Alex September 08, 2011 at 8:21 am

I live in Montreal…what street is Marc talking about.
Just have a kid already, Marc.

David Nicholson September 08, 2011 at 9:48 am

@Alex: According to his bullet points, he’s talking about Ste. Catherine.

Crate&Trauma; September 08, 2011 at 9:50 am

He said it in his monologue, St Catherine street.

Beelzebud September 08, 2011 at 11:19 am

National Dish of Self-Hatred.  ROFL

Renaud September 08, 2011 at 11:21 am

WTF was the French bashing all about you fucking Canadian morons? Mike Ward, who are you?  dumbfuck canadian piece of shit.  You’re so hilarious, you’re Lenny Bruce for the French because we don’t know. comedy? Give me a fucking break! Your one liner about your wife unable to have kids, I think this is high school material here, punk . By the way, since you continue to peform in France, maybe you should think about not insulting us too much no? I’m going to come to one of your shows in Paris and fuck it up son of a bitch.

ChrisT September 08, 2011 at 11:52 am

What happened I thought this was supposed to be Chris Hardwick?

Jim Jim September 08, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Whoa, that guy was pissed

Mike Ward September 08, 2011 at 2:54 pm

@Renaud… I’m not bashing France, I love the food, the culture, the women… it’s the comedy I hate.  I’m bashing hacks and joke thieves like Patrick Bosso, Arthur, Tomer Sisley, Gad Elmaleh, etc.

I don’t perform in France, I perform in FRENCH in Quebec… but seeing as you’re going to fuck up my shit, I almost want to go back to Paris. 

If your hecklers are as weak as your comics… this should be fun.

AF September 08, 2011 at 3:03 pm

Renaud: name three funny, consistent stand-ups from France. I speak french.

Alexandre September 08, 2011 at 5:12 pm

@AF
Laurent Gerra
Jean-Marie Bigard

And those are the two I am aware of as a french Canadian, sure in general French comedians aren’t funny, but so are most American and anglo-Canadian comedians to me. Remember we had a lot of very good comedians because of Deschamps, without him we would be just like France, two or three great comedians and a hundred more unfunny clowns making us all look bad.

Beelzebud September 08, 2011 at 6:54 pm

My god, shit got real in here!  lol :D

Justin September 08, 2011 at 10:23 pm

Well put aside the gathering of snow Jews or French Jews or whoever..  ..I LOVED this podcast and enjoyed the hell out of Hotz and everyone else involved. One of my all-time favourite podcasts yet!
Great job everyone!

joshua-p September 08, 2011 at 10:24 pm

lets get a german in here. that’ll shut the french dude up.

BobH September 09, 2011 at 12:01 am

Good episode.  I hope you have Nina Conti in the garage for a full show sometime, with or without the monkey.  I’ve enjoyed her work (mostly meaning watching videos on youtube) since her scene-stealing role in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (including the outtakes on the DVD).

Joe Tily September 09, 2011 at 2:14 am

NIPPLE CLAMPS ??? . . . . great show - laughed my arse off.

mark September 09, 2011 at 3:31 am

who knew france would contain comedy fans? i thought they were mostly aesthetes and post-structuralists, with the occasional whimsical farce for desert. maybe they interpret marc as a kind of lou reed/johnny thunders/john waters’ cry-baby thing, a stylized, self-conscious, hyper-media-aware, semi-ironic conceptual art piece entitled Comedien Americen, Cynique, Semetique, “Cool”, avec Cig-a-Rette. they’d probably rather he wore leather pants?
i guess the quebecois view the french a little similarly to how the global anglosphere always have the british; these people fucked up the whole of history, a half-millenium of pillage after conquest, and still feel the need to frame us new-worlders as the their comical outer-province bumpkin cousins. the game, for them, isn’t anymore competing quantitatively over gold, slaves and “new” lands, but backpatting their slight and subtle nature vis-a-vis what their flesh-and-blood children are up to. ..progress?
i already liked the idea of quebec; learning of their renaud-irritating capability has earned them a true new fan.

lahico September 09, 2011 at 4:28 am

hey mike ward
just curious about your gad elmaleh comment - i’d felt before tomer sisley might have been ripping off shit here and there (although his stuff might just have been super generic/hacky), but never saw that in gad elmaleh (i dont know his stuff suuper well, but well enough). are you talking about any particular bits? just curious. i like the guy and understand his influences, but stealing, really?
will not even be mentionning bosso and arthur..
and to give some of you guys a couple of ideas for good french comedians for those interested (very few i suppose), i’ll throw in a couple of oldies: coluche, pierre desproges, and a new guy: gaspard proust (not at the same level, but excellent), bearing in mind that the culture of standup is weak in france..
ciao

Renaud September 09, 2011 at 4:44 am

To tell you the truth, I’m no big fan of French comedy either. But that’s really not the point. You were basically insulting your audience behind their backs, and that is so fucking cheap man!
And I’am also sick of the French bashing (“he was arrogant, well, he was French”) thing right now. I feel betrayed when I hear people indulging in that kind of crap on WTF, of all places. What was the deal? You thought that no one in France listens to WTF. Well, turns out there are WTF followers even in France my friend. and Maron you should also clean up your act a little. This nonsense about French comedy and fart noises? That’s lame and borderline xenophic as well, sorry to say.

Justin September 09, 2011 at 5:56 am

I want to say this much - too many Americans, too often, believe French Canadians are somehow ‘The French’.
Please let me put this in perspective: Quebec and French Canadians (many many are outside Quebec) are French in the same way you Americans are British.
The same way you speak English and were begun by Brits. And yes there is a sort of legacy but are you Englishmen?

Of course, WTFs might be keen to this. But far too many seem to think ‘French People’ means ‘France’s people’.

