Big Daddy Tazz
April 1st-12th
Dean Haglund is probably best known for his nine seasons playing Langly, one of the computer geeks known as "The Lone Gunmen" from the hit FOX TV series The X-Files. He also starred in the The X-Files spin-off series The Lone Gunmen. His character is so popular that Dean is a main attraction at X-File and Sci-Fi conventions all over North America.
A long-time comedy improviser, Dean got his start with the likes of Ryan Stiles and Colin Mockerie (Whose Line is it Anyway?) in the internationally award winning Vancouver TheatreSports League.
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Upcoming Comedians at Rumor's
Mike E. Winfield
Jun 19th to Jun 22nd
Mike E. Winfield in minutes will describe what has happened in your life that very day. Many often leave his show saying, “Does he live with us?” Strikingly brilliant comedian Mike E. has not slowed down since his debut on The Late Show W/ David Letterman and most recently winning a reoccurring role on NBC’s The Office. Whether its hardships or love, you’re gonna get it served honestly from this charismatic Baltimore native who now resides in California’s state capitol. When asked, why Sacramento? He says, “If they want you, they’ll find you.” His success is rapidly rising and you may have seen him on Showtime’s Comics Without Borders or Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. Don’t miss your opportunity to witness something very special in the making.
SiriusXM's Next Top Comic
Jun 25th
SiriusXM is looking for Canada's Next Top Comic. We’re on the hunt for clips of the best comedic talent in the country. If you have a video showcasing your comedic genius, register and provide a video link of the set here. We’ll choose 12 comics from all entries to live audition* in one of 7 cities. Then we’ll pick the top 3 performers at each audition and post their auditions online for Canada to vote on.
The twelve comics that have made it to the live audition are Chad Anderson, Nelson Mayer, Rachel Sommer, Scott Porteous, Anjali Sandhu, Jared Story, Chantel Marostica, Dan Verville, Dan Goldberg, Ben Walker, Ryan Ash, and Jordan Wellwood
The World Series of Comedy
Jun 26th to Jun 29th
Join us for this week long comedy competition! 40 comedians from all over North America, including; California, Wisconsin, Ilinois, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Idaho, Arizona, and all over Canada come to Rumor’s to compete to get one step closer to the Las Vegas finals and a contract for 52 weeks of work in comedy clubs all across America. Wild Card show WEDNESDAY features 16 comedians. THURSDAY & FRIDAY shows feature 9 comedians. SATURDAY at 7:45PM the final 6 compete. SEE THE TOP 3 FINALISTS Saturday at 10:30 as they battle it out for the Regional Grand Prize: an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas to compete in the National Finals of THE WORLD SERIES OF COMEDY!
Andrew Norelli
Jul 2nd to Jul 13th
Andrew Norelli was a regular on the sketch comedy show Seriously Unusual Television, and has performed sketch and stand-up since 1998. He's performed with Jay Leno, Dave Chappelle, Bob Saget, Howie Mandel, Garry Shandling, and Kevin Nealon. His humor is part social commentary, part random absurdity. He is at times offensive, but always with comedic intent. Andrew's family is from New York, but he was raised in California. He is a perfect blend of East and West Coast mentality. His stand-up can be seen on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham."
Ron Josol
Jul 16th to Jul 27th
Performing regularly in Canada, U.S., Hawaii, Persian gulf, Asia, central America and top comedy clubs like the improve and the infamous laugh factory in Hollywood California. In 2000 Ron won the Craven A’s funniest home grown competition for the Just For Laughs comedy festival and from there achieved a lead in his own comedy specials, “Comedy Now”, on CTV/Comedy network, the “Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and The Orange County Comedy Festival”. Indubitably, the most recognizable Asian comedian in Canada, Ron was profiled in CBC’s Bill Cameron short documentary called “Different but the same”, has been a featured guest on the Toronto show, Echo, omni1&2, MTV Canada, and recently the Biography Channel Canada. He has written/ performed on the Gemini award winning show “The Buzz”, has hosted his own television series on the new omni2 Network called, “FLIP”, has produced, co-wrote and stared as the lead of a short film based on his true story entitled, “Rolling Longaniza,” which aired on the CBC Zflicks. Currently, he writes and performs on the Much Music hit show “Video on Trial”.
Kevin Bozeman
Jul 30th to Aug 10th
Inspired by nights on the couch watching Def Comedy Jam and challenged by his roommate, Kevin decided to head over to nearby Madison, WI and try the “Open-Mic Night”. “I always was the guy who could make people laugh, and let’s be honest I had nothing better going on”. Thirteen years later Kevin is still going on-stage, and he has found the job that fit his requirements. “For an hour a night I’m wildly successful”. With a smooth and clever style, a great smile and a contagious laugh Kevin has been entertaining in clubs and colleges across the country. In 2000 he was the winner of the Midwest region of the HBO “Comedy Competition” and flew to Los Angeles to compete as a finalist. He performed on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” in 2003, and finished 2nd in the Boston Comedy Competition in 2005. He was a semi-finalist on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2010. This past summer he co-starred in the Indie film “Flat Chested” starring Alicia Witt and Luke Perry. He currently resides in Chicago.
