What's So Funny?

What's So Funny? episodes:

• 05.13.2023

  REWIND: Darryl Lenox & Garry Yuill

  Our fourth and final episode with the late great Darryl Lenox. This is from 2017. I hope you enjoyed the look back at the man and his career.

  
• 05.07.2023

  Darryl Lenox & Paula Antil

  The late Darryl Lenox always loved to help younger comics. In this episode, we see it in action as he co-hosts and asks the questions (often Socratic) to Paula Antil. This hasn't been heard since it aired on April 29,...

  
• 04.30.2023

  REWIND: Darryl Lenox & Richard Lett

  From 2009, here's the Odd Couple of standup, the late great Darryl Lenox with his former roommate, the irascible Richard Lett. It's a fun one.

  
• 04.23.2023

  REWIND: Darryl Lenox

  Darryl Lenox passed away earlier this week. He was a guest on our show 4 times over the years, and we're going back to his first time with us waaaaay back in 2007 to rerun. He was a great one,...

  
• 01.10.2022

  REWIND: What's So Funny? with guest Bob Saget

  It's been a tough calendar year, with the deaths of former WSF? guests Norm Macdonald and Matt Billon. We lost another one this weekend when Bob Saget passed away at the age of 65. He was a super guy and...

  
• 11.13.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Eddie Izzard

  Eddie Izzard stops by the What's So Funny? virtual studio on her Canadian tour. We talk about the real names of Biblical characters, making humanity great again, gender fluidity, and gaming the system.

  
• 09.17.2021

  Norm Macdonald repeat from 2012

  Norm Macdonald was just the greatest guest... and the greatest guy. In this, our most-listened-to episode, we had a semi-serious (okay, almost completely serious) 1.5 hour conversation ranging from family to science to God to comedy to literature to death...

  
• 05.10.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Darcy Michael

  Darcy Michael makes his sixth appearance on the program. The break-out star of the Halifax Comedy Festival explains Tik Tok to us, talks about his High School Sucked podcast, we discuss who'd make the best Jeopardy host, and the host...

  
• 04.01.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Jacob Samuel

  Jacob Samuel has had a great year, Covid be damned. His album, Horse Power, was nominated for a Juno Award. We talk to him about it, jokes, Zoom, cats and dogs, and Larry Sanders. Plus we play a track from...

  
• 03.08.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Jackie Kashian

  Jackie Kashian has us in the palm of her hand in this episode. The former Wisconite comedian and host of two podcasts dorks out on The Dork Forest, extols the benefits of Zoom standup, talks of Kinison, Rickles, Burr and...

  
• 02.18.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Michael Teigen

  Michael Teigen joins us from his cabin but it was the host's computer in civilization that wonked out for half the show. Still, we get unfiltered Teigen, which is always fun. He's an actor with 94 (count 'em... I did)...

  
• 02.08.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Jimmy Pardo

  Jimmy Pardo lives up to his long-running podcast's name. The guy really is never not funny. In this episode, we relive his glory days doing community theatre, debate the term 'yacht rock', inform him on some great Canadian bands, draw...

  
• 02.01.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Sean Lecomber

  Sean Lecomber has been with us from his hotel room, the host's car, and now from the comfort of his home in Alberta. He doesn't care how you pronounce his name. The stay-at-home dad talks about what he has in...

  
• 01.25.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Peter Kelamis

  Peter Kelamis was last with us in 2010. We know him mostly as a standup comic but most of his work these days comes from acting. We talk about how Greek he is, Hallmark movies, voice acting, cosplay, Robin Williams,...

  
• 01.16.2021

  What's So Funny? with guest Jon Dore

  Jon Dore becomes the first guest of 2021 (we're a little late getting started). And what a great guest he is. He speaks with us from his home in Juneau, Alaska. He's here to shill his new TV program called...

  
• 11.16.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Todd Van Allen

  Todd Van Allen isn't above any pub in this episode. Todd is the host of one of the longest-running podcasts in the country, but we clear up that it isn't THE longest-running (ahem). We talk about butterflies, magic, cable access...

