Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This episode of The Bankas Show Ben reflects on the first half of his first American tour and falling in love with NYC. His mothers day gift from his mother was getting to perform in NYC felt her presence close even though she suffers from severe dementia and is in a nursin...
May 18, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 53
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This week Ben once again goes too far by saying what everyone with a brain functioning is thinking. Committing thought crimes by expressing ones feelings toward a subject like the current pro-palestinian woke mob, the Drake beef, competitive dads at the park, Trudeau and Bi...
May 06, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show In this episode Ben addresses his fans accusing him of feeding his child Fruit Loops, addresses all the Palestinian activism, the mass immigration of Indians to Canada, why Seinfeld is right about comedy, why some videos get banned in Canada and of course a sit down convers...
Apr 29, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Ben gives a quick update on his official move to Austin, TX, his first show in town, Olivia Chows Maple Leaf promo video and Halal Mortgages proposed by the Trudeau government. Don't forget to subscribe to Patreon for the bonus podcast.
Apr 22, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Ben Bankas has his American friend Greg Dipaul on to talk about going to a Drake concert we we're invited to in San Antonio floor seats. The two talk about the recent rap beef and who's team they're on. Full episode on Patreon. patreon.com/benbankas
Mar 29, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Ben Bankas is BACK in Austin Texas all the way from Toronto, Canada with over 170,000 followers on Instagram and all new material and perspectives. Ben talks about his first week in Austin, performing at the Comedy Mothership and all up and down 6th street, going to a Drake...
Mar 21, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist All Podcast links: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Ben's video guy brings his mothers Italian cooking for Armin and Ben to try. Ben and Armin talk about going to the USA, Armin's Spain vacation, Food Prices, progressive movies, high school experience, going to the Chinese grocery store, and more.
Mar 05, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This week Ben sits down with close friend Armin Arbabi to talk about Ben's upcoming USA tour and reminisce about their first tour together in 2023, how it all started. It was called Permission 2 Laugh.
Feb 27, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BenbankasGet tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-showsJoin the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelistPodcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-showThis week Ben watches videos of a man simping on a girl by paying over $8000 USD for a first date, Chinese election commission acceptance speech from California, Bobbi Althoff divorcing her husband for fame, Human Monkey Hybrid's are real and Ben watches a viral video showing e...
Feb 21, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This week Ben is out of office at his boys crib talking about Taylor Swift, Superbowl, Drake, Kanye, blocking out toxicity and more. Share with friends.
Feb 13, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Support Ben on Patreon and watch the extended version of this video https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This episode Ben talks about NHL All Star game, European Farmer protests, the Toronto Comedy Scene, Comedy Bar, Second City, Othership, Spin and more. Enjoy and share with your friends!
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Support Ben on Patreon and watch the extended version of this video https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Ben recounts his experience years ago as a random comedian on Kill Tony, he analyzes the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce situation, E. Jean Carroll and Trump, and Jagmeet and Trudeau changing voting rules before an election. Please like...
Feb 06, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Support Ben on Patreon and watch the extended version of this video https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show This week Ben talks about UFC 297 which he was in attendance of, Dana White and Sean Strickland talking to Canadian media, Dylan Mulvaney getting hit on, Chinese people yelling in England and more.
Jan 23, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Support Ben on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BenbankasGet tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-showsJoin the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelistPodcast links: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-showIn this episode Ben talks about his recent experiences going viral and planning his USA tour, getting in touch with his immigrant Jewish Hollywood bloodline, ranting about Canadian censorship and Canadian TV, why you have to go to the USA to make an impact in Canada, sayi...
Jan 16, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Support Ben on Patreon and watch the extended version of this video https://www.patreon.com/Benbankas Get tickets to see Ben: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows Join the email list: https://www.benbankas.com/jointhelist Podcast: https://www.benbankas.com/podcast-show Enjoy Listening to 53 minutes of Ben Bankas talking straight to his audience about Taylor Swift, Epstein Island, Israel, Hilary Clinton and more.
Jan 09, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Support Ben at https://www.patreon.com/benbankas Live Show Tickets: https://www.benbankas.com/live-shows This week is the last podcast of the year, another solo pod for Ben from London, ON where he is currently testing the waters for his Jan 18th show in London at the brand new Yuk Yuk's. Ben talks about his career moves, a little Israel Palestine and how a Jewish comedy show got cancelled at Comedy Bar in Toronto. Enjoy and please share with your friends.
Dec 31, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Support the show on Patreon - www.patreon.com/benbankas This week we start out with Ben looking pretty awful but about 10 minutes into the show Ben has miraculously gone through a makeover and looks much better. Enjoy potentially the last episode of the year (we might make one more before Jan 1)
Dec 22, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Support Ben at www.patreon.com/benbankas and get access to a weekly bonus podcast, bonus stand up comedy clips and more. This week Ben has one of his best friends Armin Arbabi back on the show. Armin has been featured on over 10 episodes of The Bankas Show on Patreon and opens for Ben on the road. This year Armin got signed to the Yuk Yuk's comedy club roster and tours Canada performing stand up comedy. Armin helps Ben laugh at himself during these dark and stressful times! I'm not talking about...
