ethnic comedy

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Panelists Josh Davidson, Jerry Gabriel and Cem Ertekin discuss the Just for Laughs Ethnic Show and the meaning of “ethnic” comedy, the social media scandal surrounding peas in guacamole and the seeming about-face in Greece after the OXI victory. Plus the Community Calendar and a panel interview with JFL comedians.

Host: Jason C. McLean
Producer: Hannah Besseau

 

Panelists

Josh Davidson: FTB food contributor (read his column on #GuacGate)

Cem Ertekin: FTB news editor

Jerry Gabriel: FTB contributor

Listen to the full panel interview on “ethnic” comedy by Cem Ertekin featuring Gina Yashere, Ahmed Ahmed, Dan Naturman and Ronnie Chieng

FTB PODCAST #8: Ethic Comedy at JFL, #GuacGate with Peas and Greece by Forget The Box on Mixcloud

Host: Jason C. McLean
Producer Hannah Besseau

Microphone image: Ernest Duffoo / Flickr Creative Commons

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Once again, the world-famous Just for Laughs festival is about the begin in Montreal. There is a lot of cool gigs planned for our laughing pleasure, and one of them is the Ethnic Show, hosted by Alonzo Bodden and starring Frank Spadone, Rachid Badouri, Gina Yashere, Ahmed Ahmed, Ronny Chieng and Dan Naturman.

On the terrace of the Hyatt Regent hotel, overseeing place des arts in Montreal, I interviewed Frank Spadone and we talked about ethnic comedy, the meaning of the word ‘ethnic,’ and tips and tricks to being a comic.

* The Ethnic Show runs July 8h to 19th at Club Soda, for tickets and info: hahaha.com

And for bonus, here’s one of Spadone’s bits where he talks about different dialects of Italian.