TOSketchFestBlog
This year the Toronto Fringe is back in person presenting 100 shows at 11 venues across the city July 6-17, 2022. Toronto Fringe has a massive comedy contingent this year with over 50 comedy shows with musicals, improv, solo shows and, of course, sketch. Here are the sketch comedy shows to check out this year, plus exciting shows by TOSketchFest alum!
ALIA CENIZA RASUL: MORO GIRL
Alia grew up identifying as a “Moro”, a Filipina Muslim, all the while attending Sunday School. Now in her mid-thirties, grappling with her seemingly conflicting identities, she is looking to finally figure out who the heck she is, and why she likes charcuterie so darn much (her bank account also wants to know). Self-reflection isn’t enough (sorry Deepak Chopra) so she goes searching for answers through her family’s stories and history. Will she find what she’s looking for?
Tarragon Theatre, Solo Room. Tickets and Info
AN EVENING WITH DEVON & JACKIE
A dynamite evening of sketch comedy with a couple of swell broads! Modern world got you down? Devon Henderson (The Second City, Bad Dog Theatre) and Jackie Twomey (NOW Magazine Breakthrough Artist, Dead Parents Society) deliver a soirée of silliness with a touch of neuroses, “An Evening with Devon & Jackie” is a love letter to live comedy.
Robert Gill Theatre. Tickets and Info
A PERFECT BOWL OF PHO
Journey across the noodle of time and space as Nam Nguyen writes a musical history of the Vietnamese diaspora, told through its foods.
Ada Slaight Hall. Tickets and Info
ANESTI DANELIS: THIS SHOW WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
After a sold-out run at 2019’s Fringe – and winning a TOsketchfest22 Audience Choice Award – musical comedian and viral internet songboy Anesti Danelis returns with a new comedy concert inspired by all of those silly self-help books.
Al Green Theatre. Tickets and Info
CARSON & TAYLOR PROMISE TO DO A BUNCH OF FLIPS
In a show that won a TOsketchfest20 Audience Choice Award, and that the National Post called “an ecstatic celebration of the art of physical comedy”, Carson Pinch & Taylor Davis return with their high-flying and death-defying sketch comedy spectacle. They PROMISE to do a bunch of flips.
Ada Slaight Hall. Tickets and Info
THE CHELS STANDS ALONE
TOsketchfest22 Best of the Fest nominee Chelsea Larkin guides you through a hilarious and relatable journey of characters, songs and wild true stories, inspired by her own real life mission to accept herself as she is (or at least pretend she does).
Tarragon Theatre, Solo Room. Tickets and Info
CLIP SHOW
Oh no! TOsketchfest21 Best of the Fest Award Winner Jon Blair got locked in the pantry on the day of his Fringe show, in a basement where the elevator is stuck! And the building got snowed in! Also, the security guard went home! And it’s Christmas still! Jon might not know how he’s going to get out, but he does know one thing: He’s sure had a lot of crazy memories over the years… years… years…
Factory Theatre, Studio. Tickets and Info
Don Valley Girls in front of at hot pink TTC station platform. The five people are dressed in fabulous, bright coloured clothing.
DON VALLEY GIRLS: A SKETCH COMEDY REVUE
The cast of Don Valley Girls has aged out of being the Main Character, and it kinda really sucks. So they wrote a sketch show about it because why cry when you can cry while you laugh! … on stage, in front of everyone. Come for the snarky blurb, stay for the weird (sometimes heartfelt) sketches, songs, and occasional video interlude. This is NOT your auntie’s sketch show. (Or maybe it is.)
Streetcar Crowsnest, Guloien Theatre. Tickets and Info
#NOTALLFEDORAS
From Star Wars to the Snyder Cut, this sketch comedy show dismantles some of the more harmful aspects of fan culture. Starring Eric Weiss and Miroki Tong, #NOTALLFEDORAS is told from the perspective of two lifelong geeks who want everyone to be able to share their enthusiasm for the things they love!
Streetcar Crowsnest, Guloien Theatre. Tickets and Info
SEX T-REX PRESENTS SKETCH T-REX
Sex T-Rex Comedy is back with a new full-length sketch comedy review! Join TOsketchfest19 Best of the Fest winners as they celebrate their triumphant return to the stage with an hour of high-octane laughs, puppets, and silly mouth noises.
Factory Theatre, Mainspace. Tickets and Info
WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
Step right up and help The Well Well Wells solve the age old question “What Do We Have Here?” Follow a wonky one-hour trail into the minds of eight friends with a gift for finding humour in the mundane and the weird in our everyday.
Ada Slaight Hall. Tickets and Info.
