True Patriot Love - November 05, 2026


Making People Laugh Is Serious Business ft. Timmy Boyle

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00:00:00.000 well if you know me at all you know that i love a good tee hee i love comedy it's been a big part
00:00:10.660 of my life my whole life uh you can ask any of my teachers class clown it's the only a that i got
00:00:17.260 the entire way through school and i'll ask you this do you like orange juice because if you do
00:00:22.620 you might relate to our guest today timmy boyle thanks for joining us canadian comedian and clean
00:00:29.260 Canadian clean Canadian yeah thanks for taking the time to come in now I appreciate it thanks
00:00:33.620 for having me I'm always fascinated by the life of uh the the comedy uh professionals out there
00:00:40.400 and I don't think people realize it's a pretty heavy duty career to take on uh and and I'll ask
00:00:48.940 you to go back a little bit in time and and tell me how you arrived at comedy but most people fall
00:00:54.800 into comedy think that it's going to be a win or lose situation but it's a long journey
00:01:02.360 just to make a semi-win in comedy especially in Canada where did your journey begin uh well I
00:01:09.560 think as as would be the stereotype like like you were saying you know class clown um you know
00:01:16.000 always wanted to make people laugh uh to this day I still remember faintly the moment when I made my
00:01:22.960 little sister laugh and she was very young and she just had this gut laugh and i was like
00:01:29.120 i like how that made me feel yeah um and then i i didn't i wanted to go into film and television
00:01:35.680 i wanted to be the next wayne and schuster i don't know good good canadian humorous as well
00:01:40.880 and then i actually went down the road of becoming a pastor and in that process of trying to be
00:01:49.600 serious and provide serious messages i realized though that my love of making people laugh was
00:01:55.280 was infused in all of that and so i began using laughter to get across serious messages and then
00:02:02.160 i actually went into i went into um uh tour managing and then i got put on a tour managing
00:02:08.880 job on a comedy tour and i literally fell into stand-up comedy the comedian on that tour said
00:02:15.200 can you uh um just introduce me tonight there's nobody to do that i said something funny he said
00:02:20.400 do it again and the beginning of my comedy journey happened doing 15 shows across canada
00:02:26.400 opening up him letting me do 20 minutes of just chatting away in front of crowds of three to 400
00:02:31.520 people a little bit of crowd work to launch the show a little bit of crowd work and a lot of just
00:02:36.400 stories that i had told him along the way he thought i was funny enough and so i didn't even
00:02:40.960 enter into the traditional route of you know like working through clubs at the age of 21.
00:02:46.320 i was already in my 30s i had a young family um i had given up the thought of of going into
00:02:52.640 comedy and uh so it's yeah it's a it's been a crazy ride and not the regular journey in
00:02:58.800 you know uh comedy and and certainly the uh comedy that i i uh hail from is a little bit gritty uh
00:03:06.880 In fact, by saying it's a little bit gritty,
00:03:09.880 might be underselling it a little bit.
00:03:12.020 But clean comedy, for somebody who's done stand-up,
00:03:15.480 is a highly respectable method of performance.
00:03:20.120 It requires planning that you can't expect that it will require.
00:03:25.620 It requires retooling jokes and concepts
00:03:28.240 so that they work in a clean fashion.
00:03:30.500 And the net result is it can be a very, very lucrative career.
00:03:34.800 Look at Nate Bargatze.
