Articles by Anthony Damiao
Nick Thune / Ben Kronberg / Mark Little / Julia Hladkowicz
NXNE Hub, Toronto ON, July 18
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2015
NXNE's Thursday night comedy bill took place at the NXNE Hub at Queen and Spadina. The lineup was a gut busting blend of the absurd, the em...
Live From New York!
Bao Nguyen
PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2015
A new Saturday Night Live retrospective — not quite the "documentary" it aspires to be — entitled Live From New York! was to be...
Jen Kirkman
I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2015
Exclaim! is reviewing every standup comedy special currently available on Netflix Canada, including this one. You can find a complete list...
Shane Mauss
My Big Break
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2015
Shane Mauss is brilliant. His new stand-up album — his third since his 2010 debut — is called My Big Break. The title is a refe...
Bill Hicks
Complete Discography Reissues
PUBLISHED May 6, 2015
It's been over two decades since the bear-poking, chain-smoking iconoclast Bill Hicks passed away. The controversial comedian was only 32 y...
Nate Bargatze
Full Time Magic
PUBLISHED May 1, 2015
Nate Bargatze is a simple man. He doesn't know much — as he attests to almost immediately in his new comedy special Full Time Magic....
Sara Schaefer
Chrysalis
PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2015
Now in her 14th year of making people laugh for a living, podcaster, writer and stand-up comedian Sara Schaefer has at long last released h...
Kids In the Hall
Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, April 25
PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2015
Cult comedy greats the Kids in the Hall (KITH) were in typically surreal form at the Danforth Music Hall on Saturday. Twenty years since th...