It's been a tough calendar year, with the deaths of former WSF? guests Norm Macdonald and Matt Billon. We lost another one this weekend when Bob Saget passed away at the age of 65. He was a super guy and we were lucky to have him guest with us in September 2020.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Podcast episode 597ish: Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard stops by the What's So Funny? virtual studio on her Canadian tour. We talk about the real names of Biblical characters, making humanity great again, gender fluidity, and gaming the system.
Friday, September 17, 2021
Norm Macdonald repeat from 2012
Norm Macdonald was just the greatest guest... and the greatest guy. In this, our most-listened-to episode, we had a semi-serious (okay, almost completely serious) 1.5 hour conversation ranging from family to science to God to comedy to literature to death to cancer. Some of it is especially hard to listen to now that he's gone. Recorded in 2012.
Monday, May 10, 2021
Podcast episode 596ish: Darcy Michael
Darcy Michael makes his sixth appearance on the program. The break-out star of the Halifax Comedy Festival explains Tik Tok to us, talks about his High School Sucked podcast, we discuss who'd make the best Jeopardy host, and the host promises to get a new computer.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Podcast episode 595ish: Jacob Samuel
Jacob Samuel has had a great year, Covid be damned. His album, Horse Power, was nominated for a Juno Award. We talk to him about it, jokes, Zoom, cats and dogs, and Larry Sanders. Plus we play a track from his album – it's legit funny.
Monday, March 8, 2021
Podcast episode 594ish: Jackie Kashian
Jackie Kashian has us in the palm of her hand in this episode. The former Wisconite comedian and host of two podcasts dorks out on The Dork Forest, extols the benefits of Zoom standup, talks of Kinison, Rickles, Burr and Bamford, and tells us where she got her optimism from.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Podcast episode 593ish: Michael Teigen
Michael Teigen joins us from his cabin but it was the host's computer in civilization that wonked out for half the show. Still, we get unfiltered Teigen, which is always fun. He's an actor with 94 (count 'em... I did) imdb credits and a couple more coming soon. And he's a mainstay on the Vancouver improv scene. We talk about life without social media, William Shatner, Luke Perry, Bruno Kirby, and donating a kidney.
Monday, February 8, 2021
Podcast episode 592ish: Jimmy Pardo
Jimmy Pardo lives up to his long-running podcast's name. The guy really is never not funny. In this episode, we relive his glory days doing community theatre, debate the term 'yacht rock', inform him on some great Canadian bands, draw a connection between Woody Allen and Chekov, discuss the proper way to hold a bass, and talk about his smart mouth in high school.
Monday, February 1, 2021
Podcast episode 591ish: Sean Lecomber
Sean Lecomber has been with us from his hotel room, the host's car, and now from the comfort of his home in Alberta. He doesn't care how you pronounce his name. The stay-at-home dad talks about what he has in common with Ricky Gervais, Derek Edwards, and Amy Schumer, and why he prefers doing a podcast to doing standup. And more, of course.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Podcast episode 590ish: Peter Kelamis
Peter Kelamis was last with us in 2010. We know him mostly as a standup comic but most of his work these days comes from acting. We talk about how Greek he is, Hallmark movies, voice acting, cosplay, Robin Williams, and Dane Cook.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Podcast episode 589ish: Jon Dore
Jon Dore becomes the first guest of 2021 (we're a little late getting started). And what a great guest he is. He speaks with us from his home in Juneau, Alaska. He's here to shill his new TV program called Humour Resources with Jon Dore on CBC, but we also talk about his job in a butcher shop, his best memory at the Ottawa Bluesfest, his similarities to Chris Elliott, and we relive an old tweet of his.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Crunching the numbers: 2020 edition
Well, here we are. A couple weeks into 2021. So far it hasn't looked much different from most of 2020, unfortunately. We haven't recorded a new show in ages, but we haven't gone away. We'll ease into the new year soon. Meanwhile, as is our tradition, we look back at our guests from the last year. We haven't done this since our first year in 2004, but we have records for the last 12 years. Here's what it boils down to:
- in 2009, we did 42 shows
- in 2010, we slipped to 38 shows
- in 2011, we leapt to 44 shows with 53 guests
- in 2012, we did 41 shows with 47 guests
- in 2013, we did 35 shows with 37 guests
- in 2014, we did 36 shows with 39 guests
- in 2015, we did 36 shows with 40 guests
- in 2016, we did 32 shows with 33 guests
- in 2017, we did 36 shows with 37 guests
- in 2018, we did 37 shows with 39 guests
- in 2019, we clocked in at 35 shows with 37 guests.
