Not A Typical Post

Hey fans, I'm going to be taking a break over the holidays, so unless I feel the urge there won't be much content on here until some time in January. For one of my final assignments, I had to write a personal essay. I'm going to post it here because, frankly, I'm proud of it and I hope it's at least a little bit funny. Enjoy! Life is a Roll of Quarters                   Have you ever seen a Nintendo 64 controller? More importantly, have you ever held...

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Tackling Hard Topics In Comedy

I am not a stand-up comedian. But I love comedy. When a story comes into the news about some comedian making a potentially tasteless joke somewhere people are often quick to burn them at the stake. There are always comedians like Daniel Tosh, Jeff Ross, or Anthony Jeselnik who people want to get mad at for something. I will go to my grave defending how important good comedy is to a functioning society. Please note that I said "good" comedy. There are no shortage of bad comics making suicide/rape/pedophila jokes that are bad. Poorly written...

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Musical Comedy: The Chocolate-Covered Ribeye Steak of Art

Wait!Come back! I promise, this isn't going to be a list of grainy iPhone video of "this hilarious guy from Rumours" singing "Excuse me while I kiss this guy!" in a bad Hendrix impression. Good comedy in music is a much different beast than either comedy or music. If you're Bruce Springsteen and you don't play Born To Run in concert, the E Street Band starts getting threatening phone calls. But people overwhelmingly don't like to hear jokes they've already heard from their favourite comedian. Sure, some great comics will end their show...

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Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats

Chelsea Peretti released her brand-spankin' new comedy special "One of the Greats" last Friday and you should be watching it. Filmed live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Peretti manages to turn her hour of stand-up into something much closer to a one-woman show. One of the Greats does a few things that I've never seen in any...

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Royal Canadian House of Cards

I love live theatre! The immediacy. The energy. The heavy breathing of that big guy taking up the arm rest next to me. All of it. And last night I had the chance to see Proud by Michael Healey, put on by Theatre Projects Manitoba. It takes place in a fictional future where Stephen Harper's party has won a colossal majority government in Canada....

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Books! (They're Not Just For Nerds Anymore)

It has become a popular trend in recent years for comedians to write memoirs. I love reading a comedian's memoirs! I like to know the details of their lives, how they were shaped into who they are, how they got their break etc.  Today is another compact post all about some great books by great comedians you should check out. Bossypants...

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Dial "P" For Podcasts

Before I started college, I worked as a delivery driver. It was a good gig because I got to drive around Winnipeg all day and listen to podcasts. On average, I listened to between 8 and 20 hours a week of podcasts of all different types. Now that I'm at school, my intake has dropped significantly, but I listen whenever I can. When I mention...

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Who (or what) is Dan Harmon?

Pew Pew! Take that, mediocrity!  There's a good chance that unless you don't know who Dan Harmon is. It's far more likely that you've heard of, watched, pirated the show he created and writes for, Community.  I'm going to try something different than my Louis C.K. here. If you want to know about all the great, amazing things Harmon...

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Scrubs: A Show From 13 Years Ago You Should Watch

Scrubs is an NBC comedy-drama that aired from 2001 to 2010, and if you've never seen it before I need to tell you to get it going in your Netflix queue. I had never seen an episode until earlier this month- You have every right to look at me like that But I had heard good things and decided to jump into it. Here's...

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