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Hello there and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to a brilliant

Canadian comic a youngish guy who's only been over in the UK for a couple of years

after moving here from Canada.

We've got some insight into the Canadian circuit and the possible origin of what we in the UK might

think of as the Canadian style.

This is a brilliant conversation with John Hastings.

We've only met so the once or twice.

Yeah once or twice.

And we...

We met actually...

And this I only remember because it was in the sort of first month I was ever in the UK and that's what that was sort of a lad in the city so everyone's face is just tattooed in my brain. So you know what I mean?

It was at the comedy store,

right after, right before

it just for last audition,

Imran Youssef, who I met in Canada,

...