Steve-O
Aug 14th to Aug 18th
*We added three more shows!*
*CONCERT SERIES* Tickets are $35 each
Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his father's closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started producing homemade skateboarding videos featuring dangerous stunts mixed with comical behavior. Eventually, Steve-O's videos made it into the hands of Jeff Tremaine (Jackass Creator/Director/Producer) who was working with Johnny Knoxville to create a stunt based reality show. The rest is history. MTV aired the first season of JACKASS in 2000. In 2001, Steve-O launched his own "Steve-O Don't Try This At Home Tour", establishing himself as an accomplished stage performer, at venues throughout the U.S. and in a dozen countries. When the JACKASS TV series ended in 2002, the team moved on to JACKASS: THE MOVIE, released by Paramount in October of that year. Shortly thereafter, Steve-O and fellow JACKASS alum, Chris Pontius, were given a spin-off show entitled WILDBOYZ, which aired on MTV and MTV2 and lasted four seasons. In 2006, Paramount released JACKASS: NUMBER 2 in theatres and Steve-O continued to thrill audiences with his outrageous stunts. In 2009 he competed on ABC's hit show, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and lasted six weeks, despite an injury and having virtually no dancing ability whatsoever. Last year, Steve-O returned for the Paramount franchise in JACKASS 3D which turned out to be a huge hit at the box office for the third installment with JACKASS 3.5 soon out on DVD. In the months leading up to the release of JACKASS 3D he immersed himself in Stand-Up comedy, which had been a part-time hobby during the previous four years. Successful performances at prestigious comedy venues such as LA's Laugh Factory and New York City's Comedy Cellar led to his current tour performing Stand-Up, stunts and bar-tricks across North America and abroad, which he dubbed "Steve-O's Entirely Too Much Information Tour."
Sean Lecomber
Aug 20th to Aug 31st
Sean Lecomber is a Stand-Up comedian with a unique perspective. His comedy is refreshingly based on words and story rather than movement and expression. His interesting take on all topics under the sun will leave you in fits of laughter. He tells the sort of jokes you remember and tell your friends. According to Sean making people laugh is the only thing he's ever been good at. And he is good. His clean and clever brand of humour will be more than enough to make people forget about the mediocre buffet. Winner of the 2007 Just For Laughs “Home Grown” Competition. He filmed his own one hour Comedy Now! airing on The Comedy Network and CTV Ha! Comedy Festival. His comedy has been featured on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno Comedy.
Doug Stanhope
Aug 26th
*Concert Series*
Tickets are $30 and can only be purchased by clicking here
Doug Stanhope is a stand-up comic. Has been since 1990. His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited and is certainly not for everybody. He started his career in Las Vegas doing jack-off jokes for free drinks. Not much has changed, save for the mullet. Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement.
He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous pseudo-porn for the sexually crippled, "Girls Gone Wild", both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on "The Howard Stern Show", "Comedy Central Presents", "Premium Blend", NBC's "Late Friday", "Spy TV" BBC's "Floor Show Live" while on ecstasy and wrote, produced and starred in Fox's "Invasion of the Hidden Cameras" and has even popped up on "Fox News with Greta Van Sustern" and "The Jerry Springer Show". In 2010, he was the Voice of America on the BBC’s “Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe”. None of it compares to seeing him live; Doug is a two-time winner of Time Out New York’s “Best Comedy Performance of the Year”. He’s appeared at multiple major comedy festivals including Montreal Just For Laughs, Aspen US Comedy Arts, Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Scotland, where he won the Strathmore Press Award for Best Act of the Fringe in his debut year. Selected by both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top Ten Comics To Watch, Doug has released four CDs and three DVDs including "No Refunds" on Showtime in 2008.
Matt Falk
Sep 3rd to Sep 14th
Matt Falk has been performing his unique style of stand-up for nearly a decade. His album Apple Pie & Scars reached #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts and is currently being played on Sirius XM Canada & USA. Matt is the writer and star of RocKids TV and is the writer of the record-breaking Celebrations show ‘The Big BOOM Theory' now touring across Canada. His clean stand-up comedy act has gained him many accolades including placing 2nd in The World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas. He has headlined at comedy clubs across the country and is preparing for a ten-city Canadian tour this year.
