“I’ve read a lot of things, talked to some people at the Atlantic Film Festival who were saying, ‘What is it? Is it a comedy? Is it a drama?’” says Steven Yaffee, star of Halifax filmmaker Michael Melski’s Growing Op. “I don’t think it can be put into one category. I just think what it […]
Comedy
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Best Comedian
Professional comedy often comes from a dark place, born of anxiety and frustration, channelled into making people laugh. It can also just be a reaction to frat boys who yell at you from passing cars. “Frat boys is just a generalization for that kind of guy,” explains Mark Little, the Picnicface member, stand-up comic and […]
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Danny Bhoy meets world
It’s 2007 and a crowd has filled a college auditorium in the huge, teeming city of Mumbai, India. They’re there to see a young stand-up comedian from Edinburgh—a man who’s never been to India and is the first English-speaking comedian to have ever performed in the country. The pressure is high: The audience doesn’t know […]
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Laugh tracking
Picnicface has this thing about “the right laugh.” The eight-member Halifax comedy troupe knows from laughs—-Picnicface has been turning away patrons from its Sunday Night Comedy Spectacular for the past year. That line stretching past the vacant Sam’s building every other Sunday? It’s theirs. Those people scurrying around a packed Ginger’s Tavern as the clock […]
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Funny girl
Nico the cat judders before springing atop a cafe-style table as comedian/teacher/writer Sherry Lee Hunter, set to swear off the lung rocket habit, fires one up. She inhales, then beats a beeline for an open side window above the sink counter in her compact kitchen. Trim, she moves around the room with the easy grace […]