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?

When CRUMBS was in Mannheim and Cologne.

The tour continues...

Mannheim

Mannheim is a town where there is a theatre called the TiG7. This is a theatre that has never steered us wrong. The audience and the energy on that stage has made it so we've never done a bad show there (… well, we don't do bad shows anywhere right?). Anyways, this time in Mannheim is no different.

The show:

Inspirations: "The Deathstar" and "Football (soccer)"

The show followed the story of a young boy who was terrible at football, much to the disappointment of his father. Now it turned out that when the father was young, he almost became a professional footballer. When he had his son, he had to give up his career and get a job to support the family. Well, it also turned out that the boy's coach was the father's best friend when they were young… wait, the coincidences don't stop there. It also turns out that the coach is the boy's father (imagine the scene where the coach tells the boy that he's his father…). In one moment of infidelity, the mother had slept with the best friend coach, so obviously there's been tension in the family ever since. Whoa.

We also got to see the inner troubles of the designer of the Deathstar, torn between doing a good job for the empire and feeling like maybe the rebels were the good guys. We even get the see how the Deathstar plans got into the hands of the rebels. We also meet a couple of collectors of Star Wars memorabilia. One seems to be more sinister and evil. One of them is simply looking for the final piece to his collection, a Deathstar prototype. Well, after trading an audience member's shirt for the final piece, we learn that the shirt used to belong to George Lucas himself. It turns out that he threw it away after banking Return of the Jedi, and that was the reason the "new" three movies sucked so hard. They both realize that the shirt must be brought to Disney so when they make episode VII it doesn't suck. Let's hope that happens.

P.S. The Deathstar is in reference to Star Wars and therefore inspired all the Star Wars references. I hope the German audiences were able to follow along without knowing Star Wars as intimately as a North American audience.

Cologne

We arrived in Cologne to do some workshops, no show. Cologne, it turns out, is not where cologne comes from. We taught workshops and had a relaxing time. We were able to relax thanks to Clamotta (our hosts) who helped us deal with the problems at our hotel. Sometimes people work in the service industry and are not "service" people. I don't know what happened to the guy at the front desk, perhaps he was forced at gun point to work in a hotel, but he should rethink his job and do everyone a favour and find new work, new work that doesn't involve any interaction with humans whatsoever. Do what you love and love what you do. I suppose that's easy for us to say, we have the best job in the world.

P.S. Cologne may not be where the musky male perfume originated, but they do have the SMALLEST BEERS IN THE WORLD!

Oh, I've been taking pictures out the window of the train using the panorama feature on my camera. I get some pretty interesting results. I will keep you posted with my panorama experiments. I hope you like them.

Thanks for reading the words. Thanks for looking at the pictures. Thanks for coming to the shows. Thanks for taking the workshops.

The CRUMBS tour continues...