00:03:35.740 i don't think he wouldn't say if he had a mouth full of it and uh the the truth is i think that
00:03:42.140 there's a larger market for that did you ever start in that realm or dabble in that realm
00:03:49.980 and then find okay clean comedy is a better selling product it's an easier uh audience you
00:03:55.820 know audiences relate to it easier did any of that come into play for you have you always just been
00:04:01.020 been a clean comic i've always been clean i think a lot of it was just based in who i was as a human
00:04:06.260 being i mean i was i was raised in a church that was why i was on my way to becoming a pastor and
00:04:09.940 so so me personally wouldn't even wasn't going down any of the rude or crude roots in general
00:04:17.360 and i think the strongest thing that any comedian can do is be themselves audiences are like dogs
00:04:23.500 they smell fear they smell things that aren't genuine and so if i tried to be dirty it wouldn't
00:04:30.020 come across legit same with some dirty comics that would you know try to be clean and it's like
00:04:35.540 it's not it's not you just be you you know one's not better than the other so i was always clean
00:04:40.820 however i did learn as the years went on i did realize how special the niche is and how many
00:04:47.780 people out there um i would even say 15 years ago most of my audiences were religious church people
00:04:54.580 and over the last 15 years it's now there's a great demand regardless of a religious background
00:05:02.620 or affiliation for people that just want to sit with their kids and watch something and so my
00:05:07.780 shows are designed that a grandmother and a granddaughter can sit in the same row and laugh
00:05:11.880 together and so I didn't set out to try to hit that niche but I've certainly understood how
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00:05:34.340 All right, back to the show.
00:05:36.120 Well, for sure.
00:05:36.740 I mean, comedy is a family gathering now.
00:05:40.740 You will sit in front of Netflix and watch a comedian. 1.00
00:05:44.080 and there's nothing more irritating to my wife for example than unnecessary foul language and 1.00
00:05:50.660 nasty words when we could just be funny and so I do have a huge respect for building
00:05:57.400 that show around concepts that are accessible to everybody without offending anybody I mean you can
00:06:05.060 you can be clean and still shock people I'm surprised all the time about how people will
00:06:10.660 still come to my at the end of a show and sometimes say oh I you know I thought you were a clean comic
00:06:14.980 um because clean is it's it's it's it's gray like because there's club clean I do I do what's called
00:06:21.720 church clean right um and so people would say oh you do to religious jokes and it's like no I don't
00:06:26.240 do any religious jokes I don't talk politics I don't talk religion all right it's a good rule
00:06:30.260 to follow by right but um I can take the same set into a club into a corporate into a church
00:06:36.240 yeah um and the difference between a clean club guy and a clean corporate guy and a clean church
00:06:41.520 it's all very different and so there will still be always somebody comedy i think at its core
00:06:46.400 will probably offend somebody because you're touching on life experiences and you know if you
00:06:51.760 cracked a joke about i had a guy who once cracked a joke about um a funeral joke and somebody in the
00:06:58.400 crowd had just lost their dad and that's why they came to the show was to get away from that and
00:07:02.400 right so right away they're like i can't believe you said that it's like well we don't know what
00:07:06.320 you're going yeah sorry about that so there's always those kind of moments but i think in
00:07:11.520 general um it's it's it's it's less offensive let's talk about the life of a comedian yeah it's uh
00:07:18.800 a lot of road living yeah a lot yeah and what's that like i love it i mean i i enjoy new places
00:07:25.760 new people i enjoy that um and i'm able to do it now more my kids are all grown up but when i first
00:07:31.520 started it's a young man's game and uh usually when you're getting out there and early on the road
00:07:37.680 you know you're you're single you're out you're kind of enjoying and i was already i had a family
00:07:41.280 at home so i didn't get on the road nearly as much as i wanted to because i wanted to i was
00:07:45.520 trying to balance family balance yeah um but now that now that they're grown up and um i've been
00:07:51.280 on the road a lot more and i just i would much rather be in a different hotel every night than
00:07:56.880 be in a cubicle monday to friday i i like the new experiences that's so funny i just came off of uh
00:08:03.120 nine days on the road touring podcasting for the third time in the last three months i think it's
00:08:10.320 a blur and i was thinking about the life of a comedian as i was doing this because i listened
00:08:16.400 to a lot of comedy podcasts and i know what it's like on the road for these guys and i've had the
00:08:20.560 the comedy experience but what i thought was i don't know that i could be doing this in my 50s
00:08:26.480 as a comedian every night till two o'clock in the morning and then hitting the road the next day
