Comedy NOW!!! I demand it!
Last night Nancy and I joined up with a few co-workers and an old friend to attend the first night of the Off Centre Comedy Festival Comedy Night @ The Mack. It featured four local comedians performing one at a time on stage regaling us with wave after wave of funny.
Fraser McCallum had the unenviable task of opening up the show after a lengthy introduction involving many, many referenced to comedic failure by 'Tony Whitcomb' from Sheer Madness. Hopefully he didn't pat himself on the back too much for that sort of introduction...Fraser recovered and delivered a memorable performance with a great line about the Tuesday edition, and not being able to "slice ham that thin..."
Taylor Carver was raw, and unrefined, but had some good moments. He has a nice setup and a good, light delivery that made for more than a few good laughs...
Even though those two had good showings, the night belonged to Patrick Ledwell. From the first word out of his mouth, he owned the crowd with his seemingly effortless, and well crafted intelligent comedy routine. From stating how Islanders would have had Star Wars figured out in 10 minutes; "Oh, Luke Skywalker, well that's Vader's boy. Skywalker's his mothers name..."; to the army of six plowing their way through one bag of CO-OP Wheat Puffs for 16 years non-stop, he had us in tears! I really enjoyed his performance, and was really impressed by that level of talent on stage.
By the time Fraser, Patrick, and Taylor were through our faces were sore from laughing. Good thing the final comedian Francois Weber decided to take it easy on us. Watching him on stage was like watching the a grown up version of a slacker grade eleven student take the stage (with a beer in hand) and talk about sex in front of animals, and ogling the children he teaches at Charlottetown Rural High School. No class, and totally unintelligent. It's a good thing that there was a part of me that wasn't expecting too much out of the evening because I was prepared for some of that level of low brow humor. Of course, this is the guy who's on his way in comedy...
Francois couldn't sully the stellar earlier performances of the evening though...all in all the evening was a great turn on to the local comedy scene. I encourage you all to get out and find Taylor Carver, Fraser McCallum, and especially Patrick Ledwell perform somewhere soon. You won't be disappointed!
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