The Joe Pontillo Show

A new episode! Why? Joe and Brian and a special guest (kind of) get together to discuss the Wonder Woman sequel, the comedy wars, comedy venues closing, and the downfall of comic books. It's the year end wrap up you've been waiting for and also a great way to start the new year. So forget that the country is on fire and let us distract with our barely coherent rantings. 

Joe and Brian are back! Tom Kelly joins us to discuss the death and possible rebirth of New York. A praying mantis nearly derails the show and we attack Governor Cuomo as well as the comedy scene. Joe and Tom talk about their bonding experience in Florida back in 2006. Also Tom bought Instagram followers and used to do warmup for "The View' making him one of our most famous guests. 

We are finally back and holy crap what a loaded episode. We talk about the lockdown, the death and rebirth of stand up comedy, all the gigs that Joe did before everything went to hell, social media, movies, and barbers? We recorded this episode outside so enjoy the background noise of birds and helicopters. 

Joe and the gang (Brian) are back mainly to discuss the latest Star Wars movie. But also since we took such a long hiatus we also touch on the Joker movie, the comedy civil war, and Joe's America's Got Talent audition. 2019 year in review! 

This episode is kind of a throwback where *gasps* we actually discuss comedy for a full hour. Neil Charles, originally from New York and now living in Los Angeles sits down with Joe minus Brian Hogan who is with us in spirit.  We discuss auditioning for TV shows, bringer shows, Eddie Murphy's return to comedy, comics visiting other cities, and comedians who give each other unwanted notes. 

Joe and Brian are reunited and it's only mildly exciting. We jump right into the comedy chaos that went down online over the weekend which has us wondering, where does it end?  Joe tries to prove he's a nice guy and explains how he feels reinvigorated while performing recently. We also discuss the early days of the Long Island comedy scene, our shared hatred of Impractical Jokers and give a spoiler-y review of Spider-man: Far From Home. Get ready to cancel us! 

It's our 50th episode, that we don't really celebrate. We also finally discuss Avengers: Endgame which has been ruining both Joe and Brian's lives for several weeks.  We don't really do a review though we just kind of make a bunch of ridiculous statements and Joe points out all the things that ultimately bothered him about the movie. Major spoilers! Also, duh. In addition to Endgame, we also discuss the 20th anniversary of The Sopranos and the finale of Game of Thrones a show which Joe has never actually watched. 

Took a while but we're back and on this episode Joe gives his long awaited (by no one) review of Captain Marvel. Bad news for the internet, Joe liked it but he took a lot of time to try and understand your hatred of the character, the actress, and possibly your general displeasure with Hollywood.  Oh yeah ***SPOILER-Y REVIEW*** Also Joe talks about how he fell off the wagon and did another roast battle and has once again retired from the circuit. 

Oh no, we're back again and this time we have Mike Calcagno on to discuss some recent gigs he and Joe did together and find out why he's doing comedy. We also talk about the Oscar's, Joe sort of reviews Aquaman and then we have a real breakthrough in the last five minutes of the show, so stick around! 

We are back for some reason with a kind of end of the year wrap up that's sort of a big mess. We attempted to discuss all of the big comedy news of 2018 and then fail miserably. Joe finally saw Black Panther and also shares his thoughts on Venom. Brian tells a story that goes nowhere and Joe tells a story that almost goes somewhere but not quite.