Just for Laughs Comedy Festival
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Sep 16, 2026
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[laughing]
Patrick StewartGUEST
Sir Patrick's final appearance before his untimely demise was perhaps his most cherished, appearing at the 2015 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.
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[applauding] [cheering]
Patrick StewartGUEST
In addition, in addition to winning the audience over with his wit, warmth, and humanity, Patrick also realized his final wish.
Sean O. McCarthyHOST
So for me to be on your podcast would be a little weirder.
Stuart GoldsmithGUEST
I remember meeting you at, it was just for laughs, wasn't it? In Montreal.
Sean O. McCarthyHOST
Well, okay.
Sean O. McCarthyHOST
Just for laughs was the first time I was made aware of you.
Stuart GoldsmithGUEST
Okay.
Stuart GoldsmithGUEST
Okay.
MartinaHOST
I thought this was really weird.
MartinaHOST
So a couple months ago, we were in Montreal for a show, Just for Laughs.
MartinaHOST
Um, no big deal.
Tracy HornHOST
We're going back there.
Ali HassanHOST
And who doesn't want a video of themselves doing magic? Despite the frigid temperatures, we did get a room full of 500 people coming out to our comedy show on a Tuesday night, which is perhaps the most magical thing of all.
Ali HassanHOST
This first comedian has appeared at Just for Laughs, the new wave of comedy on CBC Gem and The Debaters.
Ali HassanHOST
He gets around...
Ali HassanHOST
But as you're about to hear, even he had to admit the February Yellowknife air was a bit of a challenge.
Graham ClarkHOST
That guy was nuts.
Graham ClarkHOST
He was the one of the years I was at Just for Laughs in Montreal.
Graham ClarkHOST
He was there.
Dave HarrisGUEST
Oh, he was a comedian? Nope.
Tranna WintourHOST
Okay.
Dane StewartHOST
And then I started working at Just For Laughs, uh, like, the summer that I was living there.
Dane StewartHOST
And my boss, who was this, like, punk, who's probably 25 years older than me, was talking about, like, playing in a punk band in the 1990s and living in this, like, decrepit apartment.
Dane StewartHOST
And he described where it was, and we did some math and realized that he, the decrepit apartment he lived in in the 1990s is the one that I was living in-
Stephanie WachmanGUEST
So when I studied in school as communication, I wanted to go into broadcasting.
Stephanie WachmanGUEST
And I worked for the Montreal Comedy Festival.
Stephanie WachmanGUEST
I worked in radio.
Stephanie WachmanGUEST
I worked in television.
Christian ReillyGUEST
We went to Aspen to do a festival there.
Christian ReillyGUEST
And then we went to just for laughs we did just for laughs so it's quite interesting because um you know the act he'd kind of like done it put it together in front of like sarky brits you know he was all you know the americans were kind of like so we went and did um we went to nashville to do and like had a had a look like a two-week run at this place called zany's
Richard GillHOST
yeah
Christian ReillyGUEST
in nashville and um i've If you don't mind stories, I'll tell you.
Mark ForwardGUEST
[audience laughing] [exhales] Um, [audience laughing] my aunt died, and, um, hilarious.
Mark ForwardGUEST
[audience laughing] And I told the people at Just for Laughs that [audience laughing] I shouldn't do the show, and they were like, "Contract," and- [audience laughing] Anyway, um, she was my rock.
Mark ForwardGUEST
[audience laughing] She was the greatest woman I ever, ever knew.
Mark ForwardGUEST
She could make any kind of jam.
Mike FalzoneHOST
This is a beautiful print of a beautiful photo that was taken somewhere between the happiest and least happiest day of my entire life.
Mike FalzoneHOST
On the set of Surrounded during what I believe is season two of Surrounded in Montreal at the JFL Comedy Festival.
Mike FalzoneHOST
Very prestigious festival.
Mike FalzoneHOST
And Troy Conrad took this.
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