Standup for Mental Health

what could be simpler – get up in front of a room full of people with masks on and make them laugh about bipolar disorder?

as it happened, it all unfolded quite well! eight of us comics, under the loving direction of our mentor, david granirer, rocked the theatre at Havana on The Drive early in october. everyone lived to tell the tale…

checking into vancouver general with a bad case of gurney strapdown disorder

for my first stand up gig, i chose to build my set around my experience of trying to get admitted to the psych ward – and ending up on a gurney ride into dante’s inferno.

“anyway, it all started when I moved to a new apartment right on top of nanaimo skytrain station. They say the best thing about living near the skytrain that it’ll take you anywhere in town.”

“the only place it took me was the Psych Ward.”

“last stop on the insomnia line…”

journey on the journey - my voyages to the outer reaches of the solar system

my second ever outing as a standup comedian: escaping from the psych ward on a space gurney, spreading puns to the waiting ears of lonely martians, uranusians and neptunians.

“i met this little alien at the neptune mcdonalds, asked him what he liked to eat. shoulda known. 

all he could stomach were unidenti-fried flying objects.”

 

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