It's an ill wind for The Creepy Boys

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees The Creepy Boys are facing eviction from their home for farting too much.

The avant-garde queer clown duo – and real-life couple – S.E. Grummet and Sam Kruger, have been threatened with being turfed out of their Toronto duplex, with their live-in landlord accusing them of contaminating its air quality.

For months, the pair say that Tania Anderson has expressed concerns about negative readings from an air quality monitoring device and warned them that smoking inside the shared house is not permitted.

But Grummet and Kruger, whose 2025 Fringe debut, Slugs, was nominated for the main Edinburgh award, maintain that the real reason is flatulence or other bodily odours.

The landlord served them an eviction notice on June 29, claiming she intended to take over the entire duplex to protect her health.

However, Kruger said he found an article which said the air-quality devices can record higher levels of ‘volatile organic compounds’ from breath, sweat or other bodily gases.

The couple have fought back against their eviction, taking their case to the Landlord Tenant Board, from whom they are now awaiting a decision. They set up a GoFundMe page for their legal bills, which currently stands at more than CA$3,500  (£1,850).

‘We are being wrongfully evicted because we fart too much. Really,’ they wrote on the fundraising page. ‘This is not a joke. We wish we were joking.’

Despite the humour of their situation, Grummet and Kruger maintain that a stable home and affordable rent is necessary to allow them to continue as full-time performers.

The couple’s lawyer, Samuel Mason, accused her of singling out  the pair, saying: ‘She takes issue with these tenants specifically and is trying to evict them on a no-fault basis.’

- by Jay Richardson

Published: 11 Nov 2026