He's eating it! She's dying! He's BOMBING! For a stand-up comic there's no pain quite like a joke that bombs. Every comic bombs and in Bombing with Mike Dorval we seek to find out WHY! Every week a new comedian joins Mike to dive into the nitty gritty of joke writing. They'll explore the mechanics of crafting of great joke and the agony of a watching a joke they loved, nurtured, and thought would soar come crashing to Earth. It's a deep dive into the agony and ecstasy of writing jokes.
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EP29 - Atlanta Boston NBA Playoffs Game 2
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EP28 - 82 Games That Don't Matter
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Topics include: Car shopping, identity theft, baseball vs football salaries, Ty Cobb history, chapstick, James Bond, and Dwight Howard's condom use/free throw ability.Door Boston Centric
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EP24 - Willful Ignorance
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Topics Include: The Patriot's quarterback controversy, the Lakers woes, Mississippi as vacation destination, and age milestones as a sports fan.Door Boston Centric
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EP23 - This Season's NBA Bets
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In this episode, Mike and Dan discuss Draymond Green, Russell Westbrook, and they also pick a few NBA team's season win total over/unders.
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EP22 - We Could Coach The Celtics
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Topics include: MLB ignoring Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa's face, the Celtics/Ime Udoka situation.Door Boston Centric
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EP21 - The Mac Jones Era
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Topics include: The Patriots Week One, Fantasy Football, Does Mac Jones need a coach?
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EP20 - The Spice of Life
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Mike's car accident Celtic's Post Season Kyrie's Contract The Time the Fire Department Kicked down Dan's door.Door Boston Centric
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EP19 - Celtics Warriors Game 4 Preview
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EP18 - Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors NBA Finals Preview
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EP16 - Two Man Death Pool
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EP15 - This is a Theology Podcast
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Why do the Celtics Look so much better? Game 1 Kyrie and Game 2 Kyrie. The benefit of the bubble for an aging Lakers' Championship win. Do squirrels eat birds? All this and more in this episode of Boston Centric.Door Boston Centric
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EP14 - Dirk Nowitzki and the Blitzkrieg All-stars
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Topics include: Rick Pitino's best week. Is Brad Stevens Executive of the Year? Was naming himself the "Black Mamba" was the worst thing Kobe ever did? Is James Harden a drunk? Have injuries taken their toll on Anthony Davis?Door Boston Centric
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Topics include: Jerry West should sue "Winning Time" What sports draft is the most impactful? Was Bill Hicks the genius everyone said he was?Door Boston Centric
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EP12 - I Hate to Say Rick Pitino was Right
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Topics include: The Celtics current state Was Rick Pitino right? Big Baby Doing Stand up A Kyrie Conspiracy TheoryDoor Boston Centric
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EP11 - Surprisingly Athletic
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Super Bowl picks, the documentary "The Tuck Rule", are comedians athletic?, Ben Simmons current state, and did Tom Brady slight Boston Fans.Door Boston Centric
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AFC/NFC Championship picks, Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame chance, will Jimm G be on the Patriots, and which Boston Celtic year hurts the most?Door Boston Centric
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EP08 - Ostensibly a Sports Podcast
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In this episode, Mike and Dan discuss the Celtics' current construction, College Gigs, Westbrook's Future, David Brenner, Zoom Comedy, the worst cities in Upstate New York, Mike's shirt, and if the patriots have a chance in Buffalo this week.Door Boston Centric
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EP07 - A Curvy, Hairy Back To Get You Through The Day
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Topics Include: Will the Leagues shut down again due to increased Covid-19 numbers? Do the Knicks have the worst ownership? The state of the Celtics and Patriots, and is Dan giving the Patriots a participation trophy?Door Boston Centric
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EP05 - If Highlander Was Afraid of Swords
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EP04 - The Pastrami Burrito
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EP03 - The Problem with Marcus Smart
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Topics in this episode include: Are the New England Patriots contenders? At this point in the season, who are the Boston Celtics? Does James Harden realize Kevin Durant is on the floor? How to fix the NBA replay. Gambling on sports. The Problem with Marcus Smart. Is there one move that can be made to fix the Celtics?…
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EP02 - Baseball Needs to Be Fixed
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EP01 - The Mark Blount List
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Our lst Bombing for a while is with someone I've been wanting to talk to. I'm always fascinated by brilliant people who choose to go into comedy and Jiayong fits that description. We talk about going from grad school to stand up, comedy in China, and he teaches me what "cross talk" is.
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55- Sportsball with Mike, Dan and James
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What's that? You want some uninformed sports commentary? You'd like it to have some tech issues? Can I interest you in some Super Bowl predictions even thought the game was two weeks ago because we couldn't get this episode cleaned up until today? YOU GOT IT! Bombing favorites Dan Boulger and James Patterson joined me to talk sports and comedy in w…
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We had to battle technical difficulties and chatty neighbors but it was worth it to have a really fun talk with HBOs Langston Kerman. From Chicago to a masters in poetry to teaching to headlining clubs and acting in the series "Insecure" it's been a really fascinating comedy trip that ended with a bomb in Walmart.…
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How do you go from deaf until you're 40 to professional comedian, booker, and producer? That's the journey of Rhode Island's Mike Murray. We talk about telling jokes you can't hear, the technology that allowed him to live his dream, and we always have time for a bomb!
