S&M Comedy Podcast

Hola!  Long time, no speak?  No stream?  No download?  Whatever.  You get the drift.

The reason we're here now is because we gots some shit to share now!  Aren't you glad that we haven't just been constantly putting out content even though we actually have nothing of any value to present?  Don't you wish ALL podcasters valued your time as much as we do?  Holy shit what a beautiful world that would be.

But we're here to talk about shit, not just talk shit.  The first shit we have to talk about is the valiant return of First Friday Comedy at Lawn Gnome Publishing!  We'll be back at the independentest little bookstore on Roosevelt Row at 10pm on Friday, September Fourth, after a brutal summer off.  This time around, we'll be featuring Zed Phillips, Erin Ontko, and Steve Maxwell!  Come out, BYOB, and help us kick off another fantastic season in the backyard!

The second shits we're here to talk about is The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour at ThirdSpace!  Mishka Shubaly, JT Habersaat, and Ron Babcock will be blowing the roof off of ThirdSpace on Grand Avenue at 7pm on Saturday, September Fifth!  This show, with all this talent, is unbelievably free!    Get out to ThirdSpace for this very special Saturday night comedy extravaganza!  (see, Steve, I remembered the links!)

Jamie had the distinguished honor of appearing on the Wednesday Morning Surf Report Podcast, plugging these here very shows and some other stuff.  But mainly plugging these shows.

Alright, that about does it for us!  Thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Cranky, Grumpy, Curmudgeony, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Episode 100!  We've finally made it to Episode 100!  We've hemmed and hawed, dawdled and dallied, and just generally put it off, but it's finally here...and we could think of no more fitting interview to grace this hallowed ground than one with Stuart Mazzeo!

Why Mazzeo, you ask?  Well, because we're the few guys that ever give him a chance to get on stage in PHX.  And because we love the guy and he loves us.  He's been banned from lots of stages for his various shenanigans, he bombs catastrophically as much as he crushes, he alienates audiences as much as he endears them, but he's always welcome on an S&M Comedy stage.  When he does well, it's brilliant, like one for the books.  When he doesn't do well, it's like someone shouted "FIRE!" in the room, and it's equally brilliant.  We've drawn heat for putting Mazzeo on our shows because of his polarizing wild card factor, but just like Stuart, we don't give a fuck what anyone thinks about it.

Like him or not onstage, today you'll get to hear about Mazzeo's upbringing in Utica, NY, moving to PHX, living homeless, giving to charities while living in poverty, troubles with the law, and being Alice Cooper.  It's a long one.  Buckle up.

We don't really have a whole lot of shows coming up; Steve is performing in the Southeast Comedy Arts Festival next week, so Jamie will be helping out at ThirdSpace on Thursday.

Hey, speaking of ThirdSpace- The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour with Mishka Shubaly and Ron Babcock will be swinging by on September 5th!  Get there, and don't fuck around!

That's about it; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Polarizing, Dividing, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Well hi there!  Yeah, we haven't been up to much, but we finally got a reason to post something again, so here it is!

There has been a lot of hubub about the new and mysterious Big Pine Comedy Festival, lots of questions, lots of rumours and speculation.  So we decided to right to the source and get some answers on record and thrust them out into the internet where they belong, where everyone can ignore the actual official information and continue speculation and rumour slanging.  (c'mon, comedians on Facebook, we see how you are)

We hope you enjoy and learn from this brief little conversation with Genevieve Rice, spearhead of the Big Pine Comedy Festival.  We hope all your questions are answered, we hope you have a burning passion for comedy in Arizona ignited deep in your soul, and we hope you submit, attend, and make sweet love to the first annual Big Pine Comedy Festival!

Thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Big and Piney Independent Comedy Scene!

Hey!  Gotta be quick!  There's some serious laying around and not doing shit that we've got to get back to!

