Montreal Sketchfest

Funny, I’m Home is a new emerging Montreal based sketch/improv comedy group. Having started in January 2025, our group has since had a total of eleven headlining shows at the Concordia student bar Reggie’s. Blending the practices of theatre with our love for comedy Funny, I’m Home continues to perform for a large audience and have even found themselves venturing to Sketchfest and Sketchville with TSC and Indie Night with Montreal Improv. Funny, I’m Home is super excited to be back and kicking and will find themselves at the 2026 Montreal Fringe Festival this summer!

A veteran of the Montreal comedy scene and a powerhouse in character comedy, Katie performed with Le Nouveau International for over a decade, building community in her home away from home: Théâtre Sainte-Catherine. Prior to relocating to Toronto in 2015, she co-founded Ladyfest Montreal and produced a number of live shows and music reviews including a Women of Classic Country night where she discovered her terrible allergy to hay. She’s appeared on-stage in the Montreal, Toronto and New York City Sketch Festivals, Just For Laughs & Off-JFL and is thrilled to be living back in her hometown doing a character retrospective for the greatest festival on Earth.

Cam Wyllie is Canada’s beloved Sketch Comedy Maniac, with 3 Canadian Comedy Award Nominations, Festival Appearances all over North America, and a bunch of Comedy Awards* with made up sounding names. He’s coming in hot with a carefully curated selection of brave, tragic, and gleefully dumb characters who, like him, are just trying to do their best. Armed with a passable singing voice, a can do attitude, and the odd tinfoil prop, he’ll give you plenty of reasons to laugh, cheer, and get invested. Open your heart to the hilarious, often surreal, and always unpredictable world of Cam Wyllie. * Cam Wyllie has won Best of Fest honours at both the Toronto and Denver Sketch Comedy Festivals, and is one of only two acts to have been awarded the $10,000 grand prize at the Cam Wyllie Sketch Comedy Invitational.

Laura Buchanan is a multipissanary artiss who has performed in many places on many occasions. Most notably, she was seen performing at Lions Gate Hospital, starring in the showcase “Being Born”, in the year 1817. Other festivals include Just For Laughs, OFF-JFL, Montreal Sketchfest, Big City Improv, Big Pond, and Vancouver International Improv Festival.

2Here to remind you that you belong, Abby’s been gracing the stage since 2018 with the “I belong and so do you” vibe. A chaotic ND mix of fun and dramatic, she has been affectionately labeled by friends as an “actual factual real life Disney princess” through vibes tho there is no official affiliation (she’s too quirky anyways).

Sarah Conway is a Toronto-based comedian, actor, and writer with roots in Vancouver and St. John’s. She is heavily inspired by DIY and alternative comedy, with influences ranging from CODCO to Conner O’Malley. She strives to make comedy shows that feel like punk shows, full of abandon. Her work is raw, earnest, and deeply silly. She finds inspiration in both her own experiences and the dumbest stuff she can think up. From burlesque to live music to characters grounded and absurd, Sarah brings mischief and delight to the stage in a sort of live-theatre appetizer platter. She explores the beauty in mundanity, the complex and painful idiosyncrasies of everyday life, through the dumbest bits she can think of. Sarah Conway reaches for low-hanging fruit on a sky-high ladder and NO she is not working at heights certified!!! As an actor, Sarah has worked in theatres from coast to coast in classical comedies like The Flying Doctor and one-woman dramas like The Shape of a Girl. She has appeared on CBC’s Son of a Critch as both Reporter and Local Reporter. Sarah has performed at sketch shows across Canada as well as at Toronto Sketch Fest, Newfoundland Sketch Fest, Ladyfest Montreal, and the Cam Wyllie Sketch Comedy Invitational. Using methods like lying and cheating, she snagged the victory at the 2026 Sketch To The Death competition in Toronto. To find out more, visit sarahconway.ca.

Lasers! Horses! Dolly Parton? Small Fish is a living room dance routine gone nuclear. We’re gonna tackle Real Stuff™, like gender, existentialism, and third cousins. Plus, we’re from Ottawa. Don’t you wanna see what people from OTTAWA are like??? Glenys Marshall (she/her)(beautiful libra woman) and Maggie May Harder (they/them)(little boy running around with scissors) have combined their skills of sketch, improv, stand-up and music to create some material that’s buck absolutely shit wild. At MTL Sketchfest, you’ll just see our sketch. Unless you hate it, in which case it’s actually totallyyyyyy improv hahahahah cool ok got it?!! The duo has headlined at the Great Canadian Theatre Company and featured at the 2025 Montreal and Toronto Sketch Comedy Festivals, Capital Pride Festival, and Debaser’s Pique. They won the Queer Jury’s Choice at Ottawa Fringe, they’ve sold over 3000 tickets and SOLD OUT 20+ shows since their debut in 2023.

