Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole w/ Marc-Anthony Sinagoga, Zabrina Douglas

The Grindstone Comedy Fest presents a one hour performance of Stand Up comedy featuring headliner Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole from Kids in the Hall, with Marc-Anthony Sinagoga and Zabrina Douglas, hosted by Leif Oleson-Cormack!

Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole

Scott Thompson from the ‘Kids in the Hall’ brings his most famous character, lounge lizard ‘Buddy Cole’, to Grindstone Comedy Festival for a 3 night run of his new show ‘KING’.
An evening of hilarious and sometimes incendiary monologues never before seen on television to a series of brand new monologues written for the recent revival that were deemed ‘ TOO HOT FOR AMAZON’, this is a show you can’t miss.

Buddy is back, funnier, sillier and yet somehow more dangerous than ever. Join him in an intimate setting as he mixes up martini’s and dishes out the dirt on his fabulous globe trotting life all while reflecting on everything from the fractured state of the LGBTQT+ community to controversial ways to cure cancer to the proper way to woo a despot.
Warning: If you like riotous boundary pushing comedy this is definitely the most fun you will have in the second week of July.

FEATURING:

Marc-Anthony Sinagoga

Marc-Anthony Sinagoga is a stand-up comedian born and raised in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Audiences gather to see Marc-Anthony tell his outlandish life experiences with brilliant imitation, wit and loveable stage presence. He recreates his life experiences as an overweight Italian going against the family grain in a melting pot society. In recent years, Marc-Anthony turned to social media to showcase his off- stage talents. He created loveable and viral characters that have garnished cult followings over all social media platforms. Marc Anthony won the funniest clip of the week on Sportsnet’s Tim & Friends for his Nonna skits and had an article written by BlogTo for his Doug Ford impersonation

Zabrina Douglas

Zabrina Douglas is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Her comedy album Things Black Girls Say: The Album received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.

Douglas, a registered nurse, performed occasional stand-up comedy sets at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Disciples nights for Black Canadian comedians in the 2000s, and was a nominee for the Tim Sims Award in 2008.

She broke through to wider success in 2020 as the headliner of Laughter from the Frontlines, a virtual comedy show organized by Daniel Woodrow's Unknown Comedy Club featuring frontline health care workers performing comedy and storytelling about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. She subsequently organized Things Black Girls Say, a regular show at Toronto's Comedy Bar, and recorded her sets at the April 15 and 16, 2022, shows for release as an album.

Born and raised in Brampton, Zabrina Douglas is a comedian that draws from her experience as a Nurse, a mother, and the daughter of 2 Jamaican parents. "She's one of the most exuberant and cheerful stand-ups working in the city. She can turn a whole show around by kicking up the energy in the room." Steve Fisher of Torontoist.com. Zabrina has been a regular and headlined Kenny Robinson's legendary "Nubian Disciples All Black Comedy Revue". She Created and Produces her Critically acclaimed show "Things Black Girls Say". She has performed in well known festivals like Just For Laughs Toronto, The Toronto Fringe Festival, Slo Comedy Festival in California and The women's Comedy festival in Boston. Her work can be seen on Teletoons, The Comedy Network and CBC. She has shared the stage with well known comedians Gilbert Godfrey, Cocoa Brown and Luenell.

Article about her album
https://www.goaheadsumi.com/the-top-10-canadian-comedy-albums-of-2022/

Leif Oleson-Cormack

Before entering the world of stand-up comedy, Leif Oleson-Cormack was an award-winning Juilliard-trained playwright who designed video games for a living. Since them, he’s been performing his tightly written, storytelling-driven style of comedy for audiences all across North America. He was the winner of the 2019 Calgary FunnyFest Comedy Competition and has been featured in the Park Slope Comedy Festival, The Edmonton Fringe Festival, and the District Queer Comedy Festival. His play Dead Peasants was the winner of 2012 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Award and he is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center.