HUMOUR
Laugh Track: Paul Anthony
November 1, 2015If variety is indeed the spice of life, then Paul Anthony’s Talent Time is a bowl of Carolina Reaper peppers soaking in Tabasco sauce. A live variety/comedy show currently in its eighth season, Talent Time combines musical acts, live comedy, and unique/bizarre performances into one of Vancouver’s most deliriously enjoyable monthly events. (Each installment also gets filmed, edited down, and later aired as a half-hour cable access show.) At the centre of it all is Paul Anthony, creator, talent booker, host, and titular glue that keeps everything together. Read on to learn more about how Talent Time has changed since…
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This week in comics
November 1, 2015The Adventures of Agoraphobia Man: World Defender (Jacey Gibb) Jeremy's Excuses (Reuben Newton) The Crapside (Ryan Stella & Darien Lechner) Creator's Pet (Destiny Hsu) Peers (Leslie Lu)
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The five stages of grief Conservatives went through after hearing the election results
October 26, 2015‘Twas October 19, and I was watching what every other campus Conservative was: the Antiques Roadshow marathon. Sure, the election was happening, but I wasn’t worried about the result, as I was confident Harper would get another majority. What’s not…
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HUMOUR: American lawmakers cut out middleman, introduce guns directioly to mental wards
October 26, 2015After roughly 300 mass shootings in 2015 alone, the United States government believe they have found a solution: arm patients in mental wards. “Stay with me here,” began Jr. Senator Pistol Pete III, while polishing a Colt M16 assault rifle.…
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HUMOUR: TSSU aligns with Prince of Darkness to settle university dispute
October 26, 2015With the recent loss of their health benefits, SFU’s Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) has stepped up their game like never before against Andrew Petter: starting October 31, a partnership between the TSSU and Satan will add further pressure on…
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This week in comics
October 26, 2015Squashed (Ceilidh Ashcroft) Creator's Pet (Destiny Hsu) Seagull Square (Gregory Edwards & Jill Mandrake) A new project from writer-director Lena Dunham (Jacey Gibb & Joel MacKenzie) Mystic Mac (Reuben Newton)
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Ways to improve your club’s Halloween mixer, based on science
October 25, 2015Recent findings by the world’s top social scientists have concluded that the best way to have a “spooktacular” and “creeperific” Halloween party is to carefully engineer a series of absurd experiences and pair them with an unsettling, traumatizing environment. You…
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A slacker’s guide to being lazy
October 19, 2015Lazy people of the world, my dear comrades: we all know the struggle of getting by while suffering from severe laziness. Indeed, lazy people are quite possibly the demographic that experiences the most prejudice and flak in their day-to-day lives.…
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The erotic life of an English Student Union executive
October 19, 2015When asked what being vice-president of the English Student Union (ESU) entails, I normally launch into a tired, boring spiel about student involvement. But beneath that blither-blather is an erotic truth I hold back for fear of it sensuously overcoming…
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Laugh Track: Jessica Delisle and Alicia Tobin
October 19, 2015If you’ve ever worked in retail, you’ve had a retail nightmare. That’s the belief held by musician Jessica Delisle and comedian Alicia Tobin, two artists living in Vancouver and “co-ghosts” of one of the funniest podcasts around, Retail Nightmares. Join…
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