The popular provocative XM Radio talk show comes to the festival for a live stand-up show and provocative chat on Idle No More,

dark comedy and a profile of Winnipeg comedy.

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Long considered one of Canada’s most controversial comics, his ability to command the undivided attention of an audience is remarkable.

Most recently Darren has joined the cast of the hit CBC show ”Mr. D” playing the new addition of angry French teacher. He has also performed in various comedy festivals including Just For Laughs, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and LOL Sudbury.  Darren has numerous movie and TV appearances to his credit, including performances in the feature films Hairspray, Assault on Precinct 13, Fever Pitch and Don’t Say a Word. Darren three times been mentioned in the Top Ten Comedy Moments of the Year award by Now Magazine.

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Born and raised in Toronto, Dave Martin began comedy in 1996 and believes anything can be made funny. Dave performed at the Late Night Danger Zone at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. In 2001 Dave received his own hour-long stand-up comedy special for Comedy Now on CTV and The Comedy Network. In 2003 the National Film Board of Canada filmed a documentary on Toronto stand-up comics called The Next Big Thing which appeared on TV Ontario and The Biography Channel in The United States. Dave has also had numerous appearances on Laugh Attack on XM Satellite Radio and CBC/Sirius Satellite Radio. Most recently he made it to the Toronto finals of Last Comic Standing on NBC. Dave is a regular Yuk Yuk’s performer from the East to the West Coast. Don’t miss his up front dark and hilarious observations on the world we live in.

Kathleen McGee is the girl your parents warned you about. She will make you laugh and blush all at the same time. Kathleen has been seen at Just for Laughs, on Bite TV and can be heard regularly on Sirius XM Radio.

In December 2009 Kathleen was named the winner of SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Russell Peters BFF. Kathleen was personally picked by Russell Peters from a roster of Canada’s top aspiring comics to open his next Canadian tour.

“I watched all the entries – not just the top 10,” Peters said. “I wanted to make sure that I found someone who made me laugh, and Kathleen made me laugh.”

This girl’s unapologetic, dark and sassy sense of humor will have you talking long after the show is over.

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Ryan mixes a traditional stand-up comedy sensibility with a loose improvised slacker style and he blends it all together with characters, multimedia, music and hilarity. Based out of Winnipeg, McMahon is a comedian / actor / writer that is making a name for himself as one of the most dynamic Native Comedians working in North America today. McMahon steers clear of tired, cultural stereotypes onstage, and instead, his live show combines standup, improv, and sketch comedy weaving stories and characters in an original style of comedy that he calls – Indian Vaudeville.

Kenny Robinson is one of the few comedians that can be called a Canadian Comedy legend.

For over 25 years Kenny Robinson has been touring across North America winning both audiences and critical acclaim with his raucous, irreverent, profane and opinionated brand of “in your face” style of comedy and social commentary.

Kenny Robinson has appeared at the renowned Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, Laffapalooza Urban Comedy Festival in Atlanta, The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Zanies, L.A.’s Comedy Store and Improv, has had his own CBC television special of “Comics”, and is the founder of the Nubian Disciples All Black Comedy Revue, (entering its 11th year) and Toronto’s Soul’d Out Comedy Festival.

Robinson has co hosted The Gemini Awards, as well being twice nominated for his groundbreaking CBC television special “Thick and Thin”. He is also the creator, writer and host of the Comedy Networks edgy show “After Hours,” and for 2 years was the co-host of FLOW 93.5 “Morning Rush” radio show.

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