What's So Funny?
By Guy MacPherson
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Description
Vancouver Co-op Radio Host Guy MacPherson interviews a multitude of comedians from across Canada and the US.
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ed Hill | Ed Hill joins us for the third time, this time smelling of Korean BBQ. We get to the bottom of his anglo-sounding name and talk about his upcoming album recording – also coincidentally his third. And he shares with us his favourite street joke –... | 2/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Colin Heath | Colin Heath is a clown. No, that's not a knock on the guy. He's a professional who has toured with Cirque du Soleil all over the world and is currently at Bacio Rosso in Vancouver. He's also a playwright, artist, actor, and has even done standup... | 1/31/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Brittany Lyseng | Brittany Lyseng is our first guest of 2019, the start of our 15th year doing this thing. Wow. The Calgary-born-reared-based standup talks about the ups and downs of the business... the elevator and escalator business, that is. We also talk about her... | 1/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Dave Nystrom | Dave Nystrom returns to the What's So Funny? studios 14 years after his first appearance. A year after that, he up and moved to Hollywood, California, USA. For the past few years he's been living in Calgary, Alberta, CA, raising a horde of children... | 1/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe | Harry Doupe comes bearing gifts, but that's not the reason we always invite him back around Christmas time. Who better to recap the year than the veteran writer/standup? He's got opinions and stories to keep us going for years. This episode is no... | 1/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays | Steve Bays is back, and like always with the musician, it's epic. That is, if you define 'epic' by length. We always have so much to talk about when he comes by. We talk about the BC Ferries, his recent visit to New York City, talking to Seth Meyers,... | 12/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Melanie Rose | Melanie Rose, the comedian not the porn star, returns to the show 100 pounds less than her first visit. She talks about her gangster grandma, felonious fathers (both step- and biological) and criminal ex-consort. We also talk about the perils of being.. | 12/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest He Fangzhou | He Fangzhou, or Fangzhou He depending on how you roll, is our guest all the way from... Toronto. The Chinese national came here to study math but somehow got sidetracked into standup comedy. He's love to have the kind of career here that Canadian Mark.. | 12/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevin Kent | Kevin Kent accosted my beautiful bald head at Bacio Rosso, and yet I still invited him to guest with us. He's an improviser and drag queen from a cabin in the wilds of New Mexico who has run away to join the circus. Kind of. He tells us his life... | 12/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevvy | Kevvy returns. In this episode, the front man for the band Fake Shark comes decked out in Vancouver Grizzlies gear. We talk a bit about the glory of the Grizzlies before moving on to his latest efforts as the foremost comedy album producer in all the... | 11/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ari Matti | Ari Matti comes to us all the way from Tallinn, Estonia. Well, he was in town anyway. He's in Vancouver working on his English standup skills. Ari tells us all about the burgeoning standup scene in Estonia, his first time on stage there (where he went.. | 11/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Brent Butt | Brent Butt is back after a six year absence. The Canadian superstar talks about apples in Saskatchewan, his experience as a bad wedding singer, practicing standup with a screwdriver, his love of language, the etymology of 'gangbusters' and 'trivia',... | 11/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Barry Greenfeld | Barry Greenfeld has been doing comedy since Sam Tonning was one year old. Yet he remembers virtually none of his career, except the broad strokes. Play a drinking game this episode: Every time Barry forgets something, take a sip. By the end of the... | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Travis Bernhardt | Travis Bernhardt is a magician and improviser, in that order. He started practicing magic the year this show went on the air, back in 2004. And look at him now! In this episode, he talks about starting out on the street, how magic helped with his... | 11/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ivan Decker | Ivan Decker is back less than a year after his last appearance with us. This marks appearance number six for the up-and-coming standup superstar. The Jerry Seinfeld of Canada is how we're now describing him. In this extendo episode, Decker talks... | 10/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Shawn Farquhar | Shawn Farquhar is a tricky guy. That's his job! The world-renown magician pays us a second visit in between stops around the world. Actually, he'll be home in the Greater Vancouver area for a few months, thanks to two different upcoming shows. We talk.. | 10/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris Griffin | Chris Griffin, the human being not the cartoon character, makes his What's So Funny? debut. The Calgary-born, Vancouver-residing standup comic talks about dancing topless, getting tags from Tom Papa, his online presence or lack thereof, and getting in.. | 10/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Wes Barker | Wes Barker magically appears for the third time on the program. Our sound is a little wonky but you'll get over it. Wes talks about doing magic without an assistant, explains the beauty of making excuses, performs both a nasty prank and a real trick,... | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Colleen Brow | Colleen Brow returns to talk about her new one-woman show and we give her a pep talk. She fills us in on her goings-on since she last was with us and we talk about her days doing standup comedy and why she eventually had her fill of performing it.... | 9/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWSF? with guests Steve Allen & Laura Accili | Steve Allen and Laura Accili run the longest-running weekly comedy show in Vancouver. As of air time, 11 years and six months at the Kino Café. Guest host Sam Tonning talks to the two about memorable shows over the years, they play some clips, and... | 9/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Brett Martin | Brett Martin returns and gets the full Sam Tonning experience. Usually when the two get together, Martin is in charge at his monthly live talk show, The Brett Martin Show, where Tonning is the Ed McMahon to his Johnny Carson. But in this episode,... | 9/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guests Harris Anderson & Andrew Huzar | Harris Anderson and Andrew Huzar are Sam Tonning's guests in this episode. Sam gets to yacht rock out and play comedy clips and the gang talks comedy, as you might expect. Regular host Guy MacPherson was vacating on this one. | 9/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ross Dauk | Ross Dauk returns for his second go-around with us. We talk about how What's So Funny? created celebrities in his mind out of local comics, discuss overdone bits in standup, and debate the subjectivity/objectivity of comedy. | 8/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Dylan Rhymer | Dylan Rhymer helps ring in a very low-key, but special, episode number 500-ish. There have been more that have been lost to the ether over the last 14 years, but who's counting? We caught Dylan back in Vancouver after a stint in Europe and a Canadian... | 7/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ivan Decker | Ivan Decker is winning so much he gets to come back to What's So Funny? less than a year after his last appearance. In this episode we talk about his big Juno Award win and the more recent news of his upcoming Netflix taping. It's a good time to be... | 7/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Stuart Jones | Stuart Jones makes his What's So Funny? debut telling us all about his hierarchy of nerd-dom. Spoiler: Magic cards are at the top. Sam Tonning does the heavy lifting in this one, as regular host Guy MacPherson just pops up occasionally with questions... | 7/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Damonde Tschritter | Damonde Tschritter makes his long-awaited return to the show. The veteran standup has a sports analogy for every situation. He talks about being the King of Parksville as a youth, having one degree of separation between himself and everyone, beating... | 6/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Larke Miller | Larke Miller makes her second guest appearance with us after an eight-year absence. The standup comic/Queen of the Monkeys tells us about her time in L.A.'s The Groundlings, guesting on Craig Ferguson, her love of space aliens and swinging on a trapeze. | 6/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Graham Clark | Graham Clark makes his triumphant return to What's So Funny? after six long years and reveals a fact about himself heretofore only friends and family knew about. Our conversation covers such topics as the forgotten condiment, punching up, murderous... | 6/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Myq Kaplan | Myq Kaplan returns to the show with a wide-ranging (and long!) conversation about robots, trees in Brooklyn, poop jokes, Jeopardy, Nickelback, language, favourites, Dimethyltryptamine, and jokes. | 5/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Fred Ewanuick | Fred Ewanuick has had quite a career for such a reluctant actor. Most know him as Hank on all the Corner Gases (sitcom, feature film, animated version). The Mark Ruffalo look-alike tells us about his experience on the thriller Absolute Zero, how he... | 5/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ryan Beil | Ryan Beil makes his triumphant return to the show after eight long years. The actor/improviser talks baseball, fish, lying to casting directors, getting roughed up by George Costanza, performing standup, fly-fishing, Fiddler on the Roof, and praying.... | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Tom Green | Tom Green is a Canadian superstar. In his long career, dating back to his teenage years, he's been a standup, a rap star, a talk show host, an actor, a professional prankster, and a goofball. We talked to him about all that, plus the nature of... | 4/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Simon King | Simon King is back! This time without regular host Guy MacPherson. Guy left the keys to the show with his trusty sidekick (audition pending) Sam Tonning and Sam invited Simon over to hang out. Together on Juno Sunday they listened to some tracks off... | 3/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Mike MacDonald | Mike MacDonald died on March 17. We got to know him four years ago when he dropped by the studio for an enlightening hour of conversation, which we rerun for you now. We've added some of his standup act to the beginning and end of the show to give it... | 3/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris Gordon | Chris Gordon returns! To the studio this time, not some random hotel lobby. And he's in full Chris Gordon mode, hawking merch with a raging boner, as you'd expect from the premier intellectual comedian of his generation. The Calgary standup is also a... | 3/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Jo Dworschak | Jo Dworschak has been telling stories (and lies) her whole life, which makes her the perfect host for her monthly Story Story Lie show (which doubles as a podcast). In this episode, she talks about riding her horse to the corner store to buy smokes,... | 3/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Rod Crawford | Rod Crawford has been in and around the improv and standup scenes in Canada for 35 years making him a... legend? Sure, let's go with that. You know him best as the stunt double (1 episode) for Relic on The Beachcombers, but did you also know he... | 2/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kathleen McGee | Kathleen McGee returns in the nick of time. The standup vet is moving back to her home town of Edmonton come spring. In this episode we talk musicals, heckling athletes, and dying pets. Plus, as added bonus, Kathleen says the C-word. No tears were... | 2/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ken Lawson | Ken Lawson is always challenging me. First with "coaching" me in a losing battle against a child ping-pong champ. Second by trying to tach me improv. And in this episodes he attempts to get me to stand unassisted from a legs-crossed position. He's... | 2/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Mayce Galoni | Mayce Galoni remembered his date with What's So Funny? this time around. Maybe he just wanted to wait so he was the first guest of 2018. The young standup talks about his even younger self starting out as a barroom magician, relates some words of... | 2/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? 