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Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss the definition of passive aggressive-dar, doing busy work at a part-time job, spider sense that Dads develop with toddlers, a funny Kevin Hart parenting reference, the stages of being a gaijin (foreigner) in Japan, and parsing competing parental speak. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan, w...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss punctuality and timing, writing comic screenplays, Mark's experience in writing music parodies for radio and ignoring the producers, Mark's radio stories and how they are too wild to be in a fiction screenplay, how Mark finds comedy in The Sopranos and Goodfellas, and Mark's epic Enya April Fool's joke on live radio. Talk Funny is a show about comedia...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard talk about the Netflix drama Billions, Designated Survivor, and the inane person-splaining in the scripts, they discuss a bizarre radio show they may or may not have appeared on, analog radio vs. podcasting, a nightmare venue owner we dealt with, who and where is April Cash, Jewish Karma, and the comedy scam practices known as pay-to-play and bringer shows. T...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard joke about how Japan is a safe country if you don't count second hand smoke, Japan's take on the population problem, sleeping students in class and where have all the manners gone, trying to find a likeable character on the Netflix show Billions, and pizza toppings in Japan. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in com...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard joke about pet peeves in commuting, what do non-smoking signs on the streets mean in Japan, where is smoking not fine, and why are only non-Japanese required to follow Japanese rules. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan, writing comedy, working, doing stand up, and getting paid in comedy in Japan....

Comedians Mark Bailey and Tim Lennane joke about things comedians hear all the time from civilians, problems with having a dog while married, how women treat guys like dogs and sex like an Italian dessert, Mark riffs on the last time a couple he knows very well had sex, the trend of the incel movement, and Mark and Tim parody some pop songs. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all o...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Tim Lennane discuss Mark the aspiring young drummer and recent live gigs, expat art activity in the Nagoya scene, how foreigners all look alike to Japanese here, unexpected reasons to have a business in Japan, Mark's experiment with Manzai comedy in English on stage, rich friends that do not understand day jobs, fun mafia and police harassment stories in Japan, and how ou...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard muse about a shabby office as a metaphor, the frailty of comedy clubs dropping like flies, how karma is a cruel yenta mistress, Mark explains why the Netflix drama Billions is not completely realistic, why Mark's voice is hoarse today, Mark and Steve explain doors to people in Japan, how elevator negotiations resemble a Cheap Trick hit song, and male ailments...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard reflect on changes in their stage presence and explain stage mic theory, what performing in front of the mob taught Mark as a comic, more reflections on the infamous typhoon show and another show from earlier this year, and Mark's comebacks to a lackluster crowd. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard joke about internet publishing censorship issues, why Silicon Valley is either the new Don Kirshner or they are the mob, and what will happen when our AI overlords take over safari parks. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan, writing comedy, working, doing stand up, and getting paid in comedy in Jap...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Tim Lennane warn and joke about when a woman likes you and it goes downhill from there, the correct Johnny Carson quote on divorce as it was coined by that comedian, how have Mark and Tim changed their stage presence while dealing with expat crowds in Japan, one of our most infamous comedy shows that happened during a typhoon, why we have less hecklers and less comics tha...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Tim Lennane warn and joke about training months in Japan for police, the 8 stages of bicycling while gaijin harrassment by police and how it results in Mark singing Finesse the Police, being a GWA Gaijin with Attitude, do police ever talk to each other in Japan?, is Mark's wife undercover police, why its not law and order in Japan, and how Mark could have solved the polic...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller joke about the difference between 3rd grade in school and the twitterverse now, Mike Miller has a tit for tat with comic Dave Smith, our homage to the late great comedian Victor Borge, the comedy movie Office Space, and Mad magazine and its influence on us as comics, why youtube comments about puppies eventually devolve into Hitler comparisons, the like monste...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Tim Lennane joke about the difficulties of being a hero on Japanese trains, riffing on inappropriate parodies, why you are always wrong as an expat in Japan in the eyes of the police just by riding while gaijin, and how wannabe gangsters in Japanese subway stations try to extort expats for money with the help of the police, Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan fr...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller talk about how taking a nap could have prevented the Jonestown massacre, was there Satanic music on the Jonestown audio tape, why you should not listen to Mark's comedy backwards, the genesis of one of Mike's funniest comedy bits, the art of misappropriation of values and why that is funny, why Mark's clients on the suicide hotline never called him back, and h...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller celebrate the Talk Funny Podcast's 2nd anniversary with an alleged cast of thousands, specifics on comedy writing advice and spotting odd phrases, how to derive comedy material from tragedies and documentaries and when is too soon, what are the real contributions to Japan's low population growth, how to over-elaborate on a topic to the point of being ridiculou...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller joke about reaction videos, why bossy people should not tell others not to be bossy because that is bossy, how not to take Mike's comments out of context, Mike's idea that comics need to carry a card as a disclaimer, why comics cannot throw each other under the bus in the Twitterverse purge era, passive aggressive hecklers on Facebook two weeks after our show,...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller joke about the subscription trend online for apps and computer programs, how the security programs monthly subscription model resembles mob extortion, our idea to do comedy as a subscription model, we discuss a bizarre story about a clerk that licks store products, why salsa should not be room temperature, the excrement museum in Yokohama and why it is full of...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller talk about their favorite news parody sites, RisingWasabi and The Onion, Taro Aso's ridiculous comments and the real reason for the low birthrate in Japan, how we can no longer tell the difference between parody news and news as it happens in Japan, what has Mike learned from the podcasts, why we write a new complete stand-up comedy set for each comic every mo...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller celebrate Talk Funny's 100th Episode! Mike explains why he is still in his parents' will, famous people who listen to the podcast, that time we had a girl in our live comedy show, they review Ray Romano's Netflix special, Jay Leno's specific joke for comics only, how the Talk Funny podcast got started with Mark's radio experience and his cringing at the status...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller on the 99th podcast, joke about pet peeves on the subway, how the movie Lost in Translation is not so realistic about expat life in Japan, what Mark's term Japansplaining means, Mark's subway redesign ideas, obnoxious phone-ban abusing Chinese snakes on a train, why line-breaking is the national past-time in Korea, and tsunami jokes too soon? Talk Funny is a s...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss why you should never lose your wallet in Japan, how Mark's fiancee hired a detective to trail him, how people when losing an argument in Japan will tell you where you are, and wild foreigner stories we have to share. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan, writing comedy, working, doing stand...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss a memoir released by a former fellow expat in Japan, Mark's funny stories about his extortionist ex-agent and the corrupt justice system in Japan, how Japan is already reminding us of the comic movie Idiocracy, and funny stories about ecological disasters told by Japan's office workers. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the w...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss the male Rosa Parks of Expatriate representation in Japan, tricks by the Japanese police foreigners in Japan should be aware of, why its always the foreigner's fault in Japan, and why the Japanese police will give your contact information to Japanese mobsters in any conflict with them. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the wo...

Comedians Mark Bailey and Steve Howard discuss Steve's publisher horror stories, Mark's experience with questionable talent and comic writer contracts, the way that similar comic premises can resemble each other but still have an original punchline and comic voice, seedy social media trolls we have dealt with here, Mark's story of being stopped by police every 3 days in a month, and dispelling the...