HOLY SNICKIES – 7 YEARS OF OUR CRAP. Yep … 1st CPP was Memorial Day Weekend 2017 – Insane. Pats were GREAT. My kids liked me … but 1600 Penn Ave was … not good. Highlights from THIS episode … talking Jacques ripping a tooth out opening his pool (who had THAT on their bingo card), Joe’s kid graduating highschool and on to college, some celeb deaths …

83-Year-Old-Jewish-Vaudevillian trapped inside a 24-year-old’s body, Joseph Katz is our guest this week. A finalist in the 2024 Boston Comedy Festival – Joseph Katz chats with OUR Joe and Jacques about their mutual love for the Dick Van Dyke Show, Jack Benny and pre-Carson Tonight Show (Note: we all also LOVE Carson’s Tonight Show.) Katz had a cabl…

Been a minute since Biff Joe and Jacques were on a pod together! Chatted being on a show (and Joe being part of the fun) this past weekend (thanks to pals Wayne and Anthony from Open Mic Pain Podcast) – with them AND Boston Comedy Fest 2024 Co-Champ Casey Crawford (who is our guest in 3 weeks!) As a legit news source for so many, we’d be doing a di…

Anjelica Scunnura is our amazingly brilliant guest this week! World Renown Dancer – Actress - Host of the popular YouTube show “Angelica’s Daily Surprise” and … AND the co-Champion of the 2024 Boston Comedy Festival! Zooming in to chat with us from arguably one of the top 10 cities in the world over all and top 5 (maybe top 3) for comedy, Toronto! …

Jacques and Joe chat how aside from Jacques sister having a surgery and his brother having a work accident breaking 6 ribs and being in hospital a few days … he not wanting to be left out … took a spill and used his “phone a friend” final answer to say to Joe … hey, keep an eye on me as I might be concussed … again. Jacques chat’s his comedy progre…

For well over a year before it came out, Jacques has been following on social media, the process and progress of author Katherine Rye Jewell while writing: LIVE From The Underground – A History Of College Radio. As Katherine would unearth believe to be lost treasures (like CMJ charts, schools play list from 1978, articles in favor of censorship for…

Alana Foden got a late start in comedy and build up her confidence in the most unique way – fighting a traffic ticket in court and running sex toy parties! Right!!! Instantly seeing how awful trying to get booked on “real” shows can be, the scams and how some venues just can’t work for comedy shows, she started producing her own shows. Being very f…

Happy Tax Day – To those who pay them! Joe and Jacques flying solo, they chat this past weeks Eclipses, Joe’s kids being 1 of the 12 Angry Men in the high school play, and semi legit parenting tips (what? Asshole OJ Simpsons dies (of Asshole cancer … as rare “W” for cancer). We chat seeing last two sideshow guest, Legendary Tony V and the very funn…

Dave Rattigan, headlining comedian and one of the regions busiest comedy show producers - jumped into the world of stand up a little later than most but quickly made up for lost time. Starting with a gift for comedy classes from (his then wife) and being a teacher of public speaking, Dave quickly climbed the ladder. We chat with Dave about (of cour…

Jacques spent 6 days – working the Boston Comedy Fest and was able to con Joe into helping a couple times … and having a blast. Hanging with Tony V a couple times, meeting Michael Gross (Dad from Family Ties) and lining up a whole bunch of amazing comics from all over to do up-coming sideshow! Biff is off the injured reserves list and back in the g…

3/25/24 From losing track of days while playing cards at the infamous Ding Ho comedy club in the early 80s to being the FIRST comedian to perform at Fenway Park (opening for pal Bill Burr in 2023), comedian and actor Tony V has been a Boston Legend for over 40 years. TOMORROW March 25, 2024 at The City Winery in Boston as part of The Boston Comedy …

Been quit the yuk fest last two weeks for Joe and Jacques (SADLY, Biff is on ER this week) - but the numbers of shows they’re gone to and a couple nights of watching Joe’s Plex till 3am … they might have past the legal limit of laughter allowed. Jacques has had more “booked shows” in the last month then all last year and is hoping his 1 on 1 classe…

