The lads start the New Year right where they left off … talking about everything and nothing all at once. Jacques brings everyone up to date on his mid-life crisis of starting a stand-up career in his 50s … what? And how his families over the top season yard décor brings happiness to passers-by and gifts of skeleton dogs and Vultures to them. Say it Ain’t So Joe … Joe’s family preps for a move across town thus bringing an end to where CP all started – Joe’s vaulted “LOSEUM”. Pour one out for “Ra...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 274
Because Biff is a real grown-up with a real job … he can’t come out an play … so it’s just Joe and Jacques chatting what they HOPE they accomplish and what they think holds instore for themselves and the world for the year 2023. Will Brady come back to the Patriots? Will Jacques move back to Los Angeles … will his family find him if he does. How many Rez Evil reboots and TV reboots come out? Will Jacques love every new Star Wars and MCU project (pretty sure the answer is yes!) Will DC stop shoot...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 273
Tis the season to gift wrap our last episode of the year … and with a real fan favorite … the return of the beloved self-indulgent theater with Joe singing The Kinks Father Christmas as Gilbert Gottfried (not a dry eye in the house!) Jacques yaps his open mic follies, google worrying about his mental well-being and his son learning how heart breaking it is to care about watching sports! Beside EVERYONE, who says the 1973 British movie The Wicker Man is better then the 36k budget VelociPastor … w...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 272
You only hurt the ones you love … so Joe, Biff and Jacques REALLY must love each other! In an episode where there is a lot of laughter … also a lot of excruciating “Sophie’s Choice” decisions. The guys play a game where they list (3) things they know one of the other loves and make them pick which one has to go … based on Jacques 12 year old while driving the other day asking Jacques to pick between Star Wars, DC Comics and Marvel Movies … Jacques had to pull over to give it real thought … and m...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 271
You only hurt the ones you love … so Joe, Biff and Jacques REALLY must love each other! In an episode where there is a lot of laughter … also a lot of excruciating “Sophie’s Choice” decisions. The guys play a game where they list (3) things they know one of the other loves and make them pick which one has to go … based on Jacques 12 year old while driving the other day asking Jacques to pick between Star Wars, DC Comics and Marvel Movies … Jacques had to pull over to give it real thought … and m...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 270
Joe, Biff and Jacques chat some good stuff like SPIRITED the new instant classic Christmas special with Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell, Georgia Senator Warnock winning his 4th election in 2 years and Brittney Griner release (and all the racism the GQP could throw her way). Jacques actually got a really honest to goodness phone book in the mail this week and also finding (much to Joe’s chagrin) the show breakdown and opening skit he was pitching local cable company when Joe mistakenly asked him...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 269
Joe and Jacques chat the passing of Kevin Conroy aka THE voice of Batman. Jacques is a HUGE fan of the ground-breaking show: Batman The Animated Series and the shows like Justice League and feature films like Mask Of The Phantasm that spun off of it. Joe knows Conroy best from being the voice of Batman in the 3 Rock Steady Arkham games. Fun chat about a guy who neither of us met but by all accounts was a really good dude and who brought a hell of a lot to Jacques’ beloved Batman universe. CP on ...
Dec 05, 2022•38 min•Ep. 268
Biff, Joe and Jacques exchange Thanks Undocumented Europeans Genocide Of Natives Giving Day. Been a couple weeks and this is a long one so make a sandwich of the left overs and buckle in … or play at 1.5 or 2x speed. Jacques following up last Pods chat of taking his sons (12/15) to a drag show with Grandma (Kinky Boots) to this week with Management taking their kids to a spectacular Nightmare Before Christmas Burlesque show featuring the amazing band Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys!...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 267
So Dems hold Senate but (looks like) barely lost house … by still taking major victory lap for not losing too bad … I guess. Yep, could have been worse but some really awful POS still got re-elected and Biff and Jacques chat that. Jacques’ Fox watching mom accidently took his 12-year-old to a drag musical and his managements (wife’s) year off following Duran Duran around the global ended with bitter sweet HOF induction show in LA (with horrible news about founding member Andy Taylor’s stage 4 ca...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 266
30-year touring comedian Jim Colliton chats with Joe and Jacques about coming up as a comic in Boston in the 90s and life as a touring comic today. “You do the comedy for free but get paid to travel.” And Jim travels … monthly 2 shows a day 7 days a week on cruise ships! Joe and Jacques saw Jim at Luna Theater (inside Mill 5 in Lowell) at Greg Boggis’ Mondo Comedy. His written bits killed and his crowd work slayed! Jim talks about developing those two skills, being a dad and advice to fledging c...
