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COMICAL
Comedy Bar (Main Space), 945 Bloor St. W. (at Ossington)
Thursday, January 24th, 7:30 pm
$10.00 at the door, $8 pre-ordered (buy here)
COMICAL, produced and hosted by Michael Flamank, is easily one of the best organised comedy shows in the city. Occurring monthly in the comedy bar main space, Flamank procures Toronto’s favorite comics of both the established and promising-up-and-comers varieties. This month’s line up features:
BRIAN WARD (Top Shelf Comedy)
MOE ISMAIL (Goes Hard in the Paint!)
ALLISON DORE (Absolute Comedy, Comedy Network)
PAT THORNTON (Pat Thornton’s 24 Hour Stand Up, Comedy Network)
With Alex Pavone (Yuk Yuks, Comedy Network!) headling. Pavone is one of my favorites in the city. Many feel the same way. He is one of those comics who’s the same person on or off stage. He is completely raw. There is not a moment in any of his sets which isn’t intense. Raw, intense, mustachioed, Italian neurosis.
The room is set up for this show to seat perhaps fifty people. It’s a decent sized crowd as far as local comedy shows go while still being intimate enough that as the show goes on everyone begins to feel like a group and inside jokes develop. Last month Jordan Foisy drew attention to a benevolent heckler he accused of mild misogyny and being dressed too casually. That guy then became the misogynistic guy in sweat pants for the rest of the night. No hard feelings – he is now part of the show.
That’s enough from me. I will leave the rest of the promotion up to Flamank:
