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Half Hearted
Jay Rainville
25 episodes
23 hours ago
Half Hearted is a podcasted hosted by Toronto based comedian Jay Rainville. Since starting in Comedy, Jay noticed that an overwhelming amount of comics have spiritual or religious backgrounds. In this podcast, we dig into their stories while having a great time doing it.
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Half Hearted is a podcasted hosted by Toronto based comedian Jay Rainville. Since starting in Comedy, Jay noticed that an overwhelming amount of comics have spiritual or religious backgrounds. In this podcast, we dig into their stories while having a great time doing it.
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Comedy Interviews
Comedy
Episodes (20/25)
Half Hearted
#25: Danton Lamar Returns
Returning to the pod, Danton Lamar. We get into his new show Douche Rehab, we talk about food, abortion, comedy, Trump. We really get into it. Enjoy.
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1 year ago
1 hour 46 minutes 3 seconds

Half Hearted
#24: Nitish Sakhuja
Nitish Sakhuja is a Stand-Up Comedian and Actor, from Toronto Canada. Born and raised in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood, Nitish made a name as the funny guy on the block. He quickly established himself after winning both Peterborough's and Mississauga's funniest comic in his first two months on stage. He has since gone on to be a crowd favourite at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Show, as well as the NXNE festival, The Okanagan Comedy Festival, The Border Comedy Comedy Festival and many more. Most recently, he made his debut at Just For Laughs in Montreal as part of the New Faces program, and filmed his first on-camera role for an upcoming comedy web series. (2021)
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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes 18 seconds

Half Hearted
#23: Dave Luca
Originally from the small Italian village of Woodbridge, Ontario, Dave Luca moved to Toronto in 2016 to pursue a career in standup comedy. Since then, he has gone on to achieve great things, such as winning Vaughan's Best Comic competition in 2019, and seeing Howie Mandel in an elevator once. Known both for his concupiscent comedy style and misuse of big words, Dave Luca performs in bars and clubs across Ontario looking to spread his message of overeating and antisocial behaviour.
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1 year ago
1 hour 38 minutes 3 seconds

Half Hearted
#22: Jeremy Dobski
Jeremy Dobski is a Toronto based, Montreal born stand-up comedian. In addition to being a mainstay at The Corner Comedy club, Jeremy released his first comedy album "Love Language" in February 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhE00BxLDQ). He's also in the processing of developing an animated series called "Para Legal". Jeremy has worked across North America with numerous touring professional comics including Jason Alexander, Angelo Tsarouchas, Gilson Lubin, and Pete Johannson, amongst others. For two years in a row, he was voted in as one of Montreal’s top ten comics in Cult MTL’s annual “Best of Montreal”. He currently runs numerous shows out of Toronto comedy clubs, and enjoys a good pretzel.
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1 year ago
1 hour 19 minutes 57 seconds

Half Hearted
#21: Mickey Dykeman
The human equivalent of a golden retriever, Mickey Dykeman is a high energy, punch up comic. Through personal storytelling and silly word play Mickey's stand up covers topics such as relationships, religion and the Queer experience. They also do freelance script and screenplay writing, primarily comedy. They are a regular comic at the Comedy Lab and the booker and host for Black Sheep Comedy.
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1 year ago
1 hour 34 minutes 12 seconds

Half Hearted
#20: Daniel Woodrow
Daniel Woodrow is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted as part of the ensemble that received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards, for the debut episode of Roast Battle Canada. He has been an organizer of the Underground Comedy Railroad, an all-Black Canadian comedy tour which takes place each year during Black History Month. In 2021, with the tour unable to take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, he created the Unknown Comedy Club, an online streaming platform for comedy performances. He has also had acting roles in the television series The Beaverton, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, True Dating Stories, and Roast Battle Canada.
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1 year ago
1 hour 42 minutes 37 seconds

Half Hearted
#19: Mike Payne
Mike has been a key-player in the Toronto Comedy Scene for 6 years and has toured most of North America and Edinburgh (Scotland). Mike has worked with Yuk Yuks, Absolute Comedy, Rick Bronson’s The Comic Strip and runs his acclaimed monthly show; The Stand-Up Show with Mike Payne at the world famous Comedy Bar. Mike has worked with acclaimed acts including Rick Mercer, Jeremy Hotz, Ali Siddiq, Simon Rakoff, Martha Chaves, Casey Corbin, Jason Rouse, Tyler Morrison and Aaron Berg. Mike has also appeared in festivals including The Cottage Country Comedy Festival, The Dirty Bird Comedy Festival, The Brantford Comedy Festival and was a winner of the Gemini Comedy Festival along side Al Val. Mike is most commonly recognized from his appearance in Burger King’s Impossible Whopper commercial (National Campaign, 2021) as the “that’s pretty good” guy.
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1 year ago
1 hour 16 minutes 33 seconds

