New Podcast!!! With JO-ANNA DOWNEY!!!

Download/Listen HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-15-jo-anna-downey

“And Then a Mime Attacked Me… “

The Bitch: Thank U India… Andrew reflects on Casey Anthony’s recent vlogging efforts, Beyonce’s instant hatred of her newborn daughter, editorializes on Toronto’s famed “Psychic Nikki”’s predictions for 2012 and possibly a few other things…

The Salad: Andrew is joined by the out-and-out-no-two-ways-about-it matriarch of the Toronto Comedy Scene, JO-ANNA DOWNEY, to discuss the myriad jobs she had before comedy, the gang of misfit toys she started comedy with and still sees to this day, the sketch comedy boom in Toronto of the mid-90’s, a continual, scattered oral HERstory of the renowned Toronto comedy institution that is Spirits Open Mic, how she was the first person to EVER physically remove Robin Williams from the stage, her grass-roots gay following dating back to “before the internet”, her criteria for NOT booking people at Spirits, her SHOCKING confession about her comedic influences, what she regrets about her comic trajectory, how she is OVER MC-ing, the story of the categorically WORST person to have ever gone on at Spirits, her reverence for the Eton House, how much longer she’s going to keep Spirits & Eton House up, a laundry list of mentors, what she hates on stage, what she thinks are rookie mistakes on stage – and she should know, y’all – AND SO MUCH MORE… also – if you haven’t, GO TO SPIRITS & THE ETON HOUSE, Wednesday’s & Tuesday’s, respectively…