Boris out Dore in at Yuk’s

A great last minute replacement has made Yuk’s Ottawa the show to go for this weekend. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see  Jon Dore recently or ever I can’t encourage you enough to do so now.

Well I could kidnap a beloved family pet and start sending you body parts in the mail but that might be a bit much if not messy.

Dore is the best I’ve seen of  “alternative” comedy in awhile if not ever, that is his stuff isn’t a bunch of wanking . He’s smart, weird and clever but above all original and funny with the bone-dry understated delivery required to make such tricky material work.

Words I don’t think I ever used to describe Jon’s act when he was here on Wednesday nights. Of all the guys to leave Ottawa he may have benefited the most creatively from the trip outta this jerkberg.

While his show is hit and miss I blame the misses on the Comedy Network, after all this is the same putrid hole that’s vomited out “Comedy, Inc” and continue to reanimate the long dead corpse of “The Air Farce” so its small wonder that even the most solid of talents gets tainted in the process. I thank the gods that “Kids in the Hall” was on before that abomination of a network, could you imagine what they would have done to them if they had gotten their lame hooks into it?

<in eddie murphy white guy voice>”The Chicken Lady, can we have her go out on a date with Saddam Hussein? And this ‘Head Crusher’ sketch, Bill over in accounting doesn’t get it, could we give him giant foam hands? The wife saw that at the ball game and thought they were a hoot!”< / in eddie murphy white guy voice>

The horror would be too much to imagine, I should stop now.

So go and see the one of the bleeding edges of modern Canadian stand-up  because one day the Comedy Network’s suits might notice he’s doing good stuff and strap him down to go all “Clockwork Orange” and program out the original comedy out leaving an empty husk that recycles gags from “You Can’t Do That On Television”