first issue and has become one of our most requested guests. Tyler is here his first time proving why he’s host of his own podcast called the Rude Dudes Podcast. We hear how Tyler roasted Virgil at the Iron Sheik Roast. Also the three of us are Roasting the worst of all the Wrestlemania’s, the big old number 2! So spend an hour or so hanging out with us on Talk ’N Wrestling, where wrestling and comedy collide!Casey CorbinHalifax Comedy FestTalk 'N WrestlingTalk 'N Wrestling TwitterTyler Morrison WebsiteRude Dudes PodcastTyler Morrison TwitterTyler Roasting VirgilJeff McEnery Comedy NowJeff's WebsiteJeff McEnery's Twitter

     In this episode of Tobin Tonight, Tobin welcomes an old family friend (of his brothers), okay okay I like the guy too.  Tobin chats with fellow Newfoundlander and comedian Mark Bennett Mark has performed on Just for Laughs and now resides in Toronto where he runs his own podcast called, I Said Shut Up which he disccuses on the show.        Mark also shares his wisdom about  comedy, how he got started,  the experience of crowd riffing and bombing on stage, so if you enjoy a funny interview or newfoundlanders having a chat then you get the best of both worlds here.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedian Kyle Hickey Co-Hosts in the midst of headlining 6 shows at Torontoâ??s Yuk Yuks club. Him and Todd discuss The Toronto Maple Leafs #DartGuy, the Toronto Raptors and the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix. They are joined by Comedians Nemr Abou Nassar who talks about his experience working rooms in Lebanon vs Los Angeles. Marito Lopez and Kyle Lucey freestyle and more craziness from the comedic duel. We also find out how Pete Zedlacher is adapting to live in Calagary, Alberta.

Comedian Tom Simmons Co-Hosts and is joined by Comedian Stewart Huff both of which are in Toronto as part of the American Heretics headlining Yuk Yuks. They talk US politics and the differences between Canada and the US. We also check in with Brad J. Lamb of Toronto Condoâ??s. Brad has a good feeling about the Toronto Raptorsâ?? playoff prospects and offers his thoughts on the Toronto Maple Leafsâ?? postseason prospects.

So the headliner at Yuk Yuks is a guy named Simon B. Cotter. My wife and I, along with a few friends, went on the advice of someone who knows their comedy and knows that Cotter is a guy to see. That ‘someone’ happens to be Mark Breslin, founder and owner of Yuk Yuks, the biggest comedy franchise in North America. And of course Breslin is right. Cotter is a guy to see. Don’t feel bad if you don’t know the name - Cotter’s been busy touring the world (He just came back from Dubai) and performing corporate gigs - in other words - he’s busy making money. Thing is - Cotter is not just funny - he’s good. That means, he’s funny, charming, smart and there’s more to him than just telling jokes as you’ll find out when he joins us on TMAY to talk about his double bill. And the funny thing about his double bill is that neither movie is a comedy: Platoon and Where Eagles Dare.

On the latest edition of Wrestling with Ideas, Zach McGibbon and Alec Miske take you through the GO HOME SHOW of the Royal Rumble including the solid, silly, and I DECLARE FOR THE RUMBLE of the show! PLUS, Zach McGibbon hits the phone lines to talk to the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion of ALL TIME! We talk to Honky Tonk Man about the famous Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl in Memphis, How he joined the WWF as the Honky Tonk Man, Why he decided not to drop the IC title to Randy Savage, the decision on dropping the title to Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam, His response to Eric Bischoff saying he was his favorite firing, and many more! If you are in the Ottawa area, check out The Honky Tonk Man at Yuk Yuks on February 1st and 2nd! More information and tickets can be found here: https://www.yukyuks.com/?action=club.promotionDetails&venueID=517&promotionID=9D9DFDA1-C3CF-98FE-14E81C2E2CAC1030 Make sure to check out the Wrestling Radio Awards show on Tuesday J [...]

On the latest edition of Wrestling with Ideas, Zach McGibbon and Alec Miske take you through the GO HOME SHOW of the Royal Rumble including the solid, silly, and I DECLARE FOR THE RUMBLE of the show! PLUS, Zach McGibbon hits the phone lines to talk to the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion of ALL TIME! We talk to Honky Tonk Man about the famous Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl in Memphis, How he joined the WWF as the Honky Tonk Man, Why he decided not to drop the IC title to Randy Savage, the decision on dropping the title to Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam, His response to Eric Bischoff saying he was his favorite firing, and many more! If you are in the Ottawa area, check out The Honky Tonk Man at Yuk Yuks on February 1st and 2nd! More information and tickets can be found here: https://www.yukyuks.com/?action=club.promotionDetails&venueID=517&promotionID=9D9DFDA1-C3CF-98FE-14E81C2E2CAC1030 Make sure to check out the Wrestling Radio Awards show

Episode 23 - Wolves Dan & Jordan attempt to come to a consensus on the place of wolves in todays ever-changing retail job market. Also this week, like The Dan & Jordan Show on Facebook to get a chance to win tickets to Yuk-Yuks, Edmonton's premiere comedy extravaganza!

Wrestling with Ideas had the honor of having WWE Hall of Famer Jake The Snake Roberts on the line for a phone interview! Topics discussed include his early career in the WWF and how his character was formed, how difficult it was carrying the snake around, Working with Macho Man Randy Savage, Insight into his involvement in the 1996 King of the Ring, Working for TNA in 2006, Modern day WWE and more! This is an interview you don't want to miss! Jake The Snake Roberts is coming to Ottawa for a Yuk Yuks tour, check out more info here: https://www.yukyuks.com/index.cfm?action=club.promotionDetails&venueID=517&promotionID=2665DE35-C3E5-8E1F-F07FFF37D9B0561B Twitter: @WrestlingWIdeas Facebook: Wrestling with Ideas

Wrestling with Ideas had the honor of having WWE Hall of Famer Jake The Snake Roberts on the line for a phone interview! Topics discussed include his early career in the WWF and how his character was formed, how difficult it was carrying the snake around, Working with Macho Man Randy Savage, Insight into his involvement in the 1996 King of the Ring, Working for TNA in 2006, Modern day WWE and more! This is an interview you don't want to miss! Jake The Snake Roberts is coming to Ottawa for a Yuk Yuks tour, check out more info here: https://www.yukyuks.com/index.cfm?action=club.promotionDetails&venueID=517&promotionID=2665DE35-C3E5-8E1F-F07FFF37D9B0561B Twitter: @WrestlingWIdeas Facebook: Wrestling with Ideas

A dude deep throats a dildo at Yuk Yuks and wins the deep throat contest, Manolis records it and puts it on Facebook and gets 1,000 views. Patrick tells us about his lesbian days and we try to grapple with #Charleston, but get cut short by a technical issue. We hope to spend more time on it next week.

Harry Doupe is a semi-regular to the show this time of year. We made this one a bit longer than usual because there was so much on Harry's mind. He takes aim at the Comedy Awards, the Comedy Network, Yuk Yuks, and reminisces about the early days in Vancouver with Ryan Stiles and the late, great Colin Campbell.