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Go Plug Yourself 74: Leighland Beckman and Nick Raz

by on December 4, 2014 at 10:25 am
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Umm, so we just had Sugar Sammy and our next guest will be the Creative Director of Far Cry 4 Alex Hutchinson. Those are big deals right? So why not sandwich one of our silliest possible episodes right in between those two big guests? That’s how we roll. We stay true to ourselves. Leighland and Nick Raz come to talk about the Hilarious Holiday Hoedown at the Wheel Club, the new BCASA Christmas EP and the Stomp Records Christmas Show. We also talk about Blood Dad and the Oculus Rift. This episode is far from what you would call “having a direction” but hot damn if it isn’t funny. Also stay tuned at the end for a cameo from Grumpy’s regular Louie. It’s all here. Right now. gpys73

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Go Plug Yourself 72: Sugar Sammy (Again!!)

by on November 20, 2014 at 8:38 am
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Every once in a while we get a little validation that we’re doing things right. A long, long time ago (over two years ago, I mistakenly say it was Episode 8, but it was in fact Episode 11) we were lucky enough to trick convince Sugar Sammy to come on our little show. It was great. So imagine our surprise when the incomparable Leisa Lee informed us that he was up to doing it again! So once again, we sit down with one of Montreal’s top comedic talents (currently still selling out shows at You’re Gonna Rire at the Olympia and En Francais SVP, tickets HERE) to talk about moving out of his parents’, hockey and a whole lot more. Enjoy the show!gpys72-sugarsammy

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Stay up to date with Sammy on his official website.
Get tickets to his shows here.
Follow Sugar Sammy on Twitter @sugarsammyk.
Stay tuned to V Télé for the new season of Ces Gars-La (and you can watch Season 1 over at their website too.)

Yeah, he’s a busy guy.

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

Look! It’s totally Sugar Sammy!MG_0726Then he finally noticed it and agreed to actually pose for a picture, what a great guy.IMG_6015

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Go Plug Yourself 71: Lar Vi and James McGee (Broken River)

by on November 6, 2014 at 11:14 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

So some of you may remember James when he appeared on the show to promote the local wrestling federation BATTLEWAR along with the degenerate friend of the show Giant Tiger (who is a GPYS Triple Crown winner) and while we do end up talking about wrestling during this show, this time he was plugging his other performance endeavor: improv. In this case he (along with co-star Lar Vi) is plugging an ongoing long-form improv mystery show that is being staged weekly at the Montreal Improv called “Broken River”. What is long-form mystery improv? Listen and find out. I don’t have time to spell this out for you. Enjoy the show!gpys71

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Oh man, there’s a ton of social media that I gotta share down here.
Broken River is being staged every Sunday in November at Montreal Improv for only 8$, here’s the event page on Facebook.
The group that is putting on the show is Wild Heart Improv and their Facebook page is over here.
Of course, James also wrestles as his alter-ego Twiggy at BATTLEWAR (although is currently sidelined with an injury), but you can still catch the rest of the BATTLEWAR crew duke it out November 16th and like them on Facebook here.

Deep breath.

And of course there’s Twitter!
@lar_vi on Twitter
@ItsJamesMcGee on Twitter (Twiggy)
@Battle_War on Twitter

I’m sure I’m missing something.

As always,  a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 70: Stephen Trepanier

by on October 23, 2014 at 7:52 am
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Local upstart funny man Stephen Trepanier joins Walter and I for a retelling of some of the events surrounding Walter’s bachelor party (and the subsequent sequel) that went down a few weeks ago. As we speak Walter is off on his honeymoon with his lovely bride Catherine so this, in a way, is the wedding episode. We talk about Windsor, air soft guns and fireworks. What else would we talk about?gpystreeps

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 68: Back in Massimo

by on September 25, 2014 at 3:06 pm
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So when Massimo left Montreal for Toronto he recorded a special farewell episode of Go Plug Yourself (that you can and should listen to here).  Since then he went on to be in an X-Men movie and get a recurring show on Sugar Sammy’s hit bilingual TV show “Ces gars-là”. What am I trying to say here? What I’m saying is that if you do the Go Plug Yourself podcast, success is around the corner. It’s also obviously not a coincidence that Sammy got that show ALSO after recording an episode of Go Plug Yourself (listen here if you haven’t already). Massimo tells us all about living in a Comedy House, being Hugh Jackman’s nude stunt double and of course Robert Wuhl.gpys68-massimo

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Want more Massimo? Sure you do. You should follow him on Twitter @massimocomedian.

