Half Hearted

Matt Baxter is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and podcast host in this episode. We discussed his battles with addiction his recent conversion to Christianity and starting over and stand-up comedy.

Harvasp Khatow is a Toronto Bay stand-up comedian that has performed across north America. He is also the producer of a monthly Desi (Hinglish) comedy show called Harvin friends in downtown Toronto at the Backroom Comedy Club.

Jerry Corley has 30+ years as a touring, professional, comedian, comedy, writer, and screen. Writer with multiple television appearances as a standup. As a writer, Corley has eight years writing for the tonight show with Jay Leno and a screenplay to his credit called stretch which stars, Chris Pine, Ray, Liotta, and Jessica Alba. As a comedy educator owns and operates the stand-up comedy in Burbank, California, and is the author of Breaking Comedy’s DNA.

Chris Robinson is a Toronto based stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Chris will be starring in the upcoming CBC show one more time coming out in January 2024. he is also a series regular on Crave’s ‘Pillow Talk’. As an actor, he has appeared on Netflix, Netflix, Amazon, CMT, and various other TV and Internet commercials. As a stand-up comic Chris’ accomplishments include releasing his special ‘Panning for Gold’ being runner up for Just for Laughs homegrown competition and being crowned SiriusXM top comic, and being featured at JFL Northwest in Vancouver.

James Cummins is a Brampton born Toronto-based standup comedian. James has quickly becoming known as one of the most fun house and comics in the city. His career wish, began under the alias “JamEasy”, has seen a significant evolution over the past six years. Today James tours across Canada consistently refining his art with the goal of becoming a leading headliner in Comedy. In this podcast, we talk about his upbringing, his love of music and finding his place in Comedy.

Chris Beckett is an amateur astronomer in Astronomy educator base out of Regina, Saskatchewan. He is the cohost of the Actual Astronomy podcast.

Danton Lamar is an American comic now living in Toronto. He owns and operates both a Comedy lab and Werd entertainment. He’s also a Podcaster writer, actor and one of my favourite people in the Toronto scene.

In this episode I sit down with Toronto based comic, Joe Arsenal. We discussed being raised is an atheist by drug dealer parents. Coming out of the closet in the 90s and seeing societies views of LGBTQ people change. We discuss Joe’s divorce discovery of both Catholicism and stand-up comedy.

Patrick Hakeem is one of Canada’s quickest rising comedians. Hakeem has performed at JFL42, Icebreakers, Ice Cold, Zoofest and NXNE festivals, to name a few. He has also been featured on Sirius XM & CBC radio.

Hailing from Montreal, the half Syrian, half Ecuadorian Hakeem grew up in an all Italian neighbourhood. Hakeem speaks to a multicultural experience and has a unique perspective. Patrick is known for his ability to have fun with the audience while delighting them with his charm and his heart-felt fueled rants.

Matt Render is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and fitness/meditation enthusiast. He also co-hosts the podcast “2 Gingers 1 Mic”.