Carnival Personnel

Jacques and Joe continue podcasting from their homes (instead of just one home?) and talk about Bill Withers, Patriots to the rescue, the Cuomo Brothers, the best of quarantine Twitter, comic book industry worries, awful federal AND state government crisis responses, Tom Brady’s upcoming Howard Stern interview, and Resident Evil (kinda)! PLUS: Video games, TV picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Faceboo...

Jacques and Joe continue the coronavirus stay-at-home lockdown and yammer on about grocery shopping, unearthing old Beyond Id headshots, staying social while being distant, the economic stimulus bill, and remembering “Curly” Neal from the Harlem Globetrotters! PLUS: Sport (virtual and classic), Video games, TV picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twit...

Jacques and Joe record the podcast via FaceTime under self-quarantine as the world fights the coronavirus pandemic! But it’s not all doom and gloom: they also talk about Kenny Rogers passing (ok, bad example), Typhoid Mary for Women’s History Month (again, bad example), and the lost ‘90s British sitcom “Heil Honey, I’m Home” about the family life of… you know what, never mind! PLUS: Sport (postpon...

Jacques and Joe avoid physical contact due over coronavirus concerns and discuss the passing of James Lipton, Alex Trebek’s health update, a supercut of every “Cannon” guest star, 1940s Batman war propaganda, Jacques’ canceled military tour, and Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the presidential race. ALSO: Joe sings the “Beverly Hillbillies” theme as John Oliver on another Self-Indulgent Theater!...

Jacques and Joe celebrate Leap Day talking about 30 Rock’s Leap Day episode, Andrew “Dice” Clay’s “The Day the Laughter Died” double album, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, the coronavirus jeopardizing Jacques’ military tour, Elizabeth Warren on Colbert, and the proper use of Nazi scientists! PLUS: Sport, video games, TV picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carni...

Jacques and Joe discuss prepping jokes for Jacques’ upcoming warm-up gig and reminisce about their “comedy camp” in the ‘90s – writing bad sketch comedy for two weeks! ALSO: Boston rock radio station WAAF goes to Christian rock, Louis CK’s return to standup, Elizabeth Warren’s debate win over the corpse of Michael Bloomberg, a touching Richie Dunn story from Jacques, and Joe performs the “Fresh Pr...

Jacques and Joe talk about the Oscars, Valentine’s Day, questionable movie trailer song choices, the Great Reclining Airline Seat Debate, politics affecting family life, and Joe reads Academy Award winners as Adam Sandler! PLUS: Sport, video games, TV picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “All Pissed Off” by Dan Cray – https://dancray.net Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/...

Renatezky returns to join Jacques and Joe in the ramble-fest! Topics include Kirk Douglas, Jacques sees “Joker” and an obscure 2006 superhero movie “Zoom”, the Iowa Caucus debacle, the State of the Union, Trump’s impeachment acquittal, Black History Month, the Red Sox trading Mookie and Price to the Dodgers for a bag of magic beans, the return of the XFL, and Joe as Bernie Sanders singing “The Jef...

Jacques and Joe talk about the “Good Place” finale, a Betty White documentary, the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, the upcoming Iowa caucus, the Trump impeachment “trial” ending simultaneously with American democracy, and the tragic death of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. PLUS: Sport, video games, TV picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https://twit...

Jacques watched the Watchmen HBO series, Joe finally cut the cord, Lev Parnas interviewed by Rachel Maddow, Jeopardy! declared its Greatest of All Time champion, the Houston Astros and Alex Cora were caught cheating, the Trump impeachment “trial” gets underway, and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

New year, same rambling! Jacques and Joe catch up after being off for a month, talking about Christmas, TV, Star Wars, politics, and the future of Tom Brady and the Patriots! Also, they remember three legends who recently shuffled off this mortal coil: radio DJ Don Imus, Rush drummer Neil Peart, and comedy writer Buck Henry! PLUS: Sport, TV Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.fac...

Jacques dreams of a Barney Miller-themed Christmas tree and Joe stumbles through a few more “It’s a Wonderful Life” scenes in this sort-of Christmas episode! ALSO: Star Wars “Rise of Skywalker” and “Mandalorian” talk and the spoiler culture of social media, the impeachment proceedings, and is Jacques finally “done” with the Patriots?! PLUS: Sport, TV Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https...

