Half Hearted

Returning to the pod, Danton Lamar. We get into his new show Douche Rehab, we talk about food, abortion, comedy, Trump. We really get into it. Enjoy.

Nitish Sakhuja is a Stand-Up Comedian and Actor, from Toronto Canada. Born and raised in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood, Nitish made a name as the funny guy on the block. He quickly established himself after winning both Peterborough's and Mississauga's funniest comic in his first two months on stage. He has since gone on to be a crowd favourite at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Show, as well as the NXNE festival, The Okanagan Comedy Festival, The Border Comedy Comedy Festival and many more. Most recently, he made his debut at Just For Laughs in Montreal as part of the New Faces program, and filmed his first on-camera role for an upcoming comedy web series. (2021)

Originally from the small Italian village of Woodbridge, Ontario, Dave Luca moved to Toronto in 2016 to pursue a career in standup comedy. Since then, he has gone on to achieve great things, such as winning Vaughan's Best Comic competition in 2019, and seeing Howie Mandel in an elevator once. Known both for his concupiscent comedy style and misuse of big words, Dave Luca performs in bars and clubs across Ontario looking to spread his message of overeating and antisocial behaviour.

Jeremy Dobski is a Toronto based, Montreal born stand-up comedian. In addition to being a mainstay at The Corner Comedy club, Jeremy released his first comedy album "Love Language" in February 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhE00BxLDQ). He's also in the processing of developing an animated series called "Para Legal". Jeremy has worked across North America with numerous touring professional comics including Jason Alexander, Angelo Tsarouchas, Gilson Lubin, and Pete Johannson, amongst others. For two years in a row, he was voted in as one of Montreal’s top ten comics in Cult MTL’s annual “Best of Montreal”. He currently runs numerous shows out of Toronto comedy clubs, and enjoys a good pretzel.

The human equivalent of a golden retriever, Mickey Dykeman is a high energy, punch up comic. Through personal storytelling and silly word play Mickey's stand up covers topics such as relationships, religion and the Queer experience. They also do freelance script and screenplay writing, primarily comedy. They are a regular comic at the Comedy Lab and the booker and host for Black Sheep Comedy.

Daniel Woodrow is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted as part of the ensemble that received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards, for the debut episode of Roast Battle Canada. He has been an organizer of the Underground Comedy Railroad, an all-Black Canadian comedy tour which takes place each year during Black History Month. In 2021, with the tour unable to take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, he created the Unknown Comedy Club, an online streaming platform for comedy performances. He has also had acting roles in the television series The Beaverton, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, True Dating Stories, and Roast Battle Canada.

Mike has been a key-player in the Toronto Comedy Scene for 6 years and has toured most of North America and Edinburgh (Scotland). Mike has worked with Yuk Yuks, Absolute Comedy, Rick Bronson’s The Comic Strip and runs his acclaimed monthly show; The Stand-Up Show with Mike Payne at the world famous Comedy Bar. Mike has worked with acclaimed acts including Rick Mercer, Jeremy Hotz, Ali Siddiq, Simon Rakoff, Martha Chaves, Casey Corbin, Jason Rouse, Tyler Morrison and Aaron Berg. Mike has also appeared in festivals including The Cottage Country Comedy Festival, The Dirty Bird Comedy Festival, The Brantford Comedy Festival and was a winner of the Gemini Comedy Festival along side Al Val. Mike is most commonly recognized from his appearance in Burger King’s Impossible Whopper commercial (National Campaign, 2021) as the “that’s pretty good” guy.

Carolina DG is a Toronto based comedian, host and producer. Carolina organizes and presents "Comedy for Dummies" at The Piston Bar, including a similarly named open mic event. Her production and hosting work extends to virtual comedy shows for hospitals throughout the Greater Toronto Area, specifically for social worker week and nurses week, as a tribute to frontline heroes. Her recent feature in The Toronto Star and on The Filipino Channel highlights her dual accomplishments in comedy and her two-decade-long career in senior care.

Derek Kalala is a Toronto based comedian that has performed a New York Vancouver, New Orleans, Ottawa, and other great cities. When Derek is not performing on stage alone, you can catch him performing as part of the three person troop Try-Racial, which has been featured at the Toronto Fringe and Toronto Sketch Festivals.

Matt Puzhitsky is a Toronto based comedian and content creator. We talk comedy, philosophy and living purposefully.

Matt Baxter is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and podcast host in this episode. We discussed his battles with addiction his recent conversion to Christianity and starting over and stand-up comedy.

Harvasp Khatow is a Toronto Bay stand-up comedian that has performed across north America. He is also the producer of a monthly Desi (Hinglish) comedy show called Harvin friends in downtown Toronto at the Backroom Comedy Club.

