Comedy entertainment in Vancouver
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Balthazar’s House of Comedy
The West End’s favorite Tuscan-look lounge hosts a once-a-week stand-up show where you can expect to see a handful of local comics strutting their stuff while you sip on a round of cocktails that will make you laugh at anything. Students, whip out your ID at the door for half-price entry.
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Comedy Mix
The former Yuk-Yuk's venue in the basement of the Century Plaza Hotel mixes Tuesday's pro-am night with Wednesday's local talent showcase before the visiting headliners take the small stage for the rest of the week. If you're happy for food to erupt from your sniggering mouth at any moment, tapas-style nosh is also available from the bar.
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Jupiter Café
Another lounge that likes to add a laughter track to tackle the Monday-night blues, the upstairs Jupiter Café offers a regular comedian-hosted improv night. Reflecting its neighborhood, expect plenty of naughty gay-themed jokes to keep the locals giggling. If you just don’t get it, drop by on Thursday instead when it’s live jazz night.
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Urban Improv
The best place to tickle your funny bone in Kits, Chivana is a restaurant and lounge most of the week but a live improv comedy venue on Mondays. Expect to see many of the usual improv suspects who appear at Vancouver TheatreSports, plus a host of other well-oiled performers who know just how to spin an audience suggestion into a jaw-achingly funny good time.
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Comedy Mondays
The kicking upstairs J Lounge in the West End stages regular events throughout the week for its predominantly gay (and gay-friendly) clientele, but Monday is comedy night. Cackle like a queen at 8pm's Tops & Bottoms, when 'Canada's only queer improv troupe' hits the little stage. Then stick around until 9pm or 10pm for the week's stand-up headliners, usually drawn from the local talent pool.
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Vancouver Theatresports League
The city's most popular improv group stages its energetic romps – sometimes connected to themes such as Shakespeare or Star Trek – at a swanky new venue a couple of blocks from its old site. The format remains the same, though: if you're sitting near the front, expect to be picked on, unless you're naked – they tend to leave you alone if you're naked. The recommended 11:45pm Friday and Saturday shows are commendably ribald.
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Kitty Nights
Taking over the hipster-fave Biltmore on Sunday evenings, this ever-popular big night out – hosted by The Purrrfessor and Burgundy Brixx – is like an old-school variety show…with a rather saucy spin. The acts include a full roster of New York–style burlesque dancers and you can expect some teasing audience participation from your wise-cracking hosts. Arrive early: those geeky males working in IT who haven't seen a girl all week tend to hog the best seats.
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