After a successful soft opening last weekend, Halifax’s newest comedy club plans to take it up a notch. Halifax Live, located at 1737 Grafton Street, seeks to be the city’s premiere comedy club, promising to bring in up-and-coming acts from the city as well as favourites from across the country. Their first night saw […]
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Political jabs and lots of laughs expected from Nick Beaton’s Halifax gig
Nova Scotia’s Nick Beaton is returning home from Toronto for a special series of shows at Halifax Yuk Yuk’s on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10. The politically-charged comedian is hot off the release of his first comedy special, Geriatric Millennial, where Beaton takes shots at both the left and right for their perceived faults […]
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Letterkenny’s K. Trevor Wilson and friends hitting up Halifax’s Spatz Theatre
K. Trevor Wilson, known for playing the lovable observationist Squirrely Dan in Letterkenny, is coming to Halifax. Stopping into the Spatz Theatre on Sept. 20, the show is a part of his K. Trevor Wilson and Friends cross-country tour featuring a whole host of Canadian comics. His Halifax stop will feature Albertan comic Clare Belford, […]
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Brandon Michael tells us a joke
Halifax up-and-coming laugh-getter Brandon Michael’s foray into comedy was inevitable, really. “My parents liked Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live. I’ve always just grown up with a family that’s really into comedy,” he says of a childhood where he mainlined Seinfeld and stand-up the way the rest of us binged cartoons. At 15, he took […]
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Catherine Robertson keeps it real
Catherine Robertson’s Comedy Hour Wednesdays, 8:30pm Bearly’s, 1269 Barrington Street C atherine Robertson is a fixture of the local laugh scene: For over a decade, she’s been performing and honing her incredulous and inviting comedy. When she isn’t holding it down at Bearly’s or MC’ing at Yuk Yuk’s Tinder Tales series, she’s on various mics […]
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Award-winning comedian Tom Hearn tells us a joke
Aug 16-17, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $10/$12 We asked Toronto-based, Canadian Comedy Award-winning laugh-bringer Tom Hearn to tell us a good one before he brings his travelling solo sketch comedy show Slang to Menz & Mollyz this weekend. Hearn mentions the show sees Halifax drag queens Shayla Shenanigans, Brooke Rivers and […]
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Comic Travis Lindsay makes us LOL
Natal Day Comedy GALA Fri, Aug 2, 7:15pm; Casino Nova Scotia, 1983 Upper Water Street We asked comic Travis Lindsay—mainstay in the local scene—to tell us a joke before he hits the stage for the 10th annual Natal Day Comedy Gala, where he’ll share the bill with Pete Johansson, Cathy Jones and Mark Forward this […]
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Hello City’s powerful play
Hello City presents: The Hello Baby Show Tuesday, April 23, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5/$10/$20 The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and […]
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Chelsea Handler shares her passion for pot with Halifax
A Civilized conversation with Chelsea Handler Sunday, October 7, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Ave $63-$98 Willie Nelson—now more of a white-haired stranger—laughs as he passes Chelsea Handler a blunt. “Pot is like sex,” he chuckles. “Some is better than others, but it’s all good.” This is the fourth Episode of Handler’s 2016 Netflix […]
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Fall gets funnier with Chelsea Handler and Trevor Noah
A couple of comedy titans will drop by this fall, though separately: Chelsea Handler visits the Rebecca Cohn on Sunday, October 7 (tickets on sale at noon tomorrow), while Daily Show host Trevor Noah hits the Scotiabank Centre on November 2. Those tickets are on sale Friday at 10am. They may not be performing together here, but they do […]
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Funny things are everywhere
Halifax Pride comedy night Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $20 tickethalifax.com “The cool thing about standup and solo performance pieces is you get to try stuff out and fail on your own terms, instead of having to get a whole bunch of people on board for an idea,” says Carolyn Taylor. […]
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Dylan Moran will help you forget
“I’m talkin’ about what it’s like to alive now. I’m talkin’ about what you talk about around your kitchen table with people who are closest to you. I’m talking about what keeps you awake at night,” says Dylan Moran. “I’m talking about things that happened half an hour ago and things that happened 50,000 years ago. It’s […]