The Comic Strip - a weekly professional comedy show, presented every Saturday night on the Tyrant Studios Lounge Stage. Each week The Comic Strip showcases three of the best stand-up comedians in Vancouver. Hosted by David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris.

Saturday, November 24th: (special show, four comedians)
Ari Matti, Colin Sharp and Darcy Boon Collins with Headliner Simon King

Simon King:
Simon King has been featured at many comedy festivals including: The Just For Laughs Festival, The Vancouver International Comedy Festival, The TBS Las Vegas Comedy Festival, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival and The HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. A veteran touring comic, he is not only a workhorse performer averaging nearly four hundred shows a year but also an extremely prolific writer. In addition to numerous film and television credits, in 2008 The Comedy Network and CTV filmed a one-hour special starring him for the popular series "Comedy Now." In early 2013 Simon recorded a second special, this one a half hour long, for the "No Kidding" series on Toronto-based IChannel. Simon has been featured in The LA Times, the alternative arts paper The Georgia Straight, The Hollywood Reporter and many others.

Darcy Boon Collins:
Darcy Boon Collins is a Vancouver based stand-up comedian who has headlined at clubs all over the Lower Mainland, Victoria and around BC.

Ari Matti:
A rising star in both his homeland of Estonia and internationally, Ari Matti has a bright future ahead of him. With enough on-stage energy to power a small town and punchlines to match, Ari has been enthralling audiences around the world with stories about life growing up in Eastern Europe. In his five year career in stand-up, Ari has spent two of those on the road in Australia, becoming a regular in Melbourne and around Australia. Throughout Asia he has performed at the Bangkok Comedy Club, Bangkok Hilarious, Crackhouse Kuala Lumpur, LOL Comedy, and Takeout Comedy among others. He has opened for Chris Franklin, Al De Bene, Rizal Van Geyzel, Jim Brewsky and Lawrence Mooney.

Colin Sharp:
A prolific stand-up comedian, Colin has toured across Western Canada, been featured as part of the Just For Laughs Northwest comedy festival, showcased for SiriusXM Top Comic, and can regularly be found at shows around Vancouver— including his own weekly show, Full Pint Comedy at Granville Island Brewing.