To name your first comedy album Mr. Showbiz—unironically and at the tender age of 30, yet—might seem the height of hubris. And maybe it is. But if there were an actual honorific,...
When Darrin Rose chased his manhood all across Canada last year, he wasn’t quite the household fixture he is this year. These days you can’t flip the dial without seeing his...
At the River Rock Show Theatre on Friday, April 19
You had to feel for the woman wearing the Price Is Right T-shirt in the front row. When Drew Carey, the host for the past six...
There’s no more celebrated Irish comedian than Tommy Tiernan. The award-winning standup outsells all comers in tickets and DVDs on the Emerald Isle, and he performs to rave...
Can the Straight pick ’em, or what? In 2010, Ivan Decker was one of our comedy up-and-comers in the Fall Arts Preview issue. Cut to 2013: Decker has quit his day job, released a...
Watching Jeremy Hotz on-stage, you’d think he was a big bag of neuroses and negativity. And while the persona isn’t exactly the same as the man, you wouldn’t be all wrong.
When...
Even if fiddle music and Irish step-dancing aren’t your cuppa whisky, everyone loves a laugh, right? To that end, CelticFest Vancouver is bringing in famed Irish comedian Brendan...
You know comedy is booming when acts like Penn & Teller, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby, and Bill Maher don’t even make it into the season highlights. And there are lots more comics...
It was Mel Brooks, as the 2000 Year Old Man, who said, in a thick Yiddish accent, “We mock the things we are to be.”
Ah, the wisdom of the ancients. That aphorism really hits home...
At Yuk Yuk’s on Thursday, January 31. Continues until February 1
Canadian comedy fans, and Vancouverites in particular, have known about Darryl Lenox for years. The burly American...
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