GIGGLE CITY: Mike Dambra plays Pickle

Posted on November 28, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy

Edmonton comedians Mike Dambra and Drew Behm suffered minor injuries over the weekend when they were assaulted by two disgruntled hecklers in Rimbey. We can laugh about it now. Or is it … too soon? Mike Dambra doesn’t seem to think so. Doing the emcee gig at the Comic Strip this weekend (for headliner Daniel […]

GIGGLE CITY: Jon Lajoie brings viral comedy to the stage

Posted on November 21, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider

Jon Lajoie is admittedly a “little hungover” when reached on the phone for an interview one recent morning. Some kind of late-breaking Halloween party, apparently. We’re trying to get him to explain how it is that some guy with a viral YouTube video suddenly becomes one of the hottest new comic performers in Canada – […]

GIGGLE CITY: Gavin Stephens avoids the race card

Posted on November 16, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, The Latest

Gavin Stephens is half black and half Portuguese – “which means at some point in history, I might’ve owned myself.” He doesn’t do that joke anymore. There’s a lot of “let’s talk about my race” material he could do, but chooses not to. Of course it’s a swell way for a young comic to get […]

GIGGLE CITY: The riffs of T.J. Miller

Posted on November 10, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider

By the time that Comedy Central special finally comes to the paradoxically less funny Canadian counterpart, the Comedy Network, it’s already old. It’s over. It’s ready for the History Channel. Not this time. This time, up-and-coming comedy star T.J. Miller is bringing a bootleg copy of his new Comedy Central special to screen for patrons […]

GIGGLE CITY: Neil Rhodes brewing fermented humour at Yellowhead Brewery

Posted on October 25, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider

Of the many types of comedy we have explored in this space, one that remains relatively untapped is “beer humour,” also known as “fermented comedy.” Not to be confused with falling-down-drunk humour or even pretending-to-be-drunk humour, this small, possibly even non-existent comedic genre turns out to be the theme for a comedy night on Friday […]

GIGGLE CITY: Andrew Grose to live in the moment at the Edmonton Comedy Festival

Posted on October 21, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy

Before you call “Nepotiz” on Andrew Grose for being the artistic director of the Edmonton Comedy Festival AND one of its performers, consider Graham Neil. This guy is the PRESIDENT of the Edmonton Comedy Festival, where he will appear Friday and Saturday because he also happens to be an aspiring stand-up comedian, along with the […]

GIGGLE CITY: Joe Flaherty will ‘do the Count’ at the Edmonton Comedy Festival

Posted on October 19, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Theatre

Joe Flaherty is fine with Count Floyd being his most famous SCTV character, but he can only do it in short bursts. Not because he’s tired or anything. It’s just that there’s not much material there. “He’s not even a real vampire,” Flaherty says. Don’t worry. The 70-year-old master of sketch and improv comedy wouldn’t […]

EDMONTON COMEDY FESTIVAL – True heckler tales

Posted on October 17, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy

Hecklers are an occupational hazard in the stand-up comedy industry – especially when you’re performing for morons who get so drunk that they think they’re funny, too. We’ve collected some good heckler tales from comedians performing at the Edmonton Comedy Festival this week, from the Giggle City archives and a fresh one from festival artistic […]

Laughtoberfest Week in Edmonton – from comedy fest to William Shatner

Posted on October 16, 2011 By Albert Smith Comedy, Culture, Film, Music, The Latest, Theatre

There’s something funny going on here. The Edmonton Comedy Festival with Joe Flaherty, a new comedy-Western feature film set in Alberta, the Deaner from FUBAR (right) performing with his band, Emo Phillips appearing at Yuk Yuk’s, Jon Dore at the Comic Strip and Sir William Shatner at the Shaw Conference Centre on Sunday adds up […]

GIGGLE CITY: Lorne Elliott goes madly on in all directions

Posted on October 13, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Culture

The combination of the words “CBC” and “comedy” does not always elicit respect in stand-up comedy circles. Does Lorne Elliott care? He doesn’t appear to. One imagines that nothing fazes this guy. The smart and soft-spoken 58-year-old comic remains a popular draw even five years after his national CBC radio show “Madly Off In All […]

GIGGLE CITY: ‘Dirty’ comedy gets serious

Posted on October 6, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Culture

Darren Frost says he’s received death threats for some of his jokes – which takes heckling to an entirely new level. Too far? Too soon? Never. Comedy is dangerous, and the comics who performed for the XXX-rated “Beauty and the Beasts” shows at Yuk Yuk’s over the weekend – Frost, Kenny Robinson and Kathleen McGee […]

GIGGLE CITY: Kenny Robinson goes over the line

Posted on October 3, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Culture, The Latest

There’s always a “line” in comedy. Even when they say there isn’t a line, there’s a line – and the comedians featured in Beauty and the Beasts at Yuk Yuk’s this weekend intend to cross it. Kenny Robinson, Darren Frost and Kathleen McGee are all fond of “working blue,” but in order to make a […]

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