After two years of pandemic hiatus, the Snowed In Comedy Tour is back. Four veteran comedians will bring the show to the Mae Wilson Theatre on Thursday, Feb 24, at 8:00 p.m.
The tour has been on the road for just over a month at this point. A rotating cast of international comedians joins core members of the show as they make their way from West Coast to East.
The Alberta and Saskatchewan tour dates are set to kick off next week in Medicine Hat. From there they’ll be in Swift Current – then they arrive at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre’s Mae Wilson Theatre on Feb. 24.
The lineup for the first few prairie province shows consists of:
- Dan Quinn has done many appearances on TV and radio. He won the Canadian Comedy Competition at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. He’s done Comedy Now on CTV, The Debaters, Sirius XM radio, and he won Best of the Fest at the Hubcap Comedy Festival in Moncton.
- Damonde Tschritter has been called “comedy’s new superhero” by the Globe and Mail. He’s appeared at every comedy festival in North America, including the New Faces Gala at Just for Laughs. His comedy specials have been on major networks including CBC, CTV, HBO, Comedy Network, and Comedy Central.
- Erica Sigurdson is best known for over 40 appearances on CBC Radio’s The Debaters. She is an award-winning international stand-up comic whose festival credits include the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival, and the Seattle International Comedy Competition. Her TV writing credits include CBC’s Mr. D and CTV’s Corner Gas Animated.
- Pete Zedlacher has been part of Canada’s comedy scene for over 20 years. He’s been nominated for the Canadian Comedy Award five times, winning once, gathered two Gemini Award nominations, and won Sirius XM Radio’s Top Comic competition. He’s done the Just for Laughs Gala eight times.
The Snowed in Comedy Tour is now Canada’s largest. This year will see 60 shows spread across 58 cities.
Erica Sigurdson was meant to join the tour in January before coming down with COVID. Now fully recovered, she says she can’t wait to get in front of a live audience again.
“After two years of doing a lot of Zoom shows, which are fun in their own way,” Sigurdson told MooseJawToday.com, “being in front of a live audience is a magical experience… I’ve done ones where I can’t see or hear the audience. It’s literally like, I’m in front of my laptop in my spare bedroom, telling jokes to myself. And that is awkward.”
Sigurdson said that the Zoom work she’s done where she can actually see each person in their little box on the screen is still a bit weird, but surprisingly fun. Nevertheless, being on a stage has a unique energy that she loves.
This won’t be Sigurdson’s first time in Moose Jaw. She isn’t completely sure, but she might have marched in the city’s first-ever Gay Pride parade – by accident.
“Me and a couple other comics were on tour, and we saw the parade, so we just went to watch,” Sigurdson remembers. A couple of people who had seen their show the night before handed them signs, so they just started marching. “Next thing we knew, we were marching in the parade… at one point it was kind of awkward, because we were like, ‘We have to go, we have to get to the next city, and I don’t know how to put these signs down!’ But, yeah, great fun.”
The show is meant to be an inclusive, relaxing evening with plenty of laughs. They don’t want any more division – everyone has had enough of COVID and difficult politics, she said. “Especially right now, in this country, we want a great show that’s going to bring people together.”
As of Thursday morning, there are still a few open seats. “I hope everybody comes out and really enjoys it, because it’s a beautiful theatre, a beautiful night of comedy. If there are tickets still available, definitely go get them,” said Sigurdson.
Tickets can be purchased at moosejawculture.ca/event-details-registration/snowed-in-comedy-tour.
