It was on May 21, 2005, that I performed my first stand-up comedy set. I don’t remember much about that first night but do recall squeezing the microphone so hard that I lost feeling in my right arm and that the front row was full of 20-something female lifeguards (I’ve remembered that second part a [...]

Last Wednesday morning I awoke to quite a surprise. The documentary on stand-up comedy in Calgary which I was a producer on last year, The Inside Joke, was nominated for an Alberta Film and Television Award (a program run by the Alberta Media Production Industries Association)! It did come as quite the shock because it [...]

The premiere of Red Carpet Comedy Presents: Live at Lolita’s is this Thursday night and I am very excited to be one of the first comedians to appear on the show. After almost three seasons of Red Carpet Comedy, the venue owners asked for the creation of a brand new performance to showcase the Red [...]

In May of last year I made a post about how much I enjoy the Calgary International Children’s Festival. Many of the shows that they import from around the world are great theatre, regardless of your age. That’s why when they asked me to be a part of their new “Simple Fun” campaign, I jumped [...]

It’s Tuesday and I will have to seriously fight the urge to leave my house this evening and head to either a rehearsal space or theatre. For the past four months I have worked with a group of immensely talented and hard-working people to build/present “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” but, as of Saturday night, [...]

A few months ago I posted about appearing in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” and before I even really realized it, we’re open! This past weekend (and all of last week) has been truly remarkable as we moved from our rehearsal space into our theatre and presented the play to our first few audiences. Feedback [...]

As part of my work with Kaboom… Hooray! Comedy!, my best friend and frequent accomplice, Steve Nagy, and I created a short video sketch. We hope that you enjoy it… I’m also closing out the KABOOM! show tomorrow evening at 8:00PM in Yuk Yuk’s Calgary (click here for the Facebook event). This past weekend I [...]

My last couple of public shows in 2011 are gearing up to be a lot of fun. Next Wednesday night (November 30) is a special presentation of Red Carpet Comedy where comedians (myself included) won’t only be presenting their new material but also raising funds for a worthy cause. Calgary Alternative Support Services (CASS) is a [...]

My appearance as “Mitch” in Tuesdays With Morrie was well over two years ago and I didn’t really realize how much I’d been missing acting until an audition notice came to my inbox which I simply couldn’t ignore. It was for a Morpheus Theatre production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile - a script/show I’ve often heard about because it was [...]

Last week I wrote that the people who make up the Kaboom… Hooray! Comedy! group are becoming quite the ensemble. We have all spent some time this summer combining our talents in order to create video sketches. The first such sketch, David Petersonman, has been released on YouTube and I couldn’t be happier with the [...]