Jimmy Carr, Danny Bhoy & The Pajama Men
3 genuine comedians on stage at Just for Laughs
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Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr is not for everybody, but everybody loves him (except, maybe, for a Bostonian couple who demanded their money back… even though they’d stayed to the end of his show).
He calls his show Laughter Therapy. If Carr had had any therapy growing up he might not be a comedian today. Thank goodness he kept all his madness inside so that we might be invited into his dark but hysterical mind.
Carr is gentlemanly, at first, in a clean, pressed suit. But then you get the impression that, when they’re not looking, he’ll goose the audience. He’ll do traditional stand-up, move to a desk for some visual-aided bits, and even bring audience members on stage for a bit of fun.
He’ll test you to see just how offensive he can get, and just how much you can take. You’re a grown-up. If you appreciate funny, then you can take Jimmy Carr.
Danny Bhoy
“I’ve always wanted to see my name in lights,” says proud Scotsman Danny Bhoy. “If not in Montreal,” he muses, “then where?” And then he adds, wickedly, “Red Dear?” A master storyteller, Bhoy kicked off a two-week run of his one-man show, Wanderlust, at Theatre Gesu. “That’s French for Jesus, isn’t it?” he asks. “If I died tonight it’d be a fitting tribute. I’d just come back tomorrow.” Lines like that float above the audience’s heads sinking in as he moves onto his next story. You hardly have time enough to laugh before the next one hits you.
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It’s somewhat incongruous to see Danny Bhoy and hear his Scottish brogue tinged with just a hint of his Indian heritage. With a professed love of soccer, fried foods, and beer, his Indian background comes up only in passing. There’s his chance meeting with a Bollywood film director who is offended by the word Bollywood. “We prefer ‘Indian Cinema.’” “Okay,” says Danny, and then comes a thoroughly satisfying, side-splitting punchline.
He talks about his show in a revolving restaurant in Texas (“Because my agent is a prick”). And there’s a great rant about the World Cup in Qatar (“What’s the World Cup without alcohol?”)
His effortless hilarity seems to come from somewhere just as deep inside you as it is in himself.
The Pajama Men
Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen, collectively known as The Pajama Men, couldn’t tell you why they started wearing pyjamas on stage. “Well, when we started we wanted to find a really cool, hip way to present ourselves,” Chavez says with a chuckle. “We thought what better way than to wear pyjamas? And we were wrong.”
They don’t consider themselves strictly comedians. “The thing that we do doesn’t really get summed up in a word so easily,” says Allen, “but I think at the end of the day we’re doing what we do to make people laugh.”
And they do. When Jimmy Carr recommended them toward the end of his show, there were a few whoops from the audience.
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Jimmy Carr
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The Pajama Men
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Danny Bhoy
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