This week’s National Post article has quite a lot of Howard’s pug in it. Check it out:

“Have I introduced you to my grandmother Mitzy from Romania?” Howard asks, wrapping a handkerchief around Desmond’s head and tying it into an old country babushka.

“I was quite a looker when I was a girl,” says Mitzy. “I once danced a polonaise before Nicholas II.” Mitzy goes on to detail the infidelities of her third husband, Irwin, and caps off her storytelling by jumping onto the table and sticking her face into a bowl of hummus.

I’ve always felt that the tone of any dinner party is established within the first 30 seconds. This is why it is no surprise to me that by the time the soup is served, Howard is on all-fours rattling the legs of the table while yelling “earthquake.”

Interested in another dinner party “shaken up” by Howard? Listen to the episode: The Dinner Party, featuring some sound advice from Mireille Silcoff and Gregor Ehrlich.

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This week’s episode is a holiday special: The Two Marys, originally aired last December and also appearing on This American Life’s Holiday Spectular the year before. I also imagine that the first bit of this will appear in Goldstein’s forthcoming (exciting!) book: Ladies and Gentleman, the Bible!

You can also visit the oft-linked Wiretap Holiday Special feat. Howard and Desmond Chackowicz.

Also, the National Post article somewhat alludes to the end of last week’s episode, Meet the New Boss (finally have the summary up) and definitely discusses Cookie Crisp and clamping colons. Enjoy it: “Like the say in Plattsburg: Crapola in a box.”

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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.

Here’s the official word:

“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.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I updated both the episode summaries (added Where Have All the Spaniards Gone?) and the Running Jokes page (which is sadly, pretty incomplete).  

Anyway, this last episode, if you haven’t already heard, features Buzz Goldstein talking about his visit to Barcelona, Howard snuggling his pug, Desmond (as seen on the Wiretap Holiday Special video) and Zouzou discussing Batman vs. Superman.

Enjoy.