Chris Wilson, Clare McConnell, Wayne Jones & Kris Siddiqi

The Grindstone Comedy Fest presents two hilarious improvized performances from Chris Wilson, Clare McConnell, Wayne Jones & Kris Siddiqi.

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Meet Cutes with Chris & Clare

A sketch comedy improv hybrid with sketches and scenes all focusing on “meet cutes” and parodying romantic comedies in general.  There will be scenes from our second city Mainstage show as well as brand new scenes. Expect high energy, fast paced scenes, celebrity impressions and audience interaction all centered around the theme of romantic comedies.

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson is a current cast member of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and alumni of the Second City Mainstage in Toronto.  He is a 3x Canadian Comedy Award Winning sketch comedian, having won these awards as one half of sketch comedy duo Peter N’ Chris. Peter N’ Chris have performed at acclaimed festivals such as Just for Laughs, JLF42, San Francisco Sketchfest, and have created original videos for CollegeHumor. Chris was also a cast member of long-running Canadian sketch show, Royal Canadian Air Farce and wrote for several seasons of  The Irrelevant Show (CBC Radio 1) . Follow him on tiktok and instagram @imchriswilson

accreditations:  This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Peter N' Chris, The Second City Mainstage

Now Magazine "Chris has emerged as one of the funniest, most reliable comedians."

 

Clare McConnell

Clare McConnell is a Canadian Screen Award nominated actor and comedian best known for portraying 'Effie Newsome' on the popular CBC series Murdoch Mysteries, Regina Simcoe on Slasher, Carrie in Fingernails, and Klingon Leader 'Dennas' on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery. She voices Iana in Ubisoft’s Rainbow 6: Siege and Clarice in Supermassive Games’ House of Ashes. She is also a Canadian Comedy Award nominated alumna of the Second City Mainstage.

"She has fearless physicality and throws her entire being behind each and every character!"

 - BroadwayWorld

 

Wayne Jones & Kris Siddiqi

Kris & Wayne are a critically-acclaimed improv comedy duo from Toronto, ON, featuring Kris Siddiqi (Netflix' I Woke Up A Vampire, Molly's Game) and Wayne Jones (Canadian Comedy Award-nominee). Their festival credits include the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Kris has won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Improviser, while Wayne was nominated for Best Live Production for his show "Colin Mochrie & Wayne Jones". They can be seen performing together monthly, in The White Rhino, one of Toronto's longest running and most popular improv comedy shows. 

 

REVIEWS:

Toronto duo Kris Siddiqi and Wayne Jones are full of energy and have the ideas to go along with it. The twosome takes one idea from the audience and runs with it for a full 40 minutes, veering into odd places both physically and verbally. 

On Friday, Kris & Wayne visited a bathhouse together, where they riffed on their troubled relationships, Purple Rain, how bad men are and their deepest feelings. 

They were naked, so no hugging, though Jones is fearless when it comes to physical comedy, and some of the most amusing moments involved his contorted movements. They finally got out of the bathhouse for a bit of a homage to the movie Say Anything in order to win Jones’s wife back, but with Phil Collins as the soundtrack instead of Peter Gabriel, who she likes better. He never did listen to her. 

★★★★ - Rob Williams, Winnipeg Free Press

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With not a bump or awkward pause to be found, Kris Siddiqi and Wayne Jones interact while adding humour, suspense and impressive miming. This is a zero-prop show - unless well timed sound effects and musical numbers count. They managed to paint a very in-depth scenario where a cop or two get busted - "Legalize It" seemed to be their message this round. 

The story flowed perfectly and made a whole heck of a lot of sense, you might even think it was pre-written. 

★★★★★ - Reviewed by Talis Hardy - VUE MAGAZINE