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EPISODE #45

APRIL 15, 2019

GUY STANLEY

PHILOCHE

Haitian-born, Connecticut-raised and Yale-educated modern artist Guy Stanley Philoche immigrated to Connecticut when he was three. As the middle child of three boys and coming from a family of sports enthusiasts whose passion he didn’t share, Philoche turned to art as his calling. While remaining close to his Haitian Roots, Philoche was the only son to buck his culture’s tradition of the entire family living together and struck out on his own – first attending Paier College of Art and then Yale. He now lives in New York City.

For the past 15 years, Guy Stanley Philoche has been attracting international attention with his work and his impressive roster of solo shows. As an artist, Guy’s palette is strong and sophisticated.  His layering technique has created a body of paintings so richly textured that one can hardly hold back from reaching out and touching the canvas. In fact, it is the artist’s intent and wish that the viewer will follow their desire to reach out and feel the different textures of his canvases. His work is for the viewer’s pleasure, to be fully enjoyed from a tactile standpoint, and he has varnished the canvases for exactly that reason.

After surviving a brain tumor and failing out of college, Matty Goldberg began his comedy career in 2001.  Before making his move from New York to Los Angeles, Matty appeared on BET and starred in an online advertising campaign for Converse called “Out of Your League Guy;” where he inspired kids to go for their dreams, while simultaneously creeping out girls all over the globe.

When Matty is not acting, he is performing stand-up everywhere and anywhere people want to laugh.  His upcoming memoir is highly anticipated and starts with the diagnosis of his tumor to the death of his best friend in life and in comedy a little over a year ago.  Matty gives an honest portrayal of starting out in the New York comedy scene to finding the meaning of life through the oddball characters he has met along the way.

Patrick Monahan is a comedian and writer living in New York City. Since 2014, he has been performing all over New York City at venues such as New York Comedy Club, The Creek and the Cave, and Eastville Comedy Club, as well as numerous independent comedy shows. In 2017 he appeared at Hell Yes Fest. His interview with stars Ari Graynor and Michael Angarano was a featured part of Showtime's promotion of its series "I'm Dying Up Here".  Patrick runs a weekly comedy showcase on Fridays at Karma Lounge in the East Village, and co-hosts the popular comedy podcast What A Time To Be Alive.

Patrick has written for Above Average, Bleacher Report and Paper Magazine, and his writing and online antics have also been featured in numerous media outlets including Funny or Die, Esquire, GQ, Playboy, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Someecards, Paste Magazine, Complex, and Mandatory. His Twitter account, @pattymo, was one of Splitsider's 15 Funniest Twitter Accounts of 2017 and number 14 of Paste Magazine's 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2016. He can never come up with a funny ending for these bio things.

Lance Weiss is a comedian, actor, and writer based in NYC.  He most recently served as a co-executive producer as well as an on-camera talent for KarmaNetwork.com‘s comedy sketch show Hey Gordon. Prior to this, he was co-host of CNBC’s “Common Cents” on digital channel Make It, as well as a co-host in several videos for Conde Nast’s channel The Scene. He was a Top 4 finalist in CMT’s “Next Big Comic”, and has been seen on NBC’s “The Today Show,” FOX’s “Laughs,” MTV’s “World of Jenks,” Bravo’s “The Love Broker,” PBS, Comcast, NY1, NY’s FOX 5, Sirius/XM, Today.com, Cosmo.com, AOL.com, NYmag.com, Aboveaverage.com, VisitFlorida.com, Complex News, and in the NY Times, NY Post, and commercials for AT&T, Bud Light, Kit Kat, Liberty Mutual, IBM, and MLB.com. He has written for CNBC.com’s “Common Cents,” MTV’s Video-on-Demand, HuffingtonPost.com’s “Celebrities Have Issues,” Luckymag.com, Elite Daily, Storia.me, EpicThings.com, Dramafever.com, and Borsheims Jewelry campaigns, as well as several television pilots.

