CRUMBS says it's almost Summer

Summer is finally rearing it's gorgeous head here in Winnipeg and CRUMBS is busy doing all the CRUMBS things. That includes, but is not limited to:

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Lee White putting the finishing touches on the Euro Touro. With stops to be made in London for a festival and some shows with Rene Dellefont with a CRUMBS and Dad's Garage co-production.

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Stephen Sim gearing up for the Fringe Festival with CRUMBS again back at the King's Head and with the Big Stupid Improv Show at MTYP. But Stephen has been busy with other things too, there are more shows in the near future to get all excited by. Here are some of them...

Comedy Knights is still happening every Tuesday for FREE at the King's Head and this Tuesday, June 3rd is the Recital Show for the Stand-ups who have been taking improv workshops with Stephen. They've been doing such a swell job, you should come to the show and see just how hilarious funny people can be when they are free to make it up.

A collaboration with the Spoken Word Festival at the Gas Station Arts Centre. The Thursday, June 5th show will feature spoken works artists (which is a fancy way of saying poets) performing their "thing" with improvisers (which is a fancy way of saying "lazy actor/comedians") performing their thing. The poems will inspire the improvs, the improvs will inspire the poets and everything will be so inspiring that the whole audience will probably just laugh, cry and melt into beauty.

Of course keep tuning in to the CRUMBS radio show on 101.5 UMFM every Monday at 5pm CST for amazing guests saying amazing things. We've been having some pretty good guests on the show lately (With Lee being on tour). Here are some of the past guests in picture form.

Thin Lizzy

Ryan "internet famous" McMahon

Paul "Purple Room" Little

WINNIPEG FRINGE FESTIVAL 2014!!!

CRUMBS will be back at the King's Head for the Fringe. The Big Stupid Improv Show will be at the wonderful MTYP. Those shows are shows you want to see. But there are sooooo many shows to see at the Fringe. FRAZ will be premiering his new show (produced, dramaturged and directed by Stephen Sim), as well as Outside Joke doing their show, DnD Improv, Rumble Pak doing their show, Parking Lots doing their show, Bill Pats doing a new show, JD Renaud doing a new show… there are just so many shows.

Fringe is a wonderful time.

Enjoy your summer and we will see you soon.

Here are some back alley dumpster graffiti in Winnipeg just for the heck of it.

Thanks for reading this

Improv and the Comedy Festival

The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival is almost upon Winnipeg and Winnipeg will soon be the funniest place on the planet for a week, not that Winnipeg isn't usually in the top ten on any day.

While I am going to be at the Gas Station Arts Centre introducing all of the shows for the Comedy Festival I will be hosting and performing in The Doctor Whom & the Lords of Improv show happening on Tue, April 8th. The is happening at the always wonderful Gas Station Arts Centre and will not only be featuring myself, it will also feature OTHER amazing performers too. Robyn Slade and Leif Ingebrigtsen will be there as well as some cast members of the Irrelevant Show including Mr Mark Meer. Who(m) is Mark Meer? Well, he will be playing the part of Doctor Whom and who better to play the part than Mark Meer, the king of the nerds! He is perhaps best known for being the voice of Commander Shepard on the monster hit video game Mass Effect. He's also quite beloved as an international improviser. Improvising for years with Edmonton's Rapid Fire Theatre and the long running improv soap opera Die Nasty. Winnipeg is happy to have my good friend Mark Meer on a Winnipeg stage. Check this show out!

Buy tickets to the Doctor Whom & the Lords of Improv Show

The next Comedy Knights improv show is Tuesday, April 15th at 9PM and free as always, the show will be CRUMB & Friends. Of course you do know that every Tuesday there is a show that happens, we rotate between improv and stand-up to ensure that all the comedy bases are covered.

How amazing was the Bizarro Comedy show that happened on April Fool's Day? If you missed it, then you missed a dozy. You missed some local stand-up comics giving improv a try… and rocking the stage with their improv-ness. You also missed some local improvisers giving stand-up comedy a try… and killing it!

It was such a success that it will most assuredly be returning with more stand-up and improv swappiness.

