How much more can we take?

Subscribing to the newspaper is worth it.

We have a spiffy new Culture page at @theglobeandmail.com (a new homepage, too!). Love this team and love the new look. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/

Seattle has less than a million people and they have a thicc (quarterly) alt paper. Vancouver has less than a million people and they have an awesome alt weekly. Toronto, what is our problem?

Doesn’t even use a Canadian bat? smh 🙄

Majid points out that Toronto Outdoor Picture Show has been hosting screenings at Christie Pits every Sunday this summer without issue. Only TPFF has had their noise permit challenged.

My neighbourhood is quaint. Hashtag EastYork

I love local news

I sent separate press releases to the same list and now I feel very silly. This calls for ice cream for lunch I think.

As someone who moved to Toronto to be part of the music scene but ended up in the theatre scene, today’s chatter has been very fun.

🥳WE DID IT WE HIT 100!!!! Battle-River Crowfoot is now officially the longest ballot ever in Canadian history!!!! www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/...

The Toronto Fringe has announced this year’s award recipients, including the Patrons’ Pick winners, which receive an extra performance on Sunday. ‘Iris (says goodbye),’ ‘Milk Milk Lemonade,’ and ‘My Pet Lizard, Liz’ garnered two awards each. fringetoronto.com/fringe/award...

This is hands down the best Fringe poster this year. Seeing the show tomorrow & can’t wait.

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social Could I ask you to please tell me what this track is, or who maintains it? (Photo taken on the subway from the Prince Edward viaduct)

The @toronto-fringe.bsky.social asked me to program their annual stand up comedy night again this year and I said okay because it meant I got to email a bunch of people that I admire. So come hang out, it’s free!

Always fun to catch up with unfiltered stand-up Andrew Johnston, who’s headlining the @gayafcomedy.bsky.social Pride-a-Palooza show at Buddies this Friday. www.goaheadsumi.com/sipping-tea-...

I went to the place the internet showed me!

Tickets & Passes on sale now for the 37th Toronto Fringe Festival! Check out our website and other social media channels for all the details.

We need a slur for the type of sketch comedy that exists entirely because the writer owned a costume piece.

REVIEW: The inaugural Treading Theatre Festival is spotlighting Kitchener’s growing theatre scene — and paying critics to attend "Running at the Schneider Haus National Historic Site, the festival features five site-responsive productions in unconventional performance spaces." buff.ly/BtvkZjG

Read this, then watch “I Signed The Petition”. vimeo.com/284953384

I think the only thing I truly liked about season 2 of The Rehearsal is that it shows comedians it is okay to have a backup career.

Billy Merasty has played dozens of roles during his four decades on the screen and on the stage. On the season finale of Face to Face, he credits his role as Roger Laughingstick on the hit comedy series Acting Good with rejuvenating his career.

My favourite part of the throne speech was Wab Kinew

Last night a family member was in crisis so we just walked the streets of Toronto for hours after midnight, and I can't begin to explain how much I miss the refuge that Zipperz once offered.

Do journalists know that when clients follow up with their publicists they often ask if we have received any "nibbles"? I feel like you need to know this.

In case I haven't mentioned it three times, I'm producing a festival. And it's soon. treadingtheatreproject.weebly.com

Truly, the most expensive contractors

I am Vice Chair on the Board of Directors for Bad Dog Theatre, and our fundraising campaign has begun! If you are able, would you please support this fundraiser so I can remain useful and very cool in their eyes? www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...

I can’t believe the Hallmark Christmas Movie “Two Dolls and Five Pencils” will not be made in lower mainland British Columbia!

1. “Off to do some skinny dipping in the Don River near Pottery Road, 1912” 2. “The water chute at Scarborough Beach Amusement Park. The park was operated by the streetcar company as a means of getting riders for under-used equipment on nights and weekends in the early years of the century.”

Last year was the first of my six years as a self employed person to receive an income tax refund. A short period of bliss. This year I owe 137% more than the last time I owed, let alone the HST instalments. It will wipe out my savings account. Was there a way to predict this? I have no idea.

If you pre order it, please support your local indie bookstore if you can. Or directly from the press @utexaspress.bsky.social . Okay, love you, talk soon. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

If you have any nerves about flying at all, do not watch S2 E1 of The Rehearsal.

Dear Elections Canada, your lines are long because of perforated ballots. That’s all!

I am really enjoying Deli Boys, and nooooo it is not just because I love Philly so much

I was interviewed by my hometown's newspaper about writing for @thebeaverton.com! The lovely piece just came out, so today's the day I can officially cross "Telling Pierre Poilievre to go to hell in print form" off my bucket list www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-n...

Every time it snows in April I think of @selenavyle.bsky.social

Now that Canada is all Canada-centric again, my very funny friends and I who have been honing our skills as comedians, writers, and actors for 20 years can finally make a really funny TV show right? 🇨🇦 Maybe some movies?

Went on CTV'S etalk this morning to talk about @thebeaverton.com, Canadian satire, and how Danielle Smith is doing her best to tank Poilievre's run for Prime Minister. My face says "I've had four hours of sleep and hope Danielle doesn't hunt me for sport when it airs," but it was very fun!

Breaking (Real) News: The Beaverton Podcast is coming back! Join our all-star panel of writers and comedians as they riff on the biggest news stories of the week. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting March 19th. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Whatever happened with the Nightwood Theatre Innovators Program last year? Emma Paling and Robyn Grant-Moran have the scoop.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival opens today, marking it’s 20th birthday. If you buy a ticket and see a show your patriotism points are basically equal to Mike Myers wearing that maple leaf shirt on that show.

The snow clearing crew just went by my place. I truly thought it was a myth.

No one told me the publicist for Shrek died.

Good mail on this gray day 🇨🇦🤘🇺🇸

Believe the hype about Monks. #brothermedia

Speaking in Draft: Veronica Hortigüela and Annie Luján “Toronto needs to take comedies more seriously,” says Luján. “Comedy is not making people laugh every few minutes. In my mind, if people aren’t peeing their pants, we didn’t work hard enough.” www.intermissionmagazine.ca/speaking-in-...

If I attached a photo of my Millie to all my pitches saying “P.S. Do it for her”, do you think that’ll work?

Love writing satire? Dream of the high-stakes, low-paying world of freelance comedy writing? Well then today is your lucky day. From now until February 26th you can submit to become a writer for the Beaverton. More info on the page below!