Seinfeld blasts Edmonton with hilarious nothings July 9
Some stand-up comedians are deep, so deep that they are called the philosophers of the modern age – the only people in the world who are expected tell the harsh truth and help us laugh at the tragedies of the human condition. And there are guys like Jerry Seinfeld. Master of Minutiae, Titan of the […]
The DAILY FUNNY: Terrorist snuff fantasies and the zombie apocalypse
Hey, who better than The Onion to bring a little clarity to the question of what’s really important in the story of Osama bin Laden’s death. I mean, really? You wanna discuss geopolitical tensions and the brinksmanship of modern politics? Wha-eva. Meanwhile, if irony were a case of irony from ironyville, it couldn’t be any […]
GIGGLE CITY: Tom Green plays the Peanut Butter Game
He dry-humped a dead moose. He put a severed cow’s head in his parents’ bed. He put dog poop on a microphone and held it out to interview people on the street. He married Drew Barrymore. No, wait – that last one wasn’t supposed to be funny. Or was it? What Tom Green has done […]
The DAILY FUNNY: The Donald Ducks
Turnaround is fair play in politics, and after weeks of Donald Trump harping on “birther” theories baut Barack Obama’s birth, the media has started asking the obvious question: where is the Donald’s hair from? Andy Borowitz reports. Comedian bio pics are rated in this Splitsider piece. No potential George Carlin piece is mentioned, but that’s […]
POP CULTURE: SUN TV drinking games and modern media
The call went out early, as it has with many a pop culture phenomenon, as it had with Must-See TV Thursdays, with Don Cherry broadcasts, with Samatha Taylor’s Video Hits: How can we turn SUN TV into a drinking game? That, after all, is the best thing you can do with a television set: tune […]
To boldly make comedy where there was no comedy before
Inoculate yourselves, because free comedy is spreading in pubs west of downtown like a sniffle through a kindergarten. The Gas Pump, located at 10166 114 Street, is the latest establishment to offer a slate of comedians on a night which is traditionally slow in the hospitality industry – Mondays at 9:30 p.m., fitting nicely between […]
GIGGLE CITY: Tim Koslo’s comic recovery
Tim Koslo once experienced a personal Fear and Loathing in Alberta wasted on alcohol, morphine, Ativan, Valium, Quaaludes and LSD. He remembers the list very clearly. On day three of the epic bender, he did a stand-up comedy show which audience members later described as “brilliant,” featuring material nobody had ever heard before or since. […]
GIGGLE CITY: Marcus Beaubier
Our guest this week is Marcus Beaubier, performing at Yuk Yuk’s (in the Century Casino) tonight (Saturday, Feb. 19) Warning: The following contains explicit content not suitable for children. Q. If you could be any Canadian celebrity, who would you be, and why? A: Some sort of weird hybrid of Gord Downie from the Tragically […]