Outside Joke is presenting their 2nd Season of the Yuks. Which is Outside Joke putting on an actual season of shows at the Gas Station Arts Centre with some amazing guests. I say amazing guests because you might remember that CRUMBS was their guest at the season opener… and CRUMBS is amazing. But seriously folks, more amazing than that is Rapid Fire Theatre is sending over one of their own to guest with Outside Joke. Kory Matheweson will be partaking in some improv and teaching some improv workshops. The show will feature a "Nondescript, Non-denominational, Trademark-Free Short form Improv Competition show" that will be hosted by Stephen Sim (hey, that's me).

Tickets for the Outside Joke Show

What other shows are happening in Winnipeg?

Every Monday you can go see a live taping of the Shaw TV show "The Week Thus Far" and be in a real "Live Studio Audience". The show features a good cross section of Winnipeg stand-ups in a talk show formatted comedy show. The show is taped live at the King's Head and starts around 8PM.

Every Wednesday you should go to The Cheer in Osborne Village. The stand-up show there is called "Stand-up and Cheer" and it is hosted by the "always handsome" Ben "Ol' Ball Coach" Walker.

Every Thursday at the Times Change(d) on Main Street you can enjoy the "Workshop" hosted by the very talented Chantal Morastica. The evening is a show that has stand-ups and improv and sketch comedy performers work on new hilarious material. Always so much fun.

On the Sundays that this show is happening, you should really go. The legendary Comedy at the Cavern open mic stand-up show. The Cavern is under the Toad in Osborne Village and it hosts a legendary stand-up night that is hosted by the almost just as legendary John B Duff. This is where most of the city's stand-ups cut their comedy teeth (teeth, I might add, that are now razor sharp).

Hey Winnipeg, thanks for reading this, thanks for seeing live comedy shows and thanks for being so great.

CRUMBS return to Tueday Nights!

Yes folks, you read that headline correctly, CRUMBS is returning to their Tuesday night time slot on the FREE LAUGHS Comedy Series at the King's Head Pub.

The FREE LAUGHS Comedy Series is now entering the 5th season of doing kick ass comedy shows... 5 years... 5... years. Time flies when it flies.

First of all, kudos to Lee White for putting on an amazing show last week called the Kings of the King's Head. It was a mish mash of all your favourite Game Shows (well, all of his favourite ones). We had Team Improv versus Team Stand-up.

Team Improv consisted of:
Stephen Sim (from CRUMBS)
RobYn Slade (from Outside Joke)
Gord Tanner (from the Royal Leichtenstein Theatre Company)

Team Stand-up consisted of:
John B Duff (from Shitz N Gigglez)
Ryan McMahon (from Comedy Loser, Clarence Two Toes)
Dan Robertson (from Genius Island)

In the end, after playing general trivia, Password, the Price Is Right, 15 Point Pyramid, Name that Tune and Family Feud, the Stand-ups stood up to Team Improv and reigned supreme!





So now Season 5 of the FREE LAUGHS COMEDY SERIES continues!

And we open things up with CRUMBS improv with Dj Hunnicutt. We haven't done a show for years... well, months. This show is gonna show everybody that we still can do it and do it well.

Here is the facebook event page.

Sept 7 CRUMBS & Dj Hunnicutt Improv Comedy
Sept 14 Ryan McMahon Best 5 mins Comedy Variety
Sept 21 CRUMBS & Friends Improv Comedy
Sept 28 Shitz N Gigglez Stand-up Comedy


Oct 5 Outside Joke Improv Comedy
Oct 12 Ryan McMahon Best 5 mins Comedy Variety
Oct 19 CRUMBS & Friends Improv Comedy
Oct 26 Shitz N Gigglez Stand-up Comedy


Nov 2 CRUMBS & Dj Hunnicutt Improv Comedy
Nov 9 Winnipeg iF Improv Fest
Nov 16 Ryan McMahon Best 5 mins Comedy Variety
Nov 23 CRUMBS & Friends Improv Comedy
Nov 30 Shitz N Gigglez Stand-up Comedy

And then of course the shows continue, but that is the schedule so far. See you all there.