Canadian Comedy Award Winner
Monkey Toast: The Live Improvised Talk Show is proud to present its one-of-a-kind talk show monthly at the Comedy Bar. Each show, two different celebrity guests are interviewed. After an interview segment, Monkey Toast’s Host/Interviewer, Ron Tite, throws the focus to the Monkey Toast Players who then use the interview as inspiration for their improvised scenes.
The Monkey Toast Players are a rotating cast of improvisers and are one of the best in Canada and includes:
Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
Lisa Merchant (Train 48)
Kerry Griffin (The Second City)
Aurora Browne (Comedy Inc.)
Jan Caruana (Mean Girls)
Herbie Barnes (Tonto’s Nephews)
Sandy Jobin-Bevans (Life with Boys)
Jim Annan (Ben’s at Home)
Marty Adams (Hemlock Grove)
Jennifer Goodhue (Guidance)
Naomi Snieckus (Mr. D)
Kathy Greenwood (The Rick Mercer Report)
Matt Baram (Seed)
Paul Bates (Dan for Mayor)
Paul Constable (Canadian Tire guy)
Liz Johnston (Bad Dog Theatre)
Marcel St. Pierre (The Firm)
Janet Van De Graaff (Good God)
Leslie Seiler (Twitches Too)
Jack Mosshammer (Puppets Who Kill)
Musical Directors:
Bob Derkach, Jamie Lamb, Jay McCarrol, Mark Bond, Chris New, Peter Cavell, Ayaka Kinugawa
Past guests include:
Former NDP Leader Jack Layton, Actor/Writer Don McKellar, former Toronto Mayor David Miller, Tony Winner Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone), Mark Tewksbury (Olympian), Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies), Bob McDonald (Quirks & Quarks), Jake Gold (Canadian Idol), Marnie McBean (Olympian), Andrew Coyne (Post Newspapers), Michael Landsberg (TSN), Sean Cullen, Richard Crouse (Reel to Reel), Peaches, Don Ferguson (Royal Canadian Air Farce), Gavin Crawford (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Mark McKinney & Kevin MacDonald (Kids in the Hall), Author Jan Wong, Dave Bidini, and Jaymz Bee (JazzFM), Brent Bambury (CBC Radio) to name a few.
as of January 17 2015 we will be running Monkey Toast at:
The Social Capital Theatre
154 Danforth Avenue
Second Floor
416 903 5388
www.blackswancomedy.com
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