You might have noticed I’ve been expanding my horizons a bit recently.  Saturday night was no exception.  I was at The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival at the Theatre Centre for a double bill of sketch comedy.  I don’t think I’ve seen sketch comedy live since university so I really didn’t know what to expect.

We were in the BMO Incubator which sounds like the sort of place one would clone investment bankers rather than see a show but whatever.  The first shock/surprise was the MC for the evening.  He was trying so hard to create “atmosphere”.  It was weirdly like a concert at the Zoomerplex only more so.  You know like when some hapless stage manager comes out and does a sort of Kermit impersonation… “Let’s hear it for Mozart’s Piano Sonata No.16 in C major, K.545.. YEAH”…CLAP, CLAP, CLAP.  It was like that but with dancing and more clapping. Continue reading →