Montreal … John St-Godard July 6, 2013 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts 2 I adopted Montreal in the fall of 1988, two months after my first visit. Falling for this city was oddly exhilarating while still in the throes of a prairie existence I had embraced up until that time. Until I...
Thursday at the “M” John St-Godard April 18, 2013 Comedy, Reviews Ever been to a swanky hostel? It sounds like an oxymoron, but I’ve done stand-up at Montreal’s finest hostel bar a couple of times now. Comic/producer Jon Selig’s latest venture, Stand-Up at the “M” runs Thursd...
Kickash & Company John St-Godard March 8, 2013 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts, Reviews 1 If money talks, crickets are chirping in Open-Mic Land. Yet few Montreal open-micers expect cash for grinding it out in a sea of crossed arms, VLTs, Habs’ games and barely literate hecklers. Pay? Not even ...
News Anchor Signs Off Without Identifying Herself John St-Godard January 6, 2013 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts TORONTO, ONT - A Caucasian woman described as being “in her mid-thirties” read the news on CBC Newsworld without identifying herself, earlier this week. "It's disturbing, to say the least," a viewer named ...
Ladies and Gentlemen … Vlad Levitt John St-Godard December 25, 2012 Comedy, Interviews Vlad Levitt & John St. Godard It’s nearly 6 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, and it’s dark and wintry and I've got the warm fuzzies because I’m in one of my favorite dumps. While the re...
Student Defending Thesis Pleads Guilty John St-Godard November 28, 2012 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts Zifkin expressed relief at having returned to her senses, but appeared confused and began sobbing as she described her thesis research experience as akin to "giving birth to a full-grown university profess...
Pods and Casts John St-Godard November 20, 2012 Comedy, Radio and Podcasts “We’re both brown – is that a thing?” Mo Arora’s Marc Maron-ism cracked me up on Laughmatic’s latest podcast with guest Ali Hassan. I’m not sure, after all, if it was a thing, because the line - akin to M...
Notes from the Brick Wall John St-Godard October 28, 2012 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts Half the battle of writing is putting in the time. Wherever. Lately some great ideas have wiggled out of the rabbit hole while I’m in the shower or bouncing down the street on my way to work. Similarly, when I ...
Identical Twins to Become Siamese John St-Godard October 19, 2012 Comedy ROME - Identical twins Cathy and Ann McGlashan, 18, will be joined at the forehead next month in a complicated surgical operation to be undertaken at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Hospital. Read more... Butt S...
Notes from the brick wall John St-Godard October 9, 2012 Comedy, Mobster Thoughts Hey everyone. Welcome to Post #1. About me: Marinated in Manitoba, I fell off the barbeque in Montreal. It turned out to be a soft place to land. I’ve been here since ’88. Moving from Winnipeg...