00:08:31.120 for the next town yeah uh it uh it definitely wears on you one of the things that has helped
00:08:36.560 me tremendously is i used to i produce a tour here in ontario on my own but when i'm on tours
00:08:43.120 with other people there's always a tour manager um and that that certainly helps when you have
00:08:47.760 somebody um who's who's doing the driving for you um and now i have somebody in my life who takes
00:08:53.920 that load off which now allows me to handle that because now i'm able to do my thing i can sleep in
00:08:59.980 the car right you know as soon as i get to a hotel i don't have to go through everything that we need
00:09:05.020 to resort for the next show i can go to bed right you know i can have a nap in the afternoon instead
00:09:09.960 of doing right so having somebody on the road but it's a it's a solo life in general so i'm just
00:09:15.160 very thrilled that i have somebody who can take some of that off of me yeah that's a lucky position
00:09:19.820 to be absolutely uh the state of comedy in canada let's talk about that there was uh we we seemed and
00:09:25.260 this happens in comedy there are waves of massive comedy audiences and massive comedy names and then
00:09:32.860 we surf on those names for a couple of years and then a new group arrives uh how does the canadian
00:09:40.060 landscape of comedy look to you right now uh i would say number one i don't really know
00:09:47.020 um because i don't watch a lot of comedy um and i think i don't know if that's that whole thing of
00:09:51.980 you know uh you know a chef doesn't like to go home and and cook his own food and i i kind of
00:09:57.820 don't want to well i think it's awful easy to swipe a joke if you think something's funny too
00:10:01.900 and not even realize you're doing it i do have i do have i do know some people who yeah they
00:10:06.300 become sponges and they don't even know it it's it's unfair actually but to humans to have to
00:10:11.020 to live that way but it is it's a very real thing so i don't necessarily do it as i just because of
00:10:17.160 that i i just i in general i'm a sitcom kid i grew up on sitcoms as opposed to you know stand-up so
00:10:23.500 my my enjoyment is movies and sitcoms and stuff but um what i will say is i i don't feel that the
00:10:32.220 canadian landscape is as strong as it used to be um and that that primarily is probably connected
00:10:39.080 to how strong you know sctv and and and how many canadian legends left here went to the states i
00:10:47.240 think most america when i perform in the states most of them are surprised when i start listing
00:10:50.760 off all of the canadian comedic legends that they all think are theirs um i'm very proud that i've
00:10:56.520 been able to have a career here in canada right so i think what i what i would say about even the
00:11:02.920 state of of of comedy in canada is that after 20 i'm in my 20th year now of paying my bills doing it
00:11:09.880 as a living and i can honestly say that the canadian landscape will allow it you don't have to leave
00:11:18.520 you can actually have a career here you can have a career right it's it's it's a hustle and a grind
00:11:23.720 but i'm sure it's no different anywhere else um but because of the internet because of you know
00:11:30.280 you know podcasts and all that stuff that's out there now um i think that's the thing that's
00:11:35.080 changed the most i don't know if if the quality and the the quantity of talent is getting shown
00:11:41.880 as much but the opportunity to to do it in canada is definitely there there and i don't think it was
00:11:48.760 20 30 years ago oh that's interesting maybe it's popular i think that the acceptance of it i think
00:11:53.000 you're right the internet uh you know if i like somebody and i've seen a couple of good jokes in
00:11:58.120 my feed i might go see them when they come to town absolutely you know there's a young comedian i
00:12:04.120 i caught a joke that he he told and i i won't share it during the show because i i don't want
00:12:09.080 you even to have to laugh at it if you like it but a couple of his jokes were so clever i was
00:12:14.360 like when he comes to town i'm gonna go see this kid uh because he's innovative he's got a
00:12:19.640 presentation methodology now there's all these shows out there where comedians are getting a shot
00:12:24.760 kill tony is one of the ones that comes to mind enormous success for a pretty mid-range comic
00:12:30.680 just kidding tony that's how i feel uh but the talent that he brings on the stage is pretty
00:12:39.240 remarkable and then he's got all of these really well-known uh pretty high-grade comedians judging
00:12:45.960 them and it's a talent show you get one minute to do your thing how do you feel about that kind
00:12:49.720 of stuff it's kind of fun i like it it's fun i find i i think it's uh i think it's very useful
00:12:55.800 and i think it's it's great entertainment um i personally don't enjoy competitions i think
00:13:01.000 comedy is too subjective i think if you go into these competitions um with the thing of i'm just
00:13:07.320 going to do my thing and let luck and connecting with the right people at the right time do it do
00:13:13.000 its thing yeah but if you're going in to try to win these things um it can be really stressful and
00:13:18.680 And this job is a soul-sucking career anyways.
