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This week’s episode is called “Rainy Day Blues” and features Howard Chackowicz (and his dog), Gregor Ehrlich, David Rakoff and Andrea Stanford, addressing subjects such as: coffee and tea, rainy days, cutting your own hair, and the Canadian comedian’s mafia.
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“Rainy Day Blues”
This week on WireTap, Howard turns Jonathan on to the latest in home hair-care, the Trimco 3000. Plus, what do Howie Mandel, Kim Cattrall and Lorne Michaels have in common? Gregor uncovers the conspiracy that is the Canadian showbiz mafia.
On that note, today’s National Post article (”Ferns make me lightheaded“) has Gregor’s opinions on comedy:
“Ever notice how there are certain people’s YouTube links you just never get around to opening?” he asks. “They send you something with a subject heading that reads “Hilarious” and you click on the link and it’s Dane Cook riffing on Kool-Aid. After a couple of strikes, those people and their links become to dead to me.”
Gregor is a comedy Nazi. When he sends me videos that don’t make me laugh he quotes Michael O’Donoghue: “Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.”
“I think Dane Cook is kind of funny,” I say.
“Dane Cook is about as funny as a piles attack,” he says. “And if you keep going on that way, I’ll be ignoring your YouTube links, too.”
I’m appalled that Goldstein likes Dane Cook, too.
