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<\/a>Zedlacher says that part of the reason for the tour\u2019s growth over the years is because the audience really likes the story behind Snowed in Comedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Snowed in Comedy Tour is a do-it-yourself, fiercely Canadian tour that we put on without any corporate sponsorship, the CBC, or a big comedy festival behind it,\u201d says Zedlacher. \u201cIt\u2019s four international touring headliners getting together and doing a broad theatre tour. People get a kick out of it because it\u2019s pretty clear that we love what we do, and that really shows on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comedians have a huge advantage being part of the tour, Zedlacher says, because the tour now has a guaranteed crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of them are coming again and again and again,\u201d says Zedlacher. \u201cWe\u2019ve already won the audience over before we even hit the stage. When you go to a show at a comedy club, chances are the majority of the audience isn\u2019t going to know who the comic is, so the comedian\u2019s job in the first few minutes is to win them over. We have a huge advantage because we\u2019ve developed an audience that loves us and supports us and there\u2019s an expectation that fans are coming to see the best comedy show in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tour has a star-studded lineup this year. Along with Zedlacher, Debra DiGiovanni, Dan Quinn, Damonde Tschritter, Erica Sigurdson, and Paul Myrehaug will be performing most of the tour dates (Tschritter and Sigurdson will not be at the Victoria show). Zedlacher says that it will be a completely different show from years past; he says that his joke-writing process in recent years can be described as \u201cobserve and report.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to live an interesting life and then report back to people what it\u2019s like,\u201d he says. \u201cI always try to find what the audience will relate to. I\u2019m fiercely and proudly Canadian, so a lot of my material is about our country and how we\u2019re seen and represented around the world. That\u2019s what this recent show that I\u2019ve been doing is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zedlacher says that he\u2019s seen a cultural shift through his 23 years on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I started in the late \u201990s, people were warning that political correctness was coming, so comedians can\u2019t say anything anymore,\u201d says Zedlacher. \u201cThat was 20 years ago. It\u2019s been around forever. It will always be somewhere in the background, but it doesn\u2019t affect me with any real consequence. I\u2019m not one of those comics who wants to provoke people, or put any group into an awkward position where they\u2019re being made fun of while they\u2019re at my comedy show.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, Zedlacher says that at the end of the day, if it\u2019s funny, it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything should be open targets for everybody,\u201d says Zedlacher. \u201cIf it\u2019s funny you should be able to tell jokes about it. But personally, I\u2019m just a comic. I just want to be an entertainer. I want to rock a theatre full of 1,500 people, and at the end of the show they give a standing ovation and they walk out thinking they\u2019ve had a great night.\u201d<\/p>\n