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The Give ‘Em What They Want Tour is coming to Théâtre St-Denis, with two shows on Wednesday, Sept. 20.

Marking the show’s fifth anniversary with an epic edition on Sept. 11, hosts Walter Lyng and Vance Michel told us about the night’s humble origins in what is now a bathroom at Hurley’s to practically turning the Irish pub into a comedy club.

The California comic told us about her strange path into the industry.

Even if you’ve never met her, Robby Hoffman is right about why you’re wrong. She’s a small, queer ex-Hasidic comedian with a Daytime Emmy Award. What have you done with your life?

An interview with the actor and comedian (and show business dynasty member) ahead of his first ever Just for Laughs appearances.

“I was very afraid until I got there, but once I was actually on stage, I wasn’t afraid any more. I felt like, ‘Oh, okay, this is what I’m supposed to do!'”

“I thought, ‘This is it, I’m just going to go walk into traffic right now.’ And then I remember talking to a veteran comic — this had been my 8th or 10th show — and he was like, ‘This was the first time you bombed?’ And he started laughing and said, ‘Oh! There are so many more that are coming!'”

“Now that I think about it, that’s a lot of f*ckin’ work.”

“I want a Nasty Show that runs a genuine risk of being hit with public obscenity charges. I want Chris Rock, Bernie Mac and Tracy Morgan in the ’90s levels of nasty. I want ribald, crass and bawdy, but clever. And while there was certainly some of it this year, it was all too often inconsistent.”

“A quadruplet of olds at BriTANicK’s show declared that it was the worst bloody thing they had ever seen. They are wrong — not only in their assessment of the show, but perhaps about life and how they’ve lived it up until this point.”