#cbblive

I don’t know if I’ve ever laughed as hard as I did last night at Comedy Bang Bang live in Toronto. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know how excited I was for this show AND my longtime friend Mara came to visit me and see the show with me, which made it all the more special and exciting. Paul F. Tompkins and Scott Aukerman are just comedic wizards, and their respective podcasts have genuinely helped me get through some emotional shit. Comedy has been my way of coping with difficult times in my life and when I discovered Comedy Bang Bang in 2011, it was kind of an ideal time because things in my life were pretty hairy. So the show itself was incredible and I’m so happy I got to witness my two favourite podcasters live. I need to add that the Birthday Boys - a Bob Odenkirk discovery and a bunch of cutie patootie young comedians - were so great and if I wasn’t already crushin’ on Mike Hanford after seeing him as Ducky Powell on CBB, I definitely am after seeing him being hilarious while buck-ass naked on stage. Scott Aukerman did the prepared thing he’s been doing to warm up the audience prior to the actual podcast, and although I’d seen snippets of what it’d be all about, I still laughed my face off. There was this part where he’d asked us to laugh at appropriate times during the night and while we laughed, he just kept going, “Yeah! Like that! Oh, that was a little quieter. Oh yeah! There we go!” re: the audience’s waves of laughter. It was just a great bit. The guest was a Canadian comedian named Sean Cullen - someone I wasn’t really aware of until last night - and although it was pretty clear he had no idea what CBB was about, he was a good sport with everything. At one point Scott brought up that Sean was friends with the Barenaked Ladies and he very pointedly kept trying him to say “IT’S BEEN” and the audience was howling with joy. When PFT came out I had a little bit of a head-spinning excited moment because I could not believe that I was getting to see this all in front of my eyeballs. He was doing his new Alan Thicke character (something I’d expected because Canada) and was dressed in a striped suit, reminiscent of Robin Thicke’s Beetlejuice MVA suit. There was this whole bit where they were acting out PFT-as-Alan-Thicke pitching a new TV show to the CBC, and Sean Cullen was the super depressed CBC exec, while Scott was the flirty-creepy receptionist. There was this one moment that someone on Instagram took a pic of and I just need to include it right here: