Standup Archives

With Pride Toronto month underway again, Toronto’s LGBTQ community is once again playing host to a vibrant cloudburst of live […]

The comedy landscape in Toronto was a lot different a decade ago. Today it’s a standup hub, and you might […]

Every once in a while, here in the Guardian – we’ll run a submission from an outside contributor. A friend […]

It’s that time of the year again – Canadian comics are about to flood the internet with pleas for votes. […]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my almost 7 years as a working standup comic, it’s that we’re lucky. […]

The Canadian radio business, much like Canadian comedy (and actually there’s a lot of overlap between the two) is a […]

If Iggy Pop was a comedy festival, it would definitely be Crom Fest. The annual alternative standup festival (with a […]

This is a new joke I’m working on, so bear with me here we go… “Canada’s Council for the Arts, under […]

We’ve all heard that tired old adage about “10,000 hours” – as if there’s some concrete, magical number that can make […]

JFL42 first kicked off in Toronto in September 2012. It was a simpler time. Barack Obama was about to be re-elected to the White […]