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52- Alana Devich Benefit/Getting out of Comedy
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Alana Devich is an amazing person who USED to be an amazing comedian. She's sick, so we put together a benefit at The Comedy Studio to talk about her comedy, ding benefits for so many friends who are hurting and to talk about comedians leaving comedy. Should we try to talk them out of it, or envy them for getting out?!?! One thing we agree on? Alan…
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From the London Scool of Economics to stand up comedy? And his parents were ok with that? His parents ENCOURAGED that?!?! Rohan Padhye is a lucky guy because he knows that only comedy is going to make him happy. We cover the long strange trip, find out why his 28th year was so damn good and try to save a bomb about the "r" word that is a different …
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Ok, I found out that Nick Chambers can sing, has had some very interesting days gigs, and does NOT think he's a millennial. But he is. He's not a "millennial" but he is a millennial. At his heart though, he's an old school, hysterical comedian and we got to the heart of how that happened.
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49- Casey Crawford
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I'll be honest...I did not know about the stand up comedy scene in Nebraska. But it produced Casey Crawford who just got back from Just For Laughs in Montreal, so they're doing something right in Omaha. Casey and I talked about growing up in the midwest, moving to the the East Coast and a bomb you should avoid if you have a "thing" about clowns.…
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Utah to Vegas to Boston...it's not the typical comedy path and it produced a comic who's anything but typical in Xazmin Garza. We got talk about her past as a columnist and her future in comedy and a VERY NSFW bomb that she just won't give up on.
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I got meet Kwasi Mensah at his "Laughing Liberally" show in Boston and came away impressed with his comedy and point of view. He's gotten some added attention recently because of a confrontation with a Trump supporting heckler. Is this a sign of things to come? How did he feel about it and what should someone do in a situation like that? We did a d…
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Jimmy Tingle made his first appearance on Johnny Carson on December 15th,1988 and has appeared on pretty much every show you can name since then. He's been one of the most influential political satirists for 30 years and we got talk about the next few years are looking like for him and the world of comedy on this weeks Bombing.…
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Where have you seen Jon Jon Fisch? The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Comic Standing, Premium Blend, some of the finest temples along the East Coast and more. I got to know him when he was beating me in The Boston Comedy festival and we got to relive that wonderful memory when he was in Boston for Thanksgiv…
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I had been trying to talk to Giulia Rozzi ever since her album "True Love" came out. I finally got to when she came home to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving and got to talk about jokes, her show, "First Set" and we just can't seem to avoid politics in 2016...
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43- James Patterson and Dan Boulger Talk Boston Comedy Festival
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We've talked a little about comedy contests in the past and on this episode we talk to James Scott Patterson as he's about to compete in the semi-finals of the Boston Comedy Festival and former $10,000 champion Dan Boulger. How do you approach a contest? Is it different from a standard set? Is it more stressful? We cover a wide range of topics and …
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42- Niki Luparelli/Comedy Post-Trump
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One thing every comedian has heard since Donald Trump won the election is "You must be excited! You're going to have lots of material!" Niki Luparelli and I were less than excited. We decided to address the elephant in the room and talk about what comedy was going to be like in this post trump America.…
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Comics get there late. Where? Wherever they're supposed to be. But you can't get mad at Emily Ruskowski because she was probably late due to saving a child in her other life as a social worker. How do you bring the heavy stuff she deals with in her everyday life into a comedy stage? How was opening for Gilbert Gotfried? And how does a joke go from …
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How may people can die in a joke before it stops being funny? What if they're family members? My guest this week is Chris Pennie and we'll deal with this controversy while breaking down a bomb that explores the age old feud between doctors and mechanics while trying to see what competitive bodybuilding can teach us about stand-up!…
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39- Jordan Handren Seavey
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Jordan Handren-Seavey took one for the team this week. His voice was ragged, he was about to do a show, and he STILL stepped up to talk about his new album, his favorite bomb, and what it's like to wear the best chapeau in Boston.
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This week we have a group chat following a special show at Megan's House which is a group treatment facility for women. How is it different from a typical show? Kelly McFarland, Emily Ruskowski, Jack Burke, Eric Taylor, and Phoebe Angle take the time to talk about a really cool and unique kind of comedy.…
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If I'm on. Show with Kenice Mobley I check where she is on the lineup so I never miss her. Some comics bring pure heat. Comedy fastballs. Kenice is great because she throws curve and changeups that surprise you and always find the strike zone. Today we talk about her past and future and she even spends time grilling me!…
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If you could buy stock in a comic, I'd be buying stock in Sam Evans. I got talk to him after he headlined a show and I left very impressed. He was just featured on New Faces in the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival and is going on the road all the time. I caught up with him after he headlined a show in Massachusetts and we got to talk all th…
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