Comicon was quite fantastic.  Our show on Friday had some serious butts in seats, and Saturday had a great turnout for a midnight show, and This Day was just as special as a This Day can be.  Thanks to all the comics who performed, thanks to all the Comicon guests that allowed a little S&M in their lives, thanks to Ben Lewis for having Jamie on his Saturday show, and most importantly, thanks to all the Comicon volunteers that were unbelievably sweet and awesome, and to the sound guys at the Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom.  They were straight thugs.

Now we have pretty much a whole summer off.  Not sure what we're going to do with it, other than try to stay out of the sun as much as possible.  Steve's working on music, and Jamie's learning how to not kill plants.  Steve is doing better than Jamie, let's just say that.

We'll see what the future has in store, until then, keep your ears peeled for episode 100, look for us at House of Comedy and Laff's, and thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Amazing, Spectacular, Uncanny Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Hey bubbas! Thanks for coming back! We've finally got us a real podcast to share with you! It's like we're real podcast boys! We got no strings to hold us down, and whatnot!

Today's fantastic podcast it with Chad Daniels, a magnificently snarky man, hailing from Minneapolis, MN. He was down here for a weekend at Stand Up Scottsdale, and he very generously took time out of a lovely weekend to lock himself in his hotel room with us and chat about comedy, raisin' some kids, and fucking with audiences. We had a great time having a really fun conversation with a swell guy, filled with exceptional gratitude for his station in life and how it came to be. You'll enjoy this podcast today. Get on it.

Steve will be hosting at Laff's in Tucson all weekend, Fri-Sunday. It's a long weekend, head down, grab some Rocco's and say hi to Hoodie!

Jamie will be at House of Comedy on Tuesday for the Funniest Person with a Day Job contest. Email [email protected] if you'd like free tickets!

We're back at Comicon this year! Friday, 5/29, 10pm, Saturday, 5/30, midnight, and a very comicon edition of This Day in History on Sunday, 5/31 at noon!

Go to Chad's website, Faceybook, and the place where he leaks tweets all day.

Be sure to check out an animated clip of Chad's "Press Conference" bit!  It's pretty cool!  Do you have fans animating your bits?  No, I didn't think so.

Also, check out his "As Is" YouTube special, recorded at ACME Comedy Co in Minneapolis!

Thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Flapdaddlin', Hoohahin' Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Howdy everybody!  Yeah, still no podcast.  We're lazy as fuckballs.  Prolonging the inevitable.  What inevitable?  You know, the inevitable.

Nothin' new here, really.  Space 55 was excellent.  This Day in History is unequivocal fun.

Steve, as you read this, was just in House of Comedy's "Funniest Person with a Day Job" contest...and he advanced!  Along with Leslie Barton, Charlie Speez, and Tim Bateman, Steve has advanced to the next round in the contest, date to be determined.  Jamie will be out for his preliminary show on 5/26!  Won't you be on his guest list?

Jamie will be on a very special show created by Alex Lemoine at Trunk Space this Tuesday, 5/19!  Bring a mere $5 for Eroticanonymous!

Steve and Jamie will both be in Tucson this Sunday for The Southwest LaughFest, presented by Gibbs Saad's LaughterHours Comedy!

And don't forget!  S&M Comedy events at Comicon!  Friday!  Saturday!  And Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Alright.  Enough of that shit.  Thanks for for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Bookish, Twerpy, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Where's the podcast?  Man, eventually.  There's like, almost 100 episodes you can go listen to, so go get 'em.

Space 55 is this Friday!  Get out to 636 E Pierce St for another edition of This Day in History!  Multiple comics writing many jokes about many topics, all that have occurred on May 8ths throughout history!  Doesn't that sound exciting, you nerd fucker, you?  Then get out to Space 55, this Friday at 10.30pm, bring $5 to donate to the space, and have a couple laughs!

Next Tuesday, Steve will be out at House of Comedy, performing on the "Funniest Person with a Day Job" contest!  Speaking of which, Jamie will be out at House of Comedy on 5/26, also performing on the "Funniest Person with a Day Job" contest!

