Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents over 60 sketch comedy troupes, featuring drag, storytelling, music, film, and more – on now until March 17, 2024

posted Saturday, March 9, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Toronto

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) returns for its 19th annual showcased, running now until March 17, 2024 at both The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W) and Comedy Bar (945 Bloor St W). TOsketchfest’s Festival Series is a spectacular and energetic mosaic of contemporary sketch comedy, drag, storytelling, musical comedy, and clown – all […]

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INSPIRE Awards honours LGBTQ+ individuals’s achievements, advocacy, and activism – January 6, 2024 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Comedy, Drag, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto, Trans

The 12th annual INSPIRE Awards, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ activism and advocacy within an inspirational framework, is taking place on January 6, 2024 at the Hart House, University of Toronto. The annual event also brings together all the other honourees for the evening, including community leaders and organizations, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community […]

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Buddies Queer Pride offers a month of innovative theatre, comedy, cabaret, and more- June 3 to 25, 2023

posted Thursday, June 1, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Bar/Club, Comedy, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

Buddies Queer Pride is a series of events held at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (23 Alexander St) that showcases the LGBTQ+ community’s unstoppable spirit, featuring Toronto’s most exciting queer entertainers. Queer Pride is radical love and defiant self expression. It’s a time to celebrate everything that we are and all that we can be, […]

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Skyline’s The Limit – The Second City opens its 50th Canadian season with Toronto themed skits and improv

posted Friday, April 7, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Toronto

The Second City opens it’s 50th anniversary in Canada with Skyline’s The Limit, with some of the city’s best improv and comedy actors,  including PHATT al, Andy Assaf, Andy Hull, Hannah Spear, Nkasi Ogbonnah, and Jillian Welsh. The show is also the first original Mainstage production to premiere at the impressive new venue at One York Street, in downtown Toronto. […]

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Mae Martin: SAP – new comedy special on Netflix March 28, 2023

posted Tuesday, March 28, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Lesbian, Queer, Streaming Online

Mae Martin’s very good month (you’ve seen that Brett Goldstein video, right?) continues with the news of their hour-long comedy special debut. The comedian is returning to Netflix with Mae Martin: SAP, launching globally on March 28. Directed by Abbi Jacobson, the new stand-up special sees Martin reflecting on a world off its axis — taking on everything from […]

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Canada’s Queer and Racialized Funniest People Punch Up in New Documentary Series ‘Killjoy Comedy’

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Queer, Streaming Online

There’s a queerer, fatter, ‘diasporic-ier’ documentary series about the future of comedy coming our way. Killjoy Comedy will be released on OUTtvGo on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Killjoy Comedy is a six-part series featuring some of Canada’s most exciting new voices in comedy. Killjoy Comedy puts the microphone in front of our favourite Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, fat, women, and […]

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Toronto comedian Robert Watson is Gay AF. Find out why on his new album, “Homo Say What?”

posted Friday, January 20, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Queer

Robert Watson is an award-winning playwright, performer, fragrance aficionado extraordinaire, and producer and host of Gay AF Comedy in Toronto, amplifying the voices of Queer comedians from the many intersections of the LGBTQ+ community. Showcased as the flagship show at Buddies In Bad Times Queer Pride Festival, Gay AF Comedy was also featured as part of […]

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The Second City Toronto’s new location opens November 30, 2022 with holiday programming

posted Monday, November 28, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Toronto

The Second City Toronto has announced that its new home at One York Street will officially open November 30, 2022, with the first public performances to begin December 1. The new flagship home will be The Second City’s largest, most state-of- the-art venue since the world class comedy company first opened its doors in Canada in 1973, and will […]

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We’re Funny That Way Queer Music and Comedy Festival closed with David Tomlinson and The B-Girlz

posted Wednesday, September 21, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Queer

This past Labour Day weekend, the We’re Funny That Way Queer Music and Comedy Festival took over the grounds of a former WWII airbase (Base 31) in Picton, Ontario, located in the picturesque wine region of Prince Edward County. Base 31 is one of several new venues in the region, and this one has only just […]

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Just For Laughs Toronto – featuring Trixie and Katya, Amy Schumer, Trevor Noah, and more – Sept 22 to Oct 1, 2022

posted Tuesday, September 20, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Events, Featured Events

Just For Laughs Toronto (formerly JFL42) has revealed the first slate of programming for the long-awaited festival return, running in venues across Toronto from September 22 to October 1, 2022. In addition to delivering one of the most expansive comedy lineups in North America, Just For Laughs TORONTO is extending its impressive reach with arena, […]

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