Jerry Corley has 30+ years as a touring, professional, comedian, comedy, writer, and screen. Writer with multiple television appearances as a standup. As a writer, Corley has eight years writing for the tonight show with Jay Leno and a screenplay to his credit called stretch which stars, Chris Pine, Ray, Liotta, and Jessica Alba. As a comedy educator owns and operates the stand-up comedy in Burbank, California, and is the author of Breaking Comedy’s DNA.

Chris Robinson is a Toronto based stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Chris will be starring in the upcoming CBC show one more time coming out in January 2024. he is also a series regular on Crave’s ‘Pillow Talk’. As an actor, he has appeared on Netflix, Netflix, Amazon, CMT, and various other TV and Internet commercials. As a stand-up comic Chris’ accomplishments include releasing his special ‘Panning for Gold’ being runner up for Just for Laughs homegrown competition and being crowned SiriusXM top comic, and being featured at JFL Northwest in Vancouver.

James Cummins is a Brampton born Toronto-based standup comedian. James has quickly becoming known as one of the most fun house and comics in the city. His career wish, began under the alias “JamEasy”, has seen a significant evolution over the past six years. Today James tours across Canada consistently refining his art with the goal of becoming a leading headliner in Comedy. In this podcast, we talk about his upbringing, his love of music and finding his place in Comedy.

Chris Beckett is an amateur astronomer in Astronomy educator base out of Regina, Saskatchewan. He is the cohost of the Actual Astronomy podcast.

Danton Lamar is an American comic now living in Toronto. He owns and operates both a Comedy lab and Werd entertainment. He’s also a Podcaster writer, actor and one of my favourite people in the Toronto scene.

In this episode I sit down with Toronto based comic, Joe Arsenal. We discussed being raised is an atheist by drug dealer parents. Coming out of the closet in the 90s and seeing societies views of LGBTQ people change. We discuss Joe’s divorce discovery of both Catholicism and stand-up comedy.

Patrick Hakeem is one of Canada’s quickest rising comedians. Hakeem has performed at JFL42, Icebreakers, Ice Cold, Zoofest and NXNE festivals, to name a few. He has also been featured on Sirius XM & CBC radio. Hailing from Montreal, the half Syrian, half Ecuadorian Hakeem grew up in an all Italian neighbourhood. Hakeem speaks to a multicultural experience and has a unique perspective. Patrick is known for his ability to have fun with the audience while delighting them with his charm and his heart-felt fueled rants.

Matt Render is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and fitness/meditation enthusiast. He also co-hosts the podcast “2 Gingers 1 Mic”.

Benjamin Allison is a graphic designer and illustrator originally from Toronto, Canada, currently based in the North San Francisco Bay, California. Professionally, Benjamin specializes in art direction, brand design, graphic design, web design and illustration projects. He's also a fine artist, with a focus on drawing, painting and printmaking. He also happens to be a gifted singer/songwriter and guitarist. https://benjaminallison.com https://www.instagram.com/abrokenquill/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tg3z1TyiwNIoCFtpxMFMU?si=Z2IoWBb8Q6y5nRqunjOjtg

Catch Sam's Comedy Special "White Noise" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbCW34Yjro After growing up as the youngest of 5 kids in an Irish-American household, Sam struggled to have any voice at all in his own family. Now, after years in the entertainment business, Norton has been seen on FOX’s “Laughs”, JBTV’s “Four Star Stand Up” & Comcast’s “Trial By Laughter” and performs to sold-out audiences in clubs & theaters across the North America. On stage Sam manifests a churning, bubbling cauldron of anger, debauchery & heartwarming honesty which RE: Comedy Magazine called “… delightfully deviant comedy”. With his cantankerous optimism and sardonic wit, Sam showcases the everyday dilemmas he’s had as a progressive, white trash prairie kid, trying to navigate modern day racism, sexism and homophobia. http://www.isamcomedy.com/ https://www.instagram.com/isamcomedy/ https://twitter.com/isamcomedy

Hilary Henderson is Toronto based stand-up comic, actor and content creator. https://www.instagram.com/hilaryhendersonn/ https://hilaryhenderson.substack.com https://www.tiktok.com/@UCd-LVYr53FrXJH6Rf89aKAw https://linktr.ee/hilaryhcomedy

Brad is a comedian living in Toronto, Canada. He started publishing his "children's books" in 2019. He has published over 120 dark humor books so far. He is also the co-creator of the card game Identity War. www.identitywar.com https://bradgosse.com https://www.instagram.com/bradgosse/ https://twitter.com/bradgosse https://www.youtube.com/@UC6oZTrJ4RGP92SxnNKsGOdw

Jay sits down with Psychologist and media commentator Dr. Oren Amitay to discuss being followed by Joe Rogan, getting cancelled, comedy and the synchronicity of life. https://docamitay.com https://twitter.com/docamitay https://twitter.com/awakepod https://www.youtube.com/user/DocAmitay https://www.youtube.com/@awakepod https://www.instagram.com/docamitay/ https://www.facebook.com/DocAmitay/