Again, of course there is a family relationship and yes some Quebec comedy has evolved out of French (France) history and culture.

Anyways, Ding et Dong. Need I say any more? Quebec humour doesn’t need much more than some cartoonish wigs and superfluous glasses and to keep a straight face. Even better if a monkey is wearing them and smoking too.
Its horrible.
        But Anglo-Quebecois Jews? Anglo-Canadians? Now that is some funny stuff.

Justin September 09, 2011 at 5:58 am

Sorry I’m high on pain-killers so just try and get the general idea and spirit of what i was trying to communicate.
Thanks.
..and Fuck you Dictionary - you don’t tell ME what to think!

MichaelPG September 09, 2011 at 6:29 am

Renaud seems pretty cool.
A French comic stole jokes from Mike Ward, so now he is on a personal vendetta against an entire nation. Nothing petty about that at all.

WTF was up with… this entire episode? It was just….
Jeremy Hotz made the most annoying noises to date.
Mike Britt…. what the fuck is up with black comics being nonstop insulting and thinking that it’s funny? I do a lot of crowd work with black comics (as a comic myself) and sometimes I don’t know whether I should continue to banter with them or punch them in the face. It’s a fine line. But it’s almost never funny, and the audience almost never laughs.

Renaud September 09, 2011 at 9:27 am

@ mark you’re talking out of your ass.  enough said

Mike Ward September 09, 2011 at 2:29 pm

@lahico google “Gad Elmaleh Jerry Seinfeld”

Chris from MI September 09, 2011 at 2:40 pm

I really love the podcast, and I’d like to think I’m open to all comedy, but I found Nina Conti’s segment to be virtually unlistenable.  Everything else was much more entertaining.  Admittedly, maybe I just didn’t “get it”.

Keep up the otherwise great work.

Bonjour September 09, 2011 at 3:13 pm

@renaud
If you had listen to the podcast, Mike isn’t bashing the audience but the comedians, and that even the french audience find their stand-up comedians to suck. He finished by saying the younger comics are better. Let’s hope for the french the same happens for music and television , domains in which they are stuck in the 50-60’s. Cabaret and circus-circus is boring and dead, move on.

Travis September 09, 2011 at 4:23 pm

Ha, I haven’t even listened to the podcast yet, but I hope it’s as entertaining as these comments.

Justin September 09, 2011 at 8:23 pm

I have to admit the French (as in France) have nothing. It’s really bad. Its almost all ‘pretense’ and has been for about 40 years now.
Yes, I do see a glimmer of hope in some of the young upstarts and maybe France can have some kind of pop-cultural revolution. Soon.

joshua-p September 10, 2011 at 3:55 pm

On the flipside to Chris from MI, Nina Conti was my favorite part. I was seriously rolling in laughter.

Rudy September 10, 2011 at 6:46 pm

Gosh, some of you guys/gals sure are a bit sensitive!  Grow a fricking pair and let it slide off you.  I watch Top Gear all the time and have to bear the America-bashing despite myself not being white, Southern, uneducated, etc etc. People stereotype to get a laugh. It’s a bit cliché and hack, but no need to take it personally. 

PS. Thought Varnado was hilarious!

Jingo September 11, 2011 at 4:09 am

Apparently I was the only person that thought all these guests were just annoying, wretched, and most importantly, unfunny, people.

MichaelPG September 11, 2011 at 6:48 am

Jingo, um, apparently you didn’t read my comment.

....and in the crowd’s “defense,” it seems like their laughter was forced.

OGRastamon September 11, 2011 at 10:54 am

Kudos to Marc for opening his arms wider to the extended comedy family but I wish this acceptance were limited to not making bitter remarks about their success and the audiences who enjoy them. Does he need to start inviting these hacks to his show?
Kudos to Justin for riffing on my attempt at pwnage in another thread

OGRastamon September 11, 2011 at 11:01 am

RE:Victor Varnado When he identified himself as a black albino I immediately wondered if he was the dude I saw on an episode of Harry’s Law (he was). Strangely I didn’t wonder if he was the other (uncredited by IMDB) black albino actor in that episode.

OGRastamon September 12, 2011 at 11:01 am

RE:Nina Conti A podcast is horrible way to introduce a ventriloquist. How the hell did Edgar Bergen become famous on radio? I just heard some British chick who said she had a monkey and kept switching to a bad Sean Connery impression that was clearly still her. I’ve since watched her on YouTube and she’s brilliant. You know…for a novelty act.

@MrFilter Yes, Hotz was the hack I was referring to earlier but I must say that without his verbal rape of Conti I never would have Googled her.

Elly September 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm

@MrFilter:  Thank you!!  Before his creepy uncle hotz moment after Conti left, he was painful to listen to.  Marc was beyond patient with him.  You could tell he was struggling to make sense of the guy, but it was so painfully awkward (both his asinine laugh and his retarded jokes) that I was relieved when Mike Britt finally told him to STFU. 

Aside from him though I enjoyed the rest of the podcast, and I’m not even going to pretend to jump into this whole Frenchy convo above o_O

cableclair September 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm

I think the whole concept of vintriloquist vs radioshow/podcast is hilarious. The albino African American vs rasists was very funny as well.

bananapants September 30, 2011 at 4:49 pm

I expected to see more Hotz hate here and I’m very disappointed. The “what I just said was so funny I can barely contain my own reaction” gimmick he uses to needle a laugh out of the audience after every single joke via motor mimicry is pathetic. At least Maron called him out on that as well as the disparity between his onstage and offstage personas. And just like Dane Cook and the “essence” thing, Hotz couldn’t take a joke at his expense.

hamilton November 08, 2011 at 9:17 pm

That’s not a French thing, Marc. Just Montreal. Most of those people are dicks.

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