http://monkeytoast.com/blog The Improvised Talk Show Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:47:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=427 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=441 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=417 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=414 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=410 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=391 Thanks to Chris at TINARS and the good people at Penguin books for putting this event together. http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=402 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 ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=386 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?) ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=376 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).  ... http://monkeytoast.com/blog/?p=366