680 CJOB Give the welcome Rick mercer as the host Just For Laughs Comedy Night in Canadastarring Dave Merheje, Eman El-Husseini and Ivan Decker at The Burton Cummings Theater on Friday, May 13, 2022.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday, November 26 at 10 a.m. The presale will take place on November 23 at 10 a.m. Until November 25, use the code: EVENING.
Montreal, November 23, 2021 – Just For Laughs is excited to announce the return of the Just For Laughs comedy tour! Following his successful hosting stint in 2019, Canadian comedy legend Rick Mercer returns to lead an all-star lineup of Canada’s funniest and most diverse comedians. This 19th edition, titled Just For Laughs Comedy Night in Canada, will feature STARZ co-star Ramy Dave Merheje, Just For Laughs festival favorite Eman El-Husseini and 2018 Juno award winner Ivan Decker. Together, these comedians will visit 18 prestigious theaters across the country – un mari usque ad mare! – beginning April 19, 2022 in Moncton, NB and ending in Victoria, BC on May 22, 2022. The Tour will stop in Winnipeg at the Burton Cummings Theater on May 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM. Tickets will go on sale on Monday, November 26 at 10:00 am
Just For Laughs is also proud to once again partner with Movember on the Just For Laughs comedy tour. The tour will provide Movember with an additional platform to raise ongoing awareness of men’s health, including mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer. $ 1 per ticket sold (less tax) will be donated to Movember.
The Just For Laughs tour has brought some of their favorite comedians to Canadians from coast to coast for almost 20 years and is very excited to welcome our audience to the theater for live performances, and we are committed to doing so safely. . We will adhere to all local Covid-19 security protocols in collaboration with each location and will closely monitor the situation in each city we visit. For additional information on the protocols of the local health authority or place of action, consult their respective websites.
About Rick Mercer
Rick Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Made In Canada, and Rick Mercer Report. Mercer has received nearly 30 Gemini Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his television work, and his CBC Television special Talking To Americans remains the highest-rated Canadian comedy special ever with 2.7 million viewers.
Mercer is the author of four books, all of which have been national best sellers, and he has also written for Time, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post. His most recent book, Talking to Canadians: A Memoir, is now available.
A recipient of the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, he is an officer of the Order of Canada and is a proud native of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
About Dave Merheje
Dave co-stars alongside Ramy Youssef and Mo Amer in the award-winning new comedy series Ramy on Hulu. As a stand up, Dave has made multiple appearances at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, JFL42 in Toronto, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, and toured clubs and theaters regularly. In 2018, Dave released his comedy special Good Friend Bad Grammar, which is available on iTunes and Amazon Prime, and won the 2019 Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. His most recent comedy special, Beautifully Manic, can be seen on Netflix as part of the Comedians of the World series.
About Eman El-Husseini
Eman El-Husseini is a Canadian-Palestinian comedian currently living in New York. She is a Just For Laughs favorite and has performed as part of their festivals in Toronto, Australia, and her hometown of Montreal. She is a regular starter across Canada and opens for Patton Oswalt. He has recorded two comedy albums, Unveiled and Handsome Daughter, both of which can be heard on SiriusXM Radio.
In addition to her solo work, she is one half of The El-Salomons, a comedy duo made up of herself and her wife. Together they mix jokes and stories inspired by their relationship with observational humor about love in general. They have traveled everywhere to perform, from the San Francisco Sketchfest to the Boston Women in Comedy Festival, and even to the Arctic!
About Ivan Decker
Ivan Decker, originally from Vancouver, now based in Los Angeles, is a writer, comedian, and actor, known for his sharp, polished, multi-layered observational comedy. You can catch their recent comedy special on Netflix, as part of the Comedians of the World series. Ivan was named “Comic To Watch” by TBS at the New York Comedy Festival in 2017, and subsequently made his American television debut in “Conan.” Ivan’s debut comedy album, “I Wanted to be a Dinosaur,” received the JUNO 2018 award for “Comedy Album of the Year,” which can be heard on all major streaming platforms, including iTunes. Ivan can also be seen and heard on the popular CBC radio show “The Debaters.” Ivan filmed a half-hour comedy special for Netflix at the 2018 Montreal Just for Laughs Festival.
About the Just For Laughs group
Founded in 1983, the growth of Just For Laughs Group is concentrated in three main focal points: festivals (in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Sydney, Australia); television production (mostly Gags, seen in 135 countries and 95 airlines); and live shows (Canadian tour dates for Jerry Seinfeld, Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Hannah Gadsby, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Sebastian Maniscalco, John Mulaney, Amy Schumer, Jimmy Carr and Danny Bhoy). Its 40-year-old Montreal Festival is now the largest and most prestigious comedy event in the world, welcoming more than 2 million people each summer. Learn more at http://www.hahaha.com
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