Posts with the tag JFL Toronto.
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JFL Toronto Review: The Lauren & Mary Show
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • October 5, 2026 @ 8:45am
How do you even review an improv show? What have I done? I was so happy to get these tickets and now I'm in hell.
Don't get me wrong, the show was great. It was some of my hardest laughs of the festival.
JFL Toronto Review: Sasha Velour - Travesty
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • October 4, 2026 @ 2:36pm
This is one of the best concerts I have ever been to, period. Probably top five.
The description of the show on the website does not do it justice. It sounds like it's going to be a one-woman show about social injustice and being sad.
JFL Toronto Review: Jerrod Carmichael
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 28, 2026 @ 5:41pm
In 12 years of doing stand-up comedy, seeing this show is a moment that truly sticks out for me. I've never felt like I've seen the inside of another comedian's brain, as much as I did last night. Jerrod Carmichael is already one of the most intimate comedians working today.
JFL Toronto Interview: Actor and comedian Johnny Pemberton
Posted by: Paul Little • September 28, 2026 @ 4:03pm
Johnny Pemberton has been on your movie theatre and TV screens for a long time.
JFL Toronto Review: David Lynch's Seinfeld
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 27, 2026 @ 8:34pm
There's a lot to love here. In a Canadian comedy festival that mostly hires Americans, it's great to see a show by some of Toronto's best performers.
JFL Toronto Interview: Scottish comedian John Mostyn
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • October 5, 2025 @ 2:02pm
I got a chance to chat over Zoom with comedian John Mostyn to catch up on storytelling, comedy, and their shared love of Britpop bands.
JFL Toronto Review: Maria Bamford
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 30, 2025 @ 7:27pm
This is the hardest thing I've ever had to write. I took these tickets with reckless abandon and now here I sit, like a fool caught in a Faustian bargain.
How do you describe a Maria Bamford show? How do you even explain Maria Bamford? For reference, Judd Apatow is currently working on a documentary about her, because even he can't explain it.
JFL Toronto Review: Dropout Improv
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • September 27, 2025 @ 9:27pm
Modern improv is a relatively new art form. Birthed from Viola Spolin's Improvisation for the Theatre, it started out as the back bone of performers' acts like Nichols and May, who were part of the Compass Players, an improvisational theatre company including Paul Sils as well as Ted Flicker and Del Close.
JFL Toronto Review: Patti Harrison
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • September 26, 2025 @ 8:59pm
Tonight I had the absolute joy of seeing Ava Val and Patti Harrison share a stage, and it was so good the only adjective I have left after leaving the theatre is bananas. It was bananas good. A great big hand o' bananas.
It used to be Ava was a Toronto treat, but in the last couple of years she's been spreading her wings and playing across the country and around the world.
JFL Toronto Review: Chloe Radcliffe
Posted by: Andrew Lizotte • September 26, 2025 @ 3:45pm
If there is a black belt in comedy, or better yet a Nobel Peace Prize, give it to Chloe Radcliffe.
I know in comedy there's that cliché of "never blame the audience", but wow what a terrible audience. This was especially weird for a festival.
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