Hilarious comedian, very talented actress, Composer and recently featured pianist at sold out Carnegie Hall concert – Sarah INFINI-T Takagi joins Joe, Jacques and her fellow native Japanese speaker Biff, for a really fun chat about balancing the many incredible arts she’s has made a name in! Jacques first chatted with Infini T six months ago about …

Joe and Jacques chat a bit about the amazing wave of recent guest and the (3) sideshows with amazing guest already locked and loaded coming up the next few weeks! Joe has been dragged deeper down Jacques standup rabbit hole as both of them have been working with comedian (co-founder of the Boston Comedy Festival) Jim McCue gearing up Jim’s streamin…

Dave LaPointe is the host of Jacques’ favorite podcast Complaints & Observations (currently on hiatus) – and where it’s been a minute since C & O’s last episode … Jacques took matters into his own hands and had Dave on CPP! THIS is a two-part episode (the 2nd to drop … sometime soon is basically Dave explaining how the Euro Football leagues works t…

Joe and Jacques chat the AMAZING sideshows guest as of late and the ones already recorded coming up. As Jacques behest, Joe went with him to his first hosting for a Jim McCue headlining show last week … which lead to a slew of booked shows coming up …which means … Joe’s still on hook to help Jacques with his mid-life cry for help stand up mishaps. …

John Tobin saw a show at Nick’s Comedy Stop in Boston in 1986 and his life has been running comedy venues ever since. “Look at him. He’s Adorable” – John’s aunt at his first hosting gig! Sure … Boston City Council for Boston’s 6tth District (2002-2010) and has been VP of Community Affairs at North Eastern Univ. since 2010 … but really … he’s never …

Just Joe and Jacques as Biff has “tech issues” or … better things to do (and who would blame him…) Chat the great guest we’ve had of late and some of the next few sideshows coming up.,. Chat the passing of legendary Carl Weathers … Apollo Creed through 2023 season 3 of the Mandalorian. Also, talk SNL original cast member - Garrett Morris getting hi…

Maria Dennis – Sr. Legal Counsel and Sr. Director of Player Health And Safety for the NHLPA (yeah, THAT NHLPA) is our guest this week. Are we bias? Yes. Is Maria a dear friend Biff and Jacques have admired and have skated with for close to 3 decades? Yes. So, when WE say, the contributions to woman’s hockey Maria has made since the early 80’s (on a…

The only thing sadder then Joe and Jacques going out of their way to schedule watching the 1976 made for TV movie “Boy In The Plastic Bubble” together … is them talking abou it on the podcast! But at least they mix it up with a breakdown of the 1978 Battle Of The Network Stars. Jacques 13-yr-old futbol fanatic who has NOT been the biggest supporter…

In midst of Snow-Magedon in Boston, we record this week’s podcast and chat Jacques little guy telling the school the cat scratches on his torso was via a knife fight with his grandmother. Do YOU know what 3 Kings Day (Little Christmas) is … Joe does… sort of. Joe and Jacques ring in the New Year by watching the 1977 classic Smokey And The Bandit as…

We end a really good year of the podcast by looking back at a few things that went right in our lives this year… and a look ahead of to fun stuff we hope happens. Biff – Successful year of reconnections (having gone to his HS reunion in Hawaii), reconnected with old friends in Japan when he took his son on a trip to the home land (his sons first tr…

It’s Christmas Day and what more could YOU want … then a freshly wrapped episode of CPP? Last regular episode of the year and it has stall…by all…more xmas special chat … a shout out to last weeks sideshow guest Bill Fay and chat about upcoming guest Maria Dennis (NHLPA lead legal council) Jacques chats having hard time coming up with gifts cause h…

Legendary Film Maker and … Co-Founder of Legendary Pictures, Bill Fay zooms in to chat with Joe, Biff and Jacques … who for reasons we still don’t understand has been a close friend and mentor to Jacques for 20 years! The first two film companies Bill worked for out of college went bankrupt … and then he learned to fly a plane to be Hollywood’s man…

Did you know that KFC is the BIGGEST meal in Japan for Christmas? No really it is. Joe knew that. Biff, Jacques and Joe talk about their Christmas plans and how things are changing as their kids are older. Couple nice family Christmas stories from yesteryear. A little Christmas miracle is Jacques has unexpectedly fallen in love with the 2006 Twiste…

