Issue: 2017-11-15, PHOTO: Gary Bremner
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Issue: 2019-03-06, PHOTO: courtesy of the Yukon Comedy Festival
Focus on the funny folk
Ricard Eden makes no apology for putting the focus of the Yukon Comedy Festival on the performers as much as on the audience. “We obviously want to bring up talent that residents are going to want to see and we want to make our ticket price... Read more
Issue: 2018-03-14, PHOTO: courtesy of Kyle Clark
A weekend of laughs
The Yukon stand-up comedy scene can be fickle. Some years comics will perform to packed houses that turn people away at the door. Other years, not so much. Whether it’s a lack of comics, audience, or both, northern life can bring a number of... Read more
Issue: 2018-03-07, PHOTO: Christian Kuntz
Stand up for Stephen McGovern
On March 9, Yukon comic Stephen McGovern will be gearing up to take the stage at the Just for Laughs Northwest comedy festival in Vancouver. The 10-day event beginning March 1 offers a wide variety of shows that highlight Canadian and... Read more
Issue: 2017-12-20, PHOTO: courtesy of Ride for Dad Yukon
Ride for Dad Comedy Night will tickle your prostate and your funny bone
The 2018 edition of Ride for Dad Comedy Night returns to the Yukon Convention Centre on January 19 and 20. Celebrating it’s fifth year, the comedy gala has grown into its own as one of Ride for Dad Yukon’s premier fundraising events... Read more
Issue: 2017-11-15, PHOTO: George Maratos
Debaters Bound
On June 20, 2016, Jenny Hamilton sat in quiet awe trying to take it all in. Her stand up career was about to take a significant leap in front of a packed house at the Yukon Arts Centre. When it was her time to go, Hamilton focused and told herself... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-15, PHOTO: Cosenti Graf-Smith
Splattering Comedy
Whitehorse, it seems, has such an insatiable appetite for high-camp horror that the Guild Theatre has added another week to its run of Evil Dead: The Musical. The spring break-themed romp comes with a caution: if you intend to sit in the first few... Read more
Issue: 2017-01-25, PHOTO: Alastair Maitland
Giggle for a Good Cause
Laugh it up, because Jan 26th and 27th Ride for Dad presents its fourth annual comedy show at Coast High Country Inn. Featuring local acts Steve McGovern and Jenny Hamilton and imports Scott Belford and Kelly Taylor, the evening will feature... Read more
Issue: 2016-01-28, PHOTO: courtesy of Lars Callieou
Moving Target
Unlike some comedians, Lars Callieou didn't get his start as the class clown, for a simple reason: he wasn't in class. From the age of six until he was 14, Callieou was home-schooled in hotel rooms while his parents plied their musical trade 50... Read more
Photo by Rick Massie
Jenny Hamilton is usually behind the scenes at the Guild Hall... but not always
Jenny Hamilton didn’t waste much time heeding Horace Greeley’s advice to go West young. She was just 14 days old when she arrived in Whitehorse with her parents from her Prince Edward Island birthplace. Read more
Spooky Noises are Okay, but No More Showing Up in the Flesh
"December of 2006 was the first time he and I crossed paths," Hamilton says. "I had heard about the Guild ghost, and I thought, 'Yeah, yeah, whatever. I believe in science, facts. Things that I can see.' But that's not my motto anymore." Read more
Dispatch from Down Under
Dear Yukoners, Warm greetings from Adelaide, Australia! Bloody hot greetings more like it. Your very own Yukon Gold Comics (Jenny Hamilton, George Maratos, Stephen McGovern, and I) are going through a creative comedy makeover by shaking.... Read more
What's so funny about tourists, money and summer?
George Maratos stepped up to the microphone like a gunslinger to announce the comedy Standup Standoff was about to begin. This was no laughing matter. Former champion Tristin Hopper was back to protect his title. Read more