00:13:20.960 There's so many different ways that it can destroy you
00:13:23.940 unless you emotionally disconnect yourself
00:13:26.040 from the need to grow.
00:13:28.640 But yeah, I think all those platforms are very important.
00:13:33.680 And I think if that's your thing,
00:13:35.640 I've never, I don't think at my point right now,
00:13:39.920 not that I don't think it could break my career open,
00:13:42.000 but I don't think I would go down and sit and wait
00:13:43.980 to see if I could get on a show like that.
00:13:45.620 but um i know friends that that do and i think i think having i think the options to enter into
00:13:52.480 comedy and to get the break are just so much bigger now and so if you've got that opportunity
00:13:56.620 why not go in there but just don't go in with the stress of going i gotta make it big now just go in
00:14:01.340 keep building your resume keep letting all it takes is one right person to see you you know
00:14:05.900 one right person i've said this before uh to young comedians you're probably funny you just
00:14:10.020 kind of put in the time yep and you'll get funnier from putting in the time yeah that i have noticed
00:14:15.080 as well uh nothing beats stage time yeah just keep keep going keep on doing it who are some of
00:14:20.660 the idols that uh you grew up in i get it you like by the way what was your favorite sitcom as a kid
00:14:26.020 cheers number one sitcom of all times like best best all-around ensemble cast comedic writers for
00:14:32.880 sure no no question if anybody wants to debate it um i don't even want to have the conversation
00:14:37.460 let's just drop it it's just cheers yeah yeah it's cheers yeah all right cheers yeah uh
00:14:42.100 who were some of the inspiring uh stand-ups and performers in canada that you thought okay
00:14:48.120 these are the people i want to emulate uh in canada i can tell you i can tell you the five
00:14:54.000 comics that influenced me um but in canada i mean john john candy um is probably at the top of the
00:15:02.020 thing uh his just his his humor and his physicality and me i mean you know he was a he was a large man
00:15:09.580 could only you can only physically do so much but he embodied he embodied so much humor you just look
00:15:15.020 at john and there was immense talent there he lost that man way too early yeah um but you know i mean
00:15:21.420 i mean that entire sctv crew i think sctv was probably very instrumental um in me that entire
00:15:27.500 group of them uh that was a uh an ensemble of people that uh like eugene eugene levy and um
00:15:34.860 um well Rick Moranis what's uh we just lost her oh um Catherine thank you Eugene Levy and Catherine
00:15:46.800 O'Hara ingenious from from way back in the day all the way through even going to do Schitt's
00:15:52.140 Creek um which which was a solid show as well um so I think I think SATV though if you were to say 1.00
00:15:59.580 Canadian that's that's the realm but I was also very affected by the British so
00:16:04.860 um you know for me monty python john cleese faulty towers is a very underrated it's so fun
00:16:12.540 and for a show that it seems like it should have had 10 seasons and i i don't even know if it got
00:16:17.880 a full run of episodes for an entire season actually but so so good and so i grew up my dad
00:16:23.340 was irish and canadian comedy in general is affected by british british humor very dry very
00:16:29.560 witty um very smart um i always i often will say things like monty python has seen people say oh
00:16:35.720 it's so childish and it's like no no no you're missing you're missing it if they've presented
00:16:40.600 really really high-end comedy in a childish package or not say a childish is the wrong word
00:16:47.000 but in a in a goofy funny nonsense in a nonsense scenario yeah yeah and and it's but it's smart
00:16:53.160 if you break it down it's smart so i mean he so john cleese to me would would be somebody who
00:16:59.160 deeply affected me but um the other guys on my list are all american but um that was just what
00:17:04.280 i was watching growing up it's funny i think that uh if you have a a love of comedy and you're
00:17:09.320 canadian in our age group yeah yeah similar scenario sctv it wasn't even really saturday
00:17:14.920 night live for me it was sctv monty python and then later kids in the hall actually had a great
00:17:20.360 impact as well and certainly did in the us they were on day and night uh on the comedy networks
00:17:25.880 down there uh which i think was good for comedians in canada as well that helped i think with touring
00:17:31.480 on the on the us side yeah and i think you know the thing is is that we we americans didn't watch