Nov 07, 2022•59 min•Ep. 265
Biff has grown up stuff to do today so poor Joe has to put up with Jacques’ ramblings by himself. Elon buys twitter and proves he is the d-bag we thought right out of the gate. IS next Tuesday the last somewhat legit electioons in USA history? Joe and Jacques chat yet ANOTHER trip down the TV38 mid-80s rabbit hole that has become their happy place … Ask The Manager, We Don’t Knock. Jacques is going to try to track down Dana Hersey and get him on the podcast! Some video game chat. A “real” parent...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 264
Professor Cook joins us again and we make NO apologies for this being a god damn 2-hour chat about whether or not the Nov. 8th mid-Term elections will be the last semi-real elections we will ever have and DAMN IT I wish I was trying to be funny! There is a chance we keep wanting Professor Cook on because it’s like we’re trying to get a free bachelor's degree in Civics. Truth be told … there is more thought that goes into these chats with the Professor then Jacques’ last 3 years at Fitchburg Stat...
Oct 24, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 263
Boys recap last weeks Sideshow with Kaylee Peterson the DEM Candidate in Idaho Congressional race and preview next weeks sideshow with Political Science Prof. Cook from University Of Pittsburg Johnstown Jacques 53-year streak for avoiding the King Richards Faire came to an end. Management (aka his wife) said, “You’re going … and there is a cleavage competition” sssooo. Jacques also updates everyone who didn’t ask about his recent stand-up open mics. Chat Elon (being forced maybe) into Twitter de...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 262
Kaylee Peterson is an incredible person who is the democratic candidate for congress in Idaho. Kaylee took time out of her insanely busy campaign schedule (and mom of two schedule) to chat with Joe and Jacques. Kaylee is running for all the right reasons and we hope Idaho knows how much they need her. There are NO Plan Parenthoods in Kaylee’s district of over 500 square miles. Idaho is 51st (not a typo) 51st in education and the incumbent republican (who proudly identifies as a white Christian n...
Oct 11, 2022•55 min•Ep. 261
Hey, you hear the one about the Jewish guy from the Jersey shore, a son of an honest to goodness bonified WW2 hero, who was living in a Mennonites community and working at a production facility owned by the Moonies when he was (mistakenly) recruited by the KKK … Well … you’re about to. And it’s all true. Woody has been buddies with Biff and Jacques since Bill Clinton’s first term … and Woody is hilarious but NO one can make up the stories Woody has lived … on and off the ice (Woody’s a goalie). ...
Oct 03, 2022•50 min•Ep. 260
Jacques cousin Jimmy was hired as a writer on SNL a couple weeks back … Hear Jacques take ALL the credit for his success as Joe and he talk about Jimmy’s FIRST TV appearance on their 1994 cable access show Formal Edition (10 yr old Jimmy Also was star on Jacques band Beyond Id’s 1994 video Mind Time … Link below!) Jacques also talks his 3rd recent LA trip where highlight was a 4 hour low key chat with Biff and their FNH brothers Guitar Center Scottie and Mr. John Taylor Fertilizer himself … oh a...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 259
Another podcast plagued by audio issues and two guys stumbling over things they’ve heard 3nr hand or misread on Twitter! Speaking of Twitter … Dee Synder is awesome! Biden gets some relief for student loan debt. GQP says its worst thing ever, Dems say it’s not enough … we say it’s a campaign promise kept… and a good start. Jacques chats a recent TV watching session with Joe that included a bunch of Conan first (Late Night, Tonight Show, Conan) viewings, a few episodes of MTV’s Remote Control and...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 258
Sure we give a shout out to our friend Woody’s Insta and Twitter accounts (@WoodyLuvsCoffee), chat some shows and movies we’re watching (Lightyear was a delight). Jacques recent LA trip, doing stand up for real and his next upcoming trip to LA for Duran Duran, Biff has some Japanesse crime (?) story and we talk the amazing BBQ for FHN/Taylors Birthday party he hosted and Joe as always is the ray of hope and joy we all need in our lives … But mostly we chatted the FBI searching Donny 4Scoops Spy ...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 257
Been a couple weeks which means Jacques went on another trip with his sons (this one to Six Flags in NJ and Maryland and lunch in DC with work pals from Armed Forces Ent) and management went to another European city to see Duran Duran (London this time) … two weeks means more Jan 6thhearings and wholly shit are we all Fcked!! Hey … at least Steven Bannon is gonna be wearing a jumpsuit pretty soon. Joe joined the podcast and while he doesn’t officially do a “self-indulgent theater” he sort of doe...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 256
It’s been a few weeks since Biff and Jacques chatted … which means Jacques took another road trip (this time a drive to Chicago with his boys and dogs to surprise Management on her birthday) … it also means it’s been a few weeks so there’s been more mass shootings. USA USA USA Course Japan isn’t without shootings … well one shooting … assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo with home made gun. In more - “It’s Fine … Everything Is Fine” category (aka world is on fire) they chat Row V. W...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 255
Let’s address the awful nightmare first … the missing 3-year-old Harry from Lowell last week that drowned … happened just houses away from Jacques. Hug your kids. Joe joins Biff and Jacques which always makes the show 614x better. We talk the Carlin special and Ian Bagg special on Amazon Prime from a few years ago … Ian was a one time hockey pal of Biff and Jacques. Great comic and really good hockey play … totally check it out! We follow up from las show chatting the BBC show about folks who ch...
