Tommy talks with the appropriately named Herb Irving about working as a regular in Tokyo's only comedy club, being mistaken for Yakuza and why we should all just be adults and legalize marijuana.
Tommy chats with Jess Salomon about refusing to perform in blackface for Just For Laugh's Zoofest, dispelling stereotypes in Comedy and the fun of having a Peruvian-born mother. Tommy talks with Casey Corbin about his twentieth year in comedy, the fun of working with a pathological liar and threatening the other Casey Corbins of the internet. Tommy chats with Jason Blanchard about how his adventures on the high seas with Carnival Cruises led to him doing 471 shows last year, what it took to get Stand Up and Bite Me on TV for three seasons and why being a paratrooper prepared him for comedy. Tommy talks with Nick Peron about his adventures working for the tax man, the lessons he has learned from his attempts at making a film and his now dead Unknown Comedy Show Tommy chats with 18 year veteran comic and advertising Creative Director Scott McMann about the pre-internet comedy world, learning to take one's own advice and why some of us have trouble managing our expectations. Tommy talks with Joe Bronzi about how being tricked into wearing a banana suit led to him meeting his soul mate while working cruise ships, and we end up with a very contentious debate about how Bill Cosby may have done more for the civil rights movement than MLK. Tommy chats with John Hastings and Nick Beaton about their respective adventures in the United Kingdom, how the Olympics almost ruined their first time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and why audiences there sometimes want you to fight them. Tommy talks with Mike MacDonald about his 35 years in Comedy, starting in Ottawa before there was Comedy, 23 Just for Laughs festivals (the record to date) and a brand new (barely used) liver. Tommy chats with Mike Storck about how accurately Baltimore is portrayed on The Wire, his adventure at the Boston Comedy Festival, and why Pauly Shore is such an unbearable dick. |