The Winnipeg Comedy Festival gets closer!

Check out the website for information about the 40+ shows featured in this year's festival.
We start featuring some FREE outreach comedy shows as we get closer to the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

Thursday, March 17th
at the Handsome Daughter

Wednesday, March 23rd
at Jekyll & Hyde's

Thursday, March 24th
at McNally Bookstore at Grant Park Mall

Tuesday, March 29th
at the King's Head (Comedy Knights)

Wed, March 30th
at the Park Theatre (Comedy Amuse-Bouche)



Then we have the Winnipeg Comedy Festival actually start, which means that Winnipeg EXPLODES with comedy. So much comedy, so much stand-up, so much improv, so much sketch, so much funny and so many jokes.

Check out the website for information about the 40+ shows featured in this year's festival.



Some highlights?

 CRUMBS & Friends
Yes, you'll see CRUMBS with DJ Hunnicutt at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival with some very special guests.

The High School Improv Super Show
The return of this favourite show. Hand selected players from the Canadian Improv Games FINALS will be assembled into a Super Team. This show will be hosted by Caitlin Curtis and Stephen Sim.

Lost in Translation, Perdu en quoi? 
The French and English improv show all about miscommunication. A hit last year, sure to be a hit again. Get your tickets early for this one, the venue is small and the laughs are huge.

The Sketch Comedy Revue hosted by Kevin McDonald
A comedy festival must include sketch comedy. Here we have sketch comedy legend Kevin McDonald hosting this sketch comedy revue. The show will include Craig Lauzon (Royal Canadian Air Farce), Wes Borg (Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie), Hot Thespian Action, H.U.N.K.S., Stephen & Caity and Bucko.

But really... there are so many great shows to check out!


Thank you!

April Flowers

I was told there would be flowers, April Flowers, but here I am riding on top of a March Lion, a March Lion that was supposed to "morph" into some sort of lamb-like creature. Oh well, if we humans didn't have the weather to complain about, I'm sure we'd find something else.

So April in Winnipeg means the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and here we are fresh from having the festival stain Winnipeg with hilarity and comedic wonderment. I did get to hang out with some comedy folks (here's some photographic proof). Winnipeg was the funniest place on the planet for a week and we still have the strength to muster some more funny. Funny has not yet died. Here are some shows to enjoy.

On Tuesday we can look forward to another show brought to you by the Comedy Knights at the King's Head. The show will be CRUMB & Friends. The CRUMB will be Stephen Sim (as Lee White is still on tour in Europe) and the Friends will be: RobYn Slade, Jane Testar, Andrea del Campo, Gordon Tanner and Cory Wojcik. You can always look forward to free comedy at the King's Head on a Tuesday, so we'll always see you there.

On Friday we can look forward to another Winnipeg Stand-up showcase at the Park Theatre featuring a gaggle of handsome/funny comics standing in front of a mic stand, spinning hilarious yarns for the masses.

On Saturday we can look forward to Outside Joke's show at the Gas Station Theatre. The show will feature guests from Edmonton's Rapid Fire Theatre performing a "Theatresports-esque-Trademark-Free" competitive improv match (hosted by the ever writing this paragraph Stephen Sim). Get Tickets!

As we look back on a successful week of comedy for Winnipeg we can all thank the lovely and hard working folks at the Gas Station Arts Centre for putting together an amazing festival.

Highlights? Okay...

Bill Pats did his new show directed by Bruce Clark and then he was able to go to an after party at Moxie's (see his show to understand how amazing this truly is)

Tom Green and I both learned that we both went to Middle School (Junior High School) together. We might have even played street hockey, skateboarded and played 1941 at the Mac's together.

Did some improv with some fine Edmonton folks, which I hadn't done in a long time. We did a Dr Who inspired improv show that was filled with silly fun times. Very good to hang out and play with the cast of The Irrelevant Show.

I was able to reveal myself as the mysterious "ID guy voice" for DNTO in the live show at the Gas Station Arts Centre. Such a fun show. The true stories were truly great, the music was great, and having to re-do the credits at the end because I mispronounced the name of my boss was great.

Sook Yin and Stephen "meeting" onstage. She called me a slob, then called me rugged. Which do you think is more appropriate? #teamrugged

I learned that Elvira Kurt pronounces her name El-veera Kurt. Who know (the answer is everybody... also, who knew that someone introducing artists could mispronounce so many people's names).

Being immersed in the stand-up comedy world and seeing Winnipeg engulfed in comedy was amazing. Seeing local Winnipeg comics hold their own, and sometimes even hold themselves up high, was also wonderful.

Size Matters show backstage (tall meets small)

Trish Cooper before the No Bro Show getting ready. And then Evany Rosen (of Picnicface) doing her set.

