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Screech Comedy Festival: A sneak peek
Don’t miss this chance to laugh your lungs out, as it were, with the best of the Screech Comedy Festival, this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. NT (a half-hour earlier in most of Labrador).
A taste:
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Tags: Summer Series, comedy
A guy who made you laugh at Rick Mercer (among others)
Irwin Barker may not have been a household name, but just about everybody in comedy knew him … and admired him. Barker wrote for both This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, among other outlets.
There’s a bit in the news today that Barker, who died of cancer in June, is being honoured with an award for up-and-coming comedians, as part of the Just For Laughs Festival. It’s a great idea.
To get a sense of Barker’s mind worked, here’s a 2002 performance from Just For Laughs.
