June 17, 2009 - 08:26 AM
ComedyIt’s easy—and fun—to dump on the übersuccessful, but comedian Russell Peters is a solid performer who appeals to every ethnicity, and just about every culture seemed represented at June 16’s show at GM Place.
June 5, 2009 - 12:23 PM
ComedyAfter Dane Cook’s gig at GM Place on Thursday night, it now seems possible to enjoy standup in a stadium. That didn’t happen on this night, but it’s still possible.
May 11, 2009 - 2:13 PM
ComedyLewis Black knows expectations ruin everything. How often in life do things live up to their hype?
April 20, 2009 - 12:20 PM
ComedyDespite looking like slightly hipper versions of the aging folk singers they parody in
A Mighty Wind, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, of
Spinal Tap fame, kept the crowd with them through two hours and two encores.
April 6, 2009 - 2:16 PM
ComedyTracy Morgan is a funny guy and a big star, but he had his ass handed to him by a local boy on Friday.
April 2, 2009 - 05:30 AM
ComedySerge Boucher’s dark comedy
Life Savers is all about how we deal—or don’t deal—with tragedy.
March 23, 2009 - 5:05 PM
ComedyVancouver TheatreSports League’s ads say
Impro-vivor is back “by popular demand”. Judging from Friday night’s performance, that’s no marketing hyperbole.
February 16, 2009 - 3:20 PM
ComedyI first came across Chelsea Handler on Oxygen Network’s hidden-camera show Girls Behaving Badly.
December 9, 2008 - 11:38 AM
ComedyArguably the most manic comedian in the business, Robin Williams's standup act proves he's an entertainer first and an original comedic voice second.
December 6, 2008 - 12:44 PM
ComedyFrom the moment Tommy Chong’s wife Shelby took the stage for a (thankfully) brief standup set, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was up in smoke.
November 17, 2008 - 12:08 PM
ComedyIf there was ever any doubt Vancouver could support comedy, the massive turnouts at three high-profile shows last weekend prove we have a gluttonous appetite for the art form.
November 13, 2008 - 06:10 AM
ComedySome comics work years to develop a solid hour of material, then hold on for dear life. Not Louis CK.
October 20, 2008 - 2:01 PM
ComedySpending two and a half hours with Henry Rollins isn’t a whole lot different from being cornered at a party by a motor-mouthed liberal arts student, albeit one with a side interest in Nietzsche and weight training.
October 16, 2008 - 06:00 AM
ComedyOn paper, it's a brilliant idea: suggestions are computer-generated, aided in part by the audience and projected onto two big screens on either side of the stage. But...
September 22, 2008 - 1:40 PM
ComedyNonsensical songs in rap or jazz; crazy gibberish, followed by German and Spanish; and a serious musician with a voice like a possessed angel. The Andy Kaufman Award winner is truly a force of nature.
August 25, 2008 - 1:47 PM
ComedyFour months after his last appearance in the Lower Mainland, Chris Rock laid to rest any notion he’s past his comedic best-before date.
April 24, 2008 - 06:20 AM
Comedy
Raiders of the Lost Improv
April 17, 2008 - 06:50 AM
ComedyWanda Sykes is one of the funniest people in America—or at least she was in 2004, when Entertainment Weekly anointed her one of the top 25 comics in the U.S. But if her Friday appearance at the River Rock Show Theatre was an indication of her current place in the pantheon of comedic performers, she’s slipped a notch or 50.
February 28, 2008 - 09:00 AM
ComedyBullard has always divided people: he had legions of fans and detractors during his six years on the air.
February 14, 2008 - 09:00 AM
ComedyAt Yuk Yuk’s on Friday, February 8
November 29, 2007 - 09:00 AM
ComedyThe improv show, mixing the tense drama of 24 with the silliness of Santa, may be my favourite TheatreSports show yet.
September 27, 2007 - 09:00 AM
ComedyGlobal ComedyFest At various venues from September 13 to 22
August 23, 2007 - 09:00 AM
ComedyThe Skinny and The Crawford Twins At the Waterfront Theatre on Saturday, August 18. No remaining performances
June 28, 2007 - 09:00 AM
ComedyAt the River Rock Show Theatre on Saturday, June 23
June 21, 2007 - 09:00 AM
Comedy A Vancouver TheatreSports League production. At the New Revue Stage on Granville Island on Friday, June 8. Continues weekly from Wednesday to Saturday
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