00:17:39.640 what we were doing but we were watching what they were doing and so as a canadian performer growing
00:17:44.440 up it's different now because of all the streaming platforms and stuff like that but back then we
00:17:49.640 were we didn't see very much good canadian tv or good comedy because we were only watching
00:17:55.560 american feeds that that was you know that's what we were i digest you know ingesting right so
00:18:03.400 that's why i think sctv keeps popping up for me because i you know other than like wayne and like
00:18:08.200 i said wayne and schuster would be would be that that duo but i didn't get a chance to see much
00:18:14.040 canadian when i was growing up now would be different i think somebody growing up now will
00:18:19.080 be able to see a lot of that canadian landscape and view it way differently than i did but i was
00:18:22.920 affected by american comedy yeah because that's what i watched what uh what what are the things
00:18:28.440 that you uh we'll get more onto the tour and we'll find out more about that for you what are some of
00:18:33.640 the things that you find in a day that you draw on for uh by the way i can't believe i'm having a
00:18:38.520 serious conversation with a comedian i never dreamed in my life i would i would do this but
00:18:43.400 i appreciate these serious conversations but i i'm delighted to have it because i think pulling back
00:18:48.520 the curtain a little bit is interesting what goes into writing a joke i can't believe i just asked
00:18:53.000 that question so mr comedian what does it take to write a joke uh i have never written a joke
00:19:03.160 um i think i don't know if it's an internal thing about i know a lot of other comedians that i know
00:19:10.280 we we often share the fact that we walk out our door and we tend to just see life through a
00:19:15.240 different lens and so sometimes people will come up and say where do you get your material from
00:19:20.680 and usually within a few minutes of that conversation i've added them into my next show
00:19:23.800 like it's like i gather material very very easily right that's really funny and they so i think i
00:19:30.360 i've never sitting down i have some friends of mine who use notebooks i literally i walk out
00:19:35.560 i look around something just strikes me and the next time i get on stage i talk about it and then
00:19:40.440 i flush it out the next time i get on stage until he eventually becomes part of muscle memory and
00:19:44.760 you put it into the rolodex in your brain but um i could i i do teach people how to write jokes
00:19:51.080 there's a lot that goes into it um sometimes people will say uh i'd like to come and do an
00:19:56.040 opening on your on your tour um you know my friends think i'm really funny and there's a
00:20:00.360 huge difference from being funny at the thanksgiving table and taking it to the stage
00:20:05.400 because there is a craft to it so whenever people say oh well all you do is tell stories it's like
00:20:09.640 no no there's a way to tell the story there's also a way to walk on the stage there's a way to take
00:20:14.920 the microphone so the audience knows that you're going to do something we're going for a ride
00:20:19.320 all of those nuances once again stage time i would imagine stage time is crucial yeah yeah
00:20:24.440 like good practicing in front of the mirror you can do that till you're blue in the face until
00:20:28.680 you get a real audience reaction you'll never know you know what i call that sold out show
00:20:34.600 uh i laughed the entire time but that's just uh but i do think that that's part of the
00:20:40.200 understanding of what goes on here is that the pers the the persona on stage has a lot to do with
00:20:46.040 the perception off stage yes that then arrives but when you walk out on stage with confidence
00:20:52.040 and you can actually breathe and look around the room i give anybody the opportunity to go on stage
00:20:59.080 and just do that just walk it on stage calmly take the microphone and look around the room
00:21:04.840 see if you can do it no you will pee your pants i promise you the uh the number one fear uh even
00:21:10.680 more than death is public speaking yeah um and when you only have one job to do and that's to
00:21:15.960 make a room of people laugh and it doesn't happen it is it is the most gut-wrenching like i want to
00:21:23.640 die moment that a person can have and um i think it really opens up a lot of people's eyes to like
00:21:30.620 when people say oh you've got such an easy job and it's like well have you stood in front in fact
00:21:35.440 people will say oh well you have an easy job because you perform in churches and it's like
00:21:39.720 okay well here's here's where i think you're wrong because if i go into a club i might i might it
