Starting Out

It’s another doozy of a guest on Starting Out this week. If you’re a Canadian sports fans you know the name of today’s guest. He’s been the hockey columnist for the Globe and Mail, the author of the books Tales From the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hockey Fight in Canada, it’s Dave Shoalts. I met Dave at comedy open mics probably 5 years ago, and like his counterpart Gare Joyce, I always felt it was weird that I got to know someone who I was so familiar with. Thanks for listening, I hope you’re all well out there. 

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What an awesome guest I have for episode 103 of Starting Out. He’s another one of my comedy brothers, we’ve been doing it about the same amount of time (even though I learned in this episode he’s 18-years younger than me) it’s none other than Jesse Singh on Starting Out this week. Besides being an amazing comic, by day Jesse is also a youth worker and we spend a lot of time talking about that at the start of this episode. We talk about Jesse’s friend and future guest Johnny Batta a lot in this episode, as well as Jesse’s They’re Going Places Comedy Tour that he did with Moe Ismail and Abbas Wahab. Thanks for listening, give Jesse a follow @thepunjabitimbit. Thanks for supporting the show.

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My guest this week on Starting Out - which is sponsored by the pandemic "COVID" - is Hamitlon-based comedian, and video game creator, Bret Measor. Bret started standup a little after I did, and we used to have many deep conversations like the one you’re about to hear. Bret has gone through some loss in the last year, and we talk about death and grief in the second half of this episode.  Thanks for listening and supporting the pod, and don’t get COVID.

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We’re keeping things going with just another incredible comic, one of the sharpest writers in the game, and one of the genuinely kind people on a sometimes unkind business, it’s Rebecca Reeds on Starting Out this week! Rebecca is perhaps the first guest I’ve had who went from a serving job in a comedy club to an actual comic, and what it was like to not do her first set in the best comedy club in the country. Rebecca is the co-host of the fantastic podcast “The Villain Was Right” with future guest Craig Fay. They are over 200 episodes in and it’s such a great concept for a pod, you should check it out, and check Rebecca out on whatever show she is on, she is really one of the best doing it right now. Thanks for listening and all the support.

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Happy New Year! There was no other guest I wanted to have on to celebrate the 100th episode of Starting Out, than my best friend of almost 40 years, one of the most talented musicians I know, and for sure the most humble, it’s Dave Marcotte on to interview ME! Dave and I have been circling this episode for a while and I think we managed to deliver. Dave is an artist, a singer-songwriter and member of Polyester Heart which you need to check out. He came prepared with so many great questions about hosting this show. Thank you everyone for listening. Thank you each and every one of my amazing guests who have taken time to come on and share their stories.  Please continue to share and tell someone about the pod.

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It’s Episode 99 of Starting Out, and I wanted to have a special guest on to celebrate. He’s someone like few others who take the biggest swings on stage, it’s Garrett Jamieson! Garrett talks about the Humber program, sketch comedy, Crest Whitestrips, and a whole lot of chasing funny. You can follow him on Insta @gjpartyhugs, you can buy the album “Winnipeg Comedy” that was just released on Comedy Records, and hear Garrett singing on the recently released “Hello and Happy Holidays featuring Jack Armstrong”, also on Comedy Records. 

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Hoh boy, what a guest on Starting Out this week. It’s none other than the legend -  another one of the best comedians Canada has produced, it’s Mr. Rob Pue. I did a gig in Hamilton with Rob several years ago, I knew who he was, and I knew he was an insanely good comic. I was terrified then, and I was a little less so now. Rob has been in the game 26-years now, all as a full-time standup, no side hustles along the way. And now all that standup has resulted in him being a goddamn homeowner, all from comedy. Rob has done everything you can do, and has zero ego about anything he has achieved, which you’ll hear here. Thanks for listening and supporting. 

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My guest this week on Starting Out has been in the standup game for 11 years, and is a retired Canadian military reservist who spent 12 years in the Canadian army.  He is my only guest who has been deployed, it’s none other than Max Ross on Starting Out. Like a few past guests, Max at heart is a shy guy who doesn’t really want to be shy, and we had an awesome conversation, not unlike the ones we have in greenrooms at shows. Thanks for listening, thanks also to the few of you who have shared your year end Spotify stats where this podcast is on your most listened to list. Check out Max online @maxrosscomedy.

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This week’s guest on Starting Out I’ve had in my back pocket for a while. He started about a year and a half ahead of me in Hamilton, he was the first comic I got to geek out with my first night ever going to Ceili, and not only was he at my first ever spot, he might have been my first ever laugh, it’s Jordan Hoath on Starting Out. Jordan and I used to have so many great conversations before and after shows about standup, and all I wanted to was to replicate those on this episode, and I think we delivered. There is plenty of reminiscing about the Hamilton scene in this episode. Thanks for listening. 

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This week on Starting Out it’s someone who is somehow both established and a burgeoning talent in Canadian comedy, and maybe even the States. He’s an incredible headliner, producer, writer and actor in some of the funniest sketch comedy coming out of Toronto right now, Marc Anthony Sinagoga is on Starting Out this week. Fresh off the release of his debut album “Well Fed” which you can find on Spotify, Marc talks about growing up as an Italian class clown, going to the Humber College Comedy program, and figuring out the best way to become better and grow as a comic that wasn’t in downtown Toronto. Oh and he tells a story of getting his mom banned from a comedy club. It was absolutely hilarious, Check out Marc online at  linktr.ee/NOTMARCANTHONY

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