Back in April 2011 I had the great pleasure of taking the stage with some of North America’s funniest comics that deal with and take on stereotypes head on in their acts. Tonight on CBC TV (9PM EST) the “Hystereotypes” gala from the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival is on and I can’t help but think what my Kookum (grandma) would have said to me had she been alive to see it…”you look real chubby on tv.”

Stereotypes are hysterical!  Just ask host Jason Priestley and comedians Chris Gibbs, Nile Seguin, Jimmy Tingle, Ryan McMahon, Darcy Michael, and Sherri D. Sutton.  It’s comedy that won’t be pigeonholed.

Produced by FRANTIC FILMS, JASON PRIESTLEY hosts this rip-roaring event – a one-hour television special that features some of the world’s best comedians - DON’T MISS IT!

After a tonne of work, many hours of imagining and re-imagining what my APP would look like – it’s finally here! Together with the awesome people at LIBSYN we’ve come up with a ground breaker!

You can now pick up the “NDN CMDY” app in the iTunes Market Place ($2.99) for iPhone, iPad, iPad 2 and iPod Touch and you can grab the Android version of the APP in the Amazon Market Place ($2.99) for your Android Devices.

Some people have asked about Blackberry – well, let’s just say developing anything for Blackberry takes insane money and skills that I don’t have. There are rumours that the new Blackberry operating systems are going to allow for Android apps to patch over to Blackberry in the near future – so we’ll see.

This was a lot of work – I’ve done my best. …

Today is a good day!

I’m proud and happy to introduce a BRAND NEW PROJECT to the world – Red Man Laughing. It’s my comedy podcast, it’s sometimes angry, always honest, mostly funny, it can be silly, and I hope it will always be interesting.

This is the much talked about (by me) and long awaited (so I’ve heard) comedy podcast featuring my rants, my comedy, an interview guest (someone interesting, not necessarily a famous celebrity type), musical guests (you can submit your music), live comedy clips, comedy sketches, characters and of course, Clarence Two Toes.

When I was podcasting back in 2008 (The Clarence Two Toes Radio Show & Life According To Clarence Two Toes) I fell in love with the medium because of the flexibility, the creativity it allowed, but mostly because of the homage it paid to the old “comedy …

This past year has been good to me. There has been a mix of good and bad and I’m grateful for that balance. I’ve learned alot about myself this year. As an artist it’s not easy to make a living off of your art and I feel lucky everyday that I’m able to give this comedy game a go, take care of my two daughters while doing it and that I’m able express my anger, joy, frustrations and shine a light on the beauty and the ugly that life can be through my comedy. Comedy doesn’t really matter if no one is listening. I wouldn’t be able to do this work without the support of everyone out there. Your reposting, sharing, commenting, discussions, invites and more have helped shape this past year. Thank you.

A Special Thanks

A special THANK YOU to all …

Back in April 2010 it was announced that I was one of the Featured acts in the CBC TELEVISION/RADIO GALA RECORDING of, “Welcome To Turtle Island Too – A Celebration of Aboriginal Comedy.” It took place at the beautiful Arden Theatre in St. Albert, Alberta (a suburb of Edmonton). It was a night of comedy that I’ll never forget.  It featured Canada’s best Aboriginal standup comedians – Don Kelly, Howie Miller, Dawn Dumont, Lars Cailleou, Don Burnstick and Ryan McMahon (me).

If you’ve never heard me do standup then this will be your intro to what I do. Of course, it’s “clean” and there is no swearing and some of the content is a bit toned down – but all the same – you’ll get a flavour for what I do. The audio is from one of CBC RADIO 1′s flagship …

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In 2005 my life changed when I attended the 2005 CBC Comedy Festival Gala, “Welcome to Turtle Island.” It was a night of standup comedy featuring Indian Country’s finest comedians. It was hosted by Grahame Greene and it featured Don Burnstick, Howie Miller, Art Napolean, Don Kelly, Gerry Barrett, David McLeod and the legendary Charlie Hill. It was taped for television and if you google it you’ll be sure to be able to youtube most of the clips from that night.

I was in the audience that night and I can honestly say it changed my life. Seeing/hearing comedy from “our own perspective” is something that I’d only heard of. I was working with Tonto’s Nephews (All Aboriginal Improv/Sketch comedy troupe) and we didn’t really delve into our “Native-ness” onstage other than us BEING Native and …

Last night I performed at the 2010 CBC WINNIPEG COMEDY FESTIVAL and I had a blast.  This is my first major comedy festival as a standup comic (I’ve performed in numerous Improv and Sketch comedy fests) and I’ll admit that yesterday morning was a rough morning for me.  The CBC WINNIPEG COMEDY FESTIVAL is one of Canada’s premiere comedy festivals.  Every comedian I know wants a shot to play at the festival because of the crowds, the camera’s and the general awesomeness of Winnipeg and the amazing crew of people that host the festival every year.  I’ve heard it said that it’s “a performers festival,” which simply put, your treated well, the crowds are amazing and the shows are top notch for the comics.

But yesterday, something happened.  Suddenly, every joke I’d ever written didn’t seem funny.  …

The other day I got a phone call from a First Nation in Saskatchewan  that was interested in bringing me out to do youth workshops with a newly formed Youth Council.  The man on the other end of the phone kept repeating the words, “…youth are the leaders of tomorrow, we need to do something for them now to get them ready.” I mostly listened to him speak and when he was done, I politely shared that I felt that YOUTH ARE THE LEADERS OF TODAY, not the leaders of tomorrow, and in fact, I feel like “us adults” need to get out of their way and listen to them more.  I’m not sure he really knew what to say back to me.  We agreed to disagree.  He felt like the youth weren’t ready for  that kind of …

In my comedy and moreover, in my life, I always think to myself, “What would Kookum (grandma) think?”  It’s a bit of a weird thing.  It’s not something I did when she was with us on earth – but now that she’s playing “Bingo in the Sky” I’m always checking in with that thought.

The other day I pulled out my beadwork and it’s always an emotional thing for me since she passed.  My gramma was well known for her beadwork, moccassins, and other leather works and it’s one of the things she really wanted to pass down to me – working with my hands.  She spoke of the danger of losing the skills, the stories, the iconography (she didn’t use the word iconography, think she just said, “stuff”) that she grew up with and when I …

First of all – I’m a comedian.  Do NOT read this for an academic take on the socio-political impacts of the blah blah blah – cuz I can’t do that/write that/say that for I am far too “unlearned” to fake it.  So, I won’t.  With that said, here’s my take on what’s shaking out with the Olympics here in Canada and how I see it.

Where do I start with this blog post? I could start with how “inclusionary” the Opening Ceremonies were, we could talk about the protests and the general temperature of those “on the outside” of the games, but I suppose I should start at the beginning – in July 2003 the 2010 Winter Olympics were awarded to Vancouver.

Canada celebrated, South Korea and Austria didn’t, and construction began. Problems with …