Tuesday, 5/19, come out to The Trunk Space for the debut of Alex Lemoine's Eroticanonymous, erotic fan fiction by local comedians like S&M, NegativSteve, Matt Micheletti, and more!  It's gonna get weird!

And, of course Comicon is looming large over us, like The Incredible Hulk or Juggernaut or someone else very large.  Prepare.

That's about it for us, thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Sultry, Smoldering, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Nah, we don't have a real podcast for you.  We're feeling lazy.

What we do have for you however, is a fantastic lineup this Friday at Lawn Gnome Publishing, featuring Los Angelesians Tyler Menzarich, Bret Banta, and Jay Light, not to mention the Phantastic Phoenicians Josh Graves, Leslie Barton, John Connell, and Kristofer Royer!  Lawn Gnome is, as you already know, deep in the heart of the First Friday Art Walk, the home of PHX's independent art scene, and just a place where really cool shit happens.  And not just our show, mind you, Aaron Hopkins-Johnson has created a space where artists of all styles and mediums come together to entertain and learn and share and grow and all that shit.

Why, this very Thursday, Jamie will be out there at Lawn Gnome this Thursday for Matt Storrs'ses's Pep Rally show!  The theme this week?  TEETH!  Jamie's got shit to say about teeth, trust us.

Next week we'll be back at Space 55 for This Day in History, so bone up on your May 8th happenings and see what kinda bullshit we'll be shovelin'!

Speaking of This Day in History, there will be another super special one later this month at PHX Comicon!  Add in our regular Friday and Saturday shows, and you've got a formula for not getting much sleep!  WOOHOO!

That about does it for us; thanks for listening, and keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Rapidly Warming, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Hola, people!  Time for a quick little update and then back to clippin' coupons or whatever the hell it is you do.

Dan Hull's Bad Buddhist is now officially in the books!  Steve was out at Space 55 for the filming of the one-man show, and was pleased to report great turnouts of receptive audiences, eager to support!  Now it's off to post-production and we'll see what becomes of all of Hull's great work!

This Friday, Jamie will be out at the sideroom of Stand Up Scottsdale, wielding a bulky 20 minute set for Total Class Comedy!  You should get out there, because who knows the next time Jamie's going to be on stage for 20 minutes on purpose?

Next week, we'll be back at Lawn Gnome Publishing for what may be the last First Friday Comedy of the first half of the 2015th year!  We're bringing out a couple friends from Los Angeles as well as some local schlubs, so come out and make everyone feel welcome!

Stay tuned for more info on This Day in History at Space 55 and S&M Comedy invading Phoenix Comicon!

Thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting Live, Local, Sophisticated, Elegant, Independent PHX Comedy Scene!

Holy crap!  Episode 98!  And a fun one it is, so hop on in; the water's fine!

Today's fabulous interview is with super busy local comic Gene Moore.  Gene's a good friend of ours, always greeting us with an enormous smile and an enveloping hug.  We're really glad he took time out this weekend in between daytime performances at PHX Pride and evening shows at local clubs to sit down and chat with us.

This is a great conversation; we delve deeply into his past, with his childhood, his military service, and his rocky family life.  It was only after bouncing from city to city and finally landing in PHX that he discovered his calling in comedy.  This is a fun talk, with lots of heavy information, so sit back and enjoy it.

When you get done, be sure to head over to Gene's Facebook page to stay up to date on all upcoming shows, like Standups for Diversity, coming soon to a Tempe Center for the Arts near you!

Also, if you have the need to be a part of a monumental occasion in a man's life, head over to Space 55 this Friday and Saturday for Bad Buddhist, Dan Hull's one man show, being filmed for all of perpetuity!

You'll want to pitch a tent on the lawn of Space 55, because the following Saturday will see the monthly return of The Storrs Objection!

Thanks for listening; keep coming out to shows and supporting the Live, Local, Dignified, Righteous, Courtly Independent PHX Comedy Scene!