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Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Now playing! The BCR Interview Hour S1EP14: navigating comedy and politics with Jimmy Tingle. Hear it on www.bostoncomedyradio.com Sun-Fri at 6PM/8PM/10PM and Sat 6AM/6PM. All episodes on demand w a paid Boston Comedy Radio Substack subscription!
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December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Listen during the 5 o'clock edition of The Shuffle today for your chance to win a Boston Comedy Radio t-shirt! When you hear Bob & Ray's "Wally Ballou, Roving Reporter" from Bob & Ray On A Platter, keep listening. It will be followed by instructions on how to get your shirt. Tune in and win!

December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

See live comedy this week! Best of the Week airs 8x daily on Boston Comedy Radio or get it on demand @ the BCR Substack to hear about upcoming shows and news! Access Boston Comedy Radio by going to www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download Live365!
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Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

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December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New episodes of the Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour! Playing now, Wendy Liebman! Coming Friday, Jimmy Tingle! Hear it on BostonComedyRadio.com Sun-Fri 6am/8pm+10PM, Sat. 6am/6pm. Paid subscribers to the BCRSubstack get extended versions on demand!
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December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New Field Report, airing now and on demand on the Boston Comedy Radio Substack! Joe Wong on performing comedy in Mandarin and English, audiences in China and the US, and how Tony V convinced him callbacks weren’t cheating.

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Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

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December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Get the full Boston comedy experience!

Listen to Boston comedy streaming 24/7 at www.BostonComedyRadio.com

Get audio on demand and the Nick A. Zaino III Writing Archives at bostoncomedyradio.substack.com

December 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

The new Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour is up with this week's guest, the delightful Wendy Liebman! Hear it Sun-Fri at 6AM+8/10PM and Saturday at 6AM/PM. Paid BCR Substack subscribers can hear this and all episodes on demand!

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BCR On Demand - BCR Interview Hour S1EP13: Despite her reservations, Wendy Liebman is one of the cool kids of Boston comedy

Liebman talks about finding stand-up in Boston as an aspiring writer and the drive to keep learning decades into her career

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December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New in rotation! Hear Myq Kaplan's new album Rini, out now on audio from Blonde Medicine, on Boston Comedy Radio! Listen at www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app for your phone or Roku!

#bostoncomedyradio #bostoncomedy #bostonstandup #comedy #radio #onlineradio

December 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

See live comedy this week! Best of the Week airs 8x daily on Boston Comedy Radio or get it on demand @ the BCR Substack to hear about upcoming shows and news! Access Boston Comedy Radio by going to www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download Live365! bostoncomedyradio.substack.com/p/bcr-on-dem...

BCR On Demand - The Best of the Week December 11-17

This week's shows and news plus what's new on the BCR schedule and the BCR Substack

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December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New episodes of the Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour w Red Peters on his career writing and presenting humorous music! Hear it Sun-Fri at 6am, 8pm+10pm and Sat at 6am/6pm on BostonComedyRadio.com or on demands for paid subscriber to the BCR Substack!
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Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

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December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

BandCamp Friday is today! Which means your favorite local and indie musicians and comedians get a bit more money from your purchases. If you've been waiting to pick up some new music or comedy, poke around the site. Here's my own BandCamp page w holiday music.
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I Know It's Christmas, by Nick Zaino

track by Nick Zaino

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December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New Source Material interview in my Writing Archives on paid subscriber side of the Boston Comedy Radio Substack, a 2002 interview with the incomparable Phyllis Diller! #bostoncomedyradio #substack #nickzainowritingarchives

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SOURCE MATERIAL: Phyllis Diller on starting out and how she defined her job

An extended Q&A from 2002

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December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

See live comedy this week! Best of the Week airs 8x daily on Boston Comedy Radio or get it on demand at the BCR Substack to hear about upcoming shows and news! Access Boston Comedy Radio by going to www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app!
bostoncomedyradio.substack.com/p/bcr-on-dem...

Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

www.bostoncomedyradio.com

December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

New episode of the Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour with Red Peters! Hear about his career writing and presenting humorous music all week on BostonComedyRadio.com, or become a paid subscriber to the BCR Substack to hear an extended version on demand!
bostoncomedyradio.substack.com/p/bcr-on-dem...

Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

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December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

The Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour is back Dec 3 with Red Peters! Check the site for the schedule!
Listen at www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app for your phone or Roku!
#bostoncomedyradio #bostoncomedy #bostonstandup #comedy #radio #onlineradio

December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

The Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour is back Dec 3 with Red Peters! Check the site for the schedule!

Listen at www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app for your phone or Roku!

#bostoncomedyradio #bostoncomedy #bostonstandup #comedy #radio #onlineradio

December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Happy Kelly MacFarland Hot Gnome release day! Kelly's new special debuts at 8PM EST tonight on YouTube! Directed by Will Noonan!

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Kelly MacFarland - HOT GNOME [2025] full special

YouTube video by Kelly MacFarland

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November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

The Boston Comedy Radio Interview Hour is back Dec 3 with Red Peters! Check the site for the schedule!

Listen at www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app for your phone or Roku!

#bostoncomedyradio #bostoncomedy #bostonstandup #comedy #radio #onlineradio

November 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

See live comedy this week! Best of the Week airs 8x daily on Boston Comedy Radio or get it on demand at the BCR Substack to hear about upcoming shows and news! Access Boston Comedy Radio by going to www.bostoncomedyradio.com or download the Live365 app!
bostoncomedyradio.substack.com/p/bcr-on-dem...

Boston Comedy Radio – 100 Years of Stand-up Sketch Music

www.bostoncomedyradio.com

November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Teepublic and Redbubble are both having sales right now, a bit cheaper than the usual sales. Check out all of the Boston Comedy Radio merch, including holiday stuff! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8273...

Boston Comedy Radio Christmas - HO HO HO HA HA HA by boston-comedy-radio

Boston Comedy Radio gets into the Christmas spirit, laughing with Santa! www.bostoncomedyradio.com

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November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Prototype of what the new shirts for giveaways might look like. They might wind up being black or purple. Looking around for the best place to get some printed so I can send them to listeners.

#boston #bostoncomedyradio #comedy

November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Up now in the paid section of my Writing Archives on the Boston Comedy Radio Substack, SOURCE MATERIAL: A Q&A with Billy Connolly from 2010. Source Material is a newish Substack feature, extended, largely unpublished Q&As from feature stories.

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SOURCE MATERIAL: Billy Connolly on winging it onstage, profanity, music, and more

An extended Q&A from 2010

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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

I just spent forty-five minutes trying to track down a video I knew I'd seen of Billy Connolly reading bits of his notebook for my Source Material post in the Writing Archives tomorrow. Turns out, this was the interview I was looking for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDzg...

Globe At Home June 11 2007 - Billy Connolly

YouTube video by Boston Comedy Radio

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November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Nick Zaino

@nickzaino.bsky.social

Friday night, Erin Maguire records a new special at the Rockwell. Two weeks ago, she killed it at the Garden for Comics Come Home. And that's just a fraction of the year she's had, so far. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/a...