Dec 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Please support Ben on Patreon - www.patreon.com/benbankas This episode is one long rant about all the idiocy that's been happening online lately regarding "settler colonialism" sparked by the Israel-Hamas war. Should Canada be a country? YES. Did it have a history before Europeans? YES. Do we know that history? Not really, the Natives didn't really write much down so we're going off whatever the woke people say. Enjoy this episode and please share with your friends.
Nov 28, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Support the show on Patreon - www.patreon.com/benbankas This week we are joined by Stephan Jackson, a Saskatoon podcaster and Ben's lifeline in Saskatoon. Ben's comedy show in Sask was on November 10th, this was recorded on November 13th. Stephan has been giving Ben a place to stay while he in limbo between cities on his DO BETTER stand up comedy tour. The two talk about middle east conflict, 3rd world females, and what it's like living with Stephan. Stephan also convinces Ben at one point he is...
Nov 14, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Support Ben on patreon - www.patreon.com/benbankas and gain access to over 30 hours of bonus content and growing. This week Ben talks about the first anti-Israel rallies he saw when he was 19 going to Queen's University in Kingston, ON. Ben reads about the Jewish N-word (the Nakba) and tries to make sense of the madness going on everywhere right now. Enjoy the show and please leave a comment and a like.
Nov 07, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Support the show on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas Another Solo Pod where Ben sits down and tries to make sense of everything that's been happening recently. People are angry but they live in a first world country with running water and freedom of speech. But that's not enough! Israel must fall! That's crazy. People need to relax and go to a pumpkin patch or have a pumpkin spiced latte. Enjoy life. Enjoy the podcast and laugh and share with others. Thank you all.
Oct 18, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Support Ben on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas - patrons get access to a weekly bonus podcast along with other bonus content. This week Ben is flying solo in his new little studio setup. His apartment is 1000 degrees because in Communist Canada all the air conditioners must be turned off before October to prevent climate change! Ben rants about the recent proposed regulation of Canadian podcasts by the Trudeau government, the newly elected Native Premier in Manitoba and a breakdown of Just for L...
Oct 05, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Support Ben on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas Ben sits down with his good friend Daniel Bordman who is now famous in India from a tweet that went viral. Daniel is now the most sought after political pundit on Indian television within two weeks. Daniel is the co-founder of The National Telegraph and is a Canadian Journalist and comedians from Toronto Canada. Ben and Daniel have known each other for over a decade. Enjoy this hilariously awkward conversation with "The Indian Wolf Blitzer".
Sep 29, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Support Ben on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas and get access to over 30 hours of bonus content. Ben sits down with Chris Sky, a Canadian conspiracy theorists/freedom fighter/ international speaker. Chris has a lot of strong views, many Ben agrees with. Ben asks Chris a bunch of personal and professional questions about his current speaking tour across the USA and Europe. Enjoy and please share with your friends!
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Support Ben and his friends on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas - subscribers get access to weekly bonus podcasts, rants, bonus stand up clips, videos and more. Ben sits down at the Birdcage with Daniel and Armin to take a deep dive into Ben's addictions to doing a Chinese accent, pissing off audience members, how "getting signed" to Yuk Yuk's works, the history behind Yuk Yuk's in Canada and much more. Enjoy and please share with your friends! If you're watching at home please make a video of yo...
Sep 16, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Support Ben on Patreon: patreon.com/benbankas - Ben talks about his upcoming tour dates, the Toronto comedy scene, getting on Real Toronto News/Podcast, Other comedians killing it in the scene, why you need to join Patreon, $20 Million a month to house migrants in New York and much more. Enjoy and please make a video of you watching The Bankas Show and share it on social media and tag Ben!
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Support Ben on Patreon and receive weekly bonus content: patreon.com/benbankas Ben sits down with his friends Armin and Daniel to talk about his most recent controversy involving impersonations of Toronto mayor Olivia Chow and the "backlash" started by American TikTokers. Any questions you want answered please leave them in the comments and we plan to answer them in a livestream/patreon bonus episode this week.
Aug 03, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Support Ben on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas - patrons recieve a weekly bonus podcast and other bonus content including stand up clips, "motivational" videos and more. This episode Armin, Daniel and Ben do a traditional podcast at Daniels place, talking sh*t, making fun of each other, recounting some of their most recent experiences and some stories from high school and a bit about the Ben Bankas origin story. Enjoy and please like, subscribe, share with your friends! Also available on Spotify...
Jul 23, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Enjoy the show? Support Ben on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas and receive weekly bonus content. Ben is in Vancouver by himself and he goes on to rant about possible ww3, the words you can't say anymore, Tim Dillon, his career and bitter comedians and more. Enjoy and please like, subscribe and share with your friends.
Jul 04, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 25
