Byron Bertram is a comedian, actor and street performer from Vancouver, Canada, with more than twenty years of stand-up behind him. He learned to juggle at a summer performing arts school as a teenager and built a street show around juggling and a straitjacket escape that took him to England, Australia and across North America.
The $10 Joke That Started Larry Charles's Improbable Career
October 1, 2026
Larry Charles grew up in Brooklyn and dropped out of both college and film school. He started by selling jokes, then wrote sketches for the live show Fridays alongside Larry David, where he first worked with Andy Kaufman. A year writing for Arsenio Hall ended in him being fired, and he was on the Seinfeld staff the next day. He…
There’s a version of this interview where Seann Walsh gives thoughtful, measured answers about his craft. This is not that interview. Asked how he builds a joke, he says it just comes out, if people laugh it stays, if they don’t it goes. Asked to define stand-up in eight words, he gives you carbohydrates as the…
John Jacobs: A Comedian Who Found His Full Potential in a Ski Mask Outside the White House
October 1, 2026
There is a man in a ski mask yelling outside the Capitol building right now, and there’s a real chance the Secret Service is enjoying it. That man is John Jacobs, a Detroit-born comedian who also prays before every show, got attacked on stage once and pressed charges, and once wrote an entire 40-track comedy album because…
Ask John Achkar if he’s made it as a comedian and he’ll tell you, quite calmly, that he has no idea, and that the concept might not even exist. This is a man who’s headlined the Olympia Paris in front of 2,000 people, but sure, let’s pretend that’s ambiguous.What isn’t ambiguous: he writes…
Armageddon Out Of Here: Tom Johnson's Celebration of Humanity at Its Absolute Worst
September 1, 2026
Ask Tom Johnson what Armageddon Out Of Here is about and he’ll give you two answers. The intellectual one: a look at how people behave when there’s no consequence left. The real one: an excuse for him and Rob Glenister to hit each other, swear, and put on silly accents for an hour. Both are apparently true at the…
Somewhere in France there is a unicycle that ruined Tori Morancay’s childhood and, indirectly, launched her comedy career. She fell off it at twelve in front of a packed crowd, and has since decided nothing on a stand-up stage will ever come close to that level of humiliation. Bombing an open mic? Rookie numbers compared…
Rebecca Wolf auditioned for her first school play, was too shy to get a part, then watched the show from the audience and decided that was what she wanted to do. The following year she landed the role of Glenn the Gull. As she puts it now, she has gone from bird to pig and intends to work through the entire animal kingdom…
There’s a version of comedy history where Ian Edwards gets remembered as a footnote. Instead, he became the answer to a trivia question: first comedian ever signed to Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco Records. Before that, by his own telling, most of the industry acted like he didn’t exist.He walked us…
Stacie Burrows has been on stage roughly as long as she has been alive. Her first credit was Old MacDonald Had a Farm at preschool. She played the black sheep, which she considers telling. Since then: theatre, improv, sketch, standup, musical comedy, solo theatre and storytelling. Her roots are in standup, in New York in the…