It's perhaps no surprise that 2020 was on the low end in shows and guests, but it wasn't the lowest. So that's good news, considering the challenges. Drum roll, please:
- in 2020, we did 34 shows with a total of 35 guests.
As you can see, 2016 was the low.
For you math nerds: Our mean is 37 shows. Our mode is 36. Our median is 36.5.
Thanks to the following guests we welcomed either in person or through the wonders of modern technology:
- Jimmy Shubert
- Jon Bryant
- Lars Callieou
- Andrea Jin
- Eddie Ifft
- Ed Hill
- Paul Myrehaug
- Damonde Tschritter
- Carl Turnbull
- Eddie Brill
- Dwight Slade
- Marcus Ryan
- Michael Gelbart
- Colin Mochrie
- Bonnie McFarlane
- Lachlan Patterson
- Darren Frost
- Ellyn Marie Marsh
- Ron James
- Dave Hill
- Sugar Sammy
- Derek Edwards
- bbno$
- Jeremy Hotz
- Shirley Gnome
- Ian Bagg
- Bob Saget
- Mike Wilmot
- Blaine Thurier
- Stuart Jones
- Kenny Robinson
- Dylan Rheimer
- Brian Aylward
- Todd Van Allen
Monday, November 16, 2020
Podcast episode 588ish: Todd Van Allen
Todd Van Allen isn't above any pub in this episode. Todd is the host of one of the longest-running podcasts in the country, but we clear up that it isn't THE longest-running (ahem). We talk about butterflies, magic, cable access stardom, math, ICQ, voice-over work, and approaching celebrities.
Monday, November 9, 2020
Podcast episode 587ish: Brian Aylward
Brian Aylward is big in Asia. But at 6-3 and 260 pounds, he's pretty big in all 28 countries he performed in. We speak to him from his home in Bangkok where he is convalescing from a scary motorcycle accident. The Newfoundlander and former Canadian Comedy Award winner has a new special, aptly titled Big in Asia, which he filmed in front of locals in Mongolia.
Check out the trailer for his special on YouTube.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Podcast episode 586ish: Dylan Rhymer
Dylan Rhymer, the old man of comedy, returns to the program in his 25th year of doing standup – even if he didn't do a whole lot of standup this past year. But he's okay with that. In this episode, we talk about Friday the 13th, watching movies all day and night for charity and fun, various other scary movies, his uncanny hack impersonations, and his State of the Week satire site. This episode is with 50 percent less Sam Tonning!
Monday, October 26, 2020
Podcast episode 585ish: Kenny Robinson
Kenny Robinson is on the road again, bringing his special brand of blue comedy to the socially-distanced comedy clubs around the country. Yet he very thoughtfully censored himself in this episode. We talked about his early years in Chicago and Winnipeg, his brushes with racism in Canada, thoughts on a young Arsenio Hall, cheap millionaires trying to save eight bucks., and working swingers conventions.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Podcast episode 584ish: Stuart Jones
Stuart Jones, the pride of Rutland, joins us for his second go-round on the program. We talk all about his new album, "By The Slice" on 604 Records. We also get into universities vs colleges, Christopher Cross, and tattoos.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Podcast episode 583ish: Blaine Thurier
Blaine Thurier returns to the show after a nine year absence. He reveals the news (to us) that he's no longer in New Pornographers after a nice two-decade run. We also talk about his evangelical background, classical music, time machines, and Teen Lust, among other things.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Podcast episode 582ish: Mike Wilmot
Mike Wilmot returns 13 years after his first appearance on the show. It's a new Uncle Mike now. He's lost a ton of weight, but is as filthy (and funny) as ever. We had a lot of fun on this one talking about lightweight drinkers, industry showcases, fears, Pete Tong, and, of course, his father's penis. Recorded September 22, 2020.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Podcast episode 581ish: Bob Saget
I had spoken with Bob Saget three other times over the years, but he had never done the show. He can cross that off his bucket list now. It's always a wild ride talking to the former star of Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos. And we didn't even mention either of those shows in this episode. What we did talk about, among other things, was his photographic memory of a bad review he got in a Toronto paper 42 years ago, including the name of the reviewer and his terrible memory when it comes to me. He also told us about his umbilical penis, told stories of Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield, and discussed Johnny, Merv and Mike. We were into it so much, he was late for his recording of his podcast, "Bob Saget's Here For You."You can listen to this wherever you find "Bob Saget's Here For You" (I assume) or any other podcast. If that's too much trouble, I've included a link below.
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