Jacques and Joe gab about Hillary Clinton on Howard Stern, the “Peloton Wife” ad and Ryan Reynolds’ response, Kamala Harris dropping out of the presidential race, Trump the worldwide laughing stock, the annual Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special, Antonio Brown’s weekly gaffes and apologies, Die Hard, and whatever else grinds their gears this week! PLUS: Sport, TV Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE!...

Jacques and Joe discuss “The Mandalorian” and its breakout star “Baby Yoda”, Sasha Baron Cohen’s anti-hate-speech speech, Tesla’s fashion-backward Cybertruck, Fiona Hill’s impeachment inquiry testimony, Lindsay Graham’s emotional pro-Biden viral video, Gronk playing with Pats fans’ emotions, and Joe’s Self-Indulgent Theater rendition of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “White and Nerdy” as Bernie Sanders! PL...

Jacques and Joe recap Comics Come Home 25, Week 1 of the Trump impeachment inquiry, Roger Stone found guilty, Stephen Miller’s a—wait for it—white supremacist (!), Deval Patrick’s running for President, Sonic the Hedgehog’s movie makeover, Boba Fett’s less-is-more popularity, Dunkin’s fake meat push, and the new Disney+ streaming service, including a new "update" as to who shot first in Star Wars!...

Jacques and Joe waste an hour talking about the week that was: Hollywood Superman dies, a tragic accident at a Buffalo Wild Wings, Joe buys a Paul Lynde biography, Jacques thinks Back to the Future is racist, Don Jr. equates soldiers’ ultimate sacrifice with his family’s “struggle”, ABC News discovered to have killed the Jeffrey Epstein story back in 2016, and just for giggles, Joe recites a class...

Jacques and Joe talk about Halloween 2019, the Beer Fund Kid story (better late than never), Trump crying (?) after being booed the World Series, and famed NYC coroner Michael Baden questioning Jeff Epstein’s “suicide”! PLUS: Sport, Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing song: “To-Do List” by Dan Cray – https://dancray.net Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carni...

Jacques and Joe recap the week that was: Elijah Cummings’s funeral, the GOP storming an impeachment inquiry hearing, Scorsese and Coppola vs. the MCU, Joe sees “Joker”, Jacques gets “Star Wars” tickets, and more Patriots drama! ALSO: Self-Indulgent Theater featuring Joe as Paul Lynde as Linus in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip a...

Jacques returns from Saudi Arabia and is forced to pull the plug on video games… for now! RIP Bill Macy (Maude, The Jerk) and Rip Taylor! At least four more Trump news stories! And Tom Brady makes a cameo in a Paul Rudd show leaving a “massage parlor”! PLUS: Sport, Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https:...

Jacques and Joe yap about Batman ’66, the Joker movie, Bernie’s heart, other political nonsense, Brady on Tik Tok, and Self-Indulgent Theater presents Joe as Don Adams AND Don Knotts in a not-so-epic rap battle! PLUS: Sport, Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing song: “Namaste” by Dan Cray – https://dancray.net Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/...

Jacques and Joe talk about the Trump whistleblower, climate change marches, Spider-Man’s return to the MCU, the end (?) of the Mass Pirates, and Joe performs monologues from The Dark Knight Rises as Bane and Alfred in Self-Indulgent Theater! PLUS: Sport, Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing song: “Love” by Dan Cray – https://dancray.net Facebook:  https://www.fa...

Jacques and Joe celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary by recording a Sideshow about all things Batman so long that Batman turns 81 at the end. Hand us the Bat-Editing Software, young Robin! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe talk about Antonio Brown’s short career as a Patriot, 1930s football movies, the Climate Change Strike, Justin Trudeau’s brownface scandal, the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower, and other junk! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing song: “Wait” by Dan Cray – https://dancray.net Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https:...

Jacques and Joe spent one magical evening together watching failed TV pilots from the ‘80s and ‘90s: “Lookwell” (Adam West), “Where’s Rodney?” (Rodney Dangerfield), and the legendary “Heat Vision and Jack” (Jack Black)! Top it off with a little “Lidsville” (Sid & Marty Krofft, Charles Nelson Reilly) and the Hollywood—er, “Storybook Squares” (Paul Lynde)—and you can guarantee neither of them had an...

Jacques and Joe yap about Hurricane Dorian, Sony vs. Marvel, new Iggy Pop and Pixies albums, Jerry Lewis Telethon memories, Antonio Brown, and those darling New England Patriots! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast