New Podcast!!! With @sara_hennessey - angsty teen does GOOD!!!

Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-17-sara-hennessey

The Bitch: This week, Andrew is tackling current events with the veracity and capability of a pre-school football league! Oscar races of interest (read: the Best Actress Honours); Cynthia Nixon’s “choice” remarks on being born this way; who, what and why is Sharon Needles? … PLUS an extremely culturally insensitive takedown of the Shafia honor killings! Should honour killing result in prison-hosted honour rapings? We’ll see…

The Salad: Then, we sit down with perennial Bitch Salad favourite and gaddette-about-town SARA HENNESSEY to discuss myriad things including but not limited to HER RICHEOUSLY ANGSTY SUBURBAN NINE-INCH-NAILS-LISTENING-TO ROOTS IN AURORA, ONTARIO!!!, her mother’s range of mood-oriented nicknames for her, how she did stand-up back in high school because it was an actual UNIT in her drama class (read: upwards to and including SIXTY high-schoolers each needed to do standup… *shudders*), her mixed feelings about going to Humber’s comedy program, her biggest bomb EVER which also happened to be televised, how she’d break down her style, her newfound non-sexual love affair with gay audiences, how everything she’s ever done has been self-produced, being terrified of silence on stage, the elusiveness of online fame, her new serial killer cyber-boyfriend, appreciation for comics with some pathos, combating the Canadian accent… PLUS, Sara reads her most hilarious piece of Video On Trial hate-mail!!! AND MORE!!!

New Podcast!!! With Katherine Ryan!!! … & Friends!!! 

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-16-katherine-ryan-friends

The Bitch: Andrew is back! From a weekend entertaining the troops* in the Niagara Peninsula! For a self-dialogue exploring his rampant disdain for Niagara Falls, travel tips for pederasts, a gleeful recount of a night spent perusing isanyoneup, love for Todd Glass, Etta James’ passing and what that means for our ears, why he’s ambivalent about SOPA and PIPA, Madonna’s continued evolution into a full-blown Disney villainess PLUS… a formal announcement of his candidacy for president of Lana Del Ray’s fanclub!

The Salad: Andrew sits down with marvellous ex-pat and future unconsummated wife, KATHERINE RYAN, to discuss why British people are a.) assholes and b.) better than you, the unbridled hack-ness of our first stand-up sets, is Chelsea Handler 36 or a dyslexically 63, a thorough breakdown of “Whitney” (sadly, not the Houston variety),  how she doesn’t want any more Canadian comics to move to England, working with Matt LeBlanc, how everyone thinks the cast of “Friends” are their friends, and… exactly WHO are the White Lipped Beans?

*no troops were entertained. Just though ‘generally fat, unruly civilians’ didn’t sound as heroic.

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…

New Podcast!!! With Becky Johnson!!!

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-14-becky-johnson

The Bitch: Andrew dishes with himself re:garding Beyonce’s impending maybe-birth, his new-year resolutions, Joe Bodolai’s suicide, Katy & Russell’s divorce by way of a princess complex, how Mitt & Tagg Romney are nothing but acronym’d androids and some spoiler alert(s) about Glenn Close’s star turn in “Albert Nobbs”.

The Salad: Andrew sits down with mistress of the ‘prov, the utterly Becktacular BECKY JOHNSON to find out why, and I quote, “[her] whole life is cyclical quitting [of things]”… and in doing so, glaze over the “wiring” of improv vs. standup, how we’re mystified there’s not a “Glee” about high school improv teams, the cult culture of Chicago improv, the visual default of improvisers, Toronto vs. Vancouver (Toronto unequivocally wins), is Toronto’s comedy scene decaying or evolving?, low-functioning audience members, her role in the genesis of the genius that is Iron Cobra AND the global franchise Catch 23, struggling through the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award Taping, her misconstrued reputation for being aloof, beating the last pockets of air out of the dead horse that is the conversation about personal branding, the extraordinarily convoluted story of how they met which resulted in Andrew winning a snowboard and Becky DECLINING a snowboard and the whole thing ends with a breakdown of various animal-based gay tropes! FUN!

New Podcast!!! With Desiree Lavoy!!!

