{"id":22676,"date":"2022-05-18T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22676"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:03:44","slug":"just-for-laughs-comedy-tour-returns-to-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/05\/18\/just-for-laughs-comedy-tour-returns-to-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for Laughs Comedy Tour! returns to Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Just For Laughs Comedy Tour! is set to return to Victoria for the first time since 2019. This year’s tour\u2014the 19th edition\u2014is called Just for Laughs Comedy Night in Canada; it will feature a lineup consisting of some of Canada\u2019s top comics and is led once again by comedy legend Rick Mercer. This time around, Mercer will be joined by 2018 Juno winner Ivan Decker, Just for Laughs favourite Eman El-Husseini, and co-star of the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated show Ramy<\/em>, Dave Merheje.<\/p>\n

Even though he was busy throughout the COVID lockdowns, Merheje says that it’s great to get back out on tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter two years of lockdown you can just feel the energy, and everyone really wants to have a good time,\u201d says Merheje. \u201cYou can feel that. It\u2019s just making the shows great.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave Merheje will be bringing the laughs to Victoria (photo by Manhire).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Merheje says that this group of comedians is incredibly fun to work with, and says that we should expect to see a great show as they wrap up the tour on the island after hitting stages across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe show is super fun, man,\u201d says Merheje. \u201cRick is amazing on and off the stage. Ivan Decker, Eman El-Husseini\u2026 It\u2019s a great group and everyone connects.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re having fun on stage but off stage the crowds have been magnificent. Honestly, with no bullshit at all, they\u2019ve been great in every city we\u2019ve been to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Widely considered to be one of the most original comics on the scene these days, Merheje says that he just keeps it simple and tells his story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in Windsor in a Middle Eastern family; we\u2019re Lebanese,\u201d says Merheje. \u201cThat was different. I draw a lot from my experience. A lot of it is my family and my upbringing and I do a lot of storytelling from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merheje says that he’s benefited from the time he spent away from the stage during the lockdown and hopes that it shows in his act.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a lot of time to think about my act and my delivery,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve made some changes and realized that I really want to have more fun up there and not put so much pressure on myself to kill every night. It helped me a lot, just to sit with it and have some time.\u201d<\/p>\n

That time has served him well: Merheje says that he is bringing his A game every night right now. The comedians all want to deliver their best performance and have a great time, and Merheje says that, in turn, the crowd\u2019s going to have a great time along with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great to finally get back on the road,\u201d says Merheje. \u201cI was supposed to do this tour back in 2019 but I was filming the second season of Ramy<\/em>. Then we were supposed to go in November and it got postponed. I\u2019m learning a lot from Rick. His storytelling is amazing. It\u2019s been awesome to go across Canada and see places I\u2019ve never been. It\u2019s been so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merheje says that he\u2019s been coming to Victoria for years and always gets a great response from the audiences here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always get a lot of love when I come out to Victoria,\u201d says Merheje. \u201cI\u2019ve been going there since 2011, when I first went to Hecklers. It\u2019s such a great environment for comedy. It\u2019s one of the top places in the country for sure. You have a good scene out in Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just for Laughs Comedy Night in Canada
\n7pm and 10pm Sunday, May 22
\n$67.75 and up, Royal Theatre
\nrmts.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Just For Laughs Comedy Tour! is set to return to Victoria for the first time since 2019. This year’s tour\u2014the 19th edition\u2014is called Just for Laughs Comedy Night in Canada; it will feature a lineup consisting of some of Canada\u2019s top comics and is led once again by comedy legend Rick Mercer. This time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22678,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions\/22678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}