2017 Highlights, part two | Relive 2017 with part two of our highlights from last year. Clips from our conversations with Chuck Byrn, Barry Crimmins, John Cullen, Ivan Decker, Harry Doupe, Shawn Farquhar, Diana Frances, Lori Gibbs, Ryan Gunther, James Kennedy, Colin Lamb, Darryl.. | 2/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? 2017 Highlights, part one | Clips from guests we had in 2017: Harris Anderson, Paul Anthony, Wes Barker, David Beckingham, Camilo the Magician, Andy Cañete, Randy Charach, Garrett Clark, Charlie Demers, Fred Ewanuick, Katharine Ferns, Shirley Gnome, Kevvy, Leland Klassen,... | 2/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Jon Reep | Jon Reep's second visit to Vancouver resulted in his second appearance on What's So Funny? Coincidence? Yes. He's not really a hick, and not really from Hickory, but both claims are close enough to truth that he goes with it. He tells us about his... | 1/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe | Harry Doupe makes his annual year-end visit, this time on Christmas Eve! After opening presents, we talk about the year in comedy, from the deaths to the return of comedy to the Juno Awards to Netflix specials to the end of the Rick Mercer Report. And.. | 1/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ivan Decker | Ivan Decker makes his triumphant return to the show three weeks after doing Conan, his first ever late night American talk show. Ivan takes us through the stages it took to get there, how he felt in the process, and reveals what O'Brien said to him... | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guests Darryl Lenox & Garry Yuill | Darryl Lenox and Garry Yuill have big plans for comedy, not only in this country but everywhere. It starts here, though, with their hoped-for acquisition of the Yuk Yuk's chain. The American standup veteran (Lenox) and Vancouver Yuk's franchise holder.. | 1/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Charlie Demers | Charlie Demers was last with us in 2010. Now he's authored even more books, released a brand new comedy album ('Fatherland' on 604 Records), and is the voice of Walter the Slug on Beat Bugs on Netflix. We talk about all of the above, plus anxiety,... | 1/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Gavin Matts | Gavin Matts was the big winner in the 2017 SiriusXM Top Comic competition. In this episode, we teach the youngster about Raymond Burr and Yvonne De Carlo, he explains how he got the nickname 'Subway,' he confesses his love of One Tree Hill and his... | 1/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Anthony | Paul Anthony returns! Every couple of years, it seems, Paul is our guest. In this episode, we start off by discussing the latest news, then we gossiped about Hugh Phukovsky and his urine gun, talked about the struggles of Talent Time, and re-enacted a.. | 12/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ron Vaudry | Ron Vaudry has been entertaining comedy audiences for 38 years. He was recently tweeted about by Norm Macdonald in a series of tweets about the early days of Toronto comedy so we talk about that, and what Norm was like in the early days. We also... | 12/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Shirley Gnome | Shirley Gnome has a new album out on 604 Records and came back to play some songs off it on her guitar. The album is called Taking It Up the Notch and we play a track off it, too. And we talk, as always. She tells us about going to high school with... | 12/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shawn Farquhar | Shawn Farquhar is one of the greatest magicians in the world. And one of the greatest guys, period. He's fooled Penn & Teller twice, he's a two-time world champion of magic, and the past president of IBM! No, not that IBM – the International... | 11/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Wes Barker | Wes Barker's career took off soon after his first appearance on What's So Funny? three years ago. He wowed 'em on America's Got Talent and he fooled Penn & Teller. The comic/magician tells us what that was like. We hope this latest guest spot... | 11/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Randy Charach | Randy Charach puts audiences to sleep. But that's what they come for. He's a stage hypnotist, who has also been a mentalist, magician and comedian. He talks about all these in this episode and gives a very special gift to What's So Funny? listeners.... | 11/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Alex Sparling | Alex Sparling is the greatest actor in the world (or so he'll tell you). Unfortunately, his acting career was derailed during a brutal attack. The Vancouver standup and proud Yellowknife son tells us all about it. And by the time you hear this, he'll... | 10/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Leland Klassen | Leland Klassen is a standup comedian who happens to work clean and sometimes perform in churches. He's also a big-time thespian now that he's the star of a dramatic motion picture. He tells us what it's like working with Kirk Cameron, about the perils.. | 10/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Katharine Ferns | Katharine Ferns has had her fair share of troubles in this lifetime. So what does she do? She laughs. Because you can't just cry all the time. Her Fringe show, Katharine Ferns Is In Stitches, ran in Edinburgh for a month before she brought it "home"... | 10/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Andy Canete | Andy Cañete is back talking Fringe Fest. His show, in particular: The Cañete Chroñicles. He also tells us of the dangers of soccer in Chile, the secrets of Gloria Makarenko, how Chris Farley ages him, discusses some bad jobs, and tells tales of... | 10/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Oh Susanna | Oh Susanna has another name when she's not performing her unique blend of alternative/country/folk/roots music. Suzie Ungerleider is how I knew her when we played softball together in the mid-late nineties, just as she was starting in on her music... | 9/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Johnny Perrotta | Johnny Perrotta has been on the Vancouver comedy scene for ages but this is his first time on our little program. But he did have the honour of being the first guest in our new/old studio. Johnny talks about making the big move from Old Italy to... | 9/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chuck Byrn | Chuck Byrn is a real Vancouverite, going back generations. But he's been living in Toronto since forever. Byrn has got stories and opinions and he's willing to share them. He talks about the early days in standup, being the Pillsbury Toaster Strudel... | 9/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Christina Sicoli | Christina Sicoli loves her sleep but she managed to stay up late and talk with us. The actress and improviser's earliest credit was Detroit Rock City, where she played "Foxy girl" sitting on a toilet. She's also tap danced with Gregory Hines. She's a... | 9/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? Tribute to Bob Robertson - July 2, 2017 | Bob Robertson was a good friend to What's So Funny?, having visited us three times with his wife and comedy partner Linda Cullen. Together they formed Double Exposure, Canada's beloved political satire duo. Bob's career extended at both ends of his... | 8/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest David Beckingham | David Beckingham drops by the doorless studio to talk about his band's reunion. Hey Ocean! (with exclamation mark) is coming back with a tour and a new album. This after each of the three main players released their own solo work. David tells us why... | 8/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Diana Frances - June 18, 2017 | Diana Frances is a Vancouver gal at heart but she lives in Toronto now, where she mostly makes her living writing for TV, awards shows, and radio. But she still finds time to do the odd bit of performing. It's mostly improv these days but we talk... | 7/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevvy - May 28, 2017 | Kevvy, from the bands Fake Shark and Die Mannequin, has real comedy credentials. As a producer, he's recorded, by the latest tally, twenty-four standup comedians. He talks about his brand-spanking new Fake Shark album, Faux Real, getting kicked out of.. | 6/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest John Cullen - May 21, 2017 | John Cullen was voted Most Likely to be a Comedian in his Grade 7 gifted class. So what better name for a comedy album? We play a couple tracks, and we put John to the gifted challenge. He also tells us about his many podcasts (two) and his experience.. | 6/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Ryan Gunther - May 7, 2017 | Ryan Gunther is a button-down comic with a wild past. He's worked in Fortune 500 companies and grew up in the wild. Basically, anyway. He talks about overcoming massive stage fright to take to the standup stage in his mid-30s. Now he performs his... | 6/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Garrett Clark - April 30, 2017 | Garrett Clark isn't just a boner comedian anymore. No, he's got a new album out (Night Danger) making him... dangerous at night? He tells us about his adventures in Los Angeles and how many degrees of separation between him and Kevin Bacon (it's... | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat's So Funny? with guest Colin Lamb - April 23, 2017 | Colin Lamb doesn't play a lot of comedy clubs, but he should. His songs are hilarious, truly original, and he performs them with a commitment that makes them even funnier. They're also very naughty. Lamb brought his guitar into the studio and... | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Brad Upton - April 16, 2017 | Brad Upton has been entertaining audiences for 33 years. And he still kills! The Seattle-area comic talks about the best way to deal with hecklers, how standup and teaching 10-year-olds are intertwined, playing mind games in athletic and comedy... | 5/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Joel Plaskett - April 9, 2017 | Joel Plaskett went from a power pop rocker with his band Halifax-based band, Thrush Hermit, in the '90s to a "nationally adored" singer-songwriter. In this episode, we talk about me fake-kissing his wife in university, Jimi Hendrix's high school... | 4/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Camilo the Magician - April 2, 2017 | Camilo the Magician is... you'll never guess... a magician! He's also our first guest with a pop song written in his honour. It's a good one, too, by the band Said the Whale. In this episode, Camilo Dominguez (that's his given name) talks about... | 4/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest James Kennedy - March 19, 2017 | James Kennedy burst onto the Vancouver standup scene and became a headliner in short order after spending most of his 20s in a band. He's never met a competition – be it in comedy or music – that he hasn't conquered. Not bad for a kid who never... | 4/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harris Anderson - March 12, 2017 | Harris Anderson and I first met sharing a bowl of alcohol. Now he's in studio talking about his comedy and music. He also talks about his love of Jonathan Winters and Victor Borge, quotes Milton's Paradise Lost, says why jazz makes him nervous, and... | 4/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Barry Crimmins - February 26, 2017 | Barry Crimmins... the man... the legend. The great political satirist joins us despite having a love-hate relationship with podcasts. Despite industrial work being done right outside his hotel room window, we manage to talk for an hour about the best... | 3/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Fred Ewanuick - February 5, 2017 | Fred Ewanuick teaches me how to pronounce his name and then we get down to business. The professional pretender talks about his time as a bad theatre student, performing improv in his mom's coffee shop, his role as Hank on Corner Gas, and his regrets... | 2/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Lori Gibbs - January 29, 2017 | Lori Gibbs returns after a 5-year absence. Or I return to her hotel room, is more like it. She talks about getting hit on in comedy clubs, how she got her nickname "the human antidepressant," her radio career, being a keynote speaker, the art of... | 2/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? 