  
• 11.09.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Brian Aylward

  Brian Aylward is big in Asia. But at 6-3 and 260 pounds, he's pretty big in all 28 countries he performed in. We speak to him from his home in Bangkok where he is convalescing from a scary motorcycle accident....

  
• 11.07.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Dylan Rhymer

  Dylan Rhymer, the old man of comedy, returns to the program in his 25th year of doing standup – even if he didn't do a whole lot of standup this past year. But he's okay with that. In this episode,...

  
• 10.26.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Kenny Robinson

  Kenny Robinson is on the road again, bringing his special brand of blue comedy to the socially-distanced comedy clubs around the country. Yet he very thoughtfully censored himself in this episode. We talked about his early years in Chicago and...

  
• 10.19.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Stuart Jones

  Stuart Jones, the pride of Rutland, joins us for his second go-round on the program. We talk all about his new album, "By The Slice" on 604 Records. We also get into universities vs colleges, Christopher Cross, and tattoos.

  
• 10.01.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Blaine Thurier

  Blaine Thurier returns to the show after a nine year absence. He reveals the news (to us) that he's no longer in New Pornographers after a nice two-decade run. We also talk about his evangelical background, classical music, time machines,...

  
• 09.25.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Mike Wilmot

  Mike Wilmot returns 13 years after his first appearance on the show. It's a new Uncle Mike now. He's lost a ton of weight, but is as filthy (and funny) as ever. We had a lot of fun on this...

  
• 09.10.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Bob Saget

  Bob Saget is a prince of a man. He took time out of his busy (no really!) quarantine to talk to us. We even made him late for his own podcast, "Bob Saget's Here For You." In this episode, we...

  
• 08.25.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Ian Bagg

  Ian Bagg last joined us a decade ago, when he was deported from America and had to slum it in his home province for six weeks. He's back safely ensconced in Southern California . In this episode we talk about...

  
• 08.20.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Shirley Gnome

  Shirley Gnome marks her fifth appearance on What's So Funny?, but first remotely. The songstress has always played for us in studio in the past, and she doesn't disappoint this time, either, offering us two live songs. And we talk...

  
• 07.30.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Jeremy Hotz

  Jeremy Hotz has been miserable on-stage for 30 years, and miserable off-stage for his whole life. But boy is that misery funny. Hotz, who's been living in LA the last 23 years, is one of Canada's best standup comics. In...

  
• 07.16.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest bbno$

  bbno$ is a rapper, not a comedian. But his songs are pretty funny. They make you want to open up TikTok, point your camera at yourself, and start dancing. Millions do that, anyway. Some of us have no rhythm. But...

  
• 07.13.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Derek Edwards

  Derek Edwards comes out of hiding to join us in the Isolation Studios of What's So Funny? Edwards barely has electricity, but we got a hold of him in his bunker and it was a delight talking to him again....

  
• 07.09.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Sugar Sammy

  Sugar Sammy is back, all the way from Montreal. It's his fifth visit with us. It's nice to see that as big as he is now, he's still got time for us. We talk about him being the French Simon...

  
• 07.06.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Dave Hill

  Dave Hill is a comedian, author, musician, actor, podcaster and part-Canadian. A very small part, granted, but his intentions are good. In his latest book, Parking the Moose, the Cleveland-born, New York-residing Hill travels across the frozen tundra to better...

  
• 07.02.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Ron James

  Ron James brings his blistering vocabulary and arcane Bonanza references to What's So Funny? for the first time. The quintessentially Canadian comedic icon regales us with his thoughts on the role of comedian in culture and talks about his bittersweet...

  
• 06.24.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Ellyn Marie Marsh

  Ellyn Marie Marsh must never sleep. How the Broadway star/podcast host/cabaret diva/trivia host/voice teacher/single mom had time to sit with us for an hour, I'll never know. But we're glad she did. We talk about her sporting youth, true crime...

  
• 05.13.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Darren Frost

  Darren Frost is back for his sixth go-round with us. He can't tour the country, as he was planning to do, but we've got him. We talk about crowd work, dark humour, cartoon voices, and Hairspray (the movie, not the...

  
• 05.08.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Lachlan Patterson

  Lachlan Patterson was last with us in 2005, as far as our records go. It takes a pandemic to get him back with us, but oh the fun we had. We talk about why he's glad he lost on Last...