Pete Zedlacher
Sep 17th to Sep 21st
Born and raised in the northern Ontario town of Wawa, Pete threw himself into the stand-up comedy circuit with much success and has quickly become one of the top headlining comics in the country as evidenced by his 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-up. Touring Canada from coast to coast Pete is a fan favourite within both the alternative and mainstream comedy club scene. He has appeared on his own one-hour episode of Comedy NOW! for CTV/The Comedy Network, which recently in repeats received the 2nd highest ratings in the show’s history. Pete is a two-time Gemini Award nominee for his recent television performances at Just For Laughs and CBC’s The Halifax Comedy Festival. Pete has made numerous film television appearances, including Rookie Blue, CBC's The Sean Cullen Show, Little Mosque On The Prairie, Puppets Who Kill, CTV's Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, and Degrassi: The Next Generation. His film credits include American Pie Presents: "The Naked Mile", and George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. Currently a writer for The Ron James Show and CBC Radio’s wildly popular The Debaters, Zedlacher has also written for numerous other programs including The Hour With George Stroumboulopoulos. Considered one of Canada's premiere club comics, selling out across the country, Pete is a force of nature when it comes to stand-up comedy.
Wendy Liebman
Sep 25th to Sep 28th
*Concert Series* Tickets are $17 for Wed / Thur and $20 for Fri / Sat
Wendy Liebman has been performing her uniquely timed style of stand-up comedy since 1984. Her stock in trade is the one-liner with the subliminal afterthought. The effectiveness of her technique lies largely in the unexpectedness of her timing. The punchline invariably falls after the joke seems to be over. The Los Angeles Times Raves, "she's a master of the throwaway line, making a perfectly rational observation, then adding almost subliminally the punchline which skews everything she has said before." In 1990, Wendy won the Johnnie Walker Red Comedy Competition semi-finals in Boston, and competed in the finals at LA's famous Hollywood Improv. It was at this performance that she caught the eye of the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show, who invited her to be one of Johnny Carson's guests the following week. If that wasn't thrilling enough, the whole episode was captured on a segment of CBS' 48 hours. Since then, Wendy has been a regular on The Late Show with David Letterman, and has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Wendy has also been seen on Politically Incorrect, Dr Katz Professional Therapist, Louie Anderson's comedy Showcase, The Daily Show, HBO's Women of the Night, The RuPaul Show and Comic Relief Vll as well as Comic Strip Live, VH1 Stand-Up Spotlight, Evening at the Improv Caroline's Comedy Hour and MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour.
Nate Bargatze
Oct 1st to Oct 5th
Nate Bargatze is a southern born comedian from Old Hickory, Tennessee. He moved to Chicago and started taking improv classes and doing stand up. He was in Chicago for two years and then moved to New York City. New York is where he started to get real serious about comedy and performing every night. Although he has been in New York for only a short time, he has taken it by storm. He has performed at all the clubs in NYC and continues to be a crowd favorite. He has been featured on CMT's "Comedy Stage" and "20 Redneck Moments." He has also been seen on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham" and performed at the 2008 Just For Laugh's Montreal Comedy Festival in the New Faces category, receiving critical acclaim in The Hollywood Reporter. In 2007, Nate wrote for the Video Game Awards. Nate recently returned from his second tour in Iraq performing for the troops in Baghdad. He continues to keep the momentum going working every night in New York City comedy clubs when he is not on the road.
Mark Forward
Oct 8th to Oct 19th
From the start comedian Mark Forward was a breakout talent. He was a finalist for the Phil Hartman Award for Best Up & Coming Stand-up and Yuk Yuk's Funniest New Comic in the year 2000. He kept on winning. He won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Newcomer in 2005 and the Homegrown Comic Competition at his first appearance at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2006. He was nominated for a total of four Canadian Comedy Canadian Comedy Awards, most recently for Best Male Stand-up and Best Taped Live Performance (winners to be announced in August).
He was featured on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS).. He made his third appearance at the Ha!ifax ComedyFest he will be returning to the Just For Laughs Festival to host the Homegrown Comic Competition, having won it in 2006. Forward has been playing Mr. Leung, a recurring character on the hit CBC series Mr. D, which premiered in January 2012. He is also a staff writer on the series and has written three episodes. Mr. D will be returning to CBC for a third season in January next year. For two seasons, Forward was on the writing staff of The Comedy Network's The Jon Dore Television Show, for which he received aCanadian Comedy Award for Writing on a TV Series, and played a variety of characters on the show.
Tom Segura
Nov 12th to Nov 16th
Tom Segura is a comedian originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, though he was raised in too many places to list. His television credits include Conan, Comedy Central Presents (half-hour special), Showtimes’ Russell Peters Presents, and Live at Gotham! When he’s not on tour Tom continues to perform at the top comedy festivals in the world, including Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Comedy Festival – Las Vegas, The South Beach Comedy Festival, and The Global Comedy Festival in Vancouver. Tom also regularly appears on syndicated radio shows The Bob and Tom Show and The Jim Rome show. Additionally, his noted podcast, Your Mom’s House can be heard weekly at YourMomsHousePodcast.com. Tom’s debut album Thrilled is available on iTunes and Amazon.com