The hilarious Saint Andrews Comedy Festival is back by popular demand
Duration
Friday, September 13th at 6:00pm
Rain Date will be Saturday, September 14th
Saturday, September 14th at 5:30pm
Rain Date will be Sunday, September 15th
Doors open 60 minutes before showtime
Rates
Weekend Pass: $80.00
Friday only: $25.00
Saturday only: $70.00
About
The 2nd Annual Saint Andrews Comedy Festival is returning to the KIRA Amphitheatre by popular demand.
Join us and some of Atlantic Canada’s most iconic comedians as we fill the award-winning Kingsbrae Garden full of laughter.
Ages 14+. Due to the live nature of comedy, we cannot guarantee that all language will be suitable for all audiences.
Line up
Friday, September 13, 2024
Jimmy Flynn
Jeff Irwin
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Ron James
James Mullinger
Meet the Performers
🌟Ron James
Consistently hailed by audiences and critics from coast to coast, RON JAMES has been selling out theatres in Canada for more than 20 years.
‘…a master comedian with a distinctly Canadian viewpoint’ – St. John’s Telegram
‘…scarcely time to breath between fits of helpless laughter’ – Halifax Herald
This verbal gymnast marries a comedian’s eye for satire with a writer’s ear for language, taking fans on a two-hour roller coaster ride, that cuts a wide swath through contemporary culture with razor-sharp wit and poetically charged delivery.
After graduating with a BA degree in History from Acadia University, (from whom he was bestowed an Honourary Doctorate in the Humanities in 2014), Ron moved from Halifax to Toronto. From there he kicked into gear, what has been a forty-one-year career, when he was hired by North America’s premier breeding ground of comedy, The Second City. Throughout the 1980’s Ron appeared in dozens of commercials, television roles and films.
In 1990, he and his young family moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the cast of ‘My Talk Show,’ a television series for Ron Howard’s Imagine TV, that was syndicated across America. Although lauded by Newsweek as the ‘cult hit to watch for the Fall 1990 television season’, it was cancelled in less than a year.
Finding himself just another actor in a town stinky with them, he managed to land a few guest-starring roles and became the pitchman for Texas Tourism in a series of award-winning commercials. Mostly though, he was unemployed and going broke.
That’s when he started to write the show that, upon his return to Canada in ’93, would become his critically acclaimed solo turn that led him to stand-up comedy, ‘Up and Down in Shaky Town’: One Man’s Journey Through the California Dream’.
After five years spent honing his craft onstage, eking out a living from Canada’s laughably lean club circuit, Ron was invited to launch the premiere season of CTV’s Comedy Network when ‘Shaky Town’ was given its own ninety-minute special.
‘…fast, funny and smart’ – Montreal Gazette
‘…simply the best’ – Toronto Sun
The next several years saw him voted Comedian of the Year at the CCA’s, appear half a dozen times at Just for Laughs, Halifax and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals, write for 22 Minutes, join the cast of award-winning satire ‘Made in Canada’ and star in the first television series of his own creation, ‘Blackfly’, which ran for two seasons on Global Television. (Unfortunately, Global wasn’t aware of that).
After Blackfly’s cancellation, Ron hit the road…hard… playing every theatre from Corner Brook to Courtney-Comox for nine years.
‘…cleverly, hysterically funny’ – Toronto Star
‘…a virtuoso comedic performance’ – Globe and Mail
These cross-Canada journeys, spent battling blizzards a Yeti wouldn’t wander, resulted in the first of what would eventually be a record-breaking nine one-hour comedy specials for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which fast became a New Year’s Eve viewing tradition. In the middle of all that he also starred in a television series, ‘The Ron James Show’, which ran for five years.
When globalism’s first pandemic struck a torpedo to the bow of live performance in March 2020, scuttling careers the worldwide over, the only option for survival was to work from home. That’s when Ron began streaming another round of original one-hour comedy specials called ‘Live from My Living Room’ on ZOOM, which drew audiences worldwide.
Oh, and during the year of the plague he also took the time to write a book. ‘All Over the Map’: Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road’, to be released by publishing giant, Penguin-Random House September 28, 2021.
🌟Jimmy Flynn
Over the past 40 years, Jimmy Flynn has become a musical comedy powerhouse. His list of credits is astounding. He has performed with The Dixie Chicks at Massey Hall in Toronto, he has also performed with “The Man in Black”, Johnny Cash; Tommy James and the Shondells; Charlie Pride; The Everley Brothers, and with Cheech and Chong‘s Last Tour. Jimmy Flynn became a popular radio and television personality during the early 1990s. To date, he has produced and broadcast over 400 radio shows, a 13-week television series, four feature length comedy videos that have gone double and triple platinum, seven gold CDs, a Christmas recording for children and a four-time bestselling joke book. He also owns his own travel and entertainment tour company, The Great Canadian Comedy Tour Company. Jimmy has raised millions of dollars for Canadian charities and community groups. He is Canada’s foremost musical comedy act!
🌟James Mullinger
British and Canadian comedian James Mullinger is celebrating 20 years working as a stand up!
He has had a busy year – publishing a bestselling memoir, releasing a sitcom, launching a new stand up special as well as editing Atlantic Canada’s only international magazine The Maritime Edit, but now he is back on the road doing what he does best… entertaining live audiences from coast to coast.
2024 is his 20th year in comedy and to celebrate he is touring North America with his best jokes and routines from two decades on stages around the world. Also featuring brand new material exclusively for 2024, the show will feature his “greatest hits” including routines from his decade touring the UK that have never been performed in Canada before.
Also featuring brand new material exclusive to this tour, James Mullinger Greatest Hits Live is the perfect show for long term fans and newcomers alike. Enjoy James’ best jokes from his 20 years touring the world as a stand up comedian. Non-stop laughter guaranteed!
This is James’ only full length public performance in Saint Andrews in 2024!
🌟Jeff Irwin
Maritime comedian Jeff Irwin has toured across Canada and the Eastern United States performing for conventions and private events. He has done motivational speaking, fundraising, keynotes for government and volunteer groups, along with award banquets for both lawyers and prisoners.
Jeff was born and raised in St. Andrews, By-the-Sea, New Brunswick. He’s appeared on CBC TV, the Comedy Network and on CBC Radio One. He’s performed at many national conferences in the Maritimes as well as North America.
He’s opened shows for other Canadian comics like Steve Smith, Marshall Button, Jimmy Flynn Cathy Jones, Bette MacDonald, Maynard Morrison and Sandy Gillis, among many others.
The KIRA Amphitheatre can be accessed via Kingsbrae Garden located at 220 King, St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.kingsbraeartscentre.com/events
Tickets are non refundable.