  
• 05.03.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Bonnie McFarlane

  Bonnie McFarlane hates earnestness, but we brought out some in this episode. She started her comedy career in Vancouver and we reminisce about the old days and the lessons she learned, the comics she dated. We also talk about living...

  
• 04.22.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Colin Mochrie

  Colin Mochrie finally makes his WSF? debut! It was fate. The improviser opens up (thanks to a bottle or two of malbec) and discusses a little politics, talks about his accidental standup set, his intellectual pursuits, explains why silence is...

  
• 04.15.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Michael Gelbart

  Michael Gelbart (call him Michael) returns to the program, this time with 100 percent more Sam Tonning! In our Isolation Studios, Michael makes several pledges during this hour. He also fills us in on the ins and outs of leaving...

  
• 04.05.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Marcus Ryan

  Marcus Ryan joins us in the social isolation studios all the way from Wonthaggi, in the great state of Victoria, in the wonderful country of Australia. We thought it was his third or time on the show. Turns out it...

  
• 03.31.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Dwight Slade

  Dwight Slade joins us in the What's So Funny? Isolation Studios from his home in Boise, Idaho. We talk about how he's spending his days in his home hoarding toilet paper. We also talk about his work on cruise ships,...

  
• 03.24.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Eddie Brill

  Eddie Brill was holed up in his Manhattan apartment while host Guy MacPherson and sidekick Sam Tonning were holed up in their respective Vancouver mansions. It was all in an effort to flatten the curve. Eddie talked about today's Gotham,...

  
• 03.17.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Carl Turnbull

  Carl Turnbull has comedy in his blood, as you'll learn in this episode. Sidekick Sam Tonning takes over the reins, but it's not because regular host Guy MacPherson was sick, as he incorrectly stated. He just wasn't there. No further...

  
• 03.12.2020

  What's So Funny? with guests Paul Myrehaug & Damonde Tschritter

  Paul Myrehaug and Damonde Tschritter are pals from way back. One still lives in Vancouver; the other now lives in the comedy hotbed of the south of France. But they've been touring Canada with the Snowed In Comedy Tour when...

  
• 02.25.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Eddie Ifft

  Eddie Ifft live in studio! How exciting. He's says he's not a people person, but clearly he is. The podcast king talks about cleaning up his act for his family legacy, tells tales about Last Comic Standing, we relive two...

  
• 02.25.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Ed Hill

  Ed Hill is back for his fourth go-around. The dumb announcer on this episode said third. You can't get good help these days. Ed talks about why he needed to change his name, his upcoming special taping, and the Corona...

  
• 02.20.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Andrea Jin

  Andrea Jin makes her WSF? debut, but that's understandable because she's only 24 years old. But she's moving up the proverbial comedy charts quickly. She tells us about growing up in China eating worms for cheap laughs, her homeless grandfather,...

  
• 02.07.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Lars Callieou

  Lars Callieou makes the long drive from Edmonton to our Vancouver studios. Okay, he was in town for a corporation performance, but still made time for us. We talk about life on the road both as an adult and a...

  
• 02.03.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Jon Bryant

  Jon Bryant is all alone with us this time around. The Nova Scotia-born singer-songwriter is all Vancouver now. He stopped by the show just prior to his cross-Canada tour to talk singing, being a former jock, comedy, OCD, and UFOs.

  
• 01.13.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Jimmy Shubert

  Jimmy Shubert knows how to get on a good rant. The Los Angeles-based standup tells us about performing in Canada and India, heckling at the ballet, opening for Sam Kinison, his closeted career as a close-up magician, and goes off...

  
• 01.13.2020

  What's So Funny? with guest Harry Doupe

  Harry Doupe returns for his tenth go-round on What's So Funny? It's become a tradition that he is the last (or thereabouts) guest of the calendar year. He tells tales of his work on awards shows, his time living in...

  
• 12.05.2019

  What's So Funny? with guest Brigitte May

  Brigitte May may be a first-timer with us but she used to work in college radio so she's no stranger to the airwaves. That was a loooong four years ago, though. The young improviser works with a group of fellow...