Have you heard the story about Cain and Abel before? You know, the one where two brothers offer up sacrifice to their god and god likes Abel’s better because he actually kills something for him. Well, Cain gets all jealous and kills his brother, committing the first murder. It makes me think god is a little bit of a douchebag… also, Cain would probably be played by Steve McQueen in the movie. Cain is a bit of a badass.

Oh yeah, and there’s another Holy Crap! coming too. That’s right, Montreal’s rowdiest comedy show is back and is fully armed!

Interactive Evil productions’ monthly comedy show includes the best in Montreal comedy and the best in Montreal’s rowdy, drunken bar patrons and puts them together for single night of no holds barred amusement.

This show is fast becoming THE show to see and we fucking dare you to come out and join in the fun. This is the only show that wants you to heckle and say something. Hell… it double-dog dares you.

Performing this month: Paul Baluyot, Kris Dulgar, Paul Ash, Morgan O’Shea, Theo Radomski and Peter J. Radomski (Voted best comedian in Montreal by Mirror readers). As always, it is hosted by the only man to banned from a comedy club for religious reasons and the man who gave Cain his first Uzi, Devil Dan Derkson.

Best part is…. IT’S FREE!

So, come on down to the Cock n’ Bull and enjoy the brotherly murder-fest of comedy.

So picture this… you’re standing in a revolving door. You press hard against the sides preventing anyone from moving it. The crowd grows larger and larger as well as more and more frustrated. The whole time you smile the biggest grin. The kind of grin that says, “You people are so fucking stupid. There are pull doors on either side of this revolving door. Use them fuckwads!” Of course you didn’t know that those doors were locked and that everyone was just responding to the bomb threat you called in…

Oh yeah, and there’s another Holy Crap! coming too. That’s right, Montreal’s rowdiest comedy show is back and full of bad intentions!

Performing this month: Barry Carter, Bruce Malcolm, Chason Gordon, Andrea Stanford, George Hamilton Braithwaite and featuring Mike Paterson (The Most Electrifying Entertainer of His Generation). As always, it is hosted by the only man to banned from a comedy club for religious reasons and the unheard from 13th cylon, Devil Dan Derkson.

Best part is…. IT’S FREE!

So, come on down to the Cock n’ Bull and enjoy the bomb threat of comedy.

So here we are back with a new episode of Watercooler TALK. It’s my birthday episode. I haven’t put anything up since we moved to the new timeslot and also since we moved to Livestream. It’s a really cool service. So check out the show.

Forty-two years ago a man walked into the world with two destinies. One was to bring the angriest comedy show in Montreal to fruition. The other was to successfully cross-breed a goat with a waffle iron. Guess which one is happening this night!

Oh yeah, and there’s another Holy Crap! coming too. That’s right, Montreal’s rowdiest comedy show is back and is fully armed!

Interactive Evil productions’ monthly comedy show includes the best in Montreal comedy and the best in Montreal’s rowdy, drunken bar patrons and puts them together for single night of no holds barred amusement.

This show is fast becoming THE show to see and we fucking dare you to come out and join in the fun. This is the only show that wants you to heckle and say something. Hell… it double-dog dares you.

Performing this month: A plethora of awesome comics including, Paul B, Marquise, Bruno Ly, Paul Ash, Kris Dulgar, Barry Carter, Natacha Filion, Morgan O’Shea, Trevor Forestell and Christophe Davidson.

As always, it is hosted by the only man to banned from a comedy club for religious reasons and the man who turning the age of life, the universe and everything, Devil Dan Derkson.

Best part is…. IT’S FREE!

So, come on down to the Cock n’ Bull and enjoy the evil birthday clown of comedy.

Whatcha gonna do when the 24-inch pythons of Holy Crap run wild on you? Probably you’re going to have a pretty good time. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, Montreal’s rowdiest night of comedy is back in April and it has proven to be the place to go if you want to not only see a great show, but kind of be part of it. The fine people at the Cock n’ Bull have yet to be a match to power of this comedy force. Join in on the fun.