00:21:44.240 might be a little more hostile but they understand comedy try sitting in front of a hundred people
00:21:49.900 who are sitting in the pew they've never gone to a comedy club before they just want clean
00:21:53.260 entertainment and and judy only came with eleanor because she asked her and they're sitting in the
00:21:58.380 same place that for 30 years they've been conditioned to sit on their hands and not respond
00:22:02.480 right because we've been socially conditioned that's their pew yeah and for 30 years they just
00:22:07.520 they watch the person up there and they just watch that's how you've been that's the power
00:22:11.480 of conditioning so i'm like you you try now to go do comedy in a church and tell me that that's
00:22:17.400 an easier road not i'm not so sure it is please tell me you've never had a heckler at a church
00:22:21.840 performance no here's the there's the big difference they don't heckle they chat that's
00:22:27.300 even worse they they just they they assume that they're your friend right away and once they start
00:22:34.820 to go they will they won't say anything mean and they won't try to disrupt the show but if you
00:22:39.140 engage them then they just they just want to chat you're their buddy now that's uh that's tougher
00:22:43.960 you can't eject that person from a church no no but i can shut them down just like i would do you
00:22:49.240 know like I would do in a club or in or anything else but I do I I enjoy I enjoy the fact that I
00:22:54.500 can take my show into a living room into a thousand seater into a club into a corporate
00:23:00.580 into a church and and just be able to get all of those wide variety no crowd is a bad crowd for me
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00:23:40.420 back to the show i often think that i will uh go back and do 15 but then i think no you're in your
00:23:45.700 50s there's no this is a young man's young person's game and i see some of the young comedians out
00:23:51.860 there they're really funny man they're really talented funny people what would you say to me
00:24:01.060 to convince me to get back on stage and you won't because the last time i i did it i got heckled so
00:24:06.100 bad but that by the way that is part of the world it's not the heckling it's actually getting in
00:24:11.620 front of a room that's not engaged in what you're doing that is a horrible feeling having hosted
00:24:16.900 many many events and done comedy that that is a terrible feeling but on occasion you do get
00:24:21.860 somebody shouting out why don't you tell a joke well i'm in the middle of one right now yeah when
00:24:28.820 you're in the middle of the joke and they're still asking you to tell the joke that's probably a bad
00:24:32.340 it was a good indicator that i probably had to make other choices in life
00:24:35.780 timmy to be honest with you so what would i tell you yeah number one you should do it
00:24:40.740 um plain and simple every public communicator should do comedy once
00:24:47.540 um i believe that the experience and the skill sets in developing a three-minute comedy set and
00:24:53.220 it's just three you don't have to do seven you don't have to do ten you don't have to do fifteen
00:24:56.340 um when you walk on the stage as a public communicator in any format you walk on the
00:25:01.620 stage and you have three minutes and if two things are going to happen number one
00:25:07.140 you will hit lightning in a bottle and everybody will love your three minutes you're going to walk
00:25:11.380 off that stage feeling invincible no other crowd will will be you know scare you at all right the
00:25:16.900 other thing that will happen is nobody will laugh at all and those three minutes will feel like an
00:25:20.260 eternity and you will wish you will wish you were dead yeah but then you will get off and you'll
00:25:24.660 realize that you survived it and you realize if i just survive that i can survive any crowd again
00:25:28.980 so i think there's something in there there's also the skill set of taking a long thought
00:25:35.220 comedy isn't about telling long stories although we do but really they're made up of tiny tiny
00:25:40.580 little things where we've trimmed trimmed trimmed and it's it's easy for some people to wax eloquent
00:25:46.340 for an hour but edit down to can you say that in three minutes can you say that in two minutes
00:25:50.980 so i would say do it number two i would say i always believe that you can follow your dreams
00:25:57.540 at any age um i have a phrase that that we have a shirt we have shirts it's on my class that i take
00:26:03.020 on stage it says timmy says i can and and it's all about i'm following my dream i accomplished my