Lance was a semi-finalist in the New York Comedy Festival’s “NY’s Funniest Standup Competition,” and he has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, San Francisco Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival, Woodstock Comedy Festival, Magners Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival and a bunch more. His one-man show, “Wine And Questions With Weiss” debuted at The Pit Theater in NYC

Lance is co-creator of the popular comedy show “Gandhi, Is That You?” which Time Out New York has chosen as one of their Critics’ Picks as well as calling it “Wildly popular” and one of “The best weekly comedy shows in NYC.”  It was part of the NY Comedy Festival presented by Comedy Central.  The show also had a 3 year run at UCB Theatre East.  Lance co-created and hosted two weekly comedy shows “Anyone Can Be President, Even Us,” and “Grab Them By The Politics” @ Carolines on Broadway leading up to the 2017 Inauguration and thereafter.  He co-created and starred in the viral video Trump or Porn? which was featured on the Funny or Die homepage. He’s the co-host of two podcasts that he would love for you to check out, the Gandhi Show Podcast and Crazy New York Stories. He loves skateboarding & surfing, is passionate about healthy foods, and he likes cool socks and groovy hats.

Mike Sembos is a music writer based in New Haven, CT. He's talked to folks like Merle Haggard, Yoko Ono, Graham Nash, Wayne Coyne, Black Francis, and all surviving members of the Grateful Dead. He'd love to talk to you too: 203.927.3648 or [email protected].

Menuhin Hart, born on December 19, 1983, started his life in the Bronx, NY where he was raised for the first eight years of his life. In 1992, he moved to Atlanta, GA where he discovered his aptitude and zeal for making people laugh. As his friends would call him the “class clown,” Menuhin filled even the classrooms with constant laughter with pranks and his comical wit. It didn’t take long for the school to recognize his talent and asked him to play Chris Rock for the school play, honoring the Black History Month. The crowd was filled with unexpected hilarity as Menuhin took over the show. But comedy wasn’t the only talent Menuhin came across. His creativity led him elsewhere: music production, audio engineering, DJing, computer IT, cosmetology, and pizza making! He thrived in all these careers until he hit a gaping creative void in 2009.

He was confined in his career loss and his only way of pulling himself together was by turning his life experiences into jokes for people who came to laugh and relate with him. Although he performed at grungy local bars where the only impressions were ineradicable cigarette smells and a small crowd, hearing even the quietest chuckle was enough for him to pursue his career of comedy. He spent the next two years performing at Urban Grind, The Basement Theatre, and eventually performed at better-known comedy clubs: The Relapse and The Punchline. And just as life always has, Menuhin was hit with another calamity in his career and he realized he was ready for more – New York.

Menuhin moved back to his roots and within a few years he opened for Thomas Dale at Caroline’s, making it as a semi-finalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity, creating personal podcasts “Netflix Campfire” and “Vintage Static” with self-made voice-overs, writing sketches, producing music for other comics such as Dante Nero’s podcast Beige Philip, beatboxing on MTV2′s Joking Off, and performing at Gotham Comedy Club, The Stand, The Standing Room, Eastville Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, and more. And he continues to be well known amongst New York comics to be the “class clown.”

After 12 years of living in Suzhou, China, opening Mister Softee China Ice Cream, co-founding the Kung Fu Komedy Club in Shanghai and touring as a comedian all over Asia, Turner is now based in Brooklyn, New York.   

If you want to listen to him talk every week, subscribe to the Lost In America Podcast he hosts with Michael Ira Kaplan.

The triumphant return of Dan Kalwhite! Fun ensues!

Haitian-born, Connecticut-raised and Yale-educated modern artist Guy Stanley Philoche immigrated to Connecticut when he was three. As the middle child of three boys and coming from a family of sports enthusiasts whose passion he didn’t share, Philoche turned to art as his calling. While remaining close to his Haitian Roots, Philoche was the only son to buck his culture’s tradition of the entire family living together and struck out on his own – first attending Paier College of Art and then Yale. He now lives in New York City.

For the past 15 years, Guy Stanley Philoche has been attracting international attention with his work and his impressive roster of solo shows. As an artist, Guy’s palette is strong and sophisticated.  His layering technique has created a body of paintings so richly textured that one can hardly hold back from reaching out and touching the canvas. In fact, it is the artist’s intent and wish that the viewer will follow their desire to reach out and feel the different textures of his canvases. His work is for the viewer’s pleasure, to be fully enjoyed from a tactile standpoint, and he has varnished the canvases for exactly that reason.