2016 Highlights Episode 2 - January 22, 2017 | Part two of our 2016 highlights, with guests Steve Bays, Graeme Duffy, Jy Harris, Ed Hill, Chris James, Richard Lett, Brett Martin, Efthimios Nasiopoulos, Scott Patey, Nancy Robertson, Ari Shaffir, and Sam Tonning. | 2/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? 2016 Highlights Episode 1 - January 15, 2017 | We look back at highlights from our shows in 2016. Clips from guests Dino Archie, Byron Bertram, Jason Bryden, Sophie Buddle, Sara Bynoe, Jeff Cooper, Grahaeme Cowie, Ivan Decker, Glen Foster, Jessica Holmes, Caitlin Howden, Paul Hooper, Shauna... | 2/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe - January 8, 2017 | Harry Doupe returns to rehash 2016. We go over the top comedy specials of the year, comedy deaths, the Human Rights Tribunal, game shows, SNL, and Harry gives us a taste of the book he's been working on since the 1980s. | 1/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Nancy Robertson - December 18, 2016 | Nancy Robertson may be best known for her role as Wanda on the hit Corner Gas, but she's so much more. We talk about her start in acting, learning from one of the finest cowboy thespians in the business, and her formative years in improvisation. We... | 1/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sam Tonning - December 4, 2016 | Sam Tonning tells dirty jokes at night, but by day he's a mild-mannered paper-pusher for The Man. In this, his first episode with us, he talks about his unabashed and unironic love of Phil Collins, Ted Nugent, Jay Leno, and Dennis Miller. We also... | 1/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Scott Patey - November 13, 2016 | Scott Patey is an actor, improviser and comedian. I think I got the order right. He hails from the border town of Lloydminster, which fascinates me. He explains how it works. We also talk about how his hockey career was cut short by a breakup, his... | 12/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Graeme Duffy - November 6, 2016 | Graeme Duffy returns to talk about his very public – and swift! – engagement. He tells of how he proposed to his girlfriend four months after starting to date in front of 1100 people at the Vogue Theatre. He also talks about getting bullied in... | 11/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Larry Miller - July 31, 2011 | Larry Miller has done it all. He was one of Carson's favourites on the old Tonight Show and has been a ton of movies and TV classics. And he's still going strong, performing stand-up whenever he can, hosting a podcast, Tweeting, FB'ing, blogging and... | 11/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays - October 23, 2016 | Steve Bays returns, this time with girlfriend and actor Siobhan Williams in tow. To make things even, I brought my brother-in-law along. I do my best to get Bays to do one last tour with his band Hot Hot Heat, who has a new album out. We also talk... | 11/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sean Kent - October 16, 2016 | Sean Kent lives in the heart of Texas, if Austin is considered the heart. I have no idea. It is the liberal oasis, I know that. And that fits, because Kent is a liberal through and through. In this episode, we talk a little bit about the Norman... | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sophie Buddle - September 18, 2016 | Sophie Buddle makes her debut on What's So Funny? The 22-year-old is making waves in the standup world. She's already a veteran of the Just For Laughs gala and hip Los Angeles comedy shows. She explains how she got started at the tender age of 15,... | 10/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Efthimios Nasiopoulos - September 11, 2016 | Efthimios Nasiopoulos gamely stepped up at the last minute when our scheduled guest fell ill. And only a week after he moved to Vancouver from Toronto, to boot! The biggest name in comedy talks about glaciers in Vancouver, two broken engagements,... | 10/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Brett Martin - August 28, 2016 | Brett Martin returns to the What's So Funny? studio and we talk running for mayor and writing for a major daily newspaper both without graduating from high school. We also discuss talk shows and he takes the Trivial Pursuit challenge. | 9/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jason Bryden - August 21, 2016 | Jason Bryden left Vancouver for good 3.5 years ago. He's Toronto through and through now, but we still love him. In this episode, he talks about quitting comedy, quitting theatre, quitting social media, and starting a new podcast (In the Dark with... | 9/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Tim Nutt - August 14, 2016 | Tim Nutt manages to headline all over this great land and regularly perform galas at festivals and on TV all from his mountain home in the comedy hotbed of West Kelowna. He tells us how he ended up there after starting his career in 1993 in Vancouver,.. | 8/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jy Harris - August 7, 2016 | Jy Harris returns after a six year absence a new man. Manic on stage, he's found peace in his personal life. Or at least is on a never-ending quest for it. He meditates, is vegan, reads new-age books, and experiments with microdoses of psychedelics.... | 8/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Simon King - July 31, 2016 | Simon King returns! Mighty Mouth is back in studio after a 7.5-year absence. We talk about England, comedy intermissions, protest comedy, Trump, funny voices, political correctness, and WWI. | 8/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Jeff Cooper and Grahaeme Cowie - July 3, 2016 | Jeff Cooper and Grahaeme Cowie have known each other since high school, where they would meet by the smoking doors and swap their doodles. Today they run a small animation studio called Smoking Doors and are about to unleash on the world a cartoon... | 7/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? More highlights from 2015 with various guests - June 19, 2016 | Part 2 of our 2015 highlights with guests Paul Anthony, Janice Bannister, Ian Boothby, Daniel Chai, Garrett Clark, Chad Daniels, Tanyalee Davis, David Dedrick, Fatima Dhowre, Robyn Daye Edwards, Chip Ellis, Mark Friebe, Goldie Hoffman, Jesse Joyce,... | 6/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? Highlights from 2015 with various guests - June 12, 2016 | Remember 2015? Ah, it was a good year. Here's part 1 of a 2-part highlight show featuring clips from all our 2015 shows. Guests are Dino Archie, Diana Bang, Steve Bays, Matt Bilinski, Andy Canete, Graham Chittenden, Ewan Currie, Kate Davis, Ryan... | 6/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Glen Foster - June 5, 2016 | Glen Foster is one of the founding fathers of Canadian standup. In 1982, he voyaged west with a ragtag bunch of comedians from Toronto's Yuk Yuk's and brought laughs to our shores. We talk about that, growing older, and, as always with Foster,... | 6/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Camille Mitchell - May 22, 2016 | Camille Mitchell has been in the acting game her whole life. The daughter of a bona fide Hollywood movie star who acted alongside such luminaries as Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. In this, her podcast debut, Mitchell... | 6/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jessica Holmes - May 15, 2016 | Jessica Holmes makes her podcast debut on What's So Funny?! Exciting times! The former Air Farce cadet talks about why she doesn't like playing comedy clubs anymore, gets into some frank talk about her depression, moves on to discussing her... | 5/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Richard Lett - May 8, 2016 | Richard Lett is no stranger to the podcast. Somehow, we always have things to talk about. This time, we sat in the great outdoors, shooting the breeze in the breeze. Richard spoke of being sober but never clean and even performed some spontaneous beat.. | 5/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Julie Kim - May 1, 2016 | Julie Kim was positively glowing in this episode. That's right, the standup comedian/brainiac was pregnant. She tells us about her varied interests, from science and engineering to comedy. She also talks about growing up a rebellious chubby kid living.. | 5/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dino Archie - April 17, 2016 | Dino Archie joins the 5-time member club in this appearance. And that's no conspiracy. We talk about his wonder year – winning the Seattle Comedy Competition, recording sets on Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central – as well as Mexicans in the NBA,... | 4/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ed Hill - April 10, 2016 | Ed Hill returns to the What's So Funny? studios telling tales of his triumphant crabbing exploits. Along the way, we discuss piano lessons, boogers, drugs, gout, Googling racism, tweeting Jimmy Fallon, ghosts, and being a weirdo whisperer. | 4/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ari Shaffir - February 28, 2016 | Ari Shaffir pulls no punches. In this episode, the Skeptic Tank host and standup comic talks about Carlos Mencia, plausible deniability, adverbs in blogs, pedophiles, Jehovah, censorship, offence, practice making perfect, and his feud with Howard... | 4/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Caitlin Howden - April 3, 2016 | Caitlin Howden steps into the great outdoors, i.e. What's So Funny?'s nature studio. We sat on a park bench in glorious sunshine watching the world go by recording this one. She tells us about being a dominating Grade 6 basketball player, getting cut... | 4/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dave Merheje - March 20, 2016 | Dave Merheje is a Toronto comic living in L.A. but representing the YQG on his headware. It's all very confusing. We talk about Catholic saints, rap and hip-hop, Winnipeg, ethnic comedy shows, the good and bad of Justin Bieber, and horrible gigs. | 4/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mike Storck - February 21, 2016 | Mike Storck zoomed into town just to speak with us. Well, and he was headlining one of the local clubs. We were so rushed, though, we had to record in the roving studio. He talked about the ethics of pranking, Star Wars, heckling, and storytelling. | 3/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sara Bynoe - February 7, 2016 | Sara Bynoe is all over the Vancouver comedy scene, creating and hosting a variety of comedy shows that aren't standup, sketch or improv. We try to get to the bottom of the correct label. We also talk about the Puppy Bowl, partying clean, being Kliph... | 3/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris James - January 31, 2016 | Chris James recorded this episode of What's So Funny? in one take. Impressive. He tells us about a horrifying real-life experience that he's weaved into comedy gold. And we talk a bit to his friend Vishal Ramesh, a comedian from India now living in... | 3/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shauna Johannesen - January 24, 2016 | Shauna Johannesen comes to us sleep-deprived. As she should be, too. She was in the middle of a theatre run of her own play, Common Grace, and was starting work on a short film for the Crazy8s festival (which has since been completed). We talk about... | 2/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ivan Decker - January 17, 2016 | Ivan Decker returns to What's So Funny? just in the nick of time. Literally. This time we discuss Bill Burr, wisdom teeth extractions, approaching industry types, observational comedy, his