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 254
After a couple years off (thanks Covid) Biff, Jacques and the FNH crew comprising the John Taylor Fertilizers Hockey Franchise Club LLC Inc returned to the annual Memorial Day Phoenix tournament. And the one on-ice highlights has to be Jacques 2nd assist on the ONE goal the team (AST) scored last in game 3. Off the ice … the highlights were pretty endless. Jacques enjoyed the drive with Biff from LA and rooming with John… unknown if Biff and John feels the same. Jacques’ week in LA including vis...
Jun 06, 2022•51 min•Ep. 253
After a couple weeks off, Biff Joe and Jacques are back. After 30 years off … so are the Kids In The Hall. And their still Gods. Season 6 is streaming now on Amazon Prime as is “Comedy Punks”, a 2-part gloves are off and tissue boxes are on documentary with and about the KITH. Seems a dying and in Covid lock down Norm MacDonald left us all a going away present in form of a new special that will start airing in a few weeks … and now - two-part George Carlin documentary is on HMO Max! Lots of grea...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 252
We start of on a real somber not as Jacques chats the passing of college buddy/occasional band mate/amazing song writer/musician and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet, David Mirabella (front man and lead guitarist of The Rationales.) Dave was guest way back on CP (Ep. 7). You’re missed and loved Dave. May the force be with you brother. Biff chats his Batman like crime fighting skills as at 4am he chased off some thieves trying to saw off and steal car parts from his neighbor’s car! Jacq...
May 03, 2022•58 min•Ep. 251
Before Elon buys Twitter and ruins it for everyone … Biff and Jacques figured they’d chat their favorite twitter follows now! They had a couple of the same on their list and a couple pretty interchangeable ones. This was a fun one to prep for … was NOT easy getting the list down to 10! Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Lepton’s Bingo Teddy by Dan Cray and Beyond Id...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 250
Joe and Jacques have ANOTHER bitter-sweet chat about yet ANOTHER comic they LOVE who BAMB … GONE. The GREAT (now late) Gilbert Gottfried past last week and we’re gutted. From Joe and Jacques’ early (maybe 1994) collaboration … Joe did a Gilbert impression that Jacques LOVES (Joe down plays it but it’s pretty great) and some of the best CP Self-Indulgent Theaters involved Joe’s Gilbert! Joe from day one was a fan of Gilbert’s podcast … which serious was always good but sometimes depending on the ...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 249
Taping on Biff’s birthday they chat Biff’s birthday fishing story … THIS really is a good one. Oscar’s suck and Grammy’s suck. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars … and Grammy’s slapped the times up movement giving Lewis CK an award … WTAF. Hey despite the GOP pulling out all the racist and crazy cards they could … Judge Ketanji Brown is NOW the first black woman on the SCOTUS!!!! Seems Covid is still a thing … seems Putin is still a major war criminal … and there is still crime in Japan … b...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 248
Actor, Front-Man, Writer … and over all good guy – Gene Dante chats with Joe, Biff and Jacques about his love of acting, writing … and Paul Lynde! From his European touring roll in Rocky Horror, to his Bauer hockey commercial, to his band (Gene Dante and the Future Starlets) new double album “DL/Ux” – it was a real fun and funny talk. Is Gene the hardest working man in show business … maybe … but he really works pretty fucking hard and we’re jacked to seeing his band play Friday April 29th at So...
Apr 04, 2022•43 min•Ep. 247
Proud Papa Jacques brags a bit about his sons STARING roll as Phineous Trout in his Jr. High’s production of Willie Wonka Jr. Joe breaks down the Gayest Episode Ever’s break down of 31 years of Simpson’s LGBTQ references! Biff breaks down the winners/losers of the NHL’s trade deadline moves and a real (bad) news story from Japan (but still with fantastic animations!) Is Covid over? Is Putin really this fucking awful and … the GOP acted exactly like you’d expect (racist, performance theater) at K...
Mar 27, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 246
Is Joe stopping in to chat on this weeks’ podcast the highlight … Maybe. Maybe not. Is Joe’s Self-Indulgent Theater from Ep. 116 (10/7/19) a Don Adams/Don Knotts mash-up/duet of Ice Ice Baby the highlight … YES! Biff, Joe and Jacques chat a couple tragic anniversaries this week … the 3/11/11 Eastern Japan Tsunami … as well as Jacques 2014 marriage anniversary to Management (which Biff was the officiant for (so this is HIS fault!) Jacques points out what a rock star Joe was last week helping pull...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 245
