{"id":8942,"date":"2014-04-03T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2014-04-06T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T16:51:38","slug":"hear-no-evil-vancouver-island-comedy-features-trio-of-vancouver-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/04\/03\/hear-no-evil-vancouver-island-comedy-features-trio-of-vancouver-comedians\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear No Evil Vancouver Island comedy tour features trio of Vancouver comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"

When three Vancouver comics–Jared Borland, Kyle Jones, and Byron Bertram\u2014got together over beers to figure out why they weren\u2019t getting enough work from their agents, the trio decided to make some work for themselves. The result was a self-booked, 10-show tour of Vancouver Island over 14 days, going as north as Port McNeill and stopping in Borland\u2019s hometown of Nanaimo, before hitting Victoria for an April 18 show at Club 9one9. With an idea to boost the comedy scene on the island, the trio of comedians hopes to bring us the laughs, and bring them hard. Nexus<\/i> caught up to all three of these funnymen and asked them about what goes on behind the comedy scenes.<\/p>\n

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The three Vancouver amigos of comedy? (Photo provided.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jared Borland<\/b><\/p>\n

Borland has a special tie to the Hear No Evil comedy tour of Vancouver Island, having been born and raised in Nanaimo, BC. He decided six years ago to pursue comedy after one of his friends moved to Vancouver and started doing standup. Borland quickly followed his buddy and has been doing comedy ever since.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your go-to joke?
\n<\/i>I call it \u201cStoned Sex.\u201d It\u2019s in regards to getting into a one-night stand while baked out of your tree on marijuana.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your worst heckling experience?
\n<\/i>It\u2019s not necessarily the worst, but it\u2019s the most unique. I was heckled by a mute. A man who couldn\u2019t use his voice heckled me. He had a tracheotomy hole and what he did was run up to the stage and waved his arms and shook his body and interrupted the show. I couldn\u2019t figure out what was going on until afterwards when all of the locals told me he was the local drunk and he was mute.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the hardest part about being a comedian?
\n<\/i>The financial side of it: just making it work for it to become a full-time job. And just consistently making sure you can get paid.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best part of doing comedy?
\n<\/i>Making people laugh. The lifestyle. My entire job is thinking of ways to make people laugh, and then I get paid to do it. It\u2019s just amazing. And once you take away the fact that I\u2019m writing jokes all the time, although I can do that in the pub, I\u2019m really only working one hour a night!<\/p>\n

How does it feel to be up onstage?
\n<\/i>It\u2019s exhilarating. It\u2019s the most stressful thing to me in the world, it\u2019s the most anxiety-ridden moment the one second before I hop onstage, and that immediately turns into the opposite, to the most exhilarating, adrenaline-rush moments of my life.<\/p>\n

Kyle Jones<\/b><\/p>\n

Jones, who was born and raised in Vancouver, was an actor for years, but eventually got tired of it. He made the switch to comedy around eight years ago and hasn\u2019t looked back, making people laugh his new chosen career.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your go-to joke?
\n<\/i>My go-to joke will always end up being something to do with an ex-girlfriend. Specifically, cheating ex-girlfriends.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your worst heckling experience?
\n<\/i>Actually, you can see it online. It went viral on YouTube. This guy was just talking through the whole show, just trying to be the funny guy. This prick\u2019s name was Ryan, so I got the audience to start clapping and get behind me to bring him up on stage and I\u2019m like, \u201cHere, you take my set time and see what you can do, buddy.\u201d So he came up onstage and just bombed. It was epic. I was like, \u201cIf you\u2019re going to be an asshole, you come up onstage and try and do what I do for work,\u201d and he just embarrassed the shit out of himself. So it was the worst and best heckling experience at the same time.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the hardest part about being a comedian?
\n<\/i>For me, it\u2019s writing. Having to come up with stuff and just staying on top of it. The easiest part, believe it or not, is performing. At least for me. I have ADD, so sitting in my living room and trying to write\u2026 within two minutes there\u2019s another activity I find myself doing.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best part of doing comedy?
\n<\/i>Performing. Being onstage and interacting with people. And the instant gratification.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s your favourite comedian and why?
\n<\/i>Oooh\u2026 Richard Pryor. And why? He was brilliant. And he liked the bottle like I do.<\/p>\n

How does it feel to be up onstage?
\n<\/i>It\u2019s a great question. You get the same feeling if you do comedy in front of 100 people as you do over 1,000 people. It\u2019s taking people away from their daily lives for a half an hour. You can have an audience of people that are in debt, or just went through a breakup or whatever, and you can take them away from their situations and let them get involved in your world.<\/p>\n

Bryon Bertram<\/b><\/p>\n

Bertram was also born and raised in Vancouver and is a former street performer, which he started doing when he was 16. After street performing for 20 years, Bertram switched to comedy about 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your go-to joke?
\n<\/i>Ah, geez, fuck\u2026 I don\u2019t really do jokes. I do bits. I don\u2019t really have a bunch of jokes. If someone goes, \u2018Tell me a joke!\u201d I just say, \u201cThey\u2019re all dirty!\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your worst heckling experience?
\n<\/i>Oh my god. This guy who just kept yelling, \u201cYou wanna suck my dick?!\u201d over and over and over again. And he wouldn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the hardest part about being a comedian?
\n<\/i>The uncertainty. Everybody thinking you\u2019re just a clown, wanting you to dance like a monkey at all times. That\u2019s part of it. Also, getting taken advantage of, financially.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best part of doing comedy?
\n<\/i>Making people laugh. Being the centre of attention.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s your favourite comedian and why?
\n<\/i>I think Bill Hicks would be up there. He\u2019s super real and he likes to take on the world. It\u2019s his depth of humanity.<\/p>\n

How does it feel to be up onstage?
\n<\/i>Oh, it\u2019s a rush. It\u2019s a high. It\u2019s a self-indulgent feeling to the highest extreme. It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

Hear No Evil comedy tour
\n8 pm Friday April 18
\n$15-$20, Club 9one9
\nfacebook.com\/gotpopconcerts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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