If you need to laugh, you’re in luck. As always, there’s a huge contingent of comedy talent at this year’s Fringe.
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Former stand-up Brigitte Gall’s been away from clubs and the Fringe (remember Joan Of Montreal?) for years, raising a family and hosting the most enviable TV gig around, The World’s Greatest Spas. She brings her new solo show, Red Wine Teeth (Tranzac Club). Alas, no free samples.
Unclassifiable stand-up Winston Spear plays with a show called Toys (Factory Mainspace), Chelsea Manders (of the musical sketch duo the Nefarious Black Roses) plays a failed folksinger in Naughty Little Children (Lower Ossington Theatre), directed by Impromptu Splendor’s Naomi Snieckus, and alternative comic Terrance Balazo gooses the kids’ story Chicken Licken (Palmerston Library).
Fictional father-and-son Cajun music duo the Williamson Playboys (Paul Bates and Doug Morency) deliver their unique take on our economic woes with The Williamson Playboys In: Brother Can You Spare Some Pants? (Tranzac). Bates does double duty as director for Because I Can (Robert Gill), which features his former Second City colleagues Nug Nahrgang, Sandy Jobin-Bevans and Jim Annan.
New Second City member Rob Norman’s joined by My First Crush’s Jason
DeRosse and Adam Cawley for Maybe (St. Vladimir’s), while Scratch (Comedy Bar) and Uncalled For (Tranzac) come back to please their cult fans.
Finally, Precious Chong, the star and writer of Zdenka Now! (Royal St. George’s) isn’t a comic, but she is the daughter of a certain stoner comic from the 1970s. Can you remember his name? Or have your brain cells gone up in smoke?
