CRUMBS splits in half

So, with Lee gone on tour in Europe and Stephen staying back in Winnipeg with Dj Hunnicutt. CRUMBS has split in half for the spring. You can enjoy one half in Europe and one half in Winnipeg. In effect, you are really just doubling your CRUMBS availability. Don't worry, their powers will reunite in Winnipeg come June (you know, June, when winter might be over).

Lee White had his Bon Voyage show at the King's Head. He also had his 40th surprise birthday onstage as well. After the dust settled, the smoke cleared and the cake was all eaten, everyone realized that there won't be another true CRUMBS show in Winnipeg until Lee returns in June. The good news is everyone in attendance at the King's Head has memory of the Bartender Francis joining CRUMBS onstage for a scene. Legendary.

A Venn Diagram?

Here is a nice Venn Diagram to very simply illustrate the simultaneous artistic disciplines at work while a live improv performance is happening. As this diagram so elegantly shows, improv exists at the point where Acting, Writing and Directing intersect.


So now what? What shows are coming up next? Well let me tell you...

#1
Every TUESDAY at the King's Head

C'mon down to this FREE and special show at the King's Head. The FIRST and THIRD Tuesday of the month is for IMPROV while the SECOND and FOURTH Tuesday of the month is for STAND-UP. But EVERY Tuesday is a comedy good time. Stephen Sim (of CRUMBS fame and BLOG writing fame) is still in town while Lee goes on tour, so he will be inviting some guest players and curating some fine live performances.

DISCLAIMER: While the show still has "Free Laughs" we did have a little name change to honour some of the changes in the night. We had one of our founders and longtime producers leave under unfortunate circumstance, it didn't feel right to keep calling the night Free Laughs so we changed the name to Comedy Knights.

#2
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.

#4

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 Meer from 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

#5

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

Here's something that happened:

The Manitoba Improv League had it's regional Finals for the Canadian Improv Games, which just happens to be the biggest and most amazing of any High School improv in Canada... maybe even the Galaxy. Congratulations goes out to Vincent Massey on their win and their honour of representing Manitoba at the National Finals in Ottawa.

You know what?

There's probably even more shows. I'll have to update this even more because Winnipeg is just exploding with amazing live comedy shows. Winnipeg is also exploding with winter isolation, stir crazy feelings and strange accidental spillages at coffee shops.

CRUMBS International Improv Company

CRUMBS is a duo with a Dj
CRUMBS is an improv company
CRUMBS is a comedy troupe
CRUMBS is improvisational theatre
CRUMBS is freestyle comedy
CRUMBS is a radio show
CRUMBS is an improv school
CRUMBS is a festival
CRUMBS is a show
CRUMBS is Stephen Sim and Lee White
CRUMBS is playing with Dj Hunnicutt

CRUMBS is an international improv duo from Winnipeg that first formed in 1997. They have been touring all over the world with their stripped down lo-fi improv comedy theatre show. They've also been known to perform stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, write, direct, produce and be awesome. They also are lucky enough to be able to perform with Dj Hunnicutt, who happens to be an amazing Dj that really "gets it".

The next places to see CRUMBS:

CRUMBS will be going on tour in Europe in the fall of 2012. So you can go see their shows there if you want to.

After they get back home in Winnipeg you'll want to catch one (or all) of their shows at the King's Head on Tuesday nights.

CRUMBS will also be returning to the FREE LAUGHS Comedy Shows. The shows are FREE and at 9:00 PM every single Tuesday night at the King's Head Pub.
The shows rotate between improv, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, alternative concept comedy and other hilarious hilarious comedy.
All you have to know is that every Tuesday at the King's Head Pub there is a FREE COMEDY show! 

                                 

You can also tune in to the CRUMBS radio show on 101.5 UMFM. The show is live every Monday at 5:00 PM CST. You can tune in on your old fashioned radio to 101.5 FM. You can tune in on your futuristic computer type machine at LISTEN ONLINE. Or you can lazily download the podcast at PODCASTS.

 

Awe, thanks for reading all of this.

FREE LAUGHS Holiday Special

So yeah,

Every single Tuesday you can be guaranteed COMEDY at the King's Head as part of the ongoing and going Free Laughs Comedy Series. You already know the show is free, you already know the show is the hottest and best comedy show in Winnipeg, you already know that it rotates between CRUMBS + Comedy Loser + CRUMBS & Friends + ShitZ N GiggleZ... But did you know that the show on Dec 29th is our Holiday Special? And did you know that it will feature all of the shows that rotate and will feature an improv set at the end that will feature all your favourite folks... Well you do now.