The lineup is still being solidified but I can tell you that Ali Hassan, Joel West, and Christophe Davidson will be onhand. Stay tuned for more details.

I got into it when I was in college. I have been performing in some way ever since I was a kid. I started with music. Later, I got into theatre which led to me going to college to get my theatre degree. While I was there I met my friend Ian Boothby, a brilliantly funny guy. He was doing stand up regularly at Vancouver’s original comedy venue,  Punchlines. It doesn’t exist anymore and it’s too bad really. It was an amazing place.

Mondays at Punchlines were open mic nights. For the uninitiated, open mic nights are the nights that anyone can get up and perform. They’re also called amateur nights, though you’ll also see a lot of pros and semi-pros going and trying out new material. They are probably going to be the most memorable comedy nights you can see, because most of the time you will see stuff there you won’t see any other time. Most of it for the worse, but it’s so awesome for that benefit alone.

Anyways, at that club, the standard protocol was to show up at 6 to try and get a space on the show which then happened later that night. So, I went down to watch Ian. We got there at 6. He signed up for the show and then we went out and grabbed some dinner while waiting for the show. Him and I were talking about comedy the whole time. He said to me at one point, “You really should try stand up some time. I think you’d love it.” (Or something along those lines, this is all from memory, people he may have said “you really need a breath mint”… but we’ll just go with it for the sake of the story) I said that would really like to try it. He said, “Great, because I signed you up.” After getting over the initial shock of it all, I put on my big boy pants and tried stand up for the first time.

Now to say that I was bad is an insult to bad comedians. I had no material, other than what I wrote at the restaurant earlier and it was not what I would call stelar material. Actually, I can only remember one thing I did that night.

There was this guy sitting in the front row who was drinking pretty heavily. Occasionally, he would say something to the comics. Luckily, since he was so hammered, his witty interruptions were mainly along the lines of, “Blarghhaargh a plaphloey. YOU SUCK!” Now, this may have been hilarious in his head, but to the rest of the room it was annoying, drunk guy speak. Most comics were either shutting him down  pretty quickly or more commonly, ignoring him completely. One thing I always remembered hearing was never ignore a heckler. You are in charge on stage not them. So, when Drunky McPeesalot thought he’d let his 2 cents be heard on this first-time comic’s dying night. I knew I had to say something.

In my head it was one of those perfect comedy moments. Heckler takes a shot at you and without missing a beat you fire back at them with the perfect one-liner that both puts them in their place and tells the rest of the room that they are seeing absolute genius at work. A miracle of timing worthy of funny Jesus or Bill Hicks (even though they didn’t know who Bill Hicks was  in 1985 so funny Jesus still works better). That’s the way I remember it, so that’s my reality, ergo THAT’S REALITY! How could it have gone any other way. All I remember is he said some drunken slur at me and I fired back at him “Buddy, you are the hugest waste of an orgasm I’ve ever seen!” Then I remember the crowd laughing for the fist time since I walked on stage. Then it felt like I couldn’t do anything wrong. I took a few more shots at my compadre in success and left before I had to come up with anything else.

That was it though. I was hooked. I loved the art of stand up. I especially loved when people laughed, or more to the point, I loved when people laughed at the things I wanted them to laugh at. I don’t know who deserves my appreciation more that night. Ian for being a dink and putting me in that position or Inibriato the clown, for giving me the opening I needed for that night to feel like a success. Probably both equally.

Now, 25 years later I’m still doing comedy, but only in the past two have I felt like a real comic. I have really begun to find the voice I want to do. The audiences seem to like it. So what now?

Glad you asked.

When I moved back to Montreal, all of my friends that were struggling open mic-ers with me, were now touring and running their own rooms. That’s what I wanted. I wanted my own room. I love organizing events and I know comedy and how it works. I just needed a product to sell. Then one night while doing karaoke at a pub after a show, I got talking with the manager about comedy and one thing lead to another and he said he’d love to try a comedy night. The birth of my show Holy Crap!

