Sitting Down With Stand Ups

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Detroit area comic and show runner Jon McCaffery. Jon compares SDWSU's racial ticks to the Washington Redskins, We talk about Jon's experiences with organizing comedy venues and how being apart of funny and off the chain type family filled the tank on his outlook on humor. We read hate mail , run our tabloid reads and Jon takes on the SDWSU team in the house favorite.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Ann Arbor area comic Brandon Young. Brandon organizes the Paul Bunyan Comedy Festival in Oscoda, MI. We talk about some comedy competition strategies, some of the goings on in the San Diego scene, Walt Disney's racist cryogenically frozen head and Brandon's brother going in to stand up clearing his own path into comedy. We read hate mail, We run our tabloid read and Brandon takes on the SDWSU team in the house favorite.

Dave, Marcco and sound guy Dom welcome Flint area comic Matt Bach. We talk about Blockbuster video never carrying pornography as a huge business flaw, more of Dave's moving saga, Matt's connection to being Macedonian and how the internet killed his dream of journalism. We read hate mail and Matt takes on Dave and Dom in SDWSU's house favorite.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Steven G. Sullivan welcome Detroit area comic Sean Isbell. Sean and Dave bond over military service, Sean and Melanie bond over being adopted then coin an affectionate term for people like them, "Adopto", that he looks like a fatter version of Star Fleet Captin, Jean Luke Piccard and how being close to his Godfather's blue collar lifestyle trenched out his comedic ideals. We read some hate mail and Sean takes on the SDWSU team in the house favorite.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Detroit area acting troupe, The Spotlight Players. They work out of the Canton Village Theatre in Canton, MI. We talk about the ins and outs of their upcoming show "Annie", we meet the shows director and some of the cast and the SDWSU team tows the G-rated line to celebrate our 1st 10 yr old guest.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Detroit area comic Justin Pedick. Justin talks about being told he has to grow into his potential acting career, Anthony Slanda pitches an odd Melanie Gresham fan club, we have a Blue's Clues breakdown and how Justin's mother's advice on looking to acting in high school is setting his comedy pace. We read some hate mail, run our tabloid reads and Justin takes on the SDWSU team in the house favorite.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Detroit area comic Justin Siekierka. We talk about Justin’s venue at The Liberty Street Brewing Co in Plymouth, MI. How Justin’s quirky military father has rubbed off on him comedically, His love of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show” and how a bet to impress a chick he’d never go out with more than once got him on the stage for the first time.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, sound guy Dom and sit in specialist Anthony Slanda welcome Detroit comic Alton “Boogie” Williams. Boogie tells us about an assist from fellow Detroit comic Howie Bell in LA that got him hooked up with “Hart of the City" how excited he is to take his family to New York with him to watch him perform on Broadway and how the nurturing efforts of his mother set the table for believing in a shot at comedy. Boogie plays our foreign sponsors game, the house favorite and we read hate mai

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, Dani and sound guy Dom welcome Detroit comic Nick Pazzuti. We talk about Nick's likeness to Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, we have to exercise the sidebar alarms to show Dani we're serious and Nick sells us on the idea of playing favorites to heavily with clean comedy. Nick and the SDWSU team run our tabloid reads, Then Nick tries his luck against the SDWSU team in the house favorite.

Dave, Marcco, Melanie, Dani and sound guy Dom, with the help of sit in specialist Tom Swan, welcome old school comic and ex Tonight Show comedy writer Chili Challis. Chili packed some heat in the form of current Clean Comedy Challenge Champ Steve Smargon. We barely scratched the surface with Chili and Steve but Chili had us pinned with incredible stories and scenarios from some of his road comic and Tonight Show days and Steve keys us in on what it took for him to eventually champ up.