Wayne and Anthony – The host of one of our favorite podcast Open Mic Pain zoom in to talk with Joe and Jacques about how to properly run a focused podcast with a point! Jacques met Wayne and Anthony on the comic open mic circuit and over last 8 months have become good pals. It was fun a month ago when they met Joe for first time but already felt li…

Biff returns from The Land Of The Rising Sun after taking his son on his first trip to the home land! Hoping someday for a CP field trip with Biff to Tokyo (I call dibs on wearing the Lugi outfit doing the cart racing through the streets!) Joe and Jacques finally get to yap their outing to see the amazing Henry Winkler at a NRP book release event i…

Joe and Jacques saw Brian Longwell (The Corporate Comedian) a few weeks back and were blown away. Brian is more of an “act” then a stand-up comic. Part one-man show meets a half hour long hysterical Kids In The Hall sketch. Brian’s path to comedy included a long stop as an engineer at Bell Labs for years before starting his own wildly successful te…

Biff and Jacques chat nick names as Jacques futbol son is on a team where lot of kids (including his 2 best pals) speak Portuguese and his name is Cabelo Longo (Long Hair) … it comes from a very sweet place … it will grow on him (see what I did there) but we LOVE it. ON OTHER HAND … Cabelo Longo’s U14 teammates had racist things yelled to them in F…

We each came up with a list of 10 sounds from our childhoods (to early adulthood) that defines us. We knew we’d have some cross over but there were a lot of fun surprises – Here were our list. Biff: Bionic SFX from 6 Million Dollar Man, Space Invaders Aliens Descending, Radio Fuss, Japanese Paper Trucks, Godzilla Cry, Answering Machine Beeps, WKBS …

Sure, they could have stayed home and watched it for free on Peacock BUT Jacques kids have been waiting nearly 10 years to see the long rumored FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy’s) movie hit the big screen for off to the big screen they went. Joe and friend of podcast Jim went to Jacques show this past week at Luna Theater in Lowell and they chat headlin…

HOW did we talk Hafen doing weather mapping in Africa and NONE of us made a Toto reference? WOW! So part 2 of our talk with long time pal Hafen (allegedly) zooming in from Sweden where (allegedly) he has become a citizen. We get more into the weeds where I put the case out there that this guy … who has ALL the intangibles a government toppling clan…

Biff and Jacques have been pals with Hafen for over 25 years. 1998 to 2004 Jacques doesn’t think he hung out with any one person more. Joe first met Hafen when they were in Jacques’ Starter Wedding together in 1999 (bit of talk about that infamous wedding event on this episode.) THIS is our first 2-part episode. Part 2 will drop next week. It was d…

No Biff … mostly because Jacques is too dumb to know how the days of the week work. Jacques had a few “Booked” shows cancel (studio audience sighs) BUT some time the comedy gods (small G) take away and sometimes they give as just as quickly a couple very cool comedy ops fell his way. Joe, Jacques and his managers wife’s life are so much better with…

With Halloween season upon up we decided to do a special re-posting of Sideshow # 67 from 4/19/21 - Paul Devers: Champion – World Renowned Pumpkin (Food) Carver. Since winning Food Channel’s “Outrageous Pumpkins” years ago, Paul has been a Food Network judge and personality. Paul is the creator of the wildly successful YouTube series: Carvers And C…

Joe & Jacques (and our friend Julie) headed over to the mecca of comedy rooms inside Chine’s restaurants in the Merrimac Valley (China Blossom N. Andover MA) to see last weeks guest Lauren Sims host an amazing line up. Biff SADLY wasn’t part of the field trip or this recording. We chat Jacques breaking thru the glass ceiling of Lowell comedy and do…

Lauren Sims is a comedian Joe and Jacques caught last month at Greg Boggis’ “Mondo Comedy” at The Luna Theater In Lowell. A Gen-X comic whose material really landed and hit home with us! Joe’s under the weather and Biff has grown up stuff so the for mentioned lovely and talented (and former guest) Mr. Greg Boggis stepped in to co-host this episode …

Big Day at CPP as this was the FIRST of what we (Jacques) really hopes is many recordings to come at Joe’s Los-eum 2.0 … and … AND the return of The Random Video Game Review Of The Week! Before we lose Biff 20 minutes in to tech issues, Biff was able to join in with Jacques lumping due praise to our friend JT who AGAIN was named a top 100 lawyer (a…

Dalya Black is a super smart and funny LA based comedian (writer, director, producer). Dalya who has “only” done stand up in Los Angeles AND London hails from the cold hard streets of Medford MA. Not wanting to be a medium fish in a small pond (the Boston film making scene) they pack a bindle and headed for LA LA Land. Dalya and Jacques were both o…

The entire CPP family (Biff and Jacques) are wishing a happy birthday to our brother Joe! In a slow news week where nothing happened (other than Donny 5-Scoops being indicted for 4th time – 1st mug shot) Joe and Jacques chat Jacques being publicly recognized from recent FRONT PAGE of the Lowell Sun (while standing in his drive way) by a mail carrie…

Lauren Caputo is a Los Angeles based comic by way of San Francisco by way of New Jersey. Jacques met Lauren in LA a few weeks ago when they were both featured at an amazing show at Tao Comedy. Lots of Lauren’s hysterical bits are pulled from growing up very Jersey Italian in a very Jersey Italian town … while also being very Canadian. Lauren also p…

This episode is mostly Jacques babbling his (atheist) crisis of comedy faith of how to go back to doing “ambush show” open mics after getting to do booked showcases in some of Los Angeles best clubs (thanks you Sally Mullins) Note: shout out for proper term to Greg Boggis to describe mics at venue where folks DO NOT know a comedy show is about to h…

Joe and Jacques (Biff is on IR) chat the passing of a childhood hero, actor Paul Reubens… Pee Wee Herman (a special CP Sideshow is forthcoming.) Rough couple weeks since the last recording as we also morn the loss of our friend (former guest) Woody’s dad who was a true 1000% WW2 hero! And also, Sinead O’Connor, who was shunned and essentially ruine…

Comedian (Producer, Comedy Teacher, Actor, Cool Dad) Mike Koutrobis talks with Jacques about a ton of stuff, including how becoming a dad a little late in the dance for the first time JUST before Covid threw the world a curveball has shaped his comedy. Mike is the ONLY comic we've had on who is willing to honestly answer the biggest question facing…

If you’re a regular listener to this podcast (or follow Jacques on socials) and don’t follow Dante The Comic … well … you go right that wrong, NOW! A personal hero of ours, Dante the Comic (Rusciolelli) zooms in (from the very cool Hollywood Forever Cemetery) to chat with Joe and Jacques about… SO MUCH. Danta is a headlining (national and internati…

Jacques and Joe chat the prep work they’ve put in for the Roast Battle Jacques has reluctantly agreed to be part of in Lowell … yesterday (but we recorded this episode before hand … ssssooo…) Jacques also hosted his first open mic this week. Went great … went awful. Jacques son is loving his first job (he’s a Life Guard) in rough neighborhood of th…

Nothing says 4th of July like talking with two of the funniest comics (host/producers) in the Boston scene today – XTina and Nick Fucking Powell. I’ll apologize for some of the audio issues … I WILL NOT apologize for all of the funny they bring!!! We chat XTina’s path to the open mic circuit and 5 months later getting booked shows and producing sho…

In this somewhat Big Gulp Super-Sized episode …Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) we chat Jacques sons starting his 1st job this week as a lifeguard, Jacques’ house plumbing nightmare and a few billionaires getting in a homemade submarine and who but EVERYONE could have told them it was a bad idea (no refunds.)…

If you can’t get to see Jim McCue work live … then move to a place you can! And if you can’t do that … check out Jim’s DryBar Comedy Special on YouTube … which they shot in Utah … lot less drunks at shows in Utah! Joe and Jacques WILL be seeing Jim in person this Thursday (June 22) in Lowell at The Luna Theater (inside Mill #5) for Mondo Comedy (ho…

Loyal listener and 20-year (plus) pal of Biff and Jacques’ … the beloved AST (All-Star Tommy) was in Boston with his All-Star wife and daughter last week … and long last Joe and All-Star got to meet. It was all we could hope for and more… Including a trip to Boston’s famed, “Nick’s Comedy Stop.” It’s a 21 plus club … but getting Jacques’ 13 year ol…