upcoming album, and science! He does a knock-up job. | 2/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Byron Bertram - January 10, 2016 | Byron Bertram stops by the What's So Funny? studio before he takes off to Australia for a few months where he'll perform his one-man show and do some street performing. In this episode, we give him a dry shave as he talks about finding love on Tinder,.. | 2/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Erica Sigurdson - December 13, 2015 | Erica Sigurdson is the Duchess of Canadian Comedy. In this pre-Christmas episode, we brainstorm the rest of the royal line. She also talks about hitting people, doing corporate gigs, staying home instead of moving to the US, being engaged for nine... | 1/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Norm Macdonald - July 15, 2012 | Norm Macdonald will talk for as long as he's talked to. Or until there's a knock at the door. Thankfully that knock didn't come for 90 minutes so he sat talking about hypochondria, God, science, childhood memories, and comedy among other topics. Deep... | 12/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Robert Kelly - November 29, 2015 | Robert Kelly is a standup comic, podcaster and actor. What's worse is that he's successful in all three! But to show he's human, he's only passable on a drum kit. In this episode he talks about his need to be liked, his love of honesty, his falling... | 12/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kate Davis - November 15, 2015 | Kate Davis has been entertaining audiences and embarrassing her children for 18 years. The Toronto standup started out as an adorable little English girl with a posh accent before moving to Canada with her cockney parents. Theatre gave way to standup... | 11/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Graham Chittenden - November 19, 2015 | Graham Chittenden takes time from his only day off on the Just For Laughs Comedy Tour to be with us. The Brantford, Ontario, native drops some analogies and whines about his hometown, interviewing Sarah Silverman, and not writing himself a recurring... | 11/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ewan Currie - November 8, 2015 | Ewan Currie returns. The rocker was in town for one day, with a concert that night, but still made time for us. He tells us the comedy origins of The Sheepdogs' latest album, Future Nostalgia. He also talks about his musical theatre career in high... | 11/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Melanie Rose - November 1, 2015 | Melanie Rose has been performing standup comedy for nine years, but we let her on the show anyway under the 10-year rule providing she avoids eye contact. In this episode, Rose talks about homelessness, mental health, bank robbers, farm living, the... | 11/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dylan Rhymer - October 18, 2015 | Dylan Rhymer returns to What's So Funny? after being MIA for a couple years. Never short on opinion or stories, he gets right to it in this episode. We learn about the origin of his now-gone mutton chops. He spills his guts on the breakup of his... | 11/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Robyn Edwards - October 11, 2015 | Robyn Edwards finally gets a shot on What's So Funny? Her OutTV costars on Morgan Brayton and Other People have all had their turn. Could it be we saved the best for last? You be the judge. We talk about her other TV role as an FBI agent on a big,... | 11/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Mark Friebe and Sheila Sharma - September 27, 2015 | Mark Friebe and Sheila Sharma last visited us a loooong nine years ago. They drove in from the Giggle Dam out in Port Coquitlam to tell us about the fire that nearly destroyed them, the challenges of doing politically incorrect sketches, and Sheila... | 10/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Andy Canete - September 20, 2015 | Andy Cañete speaks real good English for a South American. We talk about how that's possible and what it's like to live under the thumb of a dictator, even one whose name sounds like a nice glass of wine or a wooden puppet boy. He also tells a good... | 10/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Lauren McGibbon - September 13, 2015 | Lauren McGibbon isn't the son of a tree-dwelling monkey but she does tell us about her family's violent history. The improviser also tells us about her mad research skillz when it comes to acting in scenes, her brief standup career, her brief flight... | 10/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Ian Boothby and David Dedrick - September 6, 2015 | Ian Boothby and David Dedrick are busy guys. Not only do they do what they do when not podcasting, they also co-host three (count 'em!) podcasts. Okay, one of them is finished now but lives on in the ether. The mothership is Sneaky Dragon, the... | 9/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Janice Bannister - August 16, 2015 | Janice Bannister makes her second appearance on What's So Funny? – both without regular host Guy MacPherson. She must be getting a complex! This time she talks to Colleen Brow about her many-faceted career, from writing to producing to teaching to... | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Fatima Dhowre - July 19, 2015 | Fatima Dhowre is the first What's So Funny? guest who's been to Somalia, not once but dozens of times. We go into quite a bit of detail about that lawless land. We also talk about her having more in common with white guys than black because she lacks... | 8/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Marcus Ryan - July 12, 2015 | Marcus Ryan joins us in the Roving Studio for his fourth appearance on the show. The Aussie explains the crazy insects and reptiles of his home and native land, discusses his one-man Edmonton Fringe show called Love Me Tinder, complains about the... | 7/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ron Josol - July 5, 2015 | Ron Josol performs all over the world. Or at least many places in the world. He joins in the Roving Studio, or Comedy Cab (aka my car), for a far-ranging conversation that covers performing in Haiti, the Philippines, and the US, as well as being... | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Matt Bilinski - June 28, 2015 | Matt Bilinski makes his What's So Funny? debut five years after first appearing on the program as Matt Billon. In fact, he lived his first 36 years as Matt Billon. So why the change? He explains. Along the way, he tells us how he took down a criminal,.. | 7/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jesse Joyce - June 21, 2015 | Jesse Joyce wrote many of your favourite jokes from the Comedy Central Roasts. And he tells us some of them. He also talks about trying to sneak hand jobs in an Irish convent, gives his theory on the Canadian superiority/inferiority complex, and lists.. | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kathleen McGee - June 14, 2015 | Kathleen McGee has been living in Vancouver for one year... and loving it! Now, if she could just get it to secede from Canada. McGee talks about her troubles getting back into the US, as well as being a rugby playing theatre nerd, lady jails,... | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays - June 7, 2015 | Steve Bays is the lead singer for Mounties, Hot Hot Heat, and Fur Trade but one of his first bands, Pilot Light, gets most mention in this episode. Steve is a regular guest on the show and we always seem to break new length records with him. This one... | 6/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dan Quinn - May 24, 2015 | Dan Quinn makes his quinquennial appearance on What's So Funny? (at least as far as our records are concerned). In this episode, Quinn reveals who's the moodiest participant in the Snowed In Comedy Tour, rails against amateurs running comedy rooms,... | 6/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Mark B. Hughes and Jason Kryska - May 17, 2015 | Mark B. Hughes and Jason Kryska love to push buttons. They love and perform (and love to perform) comedy that tilts towards the dark side. But their backstories couldn't be more different. Kryska has lived a button-down life and married for 18 years;... | 6/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chad Daniels - May 10, 2015 | Chad Daniels is a regular visitor to Vancouver, but a first-time visitor to What's So Funny? The Minnesotan is a touring headliner, does the late-night talk shows yet still lives in tiny Fergus Falls, three hours outside of Minneapolis. What gives? He.. | 5/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Bobby Slayton - May 3, 2015 | Bobby Slayton may be billed as the Pitbull of Comedy but he's a real pussycat. But even though he's a big fan of vanilla, he's no vanilla comic. In this episode, I get hung up on An Evening at the Improv from the 1980s so we talk about those early... | 4/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sean Lecomber - April 26, 2015 | Sean Lecomber buckles up for a trip in the roving What's So Funny? studio. He calls it Driving Miss Podcast. I like it. In this one, the Edmonton comic talks about t-shirts in swimming pools, self-confidence, squelching baby hecklers, the correct... | 4/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Goldie Hoffman - April 12, 2015 | Goldie Hoffman is no shrinking violet. Hence our extendo-episode. The actress/comedian (and pretend doctor), who is between the ages of 16 and 65 - chronologically young but with an old soul – isn't afraid to rock the boat. In this episode, she... | 4/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Aaron Read - April 5, 2015 | Aaron Read is a triple threat: improviser, musician, and visual artist. No wonder he was a couple minutes late to the show. When the man with buns of steel showed up, we talked about kissing Ryan Beil, his obsession with beaded curtains, top phone... | 4/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dino Archie - March 29, 2015 | Dino Archie may be a Choosy Lover but he's indiscriminate when it comes to doing this show. This is his fourth visit as guest (he also hosted one episode). In this one, he gets down with us about softball, gratitude and having a good attitude, being a.. | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Anthony - March 15, 2015 | Paul Anthony returns to talk about his recent foray into European game show hosting. That's right, the unilingual actor/comedian just did a stint in Austria. What was that all about? Good question. Just remember, loopholes are part of ze fun! We also... | 4/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Daniel Chai and Chip Ellis - March 8, 2015 | Daniel Chai and Chip Ellis are co-founders of the improv troupe The Fictionals. They really should go by the name Chip and Chai. Regardless, they stop by to play a round of Cards Against Humanity with me and tell us about their monthly show at the... | 3/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jacob Samuel - March 1, 2015 | Jacob Samuel is our first New Yorker contributor. He's a single panel cartoonist with two contributions to the esteemed publication. Not only that, but he does standup comedy, too. We discuss the differences between Toronto and Vancouver, he tells us... | 3/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Craig Northey - February 22, 2015 | Craig Northey has been in a lot of bands in his life and they all get a mention in this episode, especially Odds. Or is it The Odds? We also talk about his association with Kids in the Hall (or The Kids in the Hall?) and Brent Butt. Yes, the Brent... | 3/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ryan Hamilton - February 15, 2015 | Ryan Hamilton becomes the first guest in What's So Funny? history to record a whole episode while being driven around Vancouver in my car. The conversation becomes part travelogue. He talks about his Norman Rockwell-like upbringing in Idaho, we debate.. | 3/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Tanyalee Davis - February 8, 2015 | Tanyalee Davis returns to our studio after a 4-year absence to tell tales of her little 'gina, relocating to small town North Carolina, and hanging out with big stars like the Bay City Rollers and P Diddy. Your regular host was contagious and in the... | 2/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Garrett Clark - January 25, 2015 | Garrett Clark returns to our studios a mere five months after making his What's So Funny? debut. Why so