What's So Funny?

Brett Martin returns and gets the full Sam Tonning experience. Usually when the two get together, Martin is in charge at his monthly live talk show, The Brett Martin Show, where Tonning is the Ed McMahon to his Johnny Carson. But in this episode, Sammy got to talk as much as he wants because he was also in charge of pushing all the buttons.

Harris Anderson and Andrew Huzar are Sam Tonning's guests in this episode. Sam gets to yacht rock out and play comedy clips and the gang talks comedy, as you might expect. Regular host Guy MacPherson was vacating on this one.

Ross Dauk returns for his second go-around with us. We talk about how What's So Funny? created celebrities in his mind out of local comics, discuss overdone bits in standup, and debate the subjectivity/objectivity of comedy.

Dylan Rhymer helps ring in a very low-key, but special, episode number 500-ish. There have been more that have been lost to the ether over the last 14 years, but who's counting? We caught Dylan back in Vancouver after a stint in Europe and a Canadian tour so we were lucky to get him for our celebration.

Ivan Decker is winning so much he gets to come back to What's So Funny? less than a year after his last appearance. In this episode we talk about his big Juno Award win and the more recent news of his upcoming Netflix taping. It's a good time to be Ivan Decker.

Stuart Jones makes his What's So Funny? debut telling us all about his hierarchy of nerd-dom. Spoiler: Magic cards are at the top. Sam Tonning does the heavy lifting in this one, as regular host Guy MacPherson just pops up occasionally with questions and comments.

Damonde Tschritter makes his long-awaited return to the show. The veteran standup has a sports analogy for every situation. He talks about being the King of Parksville as a youth, having one degree of separation between himself and everyone, beating some big names in the Seattle International Comedy Competition, and doing ayahuasca/iowasca, which led to his one-man Fringe hit show, which led to a part in a movie.

Larke Miller makes her second guest appearance with us after an eight-year absence. The standup comic/Queen of the Monkeys tells us about her time in L.A.'s The Groundlings, guesting on Craig Ferguson, her love of space aliens and swinging on a trapeze.

Graham Clark makes his triumphant return to What's So Funny? after six long years and reveals a fact about himself heretofore only friends and family knew about. Our conversation covers such topics as the forgotten condiment, punching up, murderous ideologies, carny crime, Branson Missouri, and the value in putting yourself out there. Plus, Graham contributes two quality jokes in our New Joke/Old Joke segment.

Myq Kaplan returns to the show with a wide-ranging (and long!) conversation about robots, trees in Brooklyn, poop jokes, Jeopardy, Nickelback, language, favourites, Dimethyltryptamine, and jokes.