Monkey Toast has just been nominated for three 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards!  Along with receiving our seventh nomination for Best Improv Troupe (in seven years), Jan Caruana has been nominated for Best Female Improviser (she won the award in 2009), and Sandy Jobin-Bevans has been nominated for Best Male Improviser.

Also, Monkey Toast Players’ Matt Baram […]

After seven years, seven venues and six Canadian Comedy Awards, Monkey Toast came to an end in Toronto with two sold out shows on Saturday, May 1st.

The Comedy Bar was packed and there was a feeling that tonight would be special.  Unlike regular Monkey Toast shows, tonight’s shows had only one guest booked […]

What a crazy last night at the Gladstone!  Comedian Ron Sparks began the night by bending time.  Given only 5 minutes for his 7 minutes of new material, Ron forced it all to fit into only 9 minutes!

Next up, professional mascot, Markwell Ottolino-Perry, who is the mascot of a certain baseball team in town (but […]

Monkey Toast rang in the new year a little late, on January 17th, but what a show it was!  We learned from comedian Ron Tite, that if an airline loses your bags, start a Facebook group to get them back.  Best Health editor, Bonnie Munday, taught us that parabens really aren’t that bad and conspiracy […]

Dear Friends,
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that Monkey Toast will be ending its run in the spring, as I will be moving to the UK.   I have loved performing Monkey Toast here in Toronto.  I can’t thank you, our audience, enough for being a part of something that’s very […]

We had a great time at the 10th annual Canadian Comedy Awards in Saint John, New Brunswick this past weekend, and we took home two awards to boot!
Congratulations to Jan Caruana for winning Best Female Improviser, and to Kerry Giffin for winning Best Male Improviser!!  This is Jan’s first time winning the award and Kerry’s […]

Thanks to Chris at TINARS and the good people at Penguin books for putting this event together.

Monkey Toast has been nominated for 4 2009 Canadian Comedy Awards!!  We are honoured to be nominated for the following awards:
Best Improv Troupe
Best Female Improviser - Lisa Merchant
Best Male Improviser - Kerry Griffin
Best Female Improviser - Jan Caruana
Fellow Monkey Toast Players, Naomi Snieckus and Matt Baram were also nominated in the best improviser catagories for […]

Monkey. Toast. Sunday. June. 15th. 8pm. Gladstone. Hotel.

Suspect David “The Ringleader” Shore unexpectedly breaks with
tradition and opens his show WITHOUT complaining about anything. He
states, and I quote, “I’m actually pretty happy these days”. An
audience stunned, a tradition shattered, a donut I’m eating. Shore
informs his fans (or is that hostages?) that there will be “prizes”,
including […]

Backstage, the cast warmed up with a quick game of “Prop Snatch” (also known by another name that escapes the author right now).  You take an object and try to use it as anything else that it’s not (oh wait…I think Lisa Merchant calls it “Many Uses”…or something like that).  We used a Steam Whistle […]