A great week. Now let's have this lion I'm riding on turn into a lamb and smell some flowers.

You can always tune into the CRUMBS radio show on Mondays from 5-6 PM to catch live radio about everything that's going on in the world... and your own backyard.

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Bizarro Comedy and Star Wars

Tuesday, April 1st (April Fool's Day)

It will be a Bizarro Comedy Show!

What is that? Well, that is where the Stand-up Comics do the improv and the Improvisers do the Stand-up comedy.

It's like if Superman was Evil! 

It's like Freaky Friday but on a Tuesday... and with Comedy!

How amazing will this show be? You simply must come down to the King's Head and see the hilariousness of Bizarro.

And just when you thought that they're couldn't be more exciting show news...

Stephen Sim as Han Solo?

Toby Hughes as Luke Skywalker?

Stephen McIntyre as Obi Wan?


What does this all mean?

Well, it means that SiR (Shakespeare in the Ruins) is having a fundraiser show at it is a retelling of the original Star Wars done as Shakespeare. So very cool. You can see that at the King's Head on Thursday, March 27th at 8pm.

The only real shame is that Lee White is away on tour in Europe while this show is going on... Lee, who is probably the biggest Star Wars fan in Winnipeg. Oh well, we'll just have to tell him how amazing it was when he returns.


What else to go see upcoming?

#1
What other regular shows are out there?

Well, Wednesdays at the Cheer in Osborne Village hosted by Ben "OBC" Walker. You can also be a part of a new night happening on Thursdays at the Times Changed on Main Street hosted by Chantal Marostica. More? Are there more shows? Probably.

#2

The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival

This wonderful festival is coming up in April and that means that Winnipeg becomes the funniest place on Earth for one week. There will be some amazing comedy converging in this city and you all need to be a part of it. There will also be some improv happening, Mark Meerfrom the Irrelevant Show on CBC radio will be doing some improv and YOU simply MUST experience the BRILLIANCE of this show.

Here is the show LINK for you to CLICK

#3

Friday, April 18th at the Park Theatre

The Winnipeg Comedy Showcase featuring the stand-up amazingness of:

John B Duff, Mike Green, Dan Verville, Ryan Ash, Dan Glasswick and Keener. Get your tickets and then get your laugh on.

Here is the LINK for this SHOW

Oh yeah, don't forget about this deli... which makes me ask... WHAT ARE THE THINGS?

CRUMB & Friends

Improv in Winnipeg is alive and well. Here's what shows you can look forward to.

The next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, March 18th

CRUMB & Friends!

It will feature:

Stephen Sim and Dj Hunnicutt

as well as the special guests:

Gord Tanner

Alix Sobler

Toby Hughes

Caitlin Curtis

Fraz Wiest

The next next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, April 1st

It will be a Bizarro Comedy Show!

What is that? Well, that is where the Stand-up Comics do the improv and the Improvisers do the Stand-up comedy. It's like Freaky Friday but on a Tuesday... and with Comedy.

The next next next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, April 15th

It will again be a CRUMB & Friends show.

But you know that I'm just talking about the IMPROV right?

You do know that EVERY Tuesday there's a show? We rotate the show and bounce between IMPROV

and STAND-UP comedy. Every single Tuesday night

there's a show and every single Tuesday night is great.

What other shows do I need to know about?

#1
What other regular shows are out there?

Well, Wednesdays at the Cheer in Osborne Village hosted by Ben "OBC" Walker. You can also be a part of a new night happening on Thursdays at the Times Changed on Main Street hosted by Chantal Marostica. More? Are there more shows? Probably.

#2

The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival

This wonderful festival is coming up in April and that means that Winnipeg becomes the funniest place on Earth for one week. There will be some amazing comedy converging in this city and you all need to be a part of it. There will also be some improv happening, Mark Meerfrom the Irrelevant Show on CBC radio will be doing some improv and YOU simply MUST experience the BRILLIANCE of this show.

Here is the show LINK for you to CLICK

#3

Friday, April 18th at the Park Theatre

The Winnipeg Comedy Showcase featuring the stand-up amazingness of:

John B Duff, Mike Green, Dan Verville, Ryan Ash, Dan Glasswick and Keener. Get your tickets and then get your laugh on.

Here is the LINK for this SHOW

Ford Nation? More like Spacey Nation. The asshole brothers just cannot compete with class and wit. Here's the LINK for context.

The CRUMBS radio show has been ongoing weekly for about a decade and just because Lee is away touring Europe doesn't mean the radio show is a no-go. No, in fact, Stephen has just decided to bring on special guests to fill the void. Here we see last week's guests John Wilson and Tim Grey from The Week Thus Far TV show. Great guests.

Now just a couple pictures of Winnipeg. Just nice pictures of Winnipeg. 

First a sunrise...

A cloud maker making clouds.