Comedy Showdown
01/01/2006 … Take a really ill-judged idea for a show – a kind of comedy penalty shoot-out – then stage it without much thought to how, exactly, it would work.
Sun 01 January 2006
John Pinette: Making Light Of Myself
01/01/2006 … Sometimes you just have to put your hands up and admit you just don’t ‘get’ a comic.
Man 1, Bank 0
01/01/2006 … Like millions of people every day, hard-up Patrick Combs was sent some junk mail for a dubious marketing idea – including a phoney cheque for $95,093.
Jason Alexander Gala
01/01/2006 … Turns out Jason Alexander was an inspired choice to host a Montreal gala.
Homegrown Comic Competition
01/01/2006 … As well as all the major international acts, Just For Laughs also gives newer Canadian comics this platform: a showcase final of acts picked from around the provinces.
Late Nite Down Under
01/01/2006 … They like to practise a sort of geographical apartheid at Just For Laughs, isolating comics with their compatriots in a series of themed nights: Britcom, O’Comics,…
La Clique Montreal 2006
01/01/2006 … Worldwide festival favourites La Clique have been widely hailed for reinventing the art of cabaret by blending circus skills, burlesque and vaudeville into one appealing,…