Punch Up Your Life: Recent Episodes
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Andrew Lizotte invites comedians to come pitch their lives, as giant Hollywood Blockbusters! ....That said, Andrew does have some "Notes". It's part in-depth interview, part improvised radio play, 100% the most profitable thing you've ever heard!
Ryan Sheedy - In the middle of epically spiraling out, from a series of melancholy events, Ryan still has to make rent the only way he knows how... Birthday Clown. Will Ryan be able to get out from under this emotional boulder, and not scar a generation of children?
Chris Middleton - When Chris is promoted to assistant manager of a university bar, that’s already funded by student admission, he literally becomes too big to fail. The power corrupts him entirely, until he is framed for something he didn’t.... or maybe actually did do (It’s hard to say, there’s a lot of drinking involved)? Either way, this story has plenty of sex, crime, and cheap beer.
Hools Kay - the ins and outs of family feuds, from cokehead baby daddies to mothers going haywire for her daughter's wedding. But where does Holly fit in? (Dark comedy)
Isabel Zawtun Two musicians with four rambunctious kids, move from a tiny town in northern Alberta, to a haunted house in downtown Toronto.
Chris Sandiford: Chris is an ambitious home cook, who came THIS CLOSE to winning a season-long competition cooking show. A fan Favorite, he stuck it out and published his own cookbook for humans and their best friends... dogs! This combo backfires however, and inadvertently leads to MANY lawsuits.
Matt Nightingale - Matt thought freedom meant living for free as a dumpster diving anarchist. But a run-in with the police changed all of that. Now he's finding out that freedom is taking responsibility for your actions.
Adam McNamara - When 8-year-old Adam is signed up for karate classes against his will, with his older brother/frenemy Andy, they are forced to work together to defeat the rival dojo.
Tim Gray - While studying abroad, Tim gets into a horrible skateboarding accident. The result of which is a fractured skull and a 4 day stay in the hospital. Tim wakes up from this near-death experience a changed man.
Brie Watson - When Brie is forced to leave behind her life in the city (For mysterious reasons!), she goes back to her old family cottage, and is determined to ingratiate herself to this small town... whether they like it or not.
Logan Stefanson: When the well-being of an innocent stray dog, is thrust upon one dumb hungover kid (Logan) late for work, he must journey back through the events of the previous evening and find the true identity of the mysterious pup!
Jessica Buchanan: When Jessica’s school is threatened to be shut down, she is forced to commit social suicide, and admit that she cares about something.
J.D. Renaud. August 14, 2003, the day of the Northeast Blackout. From 4pm to 4am, this is the day J.D. decided what he was going to do with the rest of their life.
Desperately lonesome Ava, on the brink of her thirties, leaves everything to move from the ostensibly new-age hippie vibe of Vancouver, to reconnect with her sister in the cold hustle of New York City.
When 15-year-old Rachel gets her hands on the summer camp's shared Ouija board, she gains popularity by leading seances out of cabins... Much to the camp staff's dismay.
"Who would play you, in the movie of your life?" We've all done this ice breaker game. It's fun and silly, but can quickly lead to a much deeper question: "If your life was a movie, what are the most formative moments?" And that’s the way into the interview.
Punch Up Your Life is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by comedian and writer Andrew Lizotte, where he interviews someone as if they are pitching him a biopic of their life. Meanwhile, he gives them suggestions on how to make the story "better", in the style of a smug producer's network notes, and we play out those notes in real time. The result is that in the course of about an hour, Lizotte and his guest will pitch you the greatest film ever made.