Carnival Personnel

Would it really be a Christmas Spectacular without Joe … NO!  So, Santa worked his magic and Joe joins Biff and Jacques to chat best/worst Christmas movies, tv specials, songs and food! We also chat the Beatles Get Back 8 hour special and need at least 8 hours to really cover it!  Talk covid ravaging the sports landscape (as well as the Lowell schools and the world as a whole STILL) and Biff bring...

FIRST, a big thank you to Jacob, Tucker, Pat, Brady and Aiden for being rock stars and doing interviews with me at the Joe’s Basement Retro Video Game Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell (inside Coffee and Cotton) a few weeks ago. Second, again, huge ups to Joe, Bryan from Replay’d in Allston Mass, Management (Jacques’ wife), Darcie from LLAMA and Brendan and Jim and Julia Malakie from The Lowell Sun. In...

Jacques 11 year-old son (Eggzy Boi) learns how to manipulate the media (aka the Lowell Sun) and Jacques for better or worse founds Joe and his 1995 sketch portfolio they sent to SNL, Conan ... ect … SHOCKING they weren’t hired! On the light side of the force, we chat Sesame Street’s FIRST Asian puppet, CP single handedly bringing live back to Hammer Films and how Jacques watched Tommy Boy together...

After weeks of talking about it ... Jacques’ first event at Mill # 5 (Joe’s Basement – Retro Video Game Night) happened… and it 1000% wouldn’t of happen or gone nearly as well without Joe playing super hero and making so much happen! It’s Thanksgiving this week … Not a favorite of Biff or Jacques .. but both do plan on eating stupid amounts of food over the holiday weekend! Japan Princes Mako mayb...

Our new best friend Bryan from the retro video store REPLAY’D (Allston MA), chats with Joe (yes, Joe) and Jacques (sadly  … Biff has a real job and couldn’t join the geek fest) about this Wednesday Retro Gaming Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell, THIS Wednesday (event is called .. you guessed it, “Joe’s Basement”!) Fun chat about how and why Bryan started a retro store 12 years ago and how this is one of...

Did I lie to Joe and say we had a retro game store owner zooming in to talk Retro World in Hartford this past weekend … NO … that was really the plan … did it work out where Biff and I got Joe for the whole show and our lives AND the podcast are much better for it … survey says YES. Big week as Joe found Jacques a “vader model” 2600 Atari WITH  12 games for FREE for Jacques on Craigslist, which Ja...

Jacques family IS Halloween year-round … but actually Halloween is just extra special… Special like the Paul Lynde Halloween Special that Jacques watched again with Joe post his family’s covid safe out door Halloween Party (and really EVERYONE should get to watch Ghostbusters with Joe at least once in their lives!) On sad / tragic side of life … death on a film set, passing of actor Peter Scolari...

A staple in the New England comedy scene, comedian/host/MC Greg Boggis chats with Biff and Jacques about his years in comedy, what he did to keep the jokes coming over last year and a half of the world going sideways and how excited all are about the buzz around Greg’s Mondo Comedy live shows coming back to Mill # 5 in Lowell staring Oct. 28! https://lunalowell.com/movies/the-return-of-mondo-comed...

James Tiberius Kirk is going up to space … for real.  Jeff Bas-hole in a smart PR move is taking William Shatner into space! Jacques and Biff talk giving blood and how people who put spoilers on line less then 3 hours after a show airs at 3am EST really need a good beat down (well … that’s how Jacques feels …) How dumb are these Tik Tok challenges and how dumb are the kids who knowingly break the...

The great Norm Macdonald past away a few weeks ago …Or so the German’s would have us believe.  One of Joe and Jacques’ all time favorites.  Biff, a big fan as well. We chat seeing Norm live in 2019, go over some of the all-time greatest late-night talk show moments – Chairmen of the Bored, The Moth Story, The Congratulations gift basket … as well as his lasting impact on SNL News and of course … T...

All it took to get Joe to come back for a couple episodes was to have one of our comedy heroes to pass away!  Worth it? Maybe.  With news of the great Norm MacDonald leaving this plane of existence way to soon had Joe zoom in for this week’s CP and next week’s Sideshow. Jacques tells of his Pandemic Unemployment Assistance tale of woe … with a happy(ish) ending.  Friend of the podcast Renatezky wa...

Round 3 – This week Biff and Jacques debate their favorite Musical Geniuses and SHOCKINGLY they don’t have the exact same list … but there was a lot of agreement on this one.  Did Bowie beat out Randy Newman?  Did Prince beat out the great Dan Cray … guess you have to listen. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Clos...

