Thursday, October 29, 2009

Red Carpet Comedy in Calgary


Let me start off by saying I had a fantastic time at Donovan Deschner’s Red Carpet Comedy. This show is comprised of mostly professional touring comics who are instructed to do NEW material. By new, he means never done on stage before. To police this, he has installed a Staples “EASY BUTTON” on stage and hooked up to the sound system If a comedian does a joke that another comic has heard before, they run up and hit the button letting the audience know that they are breaking the rules.

The previous week, while I was at Comedy Monday Night’s open mic, I spewed all the new stuff I had been working on. So I literally had to sit down and write out totally new stuff. It was welcomed challenge. What was surprising in a good way… my new clean material worked a lot better than the dirty stuff.


Every seat in Club Paradiso had a bum in it. It is a very intimate & warm venue. On the show was Donovan Deschner, Daryl Makk, Amanda Perrin, Garret Clark, Lori Gibbs, Derek Sweet, Cory Mack, Casey Corbin & Trent McCellan: Such a fun show to be a part of.

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