Aaron Read w/ Brittany Lyseng, Siobhan Theobald & The Stand Up Stand Off Winner

Aaron Read

Aaron Read is an award-winning stand up comic and improviser from so-called vancouver, canada. His comedy wedges itself somewhere between sad-silliness and freaky psychedelia, and has garnered him numerous awards including Just For Laughs North West’s, Breakout Artist Of The Year and Toughest Act To Follow.

Starting comedy in highschool Aaron has been confusing and delighting audiences for more than fifteen years! He’s performed on The Next Wave of Stand Up on CBC and New Faces Of Comedy at The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. He even garnered this fun blurb from country/comedy publication Parton and Pearl saying, “He’s the alt-comedy of the early 2000s for today’s quick thinking comedy nerds”.

Live comedy is where he is most at home, performing on Andy Kindler’s Alternative Show, and opening up for Jena Friedman (Comedy Central). Woof, Bio done! Just come watch Aaron tell jokes about depression and barfing dream snakes.

FEATURING:

Brittany Lyseng

Brittany Lyseng is a nationally touring Stand-Up Comedian, Writer and Podcaster. Her comedy career began after 12 years as a tradesman with the desire to lift less and laugh more, and in turn has become one of the Canadian industry’s fastest rising stars. She has been seen on CTV’s Roast Battles Canada, CBC’s New Wave of Stand-Up Comedy, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, and CTV’s The Stand-Up Show with Jon Dore, as well as making appearances on CBC Radio’s The Debaters. Released in 2019, her first album Going Up debuted at #1 on iTunes and was followed with appearances at three Just For Laughs festivals (Montreal, JFL 42 in Toronto, and Vancouver’s JFL Northwest). Most recently she was featured in Reader’s Digest magazine, and was graced with a 2022 Canadian Screen Awards nomination.

Siobhan Theobald

Armed with a lifetime of being poorly behaved in public, Siobhan Theobald is taking her experience as one of the worst dinner guests imaginable and applying it to the stage. Her stand-up performances are a combination of spicy hot takes, unbridled oversharing and a repertoire of strange sounds presented by what appears to be a Muppet trapped in a woman’s body. You won’t be able to look away despite her periodically begging you to do so. Siobhan was the runner up in the 2021 Grindstone Comedy Festivals “Stand Up Stand Off” and has been featured across Canada for her performances with “Laughter From the Frontlines”.

& Whoever wins the Stand Up Stand Off Competition!