Party: Rural Urban Divide - Jokes Please!

Party: Rural Urban Divide - Jokes Please!

Jokes Please! is a weekly stand-up comedy show that happens every Thursday at Little Mountain Gallery.

Canada is mostly rural. If Canada were a pizza the cities would be olives. Rare, jam-packed with flavour and foreign-feeling for rural types. And the rural parts would be all that dough. Not very showy but without it there is no pizza.

In the above metaphor the pizza only has olives on pizza dough. Don’t order that pizza. It’s a bad pizza. Canada is more like Focaccia Bread (with olives).

In the city you have the option to do cool cultural things (see live performance, take a pottery class, meet someone who is not the same race as you). Whereas in rural areas you can do cool practical things (build a shed, burn branches with gasoline, put out the fire on your new shed).

Chain stores are now in rural Canada. The charm of going to the local coffee hole/fertilizer top-up centre has been replaced with the drudgery of Corporate King Tim Hortons. There are chains in cities too. This means that most people in Canada eat the same garbage, watch the same dreck and do sex similarly (cause how varied can that be, really)?

Comedians this week include:

Ben McGinnis
Jill Silva
Aaron Charles Read
Amber Harper-Young
Stuart Jones

And hosted by Ross Dauk

Doors at 8:30
Show at 9 pm
Door is 5
Drinks are 4

Within both rural and urban places are the WILDS! That's the category Jokes Please! falls into, sometimes.