As always,  a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 65: The Return of Morgan O’Shea

by on August 14, 2014 at 12:37 pm
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Montreal’s favorite Morgan, Morgan O’Shea returns to Go Plug Yourself after an over two year hiatus. In a clear example of how his star power has grown, the last time we had him on he shared the episode with some guy named Chris Betts. Now Chris Betts doesn’t even do comedy anymore (in this city) and Morgan has been performing at Fringe, Zoofest and even Just for Laughs. That’s the kind of star we bring to you people. Morgan is here in theory to talk about his upcoming show on August 30th at TSC a stand up show/roast/birthday party called “The Intervention of Morgan O’Shea”. In reality, we talk an awful lot about Robert Wuhl and Walter plays with a fart machine. God I wish I was joking.gpys65-morganoshea

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You can follow Morgan’s comedic exploits on Facebook or on Twitter @jamesonoshea.

Of course come check out “The Intervention of Morgan O’Shea” August 30th at 9:00 pm at Theater Sainte Catherine (264 Sainte Catherine Street East Montreal)

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 62: Andy Nulman

by on July 10, 2014 at 7:40 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Just for Laughs, Montreal, Podcast, Podcasting

Top shelf guests all summer long! Walter mentioned a few weeks ago on the Heather B episode that the “star power” of the podcast tends to trend upwards during the summer months and this week is no exception. Heard of a little festival called “Just for Laughs”? Yeah? That was just one of Andy Nulman’s ideas. You can add investor, producer, journalist and a whole list of other successful endeavours to that list too. Anyhow, Andy was kind enough to drop into Grumpy’s and talk about where he thinks comedy is headed, shares a story about a little showdown he had in that very bar and is just generally an amazing guest. Listen now!gpys62

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Oh yeah, go to www.hahaha.com and go see all the shows.

As always,  a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 60: Heather B (CHOM Mornings Rock)

by on June 12, 2014 at 3:14 pm
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As Walter mentions during this episode it’s summer time which means the quality of our guests will just get better and better. What better way to kick off this up turn than with the co-host of CHOM’s Mornings Rock Heather Backman? Let me answer that question, there is no better way. None. Heather talks about her globe trotting radio hosting ways and how she ended up back in Montreal after going all over North America living her childhood dream of being a radio personality. We also teach her various hidden racist terms in the English language, listen now and you’ll learn something too!gpysheatherb

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You can catch Heather B and Terry DiMonte Monday to Friday in the mornings on CHOM in Montreal and probably on the internet in the rest of Canada, sorry America.

As always,  a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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Go Plug Yourself 50: Mike Paterson (and Special Guests!)

by on January 23, 2014 at 8:00 am
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Here it is folks, the one you’ve been waiting for! The 50th Episode that we strangely delayed to increase hype! Mike P sits down with us once again and we’re joined by a few drop ins. Monika from The Comedy Wives shows up with a veggie burger for Mike and then stuff happens! Our theme song creator Leighland also swings by the world’s most sincere failed attempt at beatboxing! It has really been worth the over 2 year wait for this episode people, I promise you.gpys50

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude! Here’s to another 50!

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Go Plug Yourself 21: Leighland Beckman (of Aural Turpitude)

by on October 21, 2012 at 1:25 pm
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While Leighland wasn’t our first guest who was a musician (in fact, we’ve had several guests who are musicians: Bones Malones, Colt Cousins, The BCASA and well, I mean Mike P and Massimo were in a musical and Mike P does some music stuff on his own too) he was the first guest to perform live music on the podcast! He performs two songs in this episode and boy are they filthy. You might notice that Walter says “Dont’ Call it a Comeback” an inordinate amount of times in this episode. I think it’s because we hadn’t recorded in over a month so he felt like we took time off or something, maybe he didn’t realize that we banked two episodes so that you, the listener would not be impacted. Or maybe it was because Walter is a big jerk. I like that I get to write up the blurbs since he basically can’t talk back to me in these.

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You can visit Leighland’s band page (Aural Turpitude) and check out some of the tunes on Soundcloud or there’s that twitter thing too @auralturpitude. However, by the band and Leighland’s own admission you probably should do any of these things if you consider yourself a moral and decent person.

Don’t call it a comeback!

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