Tommy talks with Rick Currie about writing on staff for Open Mike with Mike Bullard and Rick Mercer Report, how comedy festivals are both the best and the worst of times and why he (briefly) went postal.
Tommy talks with Ben Miner about how giving a speech to the CRTC led to hosting Comic Stripped and programming SiriusXM's Canada Laughs, having the Super Bowl open for him and why he isn't a huge fan of Louis CK. Tommy chats with Matt Falk about headlining his first club at 19, winning second place in the World Series of Comedy and why he doesn't want to be friends on facebook. Tommy talks with Trevor Thompson and Matt Carter about the differences (plural) between Ottawa and Toronto's comedy scenes and what they miss about public sector employment. Tommy talks with the host of CBC's Laugh Out Loud Ali Hassan about being the lead comedy panelist on Strombo, why appearing in three feature films (Goon, French Immersion and Breakaway) in a year might not lead to auditions in Toronto and how his adventure all started with trying to get his cooking show blandisboring.com on the air. Tommy chats with the appropriately named Larry XL about the Black Comics Burden of the Def Jam generation, acting in the 2012 film Elf-Man with Jason Acuna from MTV’s Jackass and the economic necessity of merch. Tommy talks with David Pryde about his experiences writing for Just For Laughs, taping The Debaters for CBC and why he has never watched his Comedy Now. Tommy chats with Canadian Comedy Award Nominated (2012) Stand-Up and Impresario (Dark and Dirty Show, Hilarious Basterds, Open Mic Mondays) Josh Williams about the real value of open mics, getting heard on the radio and eating shit for being Ottawa's Favorite Comedian. Tommy just barely talks about comedy with Keven Soldo (NXNE, JFL42) instead focusing more on a mutual hatred of large telecoms, if humans are more than animals and possibly qualifying as a sex addict. Tommy chats with Buffalonian Dan Mahoney about surviving Cancer, Addiction and Comedy Competitions, the value of power yoga and the various ways to write a joke. (Yes, Buffalonian is the correct term, but I chose to use it because it reminds me of baloney, which incidentally rhymes with Mahoney.) |