Carnival Personnel

Jacques and Joe discuss Chris Hardwick’s return to AMC, Alex Jones’s Facebook suspension, and Sasha Baron Cohen owning the GOP, all while throwing back a few cans of not-undisgusting Diet Moxie! ALSO: the Tale of the Boston Garden Monkey! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe talk about their favorite Mel Brooks movies and TV shows! Your Show of Shows! Get Smart! The Producers! Blazing Saddles! Young Frankenstein! Spaceballs! Robin Hood: Men in Tights! Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, listen to this podcast party! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

President Trump held glorious press conference with President Putin and America is so proud! Jacques and Joe shower Great Leader with praise and adulation for victorious defeat over press and truth! What a country! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques finally watches The Godfather I & II, and Joe finally watches Shaun of the Dead! And what’s hotter: the World Cup or Overwatch League eSports? Depends on who (and what age group) you ask! ALSO: Baby Trump in England, Stormy Daniels’ arrest, and FBI agent Peter Strzok, or the Man Who Knew… Nothing, it turned out. PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “Other Break” by Beyond Id Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Peter is back to drop knowledge on Jacques and Joe about the Muppets! Favorite Muppet Show bits, The Muppet Movie, the reboot movie, and behind-the-scenes goodness! Plus a duet with Kermit (Joe) and Fozzie (Peter)! Good thing Statler and Waldorf aren’t around to comment… or are they? It’s time to get things started! Subscribe to Peter’s channel, Xingcat, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/xingcat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe recap their uneventful Fourth of July, including the second civil war that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones predicted would be started by the Democrats! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “Tattoo” by Dan Cray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe are joined by A.J. Price from the Mass Pirates organization, a former NCAA athlete and the only American cricket fan they’ve ever met! They talk FIFA, politics, comedy, video games, and why wide receivers are such divas! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, This Week in the USFL, Netflix Picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “Where U Been” by Dan Cray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe look back on a golden era of late-night comedy: NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien! Characters like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Pimpbot 5000, the Masturbating Bear, and Abe Vigoda, and bits like “In The Year 2000”, “Conan Visits Finland”, and “If They Mated” are all given the Carnival Personnel treatment, unfortunately! And who could forget Conan’s best worst guest ever, Norm Macdonald! Don’t pull that “Walker: Texas Ranger” lever just yet! This episode is the krunk! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

The First Lady, the President, the GOP and its base may not care, but Jacques and Joe do! They talk about the latest in Trump’s immigration policy and other politics, Chris Hardwick in hot water, reviews of Incredibles 2 and Deadpool 2 (it’s still out), and a Beyond Id reunion show! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “Moe” by Beyond Id Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe talk about all sorts of nonsense, including Russia instructing their people on how to smile during World Cup coverage, separating immigrant children from their parents at the southern U.S. border, Paul Manafort goes to jail, the North Korea-US summit, and Jacques advocating the punching of *certain* kids (hear him out). PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Thufferin’ Thuccotash! These two maroons (Jacques and Joe) recruit the help of Peter, a long-time friend and even longer-time animation collector, to dive deeply into the long and lustrous history of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, aka Warner Bros. cartoons, with stars like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, P-P-P-Porky Pig, and even the long-forgotten Buddy! They also shed light on the darker side of these beloved toons, including Private SNAFU and the notorious Censored Eleven! PLUS: Peter and Joe reenact a classic scene! So don’t be a stinker! Listen – I say – listen to this episode! It’s a lulu! Xingcat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/xingcat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Among the potpourri of awful political stories Jacques loves to drone on and on about, he also regales Joe with more personal stories of racism his family has recently experienced! And sports! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “Silver Surfer (NES) – Level 1 Theme (Remix)” by ChipBoy: https://www.youtube.com/user/gameboyadvantage Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe recap the week in stupid: Roseanne’s costly racist tweet, Samantha Bee’s C-word slam on Ivanka, and Kim K and the Huge Ass! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Closing Song: “The Color of Adventure (Blanco OST)” by ChipBoy: https://www.youtube.com/user/gameboyadvantage Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

The new Sideshow’s here! The new Sideshow’s here! This is the Sideshow you all (Jacques and Joe) have been waiting for! Finally, an in-depth, tedious, rambling, non-sequential, misremembered, quote-heavy analysis of one of the funniest movies ever made: Steve Martin’s The Jerk! If it weren’t for this masterpiece of understatement, Carnival Personnel might not exist, since Jacques and Joe would have nothing else in common, and no podcast name either! Say your prayers, gas-pumper! … Cut! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe celebrate one year of babbling nonsense by… doing more of the same! Trump, geek stuff, whiny liberalism; they got you covered! Here’s to another year of this! Oh, dear… PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe talk Royal Wedding, Yanny vs. Laurel, Making China Great Again, the Mueller anniversary, and yet another school shooting in America! ALSO: Joe’s son’s final high school performance, John Taylor Fertilizer’s hockey tourney, and RIP Margot Kidder! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

After going missing last week, Jacques and Joe dispel rumors of a suicide pact with a fresh episode this week! Topics include the Golden State Killer, NY AG Eric Schneiderman’s ousting, Avengers: Infinity War box office, and of course, Trump! ALSO: Bruins, Little League baseball, Mass Pirates, and Bill & Ted 3! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe explore the possibilities of a Korean peace agreement and Trump’s (maybe) meeting with Kim Jong Un, Cosby’s guilty verdict, Anthony Jeselnik in Boston, a belated Thor: Ragnarok review (about time, Joe!), and the return of Double Dare! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Glomming on to the Avengers: Infinity War hype train, Jacques gives us a history lesson on the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. From Iron Man to Black Panther and everything in between (even Hulk), relive the last 10 years and 18 Marvel movies in painstaking detail. Consider this episode the seventh Infinity Stone. Excelsior! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast

Jacques and Joe start by honoring the Honorable Judge Harold T. Stone, the late Harry Anderson, then move to the late Barbara Bush and finally the late Adolph Hitler… huh?! They also sneak in more politics, video game and sports talk! PLUS: Random Video Game Review, Defunct Sponsor, Netflix picks, Parenting Tip and MORE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast