Comedy

An unseen part of Halifax is getting its big reveal. Sunday Comedy with Bill Wood (of Picnicface fame) is, for one night only, switching things up in favour of an evening of flourishes and sleights-of-hand. For the first time, the annual showcase of the Conjurers’ Court, the Halifax chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, […]

Christian Murray’s Bone Boy shakes up the tragic, the comic and the afterlife. by Matthew Ritchie After years starring on the stage and screen, Christian Murray returns to the director’s chair this month with Bone Boy, a self-described “sci-fi, tragi-comedy” in which Murray reflects on the meaning of life and the future of humanity. But […]

Christian Murray’s Bone Boy shakes up the tragic, the comic and the afterlife. by Matthew Ritchie After years starring on the stage and screen, Christian Murray returns to the director’s chair this month with Bone Boy, a self-described “sci-fi, tragi-comedy” in which Murray reflects on the meaning of life and the future of humanity. But […]

Better men American women now surpass men in both workforce and education statistics. “Men run just four…hundred and eighty-five of our Fortune 500 companies, and just three branches of government,” Bee reports. She hangs out with Better Men, a male bonding group, in their wisdom circle: “When does everybody start masturbating?” Best line: “How did […]

Samantha Bee is a comedian. She’s on The Daily Show, she’s Canadian, she’s married to fellow Canadian and co-worker Jason Jones and she’s written a book, I Know I Am But What Are You?. Her genial demeanour, shiny hair and vaguely Midwestern accent make her appear like a television news reporter, which she is not, […]

Comedy fans and seafood restaurants take note: bespectacled stand-up Greg Proops is coming back to town and bringing his podcast with him. The diamond-sharp comic, probably best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, returns to appear at the Ha!ifax Comedy Fest. In between those shows, he’ll also be treating patrons of […]

Bald, contrary and off the market, Brian Aylward has made his most recent roots in Halifax. Originally from Newfoundland, Aylward has travelled and spewed jokes throughout Canada and a large portion of Asia. Delivering a brand of comedy that isn’t necessarily angry, Aylward is far from content, as he mocks aspects of society, culture and […]

Despite boasting comedy credits that many comics would kill for (either onstage or off of it), Gilson Lubin is not one to let ego get in the way of his future accomplishments. A native of Saint Lucia, a Caribbean island country too warm for most of us to imagine, Gilson has been doing jokes in […]

Nathan Macintosh knows these streets. Though the Halifax native has moved to New York after taking Toronto by storm, he’s clearly left his heart—and culinary imagination —in Halifax. “I’m very excited to come back,” Macintosh says. “Has someone in Halifax done the inevitable and put rum into donairs? No reason those two shouldn’t be together.” In […]

Nick Flanagan is a writer, actor and stand-up comic. A triple threat, you could call him. A renaissance man, a polymath, maybe. Really busy. Trying to make a living as an artist. Any one of those. He explains it thusly: “The whole analogy is Dungeons & Dragons, where you have multi-class characters, only a half-elf […]

To see a weekend standup show at Yuk Yuk’s in the Westin is to watch a manicured performance. But to bear witness to an open mic comedy show in Halifax is to enter a room divided. The front of the house will be occupied by pockets of friends, in herds of small numbers. Meanwhile, the […]