Silver Lining Comedy

5 STARS “Hilarious, empowering and extremely vulnerable” – CBC
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND AFTER AN INTERNATIONAL TOUR!
Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian and ​Story Slam Champion Stéphanie Morin-Robert recounts her ​one-eyed childhood, high risk ​pregnancy​​​ ​and epic 56-hour labour as she mines laughs from her most embarrassing sex story yet​.​
BLACK EYE is a boundary-punching dark stand-up comedy show from the creator of sellout shows BLINDSIDE and The Merkin Sisters.
As seen on Just For Laughs, CBC, Winnipeg Comedy Fest, HubCap Comedy Fest, The Moth, and more…
5 STARS “Expert physical comedy and impeccable timing.” – CBC
“Outrageously hilarious” – Montreal Gazette
“Everyone must see this show.” – CTV

Rod Peter Jr

From the producer of Iago vs. Hamlet (5 STARS) and Escape from Winnipeg (5 STARS, X22 Pick of the Fringe winner) comes an all-new one-man comedy about DADS.

Rod has always wanted to be a dad. But what happens when doctors tell him this may never happen? A true story about his relationship with his dad and the bizarre current situation of trying to become a dad himself.
“Peter’s physical comedy is infectious” – Global News, Edmonton
“The most memorable comic performance I’ve ever seen” – CBC Radio

VoLto

Did you listen in history class? Neither did we! That’s why VoLto Theatre joined forces with the theoretically funny SensibleChuckleTheatre (Let’s Kill A Dragon 2024) on a brand-new wildly imaginative, likely inaccurate, journey through time: The (Un)Official (Un)Researched History of Manitoba

From cavepeople battling dinosaur diplomacy to our war with Panama, this fast-paced comedy blends total absurdity with fierce local pride. Packed with potentially real characters, satire and inside jokes only locals will truly appreciate, this show celebrates the quirks and spirit of the middle province.

It’s a Manitoban love letter that invites all people to laugh at both history and themselves. No Saskatchewanonans allowed.

4 STARS “Absurd – in the best possible way” – Winnipeg Free Press 2024

James & Jamesy

🙂 FOOL’S GAMBIT is the high-energy improv showdown starring Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles (James & Jamesy), Nayana Fielkov (Ragmop Theatre) and Chloe Ziner (Mind of a Snail Puppet Co.) Together, they dive headfirst into the unknown, transforming nothing into something hilarious, absurd and delightfully unpredictable.
Live-camera video and comedic risk-taking collide in a game where the only rule is: keep playing. Who wins? Who loses? Who cares? The joke is always on us.
Praise for J&J, Ragmop, Mind of a Snail:
30+ Best of Fest
Canadian Comedy Award
3x London Impresario Awards
5 STARS – Winnipeg Free Press, CBC, Global News, London Free Press, Theatre in London, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun

Langues Tordues/Twisted Tongues

Une comédie sexy et absurdiste sur le bilinguisme au Canada.
Jean-François, francophone exemplaire. Mais comment a-t-il la capacité de rendre la population du Canada bilingue ? Un oeuvre essentiel pour ceux qui veulent connaitre les liens entre le sexe et les Bescherelles. Ou apprécie les absurdités de parler le français au Canada.
A sexy absurdist comedy about bilingualism in Canada.

Jean-François is an ideal francophone. That doesn’t explain why he’s suddenly responsible for making Canada bilingual. A must-see for anyone curious about the absurdities of speaking French in Canada.
English subtitles provided.

Darren Millar

Pat-downs! Random selections! Celebrity encounters!

Darren Millar graduated from university as a teacher and marched out the door right into an airport security uniform. For 12 long years, he spent his days taking away tiny shampoo bottles and pocket knives under the harsh glare of the fluorescents of Victoria International Airport. A lot of feelings about these years and a carry-on suitcase full of stories.

One person’s examination of the consequences of our choices as he unpacks his experience from the lows of patting down your old college roommate to the highs of celebrity “random selections”.

ZeekTech Productions

“Favourite show of the year” – Jem Rolls
Best of Fest – Orlando
Artists’ Pick – Edmonton
Artists’ Encore – Cincinnati
Back by popular demand – the multi-award-winning solo clown meltdown where high art meets high stupidity!
Conceived by internationally acclaimed artist Isaac Kessler (5 STARS – NOW Magazine) and Academy Award winner Gordon Neill, this potassium-filled descent into madness dares to explore what theatre really is. It’s “unapologetic anarchic absurdism” that boldly asks: “WTF did I just watch?” (Orlando Weekly – Critic’s Choice).
“Utterly bizarre & hilarious” – Intermission Magazine
“Comedy gold that is quintessentially Fringe” – Orlando Sentinel Critic’s Pick
“Bouffon mastery. Comedy at its finest.” – Apt613
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Paco Erhard | German Comedy International

Held at the US-MEX border. An, um, differently intelligent officer. How did Paco get here? Where do we as humanity want to go? And is a German comedian a sign of the apocalypse?

Cathartically funny, sold out in 2025, and further deepened and improved for 2026, Fringe favourite Paco Erhard spins 75 mins of belly laughs into a passionate story of connecting across borders.

After all, Germans are known for two things: bringing peace and laughter. Well, at least Germans named Paco.

Wanna laugh hard and feel optimistic again? Then this fiercely funny “internationalist manifesto” is 100% you.

5 STARS “Genius! A very positive message of international understanding.” Edinburgh Guide
4.5 STARS “One of Fringe’s best. He often sells out; buy your tickets fast!” Edmonton Journal

C. Neil Parsons

Storytelling. Performance Art. Inarticulate Nonsense.
Trombonist/dancer/actor C. Neil Parsons – co-creator of Fruit Flies Like a Banana – performs a (mostly) solo variety show that is part storytelling, part musical act, part physical theatre and part TED Talk.

In between musical/choreographic interludes with a trombone, Neil relates true stories about his personal relationship with silence, what happens when his sleep alter ego takes over, and why an experimental composer created music in pictures without telling anyone how it should sound.

Dave Morris

52 Stories is a storytelling show that takes place inside the memory palace of Pick of the Fringe award-winning improviser and storyteller Dave Morris. One part memorization trick, one part storytelling show. Come and enjoy some heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of family, friends, love, loss, and of course, memory.

What are the things you remember? What are the things you never want to forget?
5 STARS “This is a storyteller with a trick, a memorizer with a story, and a Fringe show full of magic.” – Edmonton Journal
5 STARS “You’re in the hands of a masterful player.” – Winnipeg Free Press