soon? Because he's off to seek his fame and fortune in the City of Angels and wanted to say goodbye. He talks about his love of AC/DC, his adult... | 1/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Glenn Wool - January 18, 2015 | Glenn Wool is baaaack! Both in studio and living in Vancouver. Well, Surrey, but that's a lot closer than England and Los Angeles. He's fitting right in, too, going for long walks around the seawall and taking yoga classes. We talk about immortality,... | 1/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Diana Bang - January 11, 2015 | Diana Bang is best known for her role as Sook, Kim Jong Un's propaganda minister, in the movie The Interview. But maybe you also recognize her for her work as Coffee Shop Server in No Clue, Barista in Miracle in Manhattan, or maybe even Market Cashier.. | 1/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ron Vaudry - January 4, 2015 | Ron Vaudry is a Canadian standup pioneer, in the game since 1979. He talks about an early foray across the frozen tundra back in 1982 with Mark Breslin and his stable of stoned comics, doing comedy at Foxy Boxing, his bad luck with competitions, his... | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe - December 28, 2014 | Harry Doupe returns for his annual year-in-comedy review. We start off with the old chestnuts: Canadian Comedy Awards and YYComedy Festival and quickly branch off to The Interview, Corner Gas: The Movie, and The Grand Seduction, move over to the year... | 1/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Matt Besser - December 21, 2014 | Matt Besser loves to talk about comedy. And we love to listen. The co-founder of Upright Citizen's Brigade (UCB) in New York is also a comic, first and foremost. In this episode, he throws out sports analogies aplenty, we learn what a Razorback is,... | 12/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ken Lawson - December 14, 2014 | Ken Lawson returns to walk us through some improv games and exercises. If you've ever considered taking improv courses, have a listen. At the very least, you'll come away more confident knowing you're better than the host of this show. | 12/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mark Forward - December 7, 2014 | Mark Forward opens up! The very private standup comic and actor gives What's So Funny? an exclusive about being canned from CBC-TV's Mr. D. And he talks about his sensitive childhood and how therapy helped him become less angry. It sounds so serious... | 12/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Darren Frost - November 30, 2014 | Darren Frost returns. Could this be the last time the Toronto comic is in Vancouver? Would he dare retire from comedy? These are questions we can't know the answer to. But he can ponder them, as he does in this episode, his fifth appearance on the... | 11/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mike MacDonald - November 16, 2014 | Mike MacDonald has been through a lot in the past two-and-a-half years. But as you can hear in this episode, he's back, baby. As sarcastic as ever! We talk about his bout with hepatitis C and subsequent liver transplant, mental illness, and heroin... | 11/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Orny Adams - November 23, 2014 | Orny Adams and I finally have our in-person tete-a-tete. After a story I wrote on him last year, Adams had some things he wanted cleared up and addressed. But it was all good and we had a very amiable conversation about all things comedy. We also... | 11/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Art Factora - November 9, 2014 | Art Factora is not hella Pinoy. He's just a regular, hard-working Filipino-Canadian standup comic with a day job as a producer in morning radio. But he stayed up late for us and told us about working joe jobs in between radio gigs. And he talked about.. | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Peter Greyy - November 2, 2014 | Peter Greyy may be the big boss man of the Seattle and San Francisco International Comedy Competitions, but when he's not doing that, he's also a performer himself. We talk about his early days deejaying, how a sudden break-up led to standup, his... | 11/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Michael Teigen - October 26, 2014 | Michael Teigen doesn't have much of a presence online so this will be your portal into the man. Learn about his love of animal movies, his high school musical career, his three years in New York working off-off-off-Broadway, his time spent in dinner... | 10/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevin Banner - October 19, 2014 | Kevin Banner has had a good year. But that doesn't stop his angst and self-loathing. We talk about his triumphs, being special, his bad tattoo, struggles with writing, cool comics, Robin Williams, supportive relatives, the Drewski dictionary, and of... | 10/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Alonzo Bodden - October 5, 2014 | Alonzo Bodden once dunked on my head. But I'm a big enough man to let bygones be bygones and invite him on my show. Not a big enough man to stop the dunk, though. We talk basketball, football, jazz, racism, Miley Cyrus, Condoleezza Rice, drugs, and... | 10/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dana Alexander - September 28, 2014 | Dana Alexander was the very first guest on this program back in 2004. A second episode a few years later has disappeared into the ether so this is officially her second appearance (even though it's really her third). We get caught up on her quest for... | 10/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sean Lecomber - September 21, 2014 | Sean Lecomber is a name you may not recognize, but you should. And not just because it sounds like Shaun Majumder. This episode has bonus material, thanks to an early morning call time. It's also a bit fractured. But that's part of its charm! Lecomber.. | 9/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Tim Rykert - September 14, 2014 | Tim Rykert joins the 5-timers' club with this appearance. And he finally has something to plug! If you've ever wondered who Jimmy the Bag was, this is the episode for you. Rykert's baby, the web series Who Is Jimmy the Bag?, is a mock-doc following... | 9/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Darcy Michael - September 7, 2014 | Darcy Michael returns to What's So Funny? as a star. Well, he's on a prime time network sitcom in Canada. Close enough. He talks about playing Gordon on CTV's Spun Out, his thoughts on playing to 17,000 people in an arena, and covering his legs in ink. | 9/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Denise Jones - August 31, 2014 | Denise Jones has come a long way since playing King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in grade seven. Now she's a Vancouver TheatreSports League vet who can be seen in the upcoming movie Preggoland. She talks about washing away her Kiss makeup with... | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Garrett Clark - August 24, 2014 | Garrett Clark may sound like an Aussie, but he's really one of us. He just lived down there in his formative years. Plus the accent helps him pick up chicks. Clark talks about being a teenager on TV and what it feels like to be cancelled at such a... | 9/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris Gordon - August 3, 2014 | Chris Gordon never can say goodbye, no, no, no, no. This is the episode that won't end, try as it might. Make a drinking game out of it: take a chug each time it's about to end. You'll pass out before it really does. If you manage to stay sober,... | 9/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Gerry Swallow - July 27, 2014 | Gerry Swallow returns to the evening zoo. In town working on a movie, the triple threat brainstorms a how-to book on screenwriting, discusses his upcoming novel, and mulls over a standup comeback. It's been 15 years since he sold his first screeplay... | 8/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Alicia Tobin - July 20, 2014 | Alicia Tobin is no good with numbers or names, but she's got a way with words, which she uses doing standup comedy and writing a humourous health blog. She opens up about her heartbreak and her jerk of an ex, growing up in Montreal, her dislike of... | 7/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Wes Barker - July 13, 2014 | Wes Barker is a stunt magician, whatever that is. He explains in this episode. Doesn't do any tricks, though, which is fine because magic doesn't really translate over the airwaves. But he talks about the importance of comedy in his act, naked... | 7/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ryan Lachance - June 29, 2014 | Ryan Lachance has been performing standup for 12 years so it's time we had him on the show. Lachance talks about the challenges of performing with cerebral palsy from a wheelchair, what gave him the nerve to get up on stage that first time (spoiler... | 7/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Graeme Duffy - June 22, 2014 | Graeme Duffy is not only one of the top improvisers in Vancouver, he's an actor and, it turns out, a fellow alumnus of Oak Bay high school. We bond over that and Duffy talks about kissing Colin Mochrie on the lips twice, being a bad waiter, Lev... | 7/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Iliza Shlesinger - May 25, 2014 | Iliza Shlesinger can't get enough of us. Or maybe it's the other way around. This is her third visit to the program. Run out of topics? Never. The woman's got an opinion on everything. We talked about her dating life, Judaism, hipsterism, and lots... | 6/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kyle Bottom - May 4, 2014 | Kyle Bottom is the last guest in the old What's So Funny? studios. Fitting seeing as Vancouver's Villain (as he likes to call himself) was on his way out of town forever. Or until September. We'll see how he likes Toronto. If you love anime, this is... | 6/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shirley Gnome - April 27, 2014 | Shirley Gnome and her guitar return after less than two months after her previous appearance. That's how good she is. She's got more new dirty ditties to sing. It's a seemingly endless supply of smut. It was totally hot. Possibly because the studio... | 6/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Donovan Patrick Mahoney - April 13, 2014 | Donovan Patrick Mahoney wasn't afraid to venture into our Downtown East Side studios. It's a neighbourhood he spent a lot of time in during his years as a heroin addict. He tells us his harrowing tale, from childhood to OD'ing to getting clean and... | 5/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ross Dauk - April 6, 2014 | Ross Dauk has been a long-time listener to What's So Funny? dating back to his days as a park ranger. But Ranger Ross is a standup comic now and a legitimate guest in his own right. Once Dauk spilt a full beer on me at a show but all is forgiven. We... | 4/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Shauna Johannesen and James Danderfer - March 2, 2014 | Shauna Johannesen and James Danderfer are the husband and wife team behind the hit Crazy8s short film, Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story. Shauna wrote the script and lyrics as well as starring in it, while James came up with the story and wrote all the... | 3/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest John Cullen - March 16, 2014 | John Cullen is a man with passions. He loves standup comedy, curling, teaching and music equally. And it shows in this episode. We review Bill Burr, talk about Shakespeare, sweeping, bad poetry, good magic, his comedian uncle, and first dates gone... | 3/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Mounties - March 9, 2014 | Mounties paid us a visit in this episode. Not the RCMP, but the Canadian supergroup featuring Hawksley Workman, Ryan Dahle, and Steve Bays. We talked about funny dads, memorizing comedy routines, the ugly side of the music business, Hall and Oates,... | 3/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kwasi Thomas - February 23, 2014 | Kwasi Thomas joins us to talk about growing up black in Canada. He also lists what he misses and doesn't miss about his hometown of Montreal, reminisces about the idyllic Trinidad, discusses performing drunk, and he proudly trumpets his love for... | 3/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shirley Gnome and guest host Dino Archie - February 16, 2014 | Shirley Gnome returns, this time with Dino Archie asking the questions. It's just like the old days of The Tonight Show when guest hosts would occasionally take over. Shirley and Dino break out the booze and have a rip-roaring good time, taking jabs... | 3/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mike Storck - February 9, 2014 | Mike Storck returns for his third visit to our studios. It's a long way from Baltimore. He missed us in 2013 for some unknown reason. The whole year was a bit of a haze for him. He talks about being at a crossroads in his career, the difference... | 2/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson - January 19, 2014 | Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson, aka Peter'N'Chris, are our first guests of 2014. The sketch duo talk about auditioning for theatre school, creating sketches through Skype, preparing for the upcoming (now past) Vancouver Sketch Festival, and brainstorm.. | 2/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe - January 26, 2014 | Harry Doupe returns for his fourth – or is it fifth? – appearance on What's So Funny? He's also returned home to his beloved British Columbia. In this episode, he tells stories about Paula Poundstone, Mike Bullard, Robbie Robertson, Burton... | 1/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ed Hill - December 8, 2013 | Ed Hill has two masters degrees and a performance degree in piano, yet chooses to schlep himself all over the map performing standup. It's like he's on permanent vacation. But that's something that was instilled in him early. Listening to him describe.. | 12/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Marion Grodin - December 15, 2013 | Marion Grodin has been through a lot: drugs, cancer, divorce. But she's also had lots of fun. The New York standup talks about it all, and about growing up the daughter of beloved actor Charles Grodin. To get the full story, though, you'll have to buy.. | 12/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Alex Nussbaum - December 1, 2013 | Alex Nussbaum wants to blow this popsicle stand of a country for the land of opportunity down south. The unilingual Toronto standup who has supplied silly voices for cartoons and written for children's television in Los Angeles talks about... | 12/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dave Martin - November 17, 2013 | With Dave Martin, usually anything goes. But on this episode we find out what's so funny when the Toronto comic visits What's So Funny? to discuss his own radio show/podcast, Anything Goes. Get it? See what we did there? We also talk about the great... | 11/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ian Harris - November 10, 2013 | Ian Harris can impersonate the most obscure celebrities... and doesn't! At least not anymore. He's got more important things to talk about, like why people are so damn gullible. We talk rationally and skeptically about psychics, ghosts, UFO's, and... | 11/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Adam Ray - November 3, 2013 | Adam Ray is one lucky dog. Once a self-described fat kid feasting on Kit-Kat bars and burritos, now he's getting studly roles in major motion pictures motor boating the likes of Sandra Bullock. It's a far cry from his job giving tours at Universal... | 11/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Godfrey - October 27, 2013 | Godfrey takes issue with comedy critics in this highly entertaining episode. Once that bit of nastiness is resolved, we bond over a fondness for old TV series and Rich Little. And Godfrey does his best Rich Little, impersonating more than a dozen... | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Alan Zweig - October 20, 2013 | Alan Zweig is more than just a man in a mirror. The Toronto filmmaker talks to us face to face about his unsuccessful life making movies and how he stumbled upon his successful life making documentaries. His latest, When Jews Were Funny, just won Best.. | 10/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Michael Gelbart - October 13, 2013 | Michael Gelbart got his big break on Speaker's Corner...okay, that's not true but I'd like to believe it. The Toronto comic has been living in Los Angeles for a while now where he writes for TV, pens novels, performs standup, and unsuccessfully dates... | 10/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dave Nystrom - October 6, 2013 | Dave Nystrom returns to his pseudo-hometown and tells us all about life in sunny Southern Cal. Dave's last visit to our show was way back in 2004 so we had lots of catching up to do. He talks about the funny looks he gets in LA when people see his... | 10/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Brian Regan - September 29, 2013 | Brian Regan is a very funny man (as the song goes). What song? I've sampled a bit at the beginning of this episode. Regan was kind enough to talk to What's So Funny? prior to his show in Vancouver. We spoke to Dr. Regan for just over 30 minutes about... | 10/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ryan Hamilton - September 22, 2013 | Ryan Hamilton ventures into our studio for the first time despite not being asked by a teacher. It seems he can never say no to a teacher. He'll explain that as well as talk about other Ryan Hamiltons, discuss peddling booze and his favourite... | 10/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Anthony - September 15, 2013 | Paul Anthony goes waaaay back with Arsenio Hall. But it was an unrequited love, it turns out. We get busy talking about his experience on the new Arsenio Hall show, his macabre thoughts on becoming a dad, his unease at performing standup, and... | 9/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ewan Currie - September 8, 2013 | Ewan Currie of The Sheepdogs has the rough-hewn exterior of a rock star but the sensitive interior of a jazz musician. That's where we bonded. We spoke to the former Rolling Stone cover boy about his Aussie beginnings, band squabbles, shampoo, Tim... | 9/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jeff McEnery - September 1, 2013 | Jeff McEnery has spent the last two years living in Vancouver. We meet for the first time and he tells us he's moving back to Toronto in a couple of months. That's a fine how-do-you-do. The rhubarb genius from Acton tells us about avoiding hard labour.. | 9/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays - August 4, 2013 | Steve Bays, the raw dog, returns for his annual check-up. He tells us why he's averse to the definite article, reveals his anxiety dreams, explains why it's Mad over Cracked every time, brainstorms potential band names and famous Gords, and names his... | 8/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kyle Bottom - June 23, 2013 | Kyle Bottom makes his solo debut on What's So Funny? We relive the time I busted his balls, him dancing in front of Pete Holmes, a horrible set that led him to step away from comedy for 3.5 years, and his dreams of an all-heckle comedy show. | 8/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevin Foxx - June 16, 2013 | Kevin Foxx teases me about our Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Podcast. He also explains astrology and sets a show record for most number of c-words dropped in a single episode. | 7/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dave Merheje - June 2, 2013 | Dave Merheje developed his comedy on the mean streets of Detroit. Throughout his forays down south, the Windsor native was given some tough love by the border guards and had a couple of run-ins with firearms. The payoff? Winning the Irwin Barker... | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Darrin Rose - May 19, 2013 | Darrin Rose is more than just a Jason Sudeikis lookalike. The likeable standup, actor, writer and host of the Match Game talks about playing the UK, boozing it up on TV, running his own software company, and trying to get secrets out of his... | 5/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mark Lieren-Young - May 12, 2013 | Mark Leiren-Young is a playwright, journalist, comedian and trained singer. We talk to the Leacock Award winner for Never Shoot a Stampede Queen about all those things, including crime in Williams Lake, BC, writing quickly,cheap shots in reviews, and... | 5/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shaun Majumder - May 5, 2013 | Shaun Majumder had never done a podcast prior to this momentous episode. Go figure. In it, he talks about comedy workshops, gives us a glimpse into the psyches of his fellow Newfoundlanders, makes the case for optimism, tells us why acting isn't as... | 5/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Marcus Ryan - April 28, 2013 | Marcus Ryan has performed in 25 countries. In this episode, I try to get him to settle down. Pick a country and stick to it. But the Aussie standup's got a bad case of wanderlust. So instead we hear about his travels and I troll his tweets and offer... | 5/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Matt Davis - April 14, 2013 | Matt Davis brings his southern charm to What's So Funny? The Alabama boy talks about the history of the south, dressing for success, starting stand-up at 17, playing the Middle East, reading, and the meaning of offence. | 4/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Karen O'Keefe - March 31, 2013 | Karen O'Keefe finally got to play Vancouver so we scooped her up to commemorate the big weekend. The Toronto-based Yellowknife native teaches us as all about the Northwest Territories and discusses her dysfunctions, which may or may not include being... | 4/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Darren Frost and Kenny Robinson - March 24, 2013 | Darren Frost and Kenny Robinson are together again for the first time. The first time on What's So Funny?, that is. They've each been solo guests before but now that they're touring the country as Rank and Vile, we thought we'd talk to them together... | 4/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Hari Kondabolu - March 10, 2013 | Hari Kondabolu picked a good time to be a comedian. Thirty years ago there was no place for him in show business. And not only because he was just a newborn 30 years ago. In this episode, we deconstruct Hari and talk about progressive comedy, take... | 3/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Nelson Giles - March 3, 2013 | Nelson Giles is a veteran Canadian standup comic who's been away from the scene for over a year. But he's back. And he's a new person. Largely because he dropped 60 pounds. He talks about the excitement of getting back on the stage, and what led him... | 3/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Dino Archie and Sunee Dhaliwal - February 24, 2013 | Dino Archie and Sunee Dhaliwal are two amigos on the Vancouver stand-up scene. In this most lively of episodes, the Indo-Canadian Dhaliwal acts as translator for the African-American Archie to the old white guy host. Together this United Nations of a... | 3/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Gerry Swallow - February 10, 2013 | Gerry Swallow makes his triumphant return to What's So Funny? after a 7.5 year absence. The former stand-up comic has been busy in the interim penning novels and screenplays. On the episode we talk about them, as well as about a confrontation with... | 2/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kyle Jones - February 3, 2013 | Kyle Jones joins us in studio half-cut after eight hours of hosting a Super Bowl party. The Little Engine That Couldn't, as he describes himself, talks about being called fat, being one of Vancouver's most eligible bachelors, working with strippers,... | 2/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Monica Hamburg - January 27, 2013 | Monica Hamburg is a vulgarian. Of that there is no doubt. She's also the host of the Dazed and Convicted podcast. In this episode, we learn about her job as a projectionist in a porn theatre/bakery in Montreal. It's no wonder she describes herself as... | 2/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Shirley Gnome - January 20, 2013 | Shirley Gnome has got the voice of an angel with the thoughts of a devilish, well, gnome. The c*untry singer brings her boyfriend Martin to the studio and sings some of the sweetest, filthiest songs you'll ever hear all without the benefit of... | 2/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Hooper - January 13, 2013 | Paul Hooper, sans duck, managed to