Download/Listen to it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-12-desiree-lavoy

The Bitch: Andrew and Anthony raise their glasses with excessive festivity and in doing so, recap the past live Bitch Salad show, counter-opine on Christie Blatchford’s “Sissy” article from the weekend’s National Post, Andrew pretends – in vain – to NOT know everything about the present-day whereabouts of Beverly “Gunny” Archer, the difference between a pian-o and a pian-y, the rise in HIV cases among today’s gay youth, the phenomenon sweeping the world that IS “Downton Abbey”, how Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley are the new Sam & Diane, how 2011 sucked, the state of the industries that are Beyonce Giselle Knowles and Lady GaGa… PLUS: just TRY and differentiate Andrew’s Gwen Stefani impression from his “Fame”-era GaGa impression. You just won’t be able to.

The Salad: Andrew sits down with one of his favourite comics of all time, DESIREE LAVOY, to talk about how she’s constantly confused with 90’s AC/R&B songstress Des’ree, growing up in the gay cottage-owner hub of Bancroft, Ontario, her early performing roots in improv and – THIS MIGHT THE MOST IMPORTANT CONVERSATION IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PODCAST – a phenomenon known as “Vampire Larp-ing”, going through the comedy program at Humber, the great many things that stand-up’s have in common with serial killers, being  a modern-day Rita Rudner, how stand-up is “a quiet person’s dream”, people who have dropped off the scene since we started, our respective sophomore slumps, some good-old-fashioned National disparaging, how the Internet ruined everything and MORE!!!

“My Ears Are Burning!”: Late Night Giggin’, Bancroft’s Vampire Lark… that’s really it.

New Podcast!!! New SHOW!!! Both of them featuring the divine ALLYSON SMITH!!!

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-11-allyson-smith

The Bitch: In this belated, super-sized edition of The Salad Podcast, Andrew talks to himself, loudly, about Whoopi Goldberg’s television audience chiding, a stern condemnation/proposed sympathy of pedophiles, pedophilic cyber hotbed “TOR”, the fuss about Hugh Jackman, how the new “Muppet” movie was akin to the “Sex & The City” movie, how children’s movies are just a shit-pie of references to other things nowadays (see: “Alvin & The Chipmunks 2”), venturing back to Kingston/Queen’s for a Queen’s Players show, Dan Aykroyd nostalgia, how Joyce Evans is and will forever be a hood rat PLUS - is there a gayer word than “fuss”?

The Salad: Andrew is joined by top notch class act/elegance practitioner ALLYSON SMITH for a vivid conversation concerning having older, British Parents, growing up in Alberta, her anger against the generalizations of Alberta, her worst road gig for oil rig workers (someone put “holy shit that cunt said fuck!” on a T-Shirt – STAT!), segueing from teaching to stand-up, headliner workshops in Calgary, her first time on stage and the role her glasses played in it, how Russell Peters touched yet ANOTHER comic-life, the accelerated life of a Western comic, her philosophy on sleeping with other male comics (it’s not unlike Confucianism, the Vancouver comedy scene, the key to corporates, how her onstage experience mirrors that of Chaka Kahn, the stand-up comic’s “sophomore slump”,  how pretty people fare in stand-up, Bette Midler worship and SO MUCH MORE!!!

“My Ears Are Burning!”: Rob Pue, Matt Billon, Peter Anthony, Scott Dumas, Shane Ogden, Cory Mack, Dana Alexander, Darryl Purvis, Jennifer Grant, Darren Frost, Ron Josol, Phil Hanley

NEW PODCAST!!! @DiniDimakos!!! Pop-Culture at a breakneck pace!!!

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-10-dini-dimakos-in-conversation

The Bitch AND The Salad: Andrew re-visits with friend, confidante, colleage, peer and spirit animal DINI DIMAKOS immediately after an outing to the lacklustre launch of an unmemorable cosmetic line to discuss myths and methodologies of body hair removal, the impending revival of “Guess Who?”, clichéd Hollywood ‘stud’ crushes that are stuck in the mid 00’s (Ashton Kutcher and Orlando Bloom, respectively), dealing with dental work, their ersatz death wish for Lindsay Lohan, what Lindsay Lohan’s nether-regions look like, Ali Lohan’s Christmas album, if Justin Bieber ACTUALLY sired a child, how Dini bet on the wrong horse by joining “Team Aniston”, Dini’s ongoing feud with Nia Vardalos, intense speculation about Heather Graham’s future (conclusion: she doesn’t have one), the pan-racial appeal of Kim Kardashian… PLUS: they ponder why what happened to Tara Reid can’t happen to Lindsay Lohan, a legendary yet no less horrifying story about Mariah Carey’s tampon removal AND the REAL story about why Bea Arthur hated Betty White!

