Where Calgary's Comedy Celebrities
Strut Their NEW Stuff
The cream of Calgary's comedy crop perform their newest material. This isn't the stuff you've seen in their club shows or on their TV appearances. It's the brand new material that they are sharing with the world for the first time, and you can be there to witness it.
Right before the May 5 Red Carpet Comedy show, Andrew Schultz from Citytv here in Calgary caught up with Donovan Deschner to chat a bit out what RCC is doing. This video clip aired the morning of May 4: Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, [...]
We could have not asked for a better wrap-up to the first season of Red Carpet Comedy! About 90-minutes of new material was created and I’m sure that some of it will live on in the comedians’ regular acts. Thanks to everyone that performed last night; Donovan Deschner, Don Wood, Dan Guiry, Brian Stollery, Mike [...]
On March 31, 2010, Cory Mack phoned into CJSW’s, Am I Right??, to talk to Evan and Jesse about the April 7, 2010, show. She shared her views on the room, what it’s like to write comedy, and the experience for the comedians and audiences alike. While you can download the whole episode via their [...]
The final show of the first season of Red Carpet Comedy on May 5 will feature a large group from Calgary’s Underwear Affair. In preparation for their June 5 run to fight cancers below the waist they are holding numerous “Participant Nights” to rally support and enthusiasm amongst the runners and walkers. People that are [...]
Wednesday night’s Red Carpet Comedy proved without a shadow of a doubt that there are no hack premises in comedy, only hack comedians. Thankfully… none of the Red Carpet Comedians are hacks of any kind. Each of the eight performers had a complete new set of comedy to share and by the rave reviews of [...]
On April 3, 2010, the creator and producer of Red Carpet Comedy, Donovan Deschner, stopped by the CBC Daybreak Alberta studios to talk with Russell Bowers about creating and refining comedy. You can listen to the interview as published in the show’s podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tickets for tomorrow night’s show [...]
To wrap up the 2009/2010 Season of Red Carpet Comedy there will be two special theme shows taking place. These performances will allow you to see the Red Carpet Comedians challenged to write material on “over used” stand-up topics and to see the jokes that actually made it into their shows. April 7 – The [...]
Thanks to the comedians and audience members that made last night’s Red Carpet Comedy another successful show and great evening out. The continued courage with which Calgary’s comedians try new and experimental things is hard to believe sometimes. A special congratulations goes out to Cory Mack for having been awarded the “More Time In A [...]
It’s time for the fourth instalment of Red Carpet Comedy! Last week we contacted all of our potential performers (local professional comedians) to let them know that they could reserve their spot and some of them have already signed up. So far we’ve received confirmation from: Tony Binns, Cory Harding, Brad Muise, Charles Payne, and [...]
Last night’s Red Carpet Comedy gave me two reasons to be overwhelmed. The first was the incredible work of the performers. Not only are they all creating tons of new material but the “hit to miss ratio” is swinging toward the “hit” side. It is continued effort like that which will show the country why [...]
