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Pineapple Express


CLICK PIC TO SEE TRAILER  Pineapple Express claims to be an action comedy. It stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two stoners who are in way over their pot clouded heads after a drug lord (Gary Cole) and a ... More

Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off 2008


Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh-Off 2008 features 8 young comics doing a 6 minute set in the hope of scoring the $25,000 grand prize (Hey, it's a Canadian show. In the old days it was $25 in Tim Hortons coupons). ... More

Comedy Now! July 26th and 27th 2008 10 P.M.


Canadian stand-up comic Jon Steinberg looks like a cross between the guy on the Hair poster and a bobblehead. He is a decent comic, the kind who middles a show at most comedy clubs. Steinberg's Comedy Now! performance airs July ... More

What Happens In Vegas


In Vegas slots you get three What Happens In Vegas DVDs instead of lemons.. The problems include Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz being badly directed, a hard to believe story about characters who are very, very hard to like, especially awful ... More

Profile / Review


Manolis Zontanos is a "young" Canadian stand-up comic who has all the tools to really get somewhere in the world of comedy. I met Zontanos at the 2008 Just For Laughs and got to watch and listen to his 2007 ... More

Waiting For God - Season Three


Waiting For God is one of those wickedly smart and funny BBC sitcoms that are crossover hits on PBS. Superb acting and great writing that does not assume the audience has a grade 6 education make this comedy a must ... More

Reality Bites Back The Comedy Network


Comedy Central ‘s Reality Bites Back starts airing on The Comedy Network Thursdays at 10 P.M. starting July 24th  This show is basically a spoof of the too many reality shows on network TV. Reality Bites Back is as weird ... More

Spaced The Complete Series


Spaced is a very odd British situation comedy that made it to America thanks to the Comicon fandom base of comic book "graphic novel" enthusiasts and of fans of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. The fancom base is because ... More

Tom Papa - Just For Laughs 2008 One-man Show


There are many tricks to a successful stand-up comedy performance, especially a one-man show. That's why it takes comics so long to get known by the general public. Stand-up comic Tom Papa has mastered the most difficult of these tricks: ... More

Positivity - Just For Laughs 2008


Patrice Oneal gives a clean dirty show. Aside from saying I have never seen anything like it there is no other way to explain or review what I saw at Theatre Ste. Catherine tonight. Oneal had the 11 P.M. slot ... More

Just For Laughs 2008 Blog


July 14th. Day 1 of the 2008 Just For Laughs Montreal International Comedy Festival (for me)Just For Laughs started the shows going last week with the Flying Solo series but the core of the festival is this week. HQ is ... More

So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive - Just For Laughs 2008


Comic Brendon Burns was to say the least surprised when in a recent interview I told him he has a couple of 7 o'clock performances of So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive. Burns is not a 7 o'clock crowd kind ... More