Half Hearted
#18: Carolina DG
Carolina DG is a Toronto based comedian, host and producer. Carolina organizes and presents "Comedy for Dummies" at The Piston Bar, including a similarly named open mic event. Her production and hosting work extends to virtual comedy shows for hospitals throughout the Greater Toronto Area, specifically for social worker week and nurses week, as a tribute to frontline heroes. Her recent feature in The Toronto Star and on The Filipino Channel highlights her dual accomplishments in comedy and her two-decade-long career in senior care.
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1 year ago
1 hour 16 minutes 15 seconds

Half Hearted
#17: Derek Kalala
Derek Kalala is a Toronto based comedian that has performed a New York Vancouver, New Orleans, Ottawa, and other great cities. When Derek is not performing on stage alone, you can catch him performing as part of the three person troop Try-Racial, which has been featured at the Toronto Fringe and Toronto Sketch Festivals.
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1 year ago
1 hour 38 minutes 4 seconds

Half Hearted
#16: Matt Puzhitsky
Matt Puzhitsky is a Toronto based comedian and content creator. We talk comedy, philosophy and living purposefully.
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1 year ago
1 hour 27 minutes 30 seconds

Half Hearted
#15: Matt Baxter
Matt Baxter is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and podcast host in this episode. We discussed his battles with addiction his recent conversion to Christianity and starting over and stand-up comedy.
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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes 18 seconds

Half Hearted
#14: Harv Khatow
Harvasp Khatow is a Toronto Bay stand-up comedian that has performed across north America. He is also the producer of a monthly Desi (Hinglish) comedy show called Harvin friends in downtown Toronto at the Backroom Comedy Club.
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1 year ago
1 hour 18 minutes 17 seconds

Half Hearted
#13: Jerry Corley
Jerry Corley has 30+ years as a touring, professional, comedian, comedy, writer, and screen. Writer with multiple television appearances as a standup. As a writer, Corley has eight years writing for the tonight show with Jay Leno and a screenplay to his credit called stretch which stars, Chris Pine, Ray, Liotta, and Jessica Alba. As a comedy educator owns and operates the stand-up comedy in Burbank, California, and is the author of Breaking Comedy’s DNA.
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1 year ago
1 hour 18 minutes 46 seconds

Half Hearted
#12: Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson is a Toronto based stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Chris will be starring in the upcoming CBC show one more time coming out in January 2024. he is also a series regular on Crave’s ‘Pillow Talk’. As an actor, he has appeared on Netflix, Netflix, Amazon, CMT, and various other TV and Internet commercials. As a stand-up comic Chris’ accomplishments include releasing his special ‘Panning for Gold’ being runner up for Just for Laughs homegrown competition and being crowned SiriusXM top comic, and being featured at JFL Northwest in Vancouver.
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1 year ago
1 hour 4 minutes 57 seconds

Half Hearted
#11: James Cummins
James Cummins is a Brampton born Toronto-based standup comedian. James has quickly becoming known as one of the most fun house and comics in the city. His career wish, began under the alias “JamEasy”, has seen a significant evolution over the past six years. Today James tours across Canada consistently refining his art with the goal of becoming a leading headliner in Comedy. In this podcast, we talk about his upbringing, his love of music and finding his place in Comedy.
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1 year ago
1 hour 28 minutes 25 seconds

Half Hearted
#10: Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett is an amateur astronomer in Astronomy educator base out of Regina, Saskatchewan. He is the cohost of the Actual Astronomy podcast.
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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes 48 seconds

Half Hearted
#9: Danton Lamar
Danton Lamar is an American comic now living in Toronto. He owns and operates both a Comedy lab and Werd entertainment. He’s also a Podcaster writer, actor and one of my favourite people in the Toronto scene.
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1 year ago
1 hour 21 minutes 17 seconds

Half Hearted
#8: Joe Arsenal
In this episode I sit down with Toronto based comic, Joe Arsenal. We discussed being raised is an atheist by drug dealer parents. Coming out of the closet in the 90s and seeing societies views of LGBTQ people change. We discuss Joe’s divorce discovery of both Catholicism and stand-up comedy.
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2 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 52 seconds

Half Hearted
#7: Patrick Hakeem
Patrick Hakeem is one of Canada’s quickest rising comedians. Hakeem has performed at JFL42, Icebreakers, Ice Cold, Zoofest and NXNE festivals, to name a few. He has also been featured on Sirius XM & CBC radio. Hailing from Montreal, the half Syrian, half Ecuadorian Hakeem grew up in an all Italian neighbourhood. Hakeem speaks to a multicultural experience and has a unique perspective. Patrick is known for his ability to have fun with the audience while delighting them with his charm and his heart-felt fueled rants.
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2 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes 12 seconds

Half Hearted
#6: Matt Render
Matt Render is a Toronto based stand-up comedian and fitness/meditation enthusiast. He also co-hosts the podcast “2 Gingers 1 Mic”.
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2 years ago
1 hour 26 minutes 2 seconds

Half Hearted
Half Hearted is a podcasted hosted by Toronto based comedian Jay Rainville. Since starting in Comedy, Jay noticed that an overwhelming amount of comics have spiritual or religious backgrounds. In this podcast, we dig into their stories while having a great time doing it.