leave his hotel room and take public transportation to join us in studio for this revealing look inside his fragile existence. We talk about his love of Kenny Loggins, his hate of Pitbull, his refusal to pander,... | 1/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Nate Bargatze - December 16, 2012 | Nate Bargatze pulls back the curtain on his act, revealing what's true and what's exaggerated. The Nashville native also lauds Lasik surgery, stews over being cut from his high school basketball team, and shows some well-deserved love for Sinbad. | 12/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Richard Lett - December 9, 2012 | Richard Lett has visited us many, many times, with varying degrees of sobriety. We thought this was his sixth appearance with us, but further digging has revealed it's actually his seventh. Either way, it may be the best one yet. At least the most... | 12/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Brent Butt - December 2, 2012 | Brent Butt got the seven-year itch and finally made a return visit to What's So Funny? and he was on top of his game, as usual. Besides reminiscing about Corner Gas and Hiccups, Butt talks about his new feature film, No Clue. Plus we discuss bad... | 12/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kevin Banner - November 25, 2012 | Kevin Banner makes his What's So Funny? debut and tells us about his lady-soft hands, travelling with giant novelty cheques, going undefeated between the ropes, and being snubbed by his comedy hero. This episode brought to you by Sooke Tourism. | 12/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Lori Gibbs - November 18, 2012 | Lori Gibbs returns to her hometown to talk about hugs, her big head, judging comedy, gardening, a lack of hockey knowledge, Iliza Shlesinger, piano training, motivational speaking, and weight loss. Plus I offer a revolutionary approach to fighting... | 11/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Myq Kaplan - October 28, 2012 | Myq Kaplan lives on the other side of the continent, but provides a lesson in the immediacy of the internet. Turns out even New York comics can read snarky blogs based in little old Vancouver. Who knew?! Myq (pronounced Mai-k) also talks about his... | 11/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Gerald Gerald Geraldson - October 21, 2012 | Gerald Gerald Geraldson was particularly creepy on this visit to the What's So Funny? studios, and that ain't easy. He talked about rolling a woman up in a carpet, eating human flesh and lifting weights with severed heads. Add to that, the horror... | 10/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Lynn Shawcroft - October 14, 2012 | Lynn Shawcroft is more than just the widow of Mitch Hedberg. She's also a comic in her own right. Who knew she got a development deal from an American network long before she met Mitch? I didn't. She reveals that, plus lots of talk about the great... | 10/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Tim Rykert - October 7, 2012 | Tim Rykert comes out of semi-retirement to join us in studio. He talks about walking a room on a cruise ship, dishes dirt on his buddy Michael Buble, waxes poetic about Canadian television, and opines on comedy competitions. | 10/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Iliza Shlesinger - September 30, 2012 | Iliza Shlesinger is no relationship expert, but she plays one on TV. Well, she hosts a dating show. We talk with her about that, what she looks for in a guy, why women are sometimes nutso, and if she'll ever be not known for winning Last Comic... | 10/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays - September 23, 2012 | Steve Bays shatters the What's So Funny? record recently set with Norm Macdonald's 90-minute extravaganza by doing him 15 minutes better. This 1 hour 45 minute epic was even cut down by 15 minutes from the radio version. We talked mood lighting,... | 9/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sean Patrick Shaul - September 9, 2012 | Sean Patrick Shaul suffers from crippling stage fright. So what to do about it? Why, get up on stage in Los Angeles and give stand-up comedy a whirl, of course. And film it. Along the way, he spoke to about 40 comics from all over North America about... | 9/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests The Comic Strippers - September 2, 2012 | The Comic Strippers flaunt their physiques all over this episode. You'll have to use your imagination, though, as Roman Danylo, Ken Lawson and Chris Casillan talk about shower scenes, Ping-Pong balls and lap dances while performing improv comedy. But... | 9/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Graham Clark - August 12, 2012 | Graham Clark makes his 11th appearance on What's So Funny?, fresh off (well, six days, anyway) a nine-hour plane ride for a single gig. He passes along some rules for facial hair, regales us with tales from jolly old England, and reveals how handy he... | 9/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Lee Camp - July 8, 2012 | Lee Camp is a political animal. But he takes his comedy very seriously. In this episode, he tells us he was a stand-up comic long before he got a social conscience. It's an hour of clarity from the preeminent political comedian of his generation. | 7/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dwight Slade - July 1, 2012 | Dwight Slade returns to What's So Funny? to talk about death, drinking, aging, comedic relevance, forgotten Tonight Show comedians, cruise ships and his dear, departed friend, the legendary Bill Hicks. Brought to you from the third precinct of... | 7/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests The Wet Spots - June 24, 2012 | The Wet Spots return to What's So Funny? after a seven-year absence. Cass King and John Woods fill us in on their successes since we last talked. They've played the world, mounted a full-on burlesque musical, and had an American Nipple-gate experience.. | 7/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe - June 17, 2012 | Harry Doupe returns! The veteran BC comic was back in his home province for a high school reunion and some comedy dates so of course we invited him back on. Never short on opinions, Harry takes on the Calgary comedy fest and the Canadian Comedy... | 6/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Jay Ono and Pearce Visser - June 10, 2012 | Jay Ono and Pearce Visser drop by the What's So Funny? studios to talk about the Vancouver TheatreSports League. We learn how Ono taught Visser how to bomb on stage, what Visser shoved up his ass long ago, and as an added bonus Broken Ankle Guy makes... | 6/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Nikki Glaser - June 3, 2012 | Nikki Glaser's act may be like the Vagina Monologues, but in this episode of What's So Funny?, she gets serious about her past struggles. We talk about her eating disorder, argue about the deliciousness of alcohol, and she talks about nannying for a... | 6/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Gilbert Gottfried - May 27, 2012 | Gilbert Gottfried's career has been long and varied. But to hear him talk about it, it's always on the verge of ending. But whatever he's being fired from, be it Saturday Night Live or the Aflac Duck commercials, he's always got stand-up comedy and... | 6/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Katie-Ellen Humphries - May 20, 2012 | Katie-Ellen Humphries is true southern belle. The south of Canada, but still. In her first appearance on What's So Funny?, Miss Katie-Ellen talked about being a fat weirdo elite athlete, a super gross young person, and a wicked cute heartbreaker as a... | 5/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ivan Decker - May 13, 2012 | Ivan Decker may have eschewed university for clown college, but the kid knows his science – at least to a third grade level. We also talk about his high school musical career and his fear of spiders. | 5/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Baron Vaughn - May 6, 2012 | Baron Vaughn gives a clinic on how to be a fantastic podcast guest. The energetic Fairly Legal star talks about his rain-induced depression, actor's motivation, Shakespeare, farts and not being accepted by the black comedy community. And along the way.. | 5/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Glen Foster - April 22, 2012 | Glen Foster has been a mainstay on the Canadian comedy scene for eons. He talks about being the oldest guy in the room, being perceived as a right winger, human rights tribunals, and mentoring young comics. | 4/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ari Shaffir - April 15, 2012 | Ari Shaffir was once a pious young seminary student. Now look at him, eating bacon and turning off lights willy-nilly. Ari talks about losing his religion on this elongated episode. Other topics under discussion: a recent review of his act, faking it... | 4/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sunee Dhaliwal - April 8, 2012 | Sunee Dhaliwal returns – and on time this time! He came armed with a new hand injury and told us about the highs and lows of 2011 and why lack of driver waving etiquette gives him road rage. | 4/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mark Breslin - April 1, 2012 | Mark Breslin is putting the imp back in impresario. He talks about opening a new Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club in Vancouver, his relationship with Sam Kinison and critiques his own performance as a stand-up comic from 25 years ago. | 4/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Jay Brown and Patrick Maliha - March 25, 2012 | Jay Brown and Patrick Maliha have never been friends. They're still not, but they at least came to some kind of agreement and mutual respect on this, the most awkward episode in What's So Funny? history. | 4/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris James - March 18, 2012 | Chris James reveals how he stays so trim, how he was discovered by Johnny Scoop, fills us in on his dreams and goals, tells us why he chose his stage name and why he enjoys trolling Facebook. | 4/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Hooper - March 4, 2012 | Paul Hooper's OCD finally got him to Canada. But his OCD also contributed to his earlier banishment. The North Carolina native talks about his eight years as a blackout drunk, picking up stray pieces of paper, checking out of hotels and why he'll... | 3/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Mike Storck - February 26, 2012 | Mike Storck flew all the way from Baltimore to be with us. We talked about actors masking as comedians, the definition of alternative comedy, and where the comedy boom is heading. | 3/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Rob Mailloux - February 19, 2012 | Rob Mailloux has visited Vancouver before, opening up for Doug Stanhope and Jim Jefferies. But this is the first time the Torontonian has graced the WSF? studios. We talk about his eating disorders, an unfortunate early stage name, going up against... | 3/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Will Davis - February 12, 2012 | Will Davis makes his annual visit to What's So Funny? to talk about his baby: the Vancouver ComedyFest and all the acts he booked this year. And we'll throw around some American slang while we're at it. | 2/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest David DJ Roy - February 5, 2012 | David DJ Roy breaks his WSF? cherry in this episode, and talks about comedy riots, selling drugs, homelessness, hitchhiking, gang bangs and the porn industry. Er, I mean "adult film" industry. | 2/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Darcy Michael - January 29, 2012 | Darcy Michael comes out on WSF?! Fresh off the Todd Glass WTF episode, Vancouver stand-up Darcy Michael reveals he is ... gayer than ever, in large part because he's lost 96 pounds (and counting) and has shaved off his butch beard. We talk about how a.. | 2/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kliph Nesteroff - January 22, 2012 | Kliph Nesteroff is a young guy with an old soul. He doesn't like being labelled a historian, but he is the foremost chronicler of classic show business. In this epic episode, Kliph recounts conversations he's had with the likes of Dick Cavett, Shecky... | 1/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Glenn Wool - January 8, 2012 | Glenn Wool missed his first scheduled visit to the show after he blew out his voice box but made