Vancouver Comedy Fest 2008 - Sept. 18-20

Once again, my friend Will Davis had myself and a few of my friends to provide some music to accompany the fine comedians performing at the Vancouver Comedy Fest. Of course, I jump right in - I love this gig!

Sept. 18

Chris Meister and I (aka The World's Smallest Trio) do the first gig of the night at the Vogue Theatre - Scott Auckerman and BJ Porter's Comedy Death Ray - three hours of standup (which turned into four hours - a marathon of funny). A wealth of comedians including Janeane Garofolo, Matt Besser, Andy Richter took to the stage. BTW - Reggie Watts - check him out. One of the most talented unique individuals you will ever see. Amazing talent! Afterwards - we went to the Media Club for the first of three nights as the house band for Andy Kindler's Talk Show. Andy is great - super quick -excellent at dissecting people and situations. He has recently been doing correspondent work for Letterman. Andy's sidekick for the show was Eddie Brill. Eddie is a talent booker for Letterman and also does audience warmups for the show. Chris and I realized this may be as close as we'll ever get to being in the Letterman band! It was awesome ... guests included Tim and Eric.

Sept. 19

Chris, Bruce Morrison and I started at The Firehall Theatre with Match Game - as we did last year. Our ol' buddy Jimmy Pardo returned with the panel - Scott Auckerman, Brian Posehn, Chris Hardwick, Janeane Garofolo, Matt Walsh and Marcia Wallace (that's right - an original Match Game cast member...Carol from The Bob Newhart Show...Edna Krabapple from The Simpsons!) Awesome!
Next up - night two of the Kindler show with Tim Meadows, Janeane, and some music with David Gogo who of course charmed 'em with some great banter as well.

Sept. 20

Long day - a session at the Warehouse for Dean Maher .... then to the Firehall for Match Game. After that - upstairs at the Firehall for The Todd Glass show - also a lot of fun! Finished it up for night three of the Kindler show .... Jimmy Pardo, Marcia Wallace and Shaun Verreault! More great fun.... love these gigs. Thanks Will!