JFL42 Reviews: Seth Meyers and 'The Smartest Man in the World' Podcast
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • September 23, 2018 @ 12:20pm
Seth Meyers
September 22, 2018 • 9:45 PM • The Sony Centre
The Late Night host may not be primarily known for his skills as a stand-up, but it wouldn't be fair to discount Seth Meyers one bit, as he proved to a hot Saturday night crowd at the Sony Centre.
JFL42 Interview: The President Show's Anthony Atamanuik
Posted by: Paul Little • September 22, 2018 @ 9:02pm
When Donald Trump decided to announce he was running for President, it seemed like a comedy goldmine. He had always been an over-the-top character, with his name in big, bold letters on everything he owned, and was already a frequent punchline before officially entering the political fray.
I've known Graham Clark for a few years now, and seen him perform numerous times under a wide variety of different circumstances: gala tapings, Fringe shows, standard comedy clubs, weirder alt shows, and live podcasts, just to name a few.
One of my biggest disappointments from last year's fest was the unfortunate last-minute pullout by Greg Proops.
JFL42 Interview: Stand-up comic, improviser, and podcaster Greg Proops
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 20, 2018 @ 9:04pm
If you were to ask me my biggest influences in comedy, at the top of the list would be Greg Proops. When I was young, he was there as a staple cast members of Whose Line is it Anyway?, but as I aged I discovered he's also one of the most apt social critics working in stand-up comedy today.
The UK is home to a plethora of comedy panel and game shows. From QI to Would I Lie to You? to Mock the Week -- and seemingly hundreds more -- there are so many opportunities to catch some of your favourite UK-based comics (with the occasional Canadian, American, or Aussie thrown in) regularly on tele.
JFL42 Interview: Stand-up comic and actress Maria Bamford
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 18, 2018 @ 11:02am
Folks, it's the week of JFL42! Living in Toronto, this means I get to go to comedy "space camp" and interview some of my heroes. First up on that list of heroes is Maria Bamford.
Interview: Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld of College Humor and the advice podcast If I Were You
Posted by: Ian Bawa • February 28, 2018 @ 5:54pm
Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld are the writers, actors, and editors behind the award-winning webseries Jake & Amir, which began while the pair were writers at College Humor. Besides its immense popularity online, their series also appeared on television on MTV's The CollegeHumor Show.
Interview: Comic Courtney Gilmour talks about her JFL Homegrown win,
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • January 21, 2018 @ 9:43pm
In the fall of 2017, Toronto comic Courtney Gilmour was coming off the biggest professional accolade of her comedy career: being named the co-winner (along with Montreal's DJ Mausner) of the Homegrown Comics competition at Just for Laughs Festival.
Interview: Rhys Darby on his unique brand of stand-up, The Rock's Presidential ambitions, cryptozoology, and almost dying on Mt. Kilimanjaro
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • November 11, 2017 @ 3:11pm
Rhys Darby may be best-known to audiences as Murray Hewitt on the acclaimed HBO series Flight of the Conchords, but the New Zealand Army veteran is also an accomplished stand-up comic, having worked all over the globe for nearly 2 decades and put out 3 stand-up specials.
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