I apologize for the picture, but hey the holidays are sometimes about getting those things out.

the facebook event is here

CRUMBS shows and stuff like that.

So this blog isn't only a way to advertise shows... but i guess it really is.

CRUMBS has 2 exciting shows on the horizon. Let me explain...

1) Tuesday, Dec 15th at the King's Head 9pm (free)
The Facebook event is here

2) Friday, Dec 18th at the Gas Station Theatre 11:30pm ($10/$5)
The Facebook event is here

1) Tue Dec 15th
First up we have the CRUMBS & Friends show that is happening as part of the ongoing Free Laughs Comedy Series that happens at the King's Head (every single Tuesday at 9pm blah blah blah you know this) what makes this installment exciting is our "friends" our "special guests" are non other than Alix Sobler & Tricia Cooper.

Alix Sobler hails from New York City, met a man on her Fringe Festival touring and moved to Winnipeg. That doesn't stop her from burning up stages and burning up scripts (this might be confusing, allow me to explain, Alix writes a mean script and performs live as well).

Tricia Cooper was a cast member of the legendary Winnipeg sketch troupe The Royal Lichtenstein Theatre Company. They did many a hilarious comedy show here and on tour. They even got their own special on CBC. She has also been known to make people laugh on her own too.

2) Fri Dec 18th
Secondly, we have the SIM, SLADE, WHITE & McINTYRE show. This show is huge, this show is epic, this show is not to be missed. The original version was way back in 1996 and was called "SLADE, McINTYRE, SIM & WHITE" and was not only a kind of rite of passage for the "SIM" and the "WHITE" it was also one of the first improv shows for Canadian improv players Michal Grajewski, Aaron Merke and Bob Banks (who can now be seen performing in Toronto and Vancouver as part of such groups as Projectproject and Ghost Jail Theatre).

This show is possible because Robert Slade is in town (from London England) performing in the MTC Mainstage show and happens to be in town (lucky us). Stephen McIntyre and Robert Slade are the reason why improv in Winnipeg is so good, let alone why it even exists.

It also should be mentioned that before the show on the 18th there is another show you should check out. On Friday, Dec 18th at 8pm there is a show called "SKetches & Doodles" that is a sketch comedy show produced by "The Gray Area of Comedy". This sketch show will feature live and video sketches (and will feature RobYn Slade, who just happens to be Robert Slade's daughter). If you go to this show and keep your ticket stub, you will get into the late show for only $5 (good deal).

The Sketches & Doodles Facebook event page is here


Please enjoy all these shows responsibly

CRUMBS at the King's Head

CRUMBS is again doing the FREE LAUGHS comedy series at the King's Head pub on Tuesdays.
As you may know (or should know) every single Tuesday night at 9pm there is a comedy show at the King's Head and this comedy show just happens to be the best darned comedy show that the city has to offer. The show rotates between:

1st TUE
CRUMBS with DJ Hunnicutt and the World Class improv that has been blowing minds across the globe for years and years and years... You know it, you love it, you need it.

2nd TUE
Comedy Loser with Ryan McMahon, which is the solo comedy stylings of monologues and characters, multi-media and video... very cool show.

3rd TUE
CRUMBS & Friends also with DJ Hunnicutt, this time more of a jam show that has CRUMBS doing improv with very special guests.

4th TUE
Shitz 'N Gigglez, the Stand-up comedy show hosted by John B Duff. Canada's next top comics give you the love on the mic in that classic comedy way.


Folks...



So c'mon down to the King's Head and let the FREE LAUGHS warm you as you hang out with good people, drink fine beverages and munch on fine foods. It is always a good time and it is the best live comedy the city has to offer.

CRUMBS likes Mike Fly

Have I told you about how awesome Mike Fly is? Mike Fly is awesome. We met him in Winnipeg, but he was from Regina, then he moved to Vancouver, then he moved to Toronto. Who knows where he is today. What I can tell you is that he has been doing the IMP, which is an Improv Monologue Project. He whisks you away with him (like you are on a secret mission) gives you a prop, takes to an undisclosed location, and then you improvise a monologue there. He posts it, and magic happens.

Above is Stephen's example, below is Lee's example. I suppose that is obvious though huh? Check them out, then subscribe to his site and watch them all. Really, you should watch them all.

link to youtube

link to break

CRUMBS on Tour 2008

CRUMBS will be going on tour yet again. This time we will be going to Toronto, Berlin, throughout Germany, into Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and even the Netherlands. Be sure to catch all the shows and ride the planes and trains with us.

CRUMBS Berlin or Bust fundraiser!
Tues March 18th 9pm
King's Head Pub

CRUMBS in TORONTO

CRUMBS in EUROPE