Posted December 2nd, 2011
On Wednesday night over $1,300 was raised for Calgary Alternative Support Services’ (CASS) Client Christmas Hamper Program by the Red Carpet Comedians. Performing new material for a truly packed house (the largest RCC audience yet) were Lori Gibbs, Simon King, Jeff Toth, Ryan Kukec, Jeff Kubik, Kyle Francis, Alan Cho, Cory Mack, Donovan Deschner, Karen [...]
Posted November 16th, 2011
The Red Carpet Comedians are getting into the holiday spirit by converting our November 30 show into a special fund raiser for Calgary Alternative Support Services‘ (CASS) Client Christmas Hamper Program. CASS is a non-profit agency that offers a wide range of community support services to people with various disabilities. One such service is the [...]
Posted October 31st, 2011
Our third season continued last Wednesday night with another great show courtesy of Cory Mack, Ryan Kukec, Noor Kidwai, Brent Constantin, Donovan Deschner, Kyle Francis, Brad Muise, Jeff Kubik and Ian Wallace. The audience was truly delighted watching what these performers have been working on – both when it was good and when it was [...]
Posted October 4th, 2011
The first show of the third season of Red Carpet Comedy was a great success! It was clear that many of the Red Carpet Comedians spent their summer hiatus writing new material and our near sellout audience was incredibly appreciative of their hard work and dedication. Special thanks to all of the comedians (Donovan Deschner, [...]
Posted September 13th, 2011
The Red Carpet Comedians are back after a summer hiatus for the third season premiere of Red Carpet Comedy. After a very successful (and rapidly growing) first two seasons, launching a third season was an easy decision. For the past two years audiences have been taking delight in watching as professional comedians from Calgary (and [...]
Posted July 15th, 2011
The final “episode” of Red Carpet Comedy’s second season took place in May with a nearly full house in attendance to see what Jeff Kubik, Ryan Kukec, Chris Griffin, James Moore, Jeff Toth, Brent Constantin, Brian Stollery, Ian Wallace and Donovan Deschner had created. Lots of new stand-up material was heard and a lot of [...]
Posted May 4th, 2011
Red Carpet Comedy only has one more show before our summer hiatus. It will be the eighth show in our second season (which will mean we had two more shows in this season than we did in our first). May 25 will be the last chance (for a few months) that you’ll have to see [...]
Posted March 21st, 2011
We at Red Carpet Comedy are very pleased to see so much press being paid to the Calgary comedy scene. It’s a sign that things are on the rise and we’re happy to be a part of the community. The most recent article that mentioned us was on OpenFile.ca – a new website which is [...]
Posted February 27th, 2011
Since the last post here on the Red Carpet Comedy blog we’ve had two more great shows totalling more than 200 minutes of new stand-up comedy material. On both the January and February shows we were happy to welcome Jeff Kubik, Derek Sweet, Brian Stollery, and Donovan Deschner. Also appearing on the January show were [...]
Posted December 14th, 2010
The Red Carpet Comedy show on December 1 was not only one of the most unique but also one of the best shows that we’ve ever had! What is made it so special was the launch of Donovan Deschner’s CD, “I’ll Regret This.” All of the performers were hand-picked by Donovan to help celebrate this [...]