00:26:08.300 dream i'm in i was in my mid-30s when i got into this game with a young family on tow and i i would
00:26:14.840 tell people that if anyone ever comes to you and says you can't do that because you're too old
00:26:18.940 you're too small you're too whatever um you look them straight in the eye and with all the passion
00:26:24.560 the world you say timmy says i can and and you're that's coming from a man who was told you're you
00:26:31.120 can't make it as a living doing comedy in canada and i've been doing it for almost 20 years and
00:26:35.920 so i will tell everybody else so you mike timmy says i can go do it okay so you do understand how
00:26:41.600 funny it is when you a grown man says to another grown-up timmy says i can right if you if you say
00:26:47.680 that to another grown-up you know what's going to happen they're going to walk away because they
00:26:50.400 don't know who timmy is so it's they're like what happened i win another sold out show what's with
00:26:55.200 the orange juice are you are you paid for by the orange growers association no be honest timmy no
00:27:01.680 but i want a sponsorship badly i want to i want all right sunkissed you heard it there's a canadian
00:27:06.400 there's a canadian orange orange juice brand that we really need to settle so i've been drinking
00:27:10.640 orange juice on stage in my glass um and uh there's no deal in place i have no sponsorship
00:27:17.360 you don't find it has an acidic aftertaste you don't find it drink it oh smart i used to i used
00:27:24.480 to drink it um but for the last decade or so people will come to me at the end of every show
00:27:28.560 and they're like they're like somebody will always come up and be like is that real they
00:27:32.080 think it's one of those fake glasses that's so funny um and my my thing it's all just branding
00:27:36.320 now it looks good with the suit it's why i started to drink out of a glass in the first place because
00:27:39.600 a bottle of water didn't look good with the suit and so now when you come into a room well it didn't
00:27:44.480 look ridiculous orange juice does look ridiculous with a suit timmy and i like it for that reason
00:27:50.560 very much okay all right now um i was inspired though by a man named dean martin who often would
00:27:57.520 have a drink in his hand and sometimes it would be it would be a a fruity drinkish mixed with
00:28:01.920 something i didn't notice that ever i thought he always said you know what i'm thinking of dave
00:28:05.760 allen at large who always had a he always had a drink at the monologue portion of the show okay
00:28:12.080 yeah so so dean would always have drink now it was always a mix of different drinks but i was
00:28:16.800 always fascinated by the fact of this this this drink now the orange though you're right because
00:28:21.860 it is acidic but now when people come into the room it's all branding it's sitting on a stool
00:28:25.600 you see orange juice glass on a stool it's a timmy boyle show um so it never gets drank anymore it's
00:28:31.400 just there it's part of the the overall looking thing and it stands out it's funny because to
00:28:36.840 know you that orange juice glass actually is iconic that's the truth yeah yeah it's well i
00:28:42.740 had that in the suit actually because you are always did you notice i don't wear shoes on stage
00:28:47.100 no so socks i wear wool socks i did notice that actually so when i walk out on stage it's all
00:28:54.260 it's it's it's all this and i could go deeper into the process of any comedian who tells you that
00:29:00.280 if you say why do you wear this or why do you do this and they don't have an answer for it
00:29:04.160 they're not serious in this game right everything everything is thought out of okay it's all it's
00:29:08.320 all processed but i come out on stage and i'm in a suit with wool socks holding an orange juice
00:29:13.520 glass um whether or not you find me funny guaranteed i will be memorable in this business
00:29:20.160 and that and that is the next best thing if you if they don't find you funny they will at least
00:29:24.080 remember the guy with the orange juice glass the guy with the wool socks i can't remember who said
00:29:27.680 it but they were talking about how how are you so funny when you get out on stage might have been
00:29:32.240 been might have been steve martin actually and he said well what i do is i put a piece of bologna
00:29:37.980 in each shoe before i go down stage so when i walk out on stage i feel funny all right that's
00:29:43.040 myself oh that's very cute that's it's a good explanation of how you prep your mind and your
00:29:48.400 body to be out on stage i don't think he does the bologna thing but it could yeah i i wouldn't put
