Episode 26 Guest John Wing on the Comedic Arts

Guest John Wing. American Dreamtime The Robert ‘Doc’ Barham Show airs again with another full hour of talk radio goodness. Cohost Ben Cooke and this week’s guest, the multi-talented John Wing call in from The City Of Angles, Los Angeles, to talk comedy, writing, poetry, music, the Bad Piano Player podcast, and more. Come visit the Dreamtime and help make the world a better place. Lots of laughter!

Guest Fun Fact: John Wing has apppeared on over 200 television shows.

From Wikipedia:

John Wing Jr. (born 1958 or 1959[1]) is a Canadian stand-up comedian and author from Sarnia, Ontario.[2]

Born August 29, 1959 (age 65)

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Occupations: Stand-up comedian author

Years active: 1988–present

Spouse: Dawn Greene (1989)

Children: Isabel Wing

His books include Cup of Nevermind: New Poems (1998), --And the Fear Makes Us Special (2000), None of This is Probably True (2002), Ventriloquism for Dummies: Life as a Comedian (2002), Excuses: Poems (2005), The Winter Palace: New and Selected Poems (2007), So Recently Ancient (2010), Almost Somewhere Else (2012), Why-Shaped Scars (2014), and I'll Be There Soon (2016).

He has been a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno six times, and performed at nine Just For Laughs comedy festivals as well as the TV show Make Me Laugh and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Wing also had his own comedy series, Man, Woman and Child, on CBC Radio One in 2006.[3] He was a contestant on America's Got Talent (season in 2013[4][5][6][7] and was eliminated in the semifinals.[8][9]

In April 2020, he debuted the podcast The Bad Piano Player, an exploration of American popular music from 1900 to 1960. As of September 2020 there were 24 downloadable episodes available in over 40 countries.[10]

He lives in Los Angeles.[11][12][13]

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