Every few weeks Second City hosts a couple of sketch comedy acts for two nights in their Theatre 73.  Last night and tonight it’s Toronto troupe Potato, Potato and Montreal based Small Friend Tall Friend.  Details on this are going to be a bit sparse as the house programme contained almost no useful information and the two groups web presence seems to be limited to Instagram (Kids these days!).

Anyway it was fun in a Fringe kind of way (though way more comfortable than most Fringe venues).  I really rather like Potato, Potato’s slanted look at life in Toronto; the housing crisis (room mate drops dead when forced to flatshare with a cat), Ontario Place (apparently gifted to Doug’s favourite German metal band), Doug again (this time shooting a cyclist) sand Olivia Chow (crashing everybody’s parties).  Daft of course, but nicely paced and energetic.  I’d go see them again. Continue reading →