We did the first show 2 weeks later with a little bit of promotion. One of the things about comedy is that having a specific idea or theme for your show makes it a lot easier to sell. I didn’t have anything for this other than some great talent, but I wanted a hook. Luckily, the venue was more than happy to provide that to me. When I got to the show I was talking to people outside, regulars who came out to see the show, and they kept saying, “I hope you don’t mind if we heckle you.” My mind went back to that first night. “Please do! Just know this… you started it.” And they did. Every one of my performers that night had some yabbo in the audience say something stupid to them and every one was shut down with force. Kris Dulgar made some girl resort to hiding behind the bar becasue she physically wanted to get away from his abuse. It was fantastic. They said shit to us. We made ‘em look stupid. The perfect example of a symbiotic relationship.

That was it. I knew I had the show I wanted to produce. Holy Crap! would then become the rowdiest night in comedy. I want you to come out to the show and bring your A-game. I want to have THE abuse show. The audience will get involved with the comics and the comics will heap the abuse right back. This is something I would want to see. So will others I think.

So, if you’re not doing anything on March 8, and you probably aren’t let’s face it, (You can watch United States of Tara in reruns, fancy man) come down to the Cock n’ Bull and get involved in the show. This idea will only be as good as you guys let it be. I want you to make it fucking mean as hell. I want this night to be an homage to Cirrhosis McLiverpants my dream heckler who will always be… a true waste of an orgasm.

More details on Holy Crap!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_YPFj1iQM

So, this was supposed to go up yesterday, but it ended up taking way longer to render than I thought it would. I promise I’ll get better at this. Here is what I am calling episode 2 of my videobog. I think we have the basics now to start going into a bit of a regular format. I have a couple of other podcasting ideas that are going to start being put up here, just to see what you guys think. If you like this stuff. tell your friends. Give me some tweets and plugs on your Facebook. Today’s episode is all about what is right with Slumdog Millionaire and what is wrong with Street Fighter 4. The new look is well under way, too. I think it’s going to be pretty cool.

That’s right, Holy Crap is back in the month of March. My first night running this made it deadly clear that this is Montreal’s rowdiest comedy show. This night will hopefully be no different.

**UPDATE:
The lineup is going to be awesome. Come on down and check out Eman, Faisal Butt, Kris Dulgar, Asaf Gerchak, Kwasi Thomas and Chason Gordon. Also we’re on the air. I will be doing in an interview with Paul Aflalo’s show Watercooler Talk on CJLO radio. Tuesday March 3 at 8am. You can also listen online here.

So I was walking down St-Laurent and I thought to myself “Hey Devil Dan! Do you know what people really like?” “What?!” I answered. “High Fives! How can anyone have a problem with high fives? They are totally boss! We should high five as many people as we can.” And so began the evening that ended in the emergency ward. Some people DON’T like high fives.

Oh yeah, and there’s another Holy Crap! coming too. That’s right, Montreal’s rowdiest comedy show is back and is fully armed!

Interactive Evil productions’ monthly comedy show includes the best in Montreal comedy and the best in Montreal’s rowdy, drunken bar patrons and puts them together for single night of no holds barred amusement.

This show is fast becoming THE show to see and we fucking dare you to come out and join in the fun. This is the only show that wants you to heckle and say something. Hell… it double-dog dares you.

Performing this month: Mike Meo, Joel West, Trevor Forestell, David Heti, Eman and featuring Dan Bingham. As always, it is hosted by the only man to banned from a comedy club for religious reasons and the man who high five’s with his face, Devil Dan Derkson.

Best part is…. IT’S FREE!

So, come on down to the Cock n’ Bull and enjoy the silent scream of comedy.

So, Watercooler TALK is moving from Tuesday morning to Monday afternoon. It is going to be so nice not having to get up at 6:30 in the morning to do this. We also are planning some really cool things for when we start the new show on June 1. Today, I have the last hour of the show due to some technical difficulties, but it is a fun hour. The topic of the morning of course is Star Trek. Cool or just awesome? Take a listen.