00:29:54.000 it past him no who knows but i think that's i think that's a part of it too because i know that
00:29:59.760 when I walk out onto the stage I'm in my wool socks I'm carrying orange juice glass right away
00:30:05.000 people if I just came out with a suit people are just like they don't know what to expect but right
00:30:09.920 away they're they're going this isn't going to go the way we think it's going to go right right and
00:30:15.800 that's that puts me in a really good spot now I have the ability to play with anything because
00:30:19.780 the expectation there is no expectations this guy's in a suit and wool socks drinking our like
00:30:24.360 this can go any number of directions yeah and I think it's I think it sets me up well that's uh
00:30:29.320 very cool. Now let's talk a little bit about the circuit. Yeah. Tell me about that. It's a lineup
00:30:34.040 of mainly all clean comedians and you tour this. Yes. So we are, we are the largest clean comedy
00:30:41.020 tour that nobody's ever heard about. That's how I'm officially branded. We've done here in Ontario,
00:30:46.480 it's seven cities. It used to be 14 just before COVID. COVID has damaged the entertainment
00:30:52.840 industry, not just comedy. It is still going. Some people think COVID ended three years ago
00:30:57.720 in the entertainment world we are still feeling tremendous hurt yeah I'm trying to bounce back
00:31:03.760 so we've coming back at a COVID is now a seven city tour it's called the circuit because we do
00:31:08.440 the same cities in the same venues it was birthed in the sense that there were communities that
00:31:14.040 wanted clean comedy but the number one question was always when are you coming back right and we
00:31:18.560 never knew clean comedy shows would just pop up and so the circuit was built off of that vision
00:31:25.020 to have regular stuff so we're we're like in the same we're in the lions club in sterling
00:31:30.300 you know five times a year september november january march may and we run this circuit five
00:31:35.180 times a year in ontario we have now done we are now in our 12th season we've produced over 300
00:31:40.860 shows we are on our 57th tour coming up in two weeks in november we've had 34 different headliners
00:31:47.820 from all around north and north america and and the world because we had an australian juggler fly
00:31:52.140 over for my little tour wow um so that's why i say we're the largest clean comedy tour nobody's ever
00:31:56.300 heard about there's no there's nobody doing it like we do it these seven communities get a clean
00:32:01.820 high quality clean show five times a year we have season pass holders we have about 150 people who
00:32:07.820 in their city buy their ticket for the entire season not even knowing who the headliners are
00:32:12.620 they just trust the brand and so it's called the circuit and uh i would like to get it back my
00:32:18.060 My vision is to go all the way across Ontario with everybody being within 30 to 45 minutes
00:32:24.520 of a clean show every two months.
00:32:27.400 So trying to get it from now, Ottawa is a little bit farther out, but basically going
00:32:31.440 from Kingston to Windsor is the ultimate goal.
00:32:34.740 I just, I just think there's enough people out there that need it.
00:32:38.080 But like most entertainers who are their own agent, their own book or their own everything,
00:32:42.680 marketing is my weak point.
00:32:43.680 So, which is why I appreciate being on shows like this.
00:32:45.680 Well, here we go.
00:32:46.680 but we'll put this up in the markets that you're going to be in as well uh so that people know
00:32:50.680 about that and we'll give uh in the in the um description for the episode i'll make sure that
00:32:55.480 people get a link through perfect so they can find out where you're going to be and when well
00:32:59.000 this is fantastic look do me a favor you're in ontario yeah if you're out there and we're out
00:33:03.480 there too let's catch up on the road that'd be kind of fun yeah absolutely yeah yeah we're we're
00:33:08.520 we're all west of right now we're west of toronto so we have one in sterling so i wanted to be in my
00:33:12.840 home my little home village and partner with the lions there and then everything is branford guelph
00:33:17.640 windsor sarnia chatham area um so we come we come right through toronto and we move into that area
00:33:23.640 every two months if you if anybody says to you you can't find a clean comedy uh show in ontario you
00:33:29.800 can tell them timmy says you can he says you can it's called the circuit appreciate this
00:33:34.200 but mike thank you so much i appreciate that thank you so much