{"id":42960,"date":"2022-10-31T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=42960"},"modified":"2022-10-31T00:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:31:34","slug":"halloween-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=42960","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember sitting front and center right next to the stage<br>at the CD Release Party for John Pinette at the Montreal <br>Comedy Festival back in the late 90&#8217;s.<br>Bubbling with Laughter series at Club Soda, Show Me the<br>Buffet was his first national release.<br>We were invited to be there, his publicist wanted to get as <br>much air play and exposure as he could get.<br>I was impressed with his ability to make me laugh but was <br>convinced that he was a one trick pony, relying too much<br>on eating and being large to truly make it as a top shelf <br>stand-up comedian.<br>I was wrong, and I was right.<br>He most definitely did base his act on being overweight and<br>eating way too much, but he managed to make a legitimate <br>career out of being large without it being tedious or repetitive.<br>And boy, did he ever.<br>Top ten best ever, in my humble opinion.<br>This is a great bit, some excellent lines here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Halloween\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JEOCbs_jh08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember sitting front and center right next to the stageat the CD Release Party for John Pinette at the Montreal Comedy Festival back in the late 90&#8217;s.Bubbling with Laughter series at Club Soda, Show Me theBuffet was his first national release.We were invited to be there, his publicist wanted to get as much air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42982,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions\/42982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}