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Ep. #1058: Paul Myers on ‘John Candy: A Life in Comedy’

Post author By vish
Post date January 17, 2026
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Paul Myers is here to discuss his new book, John Candy: A Life in Comedy, how the actor and producer Ryan Reynolds helped him get from a Boston event about the documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, to an Edmonton book event within 24 hours and in style, the fortuitous connection between the documentary and the book, which were made independent of one another but released around the same time, a Myers family member’s pivotal interaction with John Candy and why Paul decided to write this book, the remarkable array of people he interviewed, including Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, what he learned about Candy’s sensitivity to body shaming and other emotional hardships, the Record Store Day Podcast, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #901: John Early

Post author By vish
Post date September 5, 2024

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John Early is here to discuss his brilliant comedy special and album, Now More Than Ever, life in Los Angeles and how Toronto works as a city in a province in Canada, the talented Lemon Squares band, his remarkable skills as a singer and taking up guitar with a little help from the Beatles, how his talents were honed singing hymns in church, anarchy and normalcy, his working relationship with Kate Berlant, getting into Neil Young and why one of his songs is a surprising centrepiece in his new special, how the HBO version and record differ and complement each other, what are we all really doing on the internet, his comedy and music heroines, Vicky with a V, Bernie Sanders, and American politics, hitting the road for a tour with all new comedy and new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #830: Michael Balazo

Post author By vish
Post date December 26, 2023

Michael Balazo discusses his hilarious new stand-up album, Michael 1, Comedy 0, the year-in-review and 2023 highlights, co-hosting the Evil Men podcast, travelling back and forth between Toronto and England and performing for different audiences, Burton Cummings and the fake Guess Who, seeing James Cameron’s Titanic, Metallica, and Ramones, future plans, and much more.

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