Jacques recaps seeing Patton Oswald kick off his new tour this week.  Also, YES, Aretha Franklin was, is and always will be The Queen (highly recommend checking out the docu-movie. “Respect!”)  Sussy Buka … something Jacques’ 11 year old says (from some YouTube meme from Breaking Bad) which Biff breaks down the origin of. Blues Clues turns 25, Elizabeth Holmes trial starts and on the 20th annivers...

Biff and Jacques had a blast yapping favorite rhythm section players last side show they decided Round 2 … be singers and guitarist. Sure … couple obvious picks … that are total clichés … but come on … if your list doesn’t have Jimi … then you need to have a big slice of STFU sandwich.  No … Jacques picks weren’t just on his list to annoy Biff … He really loves them … but yeah, annoying Biff IS a...

Jacques’ wife (aka Management) went to see John Mulaney new show about his intervention at the Wilber Theater 3x last week.  Does she need an intervention intervention … in her defense … her friend went 4x … sssssoooo. Biff plans on catching some of the summer movies on our list … but Jacques seen Free Guy (loved it), Jungle Cruise (LOVED they keep the corny jokes from Disney ride) and Suicide Squ...

Can someone please come up with a different term then “Mt. Rushmore” that means the same thing?  Please. So Jacques thought Biff meant best rhythm section (collectively from a band) but Biff wanted to list separately – Best Bassist and Best Drummer.  They cover both and it was a lot of fun.  Couple names won’t surprise anyone … but a couple will. The whole show is one long self-indulgent theater …...

With the Olympics wrapped up … you thought Jacques and Biff didn’t have anything to talk about … but they found a way … and they chat Jeopardy’s new (poor) choice for host, Snakes … I mean Duct Tape On A Plane, Chris Cuomo now being his mom’s favorite and hey … It’s “Infrastructure week” again … no really this time stuff COULD be happening.  Siberia is on fire, covid still sucks … and there is sti...

Last minute scheduling hic-cup means no new Carnival Personnel Sideshow this week ... yes, we know the sadness you feel ... so this is a special REPOSTING of one of our favorite episodes ever! Enjoy! Jacques and Biff’s long-time friend Ronak zooms in to chat She-Hulk v. Wonder Woman, give advice on the best way to figure out what you want to do in “the biz” if you know you want in and aren’t sure...

The GREAT Norman Lear turns 99 and LeVar Burton gets his shot a hosting Jeopardy.  Jacques fell down the rabbit hole that is his pal Sully’s Plex account and a youtube clip of all the theme songs to the record breaking 1979 new TV shows … oh and some shit went down at the Olympics.  Simone Biles wins off the mat and Tom Hanks intros the Cleveland Guardians! This weeks Japan crime clip we (Jacques)...

Jacques thought the passing of one of the greatest directors of the 2nd half of the last century deserves a rambling sideshow where he mis-quotes ‘facts” about his career and his undead wife (who is arguably more successful than he was.) And Biff obliged.- Donner pretty much created the big budget super hero movie with Superman The Movie (arguable one of the greatest tights and capes movies till t...

After a month off (you’re welcome) Biff and Jacques are back to shoot the shit about everything and nothing.  Know what else is back … Jacques tragic audio engineering skills … couldn’t get mixer and his mic to work … so this is all zoom audio baby!  UGH. Jacques took his family on a 650 mile road trip JUST to watch Karate Kid triple feature at Mahoning Drive In in Lehighton PA, was a BLAST … two...

Comedian Sally Mullin’s joins Biff and Jacques to talk about her stand up special “Sleazy Does It” (which is an absolutely hysterical hour of brutally cringeworthy awesomeness), How she’s been killing it in the zoom comedy world over lock down and how she balances all this with HER podcast (PORN MOM PODCAST) and her FAN’S ONLY (@MsJamieFoster) work. As always, Jacques wouldn’t STFU but Sally was a...

Biff and Jacques talk a shitty week on the set of the slip n slide reality TV show, the updates on Jacques’ reality show and feature script.  We talk the passing of Frank Booner … aka Herb Tarlek (a true TV hero of Jacques’.) CP honors this legend with the replaying of the WKRP parody (by @Model_CHP3Y on Twitter and Youtube) Olympics are starting in Japan … Whether the folks there want it or not. ...

You might not agree with all our movie picks and that’s ok.  You’re allowed to be wrong. Biff and Jacques break down the summer’s big releases into 4 categories: See in a theater, see at a drive-in, wait for streaming and gouge your own eyes out to avoid seeing. CP: Twitter:  https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHoc...

No … Really … He did… Or might have … he was there AND was (seriously) a mob hit man. Jacques left the house and went to … a Carnival… It’s also Jacques’ birthday which he says he doesn't care but talked about it and the BEST birthday present he EVER got (and he’s had GF who were … “adventurous.”)  Covid updates, MORE heinous Crime in Japan and how DO you bankrupt a blog?  GOP gave Lee Harvey some...