A YukYuks Comedy Show Barrie @ CW Coops

Headliner IAN SIROTA

Ian Sirota has opened for: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Dennis Miller, Robin Williams and Dana Carvey and headlines comedy clubs across North America. Ian was a regular cast member and writer for Comedy Inc., Comedy Now, Gutterball Alley and many more! Ian has been nominated for not one but two Gemini Awards including “Best Comedy Performance” Ian’s famous hoax on Jerry Springer was recently named 50th funniest moment in Canadian Comedy History by SiriusXM Radio. Number 50 out of the top 150 in history is not too shabby. This sharp tongued comedian takes no prisoners and can also blend in observational humour with a family focus all the while mastering the audience with lightning crowd work. A perfect fit for any fundraiser or corporate event Ian has been a regular contributor to Dynamic Funds Humour Me Comedy Competition. The event turns Canada’s biggest CEO’s into stand-up comedians all to raise money for charity. To date, the event has raised over 8 million and Ian’s students include Mayor Jon Tory of Toronto who took home the trophy with Ian in 2017.

MC Bryan O’Gorman

Bryan O’Gorman is a professional weirdo who has headlined comedy shows in dozens of countries, including England, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, and the USA to name nine. This year he plans on playing in every country on earth, plus the moon (if the spaceship he’s building works).This past January, Bryan’s second album opened at number one on iTunes comedy charts and remained there for several hours. A live performer since childhood, this joke of a man honed his stand up skills in the legendary Toronto comedy scene and has refined them on stages throughout the galaxy. Catch him now before he dies in a feeble attempt to make it to the moon in a homemade rocket. Of his many credits, a few include being featured on MTV, Much Music, The Comedy Network, Sirius-XM Radio, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival,The Melbourne Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs, National Lampoon Radio, the Montreaux comedy festival and the CBC.

Featuring Ben Bayfield

Ben graduated from the Humber College Comedy Program in 2022 and in the same year was the recipient of the Brian Linehan Comedy Writing and Performance Scholarship for Outstanding Artistic Promise. He is a regular at The Backroom Comedy Club and was selected to perform at Yuk Yuk’s for “The Rising Stars of Comedy” show. He also performs at Comedy Bar, The Royal Comedy Theatre, Nothing Fancy and The Social Capital Theatre. He also has a background in sketch writing, and acting. He acted in a short film entitled “Sincerely, Yours” that won best indie short at the Venice Short Film Festival, set to release this fall.

Be ready to be seated by 6:30 PM. The show kicks off at 7:00PM.