Saturday Night Live’s Sam Jay is taking over After Hours!

We’re excited to welcome Sam Jay back to Comedy Bar and they’ll be performing two special shows at Comedy Bar on Friday February 7th & Saturday February 8th in preparation for their Netflix taping at the end of the month

Live at Comedy Bar – 945 Bloor St W (at Ossington Station)
$20 at the door or online at ComedyBar.CA

Friday Feb 7th at 11:30
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13492

Saturday Feb 8th – 11:30
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13532

Sam Jay is an Emmy nominated writer for Saturday Night Live, and has been selected as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch. Sam has previously released stand up specials for Netflix & Comedy Central, and performed stand up on Jimmy Kimmel Live

After Hours is our hit weekend late night show that happens every Friday & Saturday at Comedy Bar

About Comedy Bar: Seating at Comedy Bar is general admission, so please arrive on time to ensure the best possible seating
Comedy Bar is located directly across the street from Ossington Station’s Delaware Street entrance.
There is also ample street side parking
The venue is not fully accessible as there is a staircase to get downstairs into the venue. Washrooms are located on the main floor of the venue

Friday Feb 7th at 11:30
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13492

Saturday Feb 8th – 11:30
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13532

FIRST EVER TORONTO SHOW!

Fresh off the back of a world tour and a brief appearance on an American reality television show, Randy makes his Toronto debut with an hour of stand-up comedy so unflinchingly relevant you’ll feel like you should be taking notes.

Live at Comedy Bar – 945 Bloor St W (at Ossington Station)
$25 at the door or online at ComedyBar.CA

Thursday Feb 13th

at 7:30 with Craig Fay & Courtney Gilmour
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14013

& 9:30pm with Andrew Ivimey
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14014

Randy Feltface has spent fifteen years carving out a unique niche on the international comedy circuit. He was nominated for best comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out in LA and NYC, featured several times at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and his special Randy Writes a Novel is a pirated Youtube sensation.

His live show is a high energy existential crisis full of the kind of amusing anecdotes and biting observations that have earned him the title of World’s Most Entertaining Non-Human Comedian.

About Comedy Bar: Seating at Comedy Bar is general admission, so please arrive on time to ensure the best possible seating
Comedy Bar is located directly across the street from Ossington Station’s Delaware Street entrance.
There is also ample street side parking
The venue is not fully accessible as there is a staircase to get downstairs into the venue. Washrooms are located on the main floor of the venue

Thursday Feb 13th

9:30pm – JUST ADDED
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14014

at 7:30
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14013

Bio

Randy started doing stand-up comedy in 2005 and has since given birth to seven critically acclaimed solo shows.  He has appeared at Fringe, Comedy and Music festivals, performed on major stages in regal theatres and gigged in sticky-carpeted beer-barns from Edinburgh to Hong Kong, Galway to New York and Singapore to Sydney.

In 2016 Randy Writes a Novel was nominated for best comedy at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to a season at the Soho Theatre in London as well as the 2017 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, where Randy also appeared on the Jane Krakowski Television Gala. The following year Randy Writes a Novel played an eight week Off-Broadway season at the Clurman Theatre in New York City and was later filmed as a special which aired on ABC TV in Australia. The illegally pirated version of that show is currently racking up millions of views on YouTube and is well worth a look.

In 2010 Randy joined forces with skinny man Sammy J to create Ricketts Lane, which won Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and went on to become a television series of the same name, airing on ABC TV in Australia, Seeso in the US and Netflix in the UK. Randy’s role in Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane earned him an ACTAA nomination for best performer in a comedy series in 2015, the first non-human performer to be recognised in this category.

Between occasional guest appearances on Australian light-entertainment television programs, Randy has spent a significant amount of time writing and touring with his musical partner in crime, Sammy J. Together they have hosted the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, appeared on Good News World, Q&A and The Project, written and toured live shows such as Bin Night, The Inheritance and Sammy J and Randy Land, performed a few times at The Sydney Opera House, released an album and a couple of DVDs, been nominated for two ARIAs and featured on the Neil Patrick Harris Gala at the 2015 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.