New Podcast!!! With Christina Walkinshaw!!! She was deported from LA!!! We drank wine.

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-9-christina-walkinshaw

The Bitch: The unholy triumvirate of Andrew, Anthony and Heidi gather to discuss JoJo’s comeback,  Kardashian divorce fallout, Maggie Smith’s pronunciation of “Boogie Woogie” in Sister Act 1, the rush-sequels of the 90’s, the physical differences between aging drug addicts vs. alcoholics, age appropriate underwear, PLUS… Heidi pulls a fast one on Andrew and Anthony involving Bonnie Hunt!

The Salad: Andrew has husky-voiced renegade CHRISTINA WALKINSHAW over for some solid trash talking… starting comedy in Ottawa, bringer shows, whimsically running off to LA for love, living illegally in LA for 4 ½ years with equal whimsy, how even inanimate objects can open up an account at the Bank of America, how she regrets rejecting Louie Anderson (also: WHO DOESN’T?!), the story of, y’know, how she was DETAINED AT THE BORDER AND DEPORTED, the fickle, unpromising whore that is screenwriting and more!

“My Ears Are Burning!”: Claire Brosseau, Jon Dore, Casey Corbin, Jen Grant, Tracey McDonald, Ben Miner, Darryl Lennox,

New Podcast!!! With INESSA FRANTOWSKI!!!

Download/Listen to it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-8-inessa-frantowski

The Bitch: Well, boys & ghouls, Andrew has a séance for one on Hallow’s eve that quickly goes downhill when the topic of Kim Kardashian is conjured. A potential hex is put upon her.

The Salad: Andrew is over the moon to welcome the legging-clad INESSA FRANTOWSKI for a chat about her classic ‘actor-that-got-laughs’ story, being part of the original lineup of “The Sketchersons”, what her life was like on a weekly basis for 5 YEARS as part of “Sunday Night Live”, the culture that Comedy Bar created, the when’s and how’s of being part of Toronto’s famed “Second City” main stage cast, her various solo ventures (note: she is productive), how it’s hard for her to find dudes that can deal with her “strong life force”, working with The Kids In The Hall, aging in comedy, plus: PROJECT RUNWAY? Project Runway. TOP MODEL ALL-STARS? Top Model All-Stars.  AND MORE!

“My Ears Are Burning”: Jan Caruana, Robin Archer, Stefanie Drummond, Gary Rideout, Craig Brown, Holly Prazoff, Jon Blair

New Podcast!!! With KATHLEEN McGEE!!!

Listen/Download it HERE: http://bitchsalad.libsyn.com/episode-7-kathleen-mc-gee

The Bitch: Join Andrew, Anthony and Heidi for a round of Pink Squirrel’s as they discuss the history of the “Pink Squirrel” cocktail, Michael Fishman’s 30^th Birthday, Patricia Richardson’s aging choices (and they ARE choices), Anthony’s possible interaction with Lauren Bacall some 20 years ago, the NOTHING that Anne Wedgeworth and Debbie Reynolds have in common beyond the fact that they both played Dan’s mother on “Roseanne”, Toronto’s off-brand Fashion Week and Real Housewives, Toronto’s zombie walk, and maybe one other thing.

The Salad: Andrew is joined by the irrepressible KATHLEEN McGEE to get the dish on starting out in Edmonton at a gay bar called “The Roost” (Editor’s note: of course it was called that), being a ‘dirty chick’ comic, her boyfriend – comedy, comedy growing pains, pre-show mentalities, keeping it in her pants, her on-stage comedic persona that some might call that of a “fire-breathing whore”, the advantage of being a tall female comic, opening for Russell Peters, her drunken facebook fit following the Just For Laughs’ homegrown competition AND MORE!

“My Ears Are Burning”: Kenny Robinson, Darren Frost, Sean LeComber, Andrew Iwanyck, Kristeen Von Hagen, Christina Walkinshaw, Dana Alexander, Russell Peters