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Josh Johnson's bodega-cat joke brings a CBC editor onstage

On Hanomansing Live, Johnson and copy editor Jon Azpiri revisit an unexpected Vancouver encounter that turned newsroom standards into stand-up material.

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 123,698 views.

U.S. comedian Josh Johnson’s CBC surprise goes viral | Hanomansing Live

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0:00Vancouver concert footage shows how Johnson's joke about CBC's bodega-cat coverage brought a copy editor onstage.
2:18Azpiri recalls initial panic, then deciding to approach the exchange like a dinner-party conversation.
4:31Azpiri describes discovering the next morning that the encounter was spreading across social media.
6:14Johnson explains how heartwarming, hyper-local Canadian news supplied material for his routine.
10:04More stage footage shows Johnson giving Azpiri unsolicited editorial guidance.

Josh Johnson wanted to meet the editor. He hadn't expected someone in the audience to help.

During a set at Vancouver's Vogue Theatre, the American comedian was joking about CBC's coverage of a bodega cat evicted over health concerns. Then someone called out that a CBC editor was in the room. Copy editor Jon Azpiri ended up onstage, discussing the broadcaster's Journalistic Standards and Practices in a setting rather less predictable than a newsroom.

CBC's new Hanomansing Live interview brings both men back together to explain the encounter. It has drawn about 124,000 views in its first half-day.

Azpiri remembers his initial response as "Quiet terror, it was just general, a feeling of panic." His solution was to treat the exchange like a conversation at a dinner party and go with it. By the following morning, he says, the clip was spreading across social media.

Johnson, joining Ian Hanomansing by video from New York, explains that heartwarming, intensely local Canadian stories had supplied the material for his routine. The audience's intervention briefly sent his thoughts in an entirely different direction.

"Genuinely, for a split second, in my head I was like, 'The cat?'" he recalls.

The interview also returns to footage of Johnson offering Azpiri unsolicited editorial guidance. Usually, a copy editor gets to scrutinize someone else's words. This time, Azpiri was the one answering in front of a theater.

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