Randy’s most recent live special The Book Of Randicus is due for release in 2019 and he was most recently spotted on NBC’s Bring The Funny, where he was seen gesticulating wildly in a checked shirt.

Empire Comedy Live is excited to welcome Anna Drezen  to Toronto for a 5 show run at Comedy Bar!

Thursday February 20th to Saturday February 22nd
Live at Comedy Bar – 945 Bloor St W (at Ossington Station)
$25 at the door or online at ComedyBar.CA

Thursday February 20 – 8pm
Hosted by Yaw Attuah with Syed Raza
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13606

Friday February 21 – 8pm
Hosted by Cathryn Naiker, with Evany Rosen
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14022

Friday February 21 – 9:30pm
Hosted by Chris Sandiford, with Courtney Gilmour
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14023

Saturday February 22 – 9pm
Hosted by Lexa Graham, with Chris Lee & Melanie Dahling
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14020

Saturday February 22 – 11pm
Hosted by Leonard Chan, with Grace McClure, and Megan Honey
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14021

ANNA DREZEN – Anna is a writer for NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and the co-author of the books HOW TO WIN AT FEMINISM (HarperCollins, 2016) and HOW MAY WE HATE YOU (Potter Style, 2016).

The latter, which was based on Anna’s experiences working as a concierge at a hotel in Times Square, was optioned by ABC this year and turned into a pilot, starring Kat Dennings and directed by Will Gluck. She recently contributed to Kate McKinnon’s upcoming Audible/Broadway Video series, HEADS WILL ROLL, collaborated with McKinnon on her 2017 Oscar nominee luncheon video, and consulted on Jena
Friedman’s Adult Swim special, SOFT FOCUS.

Other writing credits include; MTV, Cracked, Thought Catalog, Nylon and The Daily Dot. She has been featured in videos on CollegeHumor, Above Average, Buzzfeed, and Funny or Die and was chosen to participate in Comedy Central’s 2017 UP NEXT showcase.

Anna was the editor-at-large of REDUCTRESS and wrote for Comedy Central’s “Reductress" pilot starring Abby Elliott. She was honored at this year’s Just For Laugh’s festival as a New Face – Stand Up.

About Comedy Bar: Seating at Comedy Bar is general admission, so please arrive on time to ensure the best possible seating
Comedy Bar is located directly across the street from Ossington Station’s Delaware Street entrance.
There is also ample street side parking
The venue is not fully accessible as there is a staircase to get downstairs into the venue. Washrooms are located on the main floor of the venue

Thursday February 20 – 8pm
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=13606

Friday February 21 – 8pm
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14022

Friday February 21 – 9:30pm
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14023

Saturday February 22 – 9pm
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14020

Saturday February 22 – 11pm
Tickets at: https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14021

One Night Only, Michael Palascak performs live at Comedy Bar

Note: Tonight’s show will be a clean comedy event

Sunday March 29 at 7pm
https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14046
$22.50 ($20 + HST)

Michael Palascak makes his Comedy Bar debut, and has performed on A Little Late with Lilly Singh, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Tonight Show, Letterman, Craig Ferguson, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, has a Comedy Central half hour special, and was a Top 5 Finalist on Last Comic Standing where one judge claimed, “My first impression of Michael was a great likability. This is a guy that could star in a sitcom.”

The Chicago Reader supports this view– “His charisma doesn’t hurt; neither does his affability. In a lot of ways, he represents the ideal antidote to the sort of unbridled cynicism that pervades much of contemporary stand-up.”

Michael’s upcoming special, Unsupervised Fun, will be available on Dry Bar this March.

About Comedy Bar: Seating at Comedy Bar is general admission, so please arrive on time to ensure the best possible seating
Comedy Bar is located directly across the street from Ossington Station’s Delaware Street entrance.
There is also ample street side parking
The venue is not fully accessible as there is a staircase to get downstairs into the venue. Washrooms are located on the main floor of the venue

Sunday March 29 at 7pm
https://comedybar.ca/show.php?Event_ID=14046
$22.50 ($20 + HST)