Comedian, actress and producer Jane Stanton is coming to the Brackendale Art Gallery: Café & Culture Centre—and she is bringing her funny friends.
The veteran of the stand-up stage and screen is headlining (and producing) the Queens of Comedy show at The BAG on March 9, in honour of International Women’s Day.
With her for the 2.5-hour show will be Cassidy Furman, who has performed with Just for Laughs Vancouver, Niki Mohrdar, also of Just for Laughs, and the Soft For Us Podcast, and Brittany Lyseng, a Seattle International Comedy Competition winner, who has also performed at Just For Laughs, and on CBC's The Debaters.
Comedian Kelsey Hamilton, also from Just for Laughs, lives in Squamish and will also be on stage.
"It's going to be a great night. You're going to laugh," says Stanton over the phone from her Kerrisdale home.
She said audiences should expect her signature storytelling humour. She talks about her family and going away, among other topics.
"That's the beauty of stand-up. So it's my perspective on whatever it is," she said.
While she has done shows in spots around the globe, she said beyond the odd saying or phrase, people and humour translate well wherever it is.
"At the end of the day, we're all human. You know, there might be a little saying or something that is different in that way ... But everything else is very similar."
In preparation for the upcoming show, she recently came up to check out The BAG, which she called a "hidden gem."
"I was like, 'Oh my God, it's so cool."
She got the whole Squamish experience when she was here, seeing paragliders—they might have been BASE jumpers—crossing the highway over her as she drove into town, and then she got caught behind the seven-hour Sea to Sky Highway closure due to a serious crash while trying to head back to Vancouver.
She got the small-town love, too, with a local offering a place to stay given the hotels were sold out.
"A nice Squamish day, [though] unexpected," she said.
Go to "Queens of Comedy at The BAG March 9th!" Eventbrite for tickets to the Squamish show.
You can also find tickets to the Queens of Comedy Port Moody show set March 6, at Inlet Theatre on Eventbrite. On March 7, she's in Victoria, March 8 she is in Hope.
Tickets are about $30.
*Please note that this story has been updated to correct the date for the Port Moody show. It is March 6 not 7, as the story originally stated. We also added Kelsey Hamilton, to the lineup, as she was not mentioned in the original story.
