I thought I should give you an update on how my week’s worth of tweeting in iambic pentameter went. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Tweeting in verse, I read Stephen Fry‘s book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within and was inspired to practice my iambic pentameter. Here are the results: I’m using Twitter in a brand new way....

A couple of years ago I asked my husband to buy me a book. I’m a big fan of Stephen Fry and had seen his book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. Like a good husband he bought it for me and I promptly ignored it for many months. Then in the days running up to the monthly artists’ salon I attend (run by the delicious Inge Christensen) I...

Hooray! This coming Tuesday (23rd June) I will be competing in my second Stand-Up Showdown. I came second the last time I was asked to be in the show. It’s at 8 o’clock at the Comedy Bar which is on Bloor at Ossington. 8 comics compete. There are 3 topics – all the competitors do a 2 minute set on the first topic (self-help books). Then 4 go...

Pelayo Matute – a real mentsh! Back in July of last year I wrote a post about how testing your material in front of others is imperative. Well last night I had a concrete example of why it works! At my friend Inge’s last artists’ salon I decided to try out some material for a gig I was doing with Dawn Whitwell the next night. I ran my set and...

…you get right back on. So I’m on at the 8 o’clock show at the Comedy Hole tomorrow night at Celt’s Pub (Dundas West on the north side just west of Keele). I had an interesting moment last Saturday at Elvira Kurt‘s stand-up masterclass at Second City.  I was trying to understand why I had such a hard time at my gig at the Diesel...

I’ve finally got off my bum, found some fairly decent video-editing software and put my stand-up routine on my website. It’s been slightly edited (I’ve taken out some of the worst swearing on the advice of my agent, Fran Messinger) and I also took out a bit that I felt just didn’t work – only a small bit, mind. Most of it’s...