Join Black Sheep Comedy at Junction Craft Brewing for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy and delicious craft beer (one complimentary 12oz beer at entry). This Friday, January 31st, you will laugh along with hilarious comedians, including your headliner ELVIRA KURT!
Elvira Kurt, comedy legend, gay icon and freakin’ national treasure, has won all the awards: Canadian Screen Award, Canadian Comedy Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award! She slays locally: Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick / NOW Magazine Top 5 and globally: World Film Fest: Gold. She’s a killer stand-up comic, sold out solo show knockout (Funny AF, Fearless, Homosexual Panic, Fired Up) and Second City veteran whose credits as star, host, guest, writer and or talent director are simply far too many to mention. Except for these: CBC’s The Debaters, Canada’s Drag Race, Baroness Von Sketch Show, The Great Canadian Baking Show, Master Chef Canada, SpinOff, Junior Chef Showdown, Sarah Off The Grid, Wall of Chefs, Iron Chef Canada, NickMom Night Out NYC, Degrassi, YTV’s The Game, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Cook’d, Popcultured with Elvira Kurt, Four Weddings Canada, Best House, The Gayest Show Ever, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Ellen DeGeneres’ HBO special, Just For Laughs, Winnipeg, Halifax, Sydney and Melbourne Comedy Festivals and, of course, Elvira’s unforgettable stint on both of CBC Radio’s hit show, ‘Q’ and, ‘q’.
With Special Guests:
Rhiannon Archer
Rhiannon Archer, named one of “Six Hilarious Female Comedians You Don’t Know Yet—But Should” By BitchMedia, has been preforming comedy for over 10 years across North America
She has been a part of many comedy festivals such as JFL42, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, NXNE, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Dark Comedy Festival, Boston Women in Comedy and the Seattle International Comedy Competition and more.
In addition, she has been nominated for 2 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand Up Newcomer and Best Comedy short, One Woman Show, which she wrote and starred.
She lives in Toronto with her husband, 2 kids and 2 cats. She cannot do mathematics under pressure, enjoys mangos and dislikes mushrooms.
Michael Moses
Michael Moses is now a comedian coming out of Niagara Falls, Ontario as he just moved in with his girlfriend, making big moves in his personal life as well as his comedy career. He has performed at Massey Hall for New Year’s Eve and at the 2019 Halifax Comedy Festival where his set was taped for the CBC. A frequent traveler to America for comedy festivals he will be apart of his 7th American comedy festival at the Cleveland Comedy Festival in November. This isn’t a bio it’s a letter to his girlfriend saying he will get her money for the mortgage soon, comedy may just pan out for him.
Tamara Shevon
Tamara Shevon is a Toronto-based comic who started her comedic story-telling through wine-coloured glasses in Bejing, China. Since then, she has been blazing through the Toronto scene with her characteristic wit and her lovable ability to flirt with the boundaries of socially acceptable. Tamara produces and hosts the very popular Against the Collar Comedy Show. Tamara has performed stand-up all over China, Canada, and the United States and was second runner-up in the Beijing Improv Comedy Festival. More recently, Tamara has performed at NXNE and JFL42. In 2018, Tamara toured across Ontario with Shawna Edward for the Irritable & Confused Comedy Tour where she was the only black person at each stop. If this wasn’t obvious enough already, Tamara wrote this bio herself which is why she sounds so awesome.
Robert Watson
Robert Watson is an award-winning playwright, actor and fragrance aficionado extraordinaire. He is the creator/producer of the super gay Canadian Comedy Award winning web series A GAY VICTORIAN AFFAIR http://agayvictorianaffair.com/, a Downton Abbey meets Queer as Folk fantasia of homosexual historical hanky-panky. Robert is a mainstay of the queer comedy community producing and hosting Back Room Comedy, Cabbagetown Comedy and Gay AF @ Comedy Bar. He’s funny on Twitter too: @ThisIsRobWatson
Hosted by Darcia Armstrong & Cathy Macpherson!
This event is almost sold out so get your tickets today. Tickets will not be available at the door.