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Featuring: • GRAHAM CLARK • • DANIELLE FLORENCE • • KYLE LUCEY • • ZAWER SULAIMAN • • NANCY HO • • DEVIN ALEXANDER • • COLLEEN THOMPSON • Come laugh in one of Vancouver’s most unique venues — a skateboard shop turned comedy club in the heart of Vancouver's
Get ready for the hottest ticket in town: The Smoke Show is back by overwhelming demand for its highly anticipated Fall 2025 season, following a string of 15 sold-out performances in the Fall of 2024 and Spring of 2025. The Smoke Show is an immersive 360-degree experience that will leave
The Cultch presents: Burnout Paradise -- Equal parts celebration, chaos, and cardio. Melbourne’s inventive theatre collective Pony Cam takes the stage in the most unconventional way. Four performers mount four treadmills. As they sprint, sweat, and juggle life’s endless to-do lists, they tackle an escalating series of everyday tasks—cooking pasta,
Wanna have a lot of laughs for Christmas? Gay AF Christmas Spectacular is coming to Little Mountain Gallery for a Holi-Gay Comedy Extra-Vaganza! We’re celebrating the most hunty-ful time of the year with a fabulous array of stand-up, drag and musical comedy to help make your spirits bright! Last time
Join us Saturday, December 13th at 7pm for a lineup of the city's best South Asian & Southeast Asian stand-up comedians to raise money for Indo-Caribbean short film, Rising Tide. Featuring comedians including Amar Singh, Ariane Anindita, Bobin Monga, Rahat Saini & more! ABOUT THE FILM: Rising Tide is an
Who’s been naughty and Who's been Nice this year? Who even cares? Instead of judging yourself, come and judge 6 comedians instead. Instead of coal, come fill your stockings with lols, at the most wonderful stand-up comedy event of the year! This live comedy taping will include 6 of Vancouver’s
Every fake town needs a public forum. This is ours. Mungston is in disarray. The communal bulletin board is overflowing and Assistant Mayor Riley Hardwick is tasked with hosting a town hall to work through a growing pile of flyers, official notices, and local propaganda. Comedians are asked to advocate
Comedian, sex worker rights advocate, and host of the acclaimed podcast The Oldest Profession, Kaytlin Bailey has officially launched her 2026 tour, The Oldest Profession, with back-to-back sold-out performances. Tickets are now on sale for her one night stop in Vancouver BC LANALOU’S on Sunday, February 1st at 7pm. Blending
Vancouver Mysteries is thrilled to launch the fourth chapter in their popular Murder is a Drag series in Gastown during the 2026 Dine Out Festival. Murder is a Drag: Killer Birthday is a murder mystery set at a surprise birthday party, and the fourth (and final?) chapter in the wildly
Grad School Improv perform a theatrical genre-based improv show every third Friday of the month at Little Mountain Gallery (LMG). Known for hits like Point Grey's Anatomy, English Baywatch, and Murder on the West Coast Express, GSI creates incredibly unique shows, riveting stories, and hilarious scenes. It's always a good
Nigerian-born, Vancouver-based comedian Ola Dada is hitting the road with a sharp new hour of comedy, touring Western Canada ahead of the live taping of his next comedy special at Just For Laughs Vancouver 2026. Fresh off hosting the 2025 JUNO Awards for Comedy Album of the Year, Ola’s star
Vancouver's favourite queer comedy show, That's gay! comedy, is back again for Just For Laughs! Hosted by Erin Purghart and featuring Canada's funniest homos, catch That's gay! comedy on Sunday, February 22nd at 7pm at the Red Gate Revue Stage on Granville Island! All are welcome – whether you're queer,