One whole year of stand-up!
<- Thanks to Karina Perez for this lovely photo of me taken at West End Girls. This week marked my one-year anniversary of doing stand-up. What a year! Starting with my first ever performance at the Black Swan I had a horrible bomb at the Diesel Playhouse (I recently got the CD recording from XM Radio and although the performance isn’t terrible I can hear where they put in canned laughter), helped raise almost $7,500 for Gilda’s Club, came third in the Toronto Comedy Brawl...
Read MoreWhen you fall off a horse…..
…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 Playhouse. Elvira was saying how she always tries to “read a room” before she performs – by that I think she means...
Read MoreMy first bomb
Wow. So now I know how it feels. And it sucks. Ass. Big time. There was a very small crowd tonight at the Diesel Playhouse and they didn’t dig my gags and the lights were in my eyes and…and…and…. Okay. Enough whining. It felt awkward and uncomfortable and I’m not experienced enough yet to know how to turn it around or work a small crowd. I wasn’t the only one who bombed. It’s just never happened to me before. My friend Inge swears up and down that it...
Read MoreMy first live radio performance
This coming Thursday (6th November) I have a five minute set at the 7 o’clock show of Live at the Diesel Cabaret at, where else, the Diesel Playhouse. This is my third public performance and it’s being broadcast live on XM Radio. Jake Labow is running the show and it’s thanks to Dawn Whitwell (yet again) that I got this gig. She emailed Jake the link to my website where I’ve posted my stand-up debut and he asked me to be on the bill on the strength of it – hurrah!...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.