good on the second. He spent the year resting his vocal cords and came in sounding smooth as silk... Or not. But he did talk. We discussed humming, overly.. | 1/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dylan Rhymer - January 1, 2012 | Dylan Rhymer became our first guest of 2012. In celebration, we went overtime. But Dylan's always got lots to talk about. In this case, we talk about old-time radio, religiosity, bike lanes, parliamentary a*****es, breastfeeding, and North Korea. And... | 1/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe - December 18, 2011 | 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... | 12/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dino Archie - December 11, 2011 | Dino Archie returns. Not only returns to the studio, but returns the favour when he puts host Guy MacPherson on the hotseat. He comes prepared for battle and fires away while the unsuspecting host stumbles and stammers. But in the end, they give each... | 12/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Shirley - December 4, 2011 | Paul Shirley may not have been a force in the NBA, but at least he played in it. He's moved on to more rewarding, if not higher paying, work as a writer. We talk about him being beat up by Arcade Fire's frontman Win Butler, the concept of funny as it... | 12/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen - November 27, 2011 | Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen are national treasures. We spend the first half of the show reminiscing about the good old days, and the last half talking about end-of-the-world scenarios as Bob reads from his new book, Mayan Horror: How to Survive the.. | 12/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Jason Bryden - November 20, 2011 | Jason Bryden soberly discusses fatherhood, takes on Doug Stanhope, and relates how he told Marc Maron he was a dick. Plus we get to know the high school version of JB and learn what profession his father suggested he go into. It's a cram-packed,... | 11/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Chris Gaskin - November 6, 2011 | Chris Gaskin talks about his two open heart surgeries, looking young, bombing on TV in Toronto, and his association and affiliation with professional wrestling. | 11/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Burgess - October 30, 2011 | Steve Burgess may have been a juvenile delinquent, but he didn't murder his mother. Instead, he wrote a loving – and funny – tribute to her, Who Killed Mom? We discuss the book, his early career spinning Lionel Richie discs, and the underrated... | 11/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sean Emeny - October 16, 2011 | Sean Emeny reveals lots in this episode. Who knew he was a California surfer dude at heart? Who knew he had a career in the music industry before becoming the People's Champion in stand-up comedy? Who knew he doesn't close his eyes on stage? Find out... | 10/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Ken Lawson - October 9, 2011 | Ken Lawson is an actor, improviser and heavy metal musician. Guess which one he gets grief about in this his first appearance on WSF? He also reveals what he is referred to by his nephew, gives us a lesson in improvising, and relates how Amy Poehler... | 10/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Diana Frances - October 2, 2011 | Diana Frances makes her first solo appearance on WSF? after guesting with others numerous times before. She talks about curling up into a ball on cruise ships, being stood up, and getting splooged on by a giant tapioca-and-milk-spewing cock. | 10/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Dino Archie - September 25, 2011 | Dino Archie finally managed to make it in to the studios of What's So Funny? after two failed attempts. After giving him hell, we get down to business of getting to know how the California native wound up in sunny Vancouver performing at stand-up... | 10/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kaitlin Fontana - September 18, 2011 | Kaitlin Fontana not only is an improv and sketch performer, she's an award-winning journalist – we get to the bottom of what exactly those awards were - she's also a freakin' author with the release of her first book, Fresh at Twenty: The Oral... | 9/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Adam Pateman - September 11, 2011 | Adam Pateman may have spent the past two years living in the Big Apple, but he's still a Delta boy at heart. In this episode, recorded on 9/11/11 he lets us in on his secret talents and tells us of his prophetic dreams on 9/11/01. Along the way, comic.. | 9/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Tanyalee Davis - September 4, 2011 | Tanyalee Davis finally managed to find time to drop by our studio. The 3-foot-6 dynamo talks about her early days working with prisoners, playing a leprechaun, and has a mid-life crisis right in the middle of the show. We also find out who's a bigger... | 9/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Marcus Ryan - August 7, 2011 | Aussie Marcus Ryan is a wandering soul. His latest travels brought him to our shores after a happy 3-hour performance in Phnom Penh. We talk about Canadians, performing in Vegas, and our mutual reverence of Rolf Harris. | 9/18/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Blaine Thurier - August 21, 2011 | Blaine Thurier is a rock star by day, filmmaker by night. Or something like that. The keyboard/synth player for the New Pornographers drops by to talk about his new film, A Gun to the Head, and along the way talks about critics, comic strips,... | 9/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Roy Zimmerman - July 24, 2011 | Roy Zimmerman is the best musical political satirist since Tom Lehrer. And just as good. We talk about music, lefty politics, Oliver North and Ray Stevens. Along the way, we listen to a few Zimmerman classics. | 7/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Dave Burleigh and Richard Kiss - July 17, 2011 | From Vegas, Dave Burleigh discusses the stigma of doing impressions, the genesis of a Las Vegas show, and why comedy and breakfast don't go together. Along the way, we're joined by former WSF? guest and new Las Vegas resident Richard Kiss. | 7/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Brian McKim - July 10, 2011 | Brian McKim is one half of the publishing tandem at sheckymagazine.com (his wife, and fellow stand-up Traci Skene is the other half). We talked with Brian in the bar at Hooter's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas about the mag, comedy controversies, street.. | 7/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Graham Clark and Dave Shumka - July 03, 2011 | Graham Clark and Dave Shumka are together again for the first time on What's So Funny? The co-hosts of Stop Podcasting Yourself drop by to speak directly to their bumpers and try to break the record of phone-ins on WSF? Along the way, we talk beard... | 7/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Lorne Cardinal and Monique Hurteau - June 26, 2011 | Lorne Cardinal and Monique Hurteau talk about their individual and collective careers. Cardinal, best known as Sergeant Davis Quinton on Corner Gas, tells us how portraying a cop on TV has its privileges but when he's on the rugby pitch it has its... | 7/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Nathan Burton and Mac King - June 19, 2011 | Magicians Nathan Burton and Mac King are mainstays on the Las Vegas scene. What's So Funny? travelled to Sin City and spoke to the two prestidigitators in separate interviews. We discussed comedy, tricks gone wrong and their respective TV exposure. In.. | 6/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Peter New and Ken Hegan - June 12, 2011 | Peter New and Ken Hegan talk about becoming stars. The actor/writer and writer/filmmaker recently hit Hollywood and discuss their visit, among other topics all served with a banter of sparkling wit. It had been seven years since New last visited the... | 6/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Andrew Barber - June 5, 2011 | Andrew Barber is in a bind. He's best known for his viral videos as crazed Boston Bruins' fan, Greg. But in his heart, the Vancouver Canucks are number one. We talk about his dilemma and about many of his other alter egos. | 6/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sara Bynoe - May 29, 2011 | Sara Bynoe knows crap. Whether it's teen poetry and journal entries or stinky prose from celebrities and professional authors, Bynoe relishes it. She reads us a few samples of the truly awful. We also talk about animal hoarding and how to pick up... | 6/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Joe Avati - May 22, 2011 | Joe Avati called it in on this episode. Literally. This "classic" lost show dates back to 2005 and was recently found while going through the vaults. The Italo-Aussie comic became our first phone guest on this 40th edition of What's So Funny? We also... | 6/4/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Richard Lett - May 22, 2011 | Richard Lett returns to Vancouver kinder and gentler from his new home in Toronto for his sixth appearance on What's So Funny? He discusses his newfound sobriety and what led him to it. | 5/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Bill Reiter - May 15, 2011 | Bill Reiter crawls out from the Sasquatch cave to talk about his legendary career. Along the way I surprise him with a biographical fact, he lays a smackdown on the Air Farce from his vantage point in Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show, and... | 5/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sam Easton - May 8, 2011 | Sam Easton returns after a six-year absence and talks about his transition from man-child to man-man, his relationship with the late Irwin Barker (draw your own conclusions) and who's the most disappointing famous comedian he's ever seen. | 5/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest James Danderfer - May 1, 2011 | James Danderfer adds a touch of class to the show. The jazz clarinetist recounts his days working with a very famous comedian on a cruise ship and claims jazz has a sense of humour. We also listen to clips from Paul F. Tompkins, the Fast Show, Martin... | 5/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Kyle Bottom and special co-host Scott McLean - April 17, 2011 | Kyle Bottom is specially selected by special co-host Scott McLean to guest on What's So Funny? Kyle talks about bombing (figuratively) and almost dying (literally) while Scott relives his magical ten hours with podcaster extraordinaire Paul F. Tompkins. | 4/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? Comedy Roundtable with guests Chuck Byrn, Dylan Rhymer, Steve Bays and Toby Hargrave - April 10, 2011 | The Comedy Round-Table reconvenes with Chuck Byrn, Dylan Rhymer, Steve Bays and Toby Hargrave. Is Vancouver a No Fun City? How superstitious are performers? What comedy legend doesn't deserve legend status? Who are some comedic guilty pleasures? We... | 4/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Steve Bays - April 3, 2011 | Steve Bays took time out from his busy rock-n-roll lifestyle (he's the lead singer of Hot Hot Heat) to jam with his favourite comedy podcast. He tells us what Letterman and Kimmel are really like and who the funniest musician he's met is. | 4/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guests Lisa Lampanelli & Chris Porter - March 27, 2011 | A double-whammy: Lisa Lampanelli chats on the phone from NYC about the right way of being mean, and Chris Porter weighs in on alt-comics and hipster rooms. Two for the price of none! | 4/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Sunee Dhaliwal - March 20, 2011 | Sunee Dhaliwal called five minutes before airtime saying he'd be late. Car trouble was the excuse, which I doubted, and said so, not knowing Sunee was listening on his drive to the studio. So he calls in to defend his honour and most of the show is... | 4/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's So Funny? with guest Paul Myrehaug - March 13, 2011 | Paul Myrehaug is a thrill-seeker who loves to sleep. The Alberta native talks about getting suspended from WestJet for being late and itemizes his various longboarding, snowboarding and winter driving accidents. He also explains why he loves... | 4/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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