Anders Yates is a solo sketch comedian originally from Montreal who now lives in Toronto but simply can’t stop coming back to Montreal every single chance he can get. Winner of the Montreal Sketchfest’s Best of the Fest Award, Anders has been hailed as “One of Toronto’s very best comedy performers, […] Yates is as surefire as it comes!” (My Entertainment World). His comedy career stretches all the way back to the early 2000s as a co-founder of the legendary improv and sketch comedy troupe Uncalled For, and later as an original member of the wildly successful comedy/dance troupe Dance Animal. Anders has since been a cast member in the Second City’s National Touring Company and was a frequent contributor to the satirical newspaper The Beaverton. His performance in the horror/comedy short Bath Bomb garnered numerous award nominations across the festival circuit, and he can (briefly) be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. This year, Anders brings a collection of his favourite sketches from across his catalogue, a mix of old and new. He promises that no matter what, the show will be very stupid and very gay.

Carmina Berbari Daou (she/her) is a Lebanese comedian based in Montreal and Toronto. She co-founded @montreal.indie.comedy (former home of Cult Mtl’s #1 comedy show The Poly Mic) and joined the @ladyfestmtl production team this fall for their 10th anniversary. Carmina is known for being “your favourite comedian’s favourite comedian” (literally, ask them), her love of producing Late Night inspired shows and most importantly being Gen-Z. She’s deadpan, she’s pansexual and she’s horrible at puns (not a punsexual) but somehow came 2nd place at New York Comedy Fest’s pun competition. You’ve seen her at Just for Laughs, New York Comedy Fest, Vermont Comedy Fest, Haha Harvest, Montreal Sketchfest, Montreal Fringe, Montreal Commicon, Winterlewd, Hysterire, Minifest and The Gong Show.

Le Petit Juif: An Isaac Kessler W.I.P. My father once told me that Life is but a walking shadow and/or a Work In Progress. I took this to heart; and so, mon ami, I invite you to join me as I strut and fret my 10 minutes upon the stage until I am heard no more – or until the host comes back out. I will regale you with tales told by an idiot, full of sound (effects) and fury, and probably also try out some bouffon bits. As the Bard once said: “Watch me W.I.P. Now watch me. Nay, nay!” Isaac Kessler has been “in” comedy for 20 years. He’s a 4-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee, and one half of the award-winning 2-MAN NO-SHOW alongside Ken Hall. He directed five award-winning Clown/Bouffon shows. His solo show 1-MAN NO-SHOW, directed by Gordon Neill, has won awards too: Artists’ Pick – Edmonton Fringe / Artists’ Encore – Cincinnati Fringe / Best of Fest & Best Specialty Solo Show – 2025 Orlando Fringe. Check out 1-MAN NO-SHOW at this year’s Montreal Fringe Festival at Petit Campus! “You can’t make Art without #awards.” – Oscar Wilde

Burnt Toast Sketch Show is a high-octane, fourth-wall breaking, absurdist take on sketch comedy, specializing in high-energy scenes that commit to the bit. We’re talking props, we’re talking sound effects, we’re talking fake blood capsules and covering a woman in actual grocery-store sushi. And we ALWAYS have a musical number. Our act tends to hit you hard and fast, so our hour-long shows usually have between 20-30 sketches in them (but we’ve done nearly 40). That’s damn near a sketch a minute! We also like to get the audience in on the fun by having them read the title of each sketch out loud. Sometimes, the titles are the best part! Behind the scenes, we start our writing process by doing improv, and then we take the best, weirdest, most out-of-the-box ideas from our jams and refine them until they are fully-written sketches. We do topical, we do timeless, we do clownish nonsense — we do it all!

Pun Intended! is a Montreal sketch troupe featuring Christian, Gaël, Thomas, Mahsa, and Andrea, five performers with various backgrounds in sketch comedy, stand up, music, improv, clown, theatre and dance. Though they have crossed paths in various shows and creative projects around the city, this marks the first time they have joined forces as a dedicated troupe. Pun Intended! brings together their different styles and strengths to create fast paced, playful comedy that highlights each performer’s voice. Expect clever wordplay, musical bits, bold characters, and the occasional burst of physical comedy. With sharp writing and high energy performances, the troupe brings together artists with various backgrounds to create bold, collaborative comedy. Because when five comedic collaborators walk into a sketch show, the result is exactly what the name promises: Pun Intended!

Cheap Wine has been described as: “the perfect blend of deadpan and whackadoodle”, “successfully unique”, “joyfully absurdist”, “raunchy and fun”, “so fully alienating that I dissociated”. This show is about doctors. Cheap Wine is family. For real. As in, two of them lived together as children and two of them live together now as life partners and they’ve all known each other since before they could (legally) buy their own cheap wine. That’s sweet and wholesome, also kind of weird! They won the Audience Choice Award at Toronto Sketchfest 2025, sold out their wine-tasting comedy show ‘Is It Juice?’ and were voted the 2023 Toronto Sketchfest ‘Sketchiest Sketch Troupe’. They’ve performed in festivals and shows throughout Toronto and across North America together, including most recently at Second City Toronto and Toronto Fringe Festival, and they’ve created award-winning film sketches along the way. This is their 4th Montreal Sketchfest (🤞🤞🤞), and they are so honoured and excited to be here. They have a website that is http://www.cheapwine.cheap (yes, really) an Instagram that is @itscheapwine.

The Understudies are a seasoned Toronto-based sketch troupe featuring Rob Knox, Meg MacKeigan and Justin Skinner. Together, they perform fast-paced, polished sketches with characters and scenarios that turn common tropes upside down, peppering familiar scenes with stupidity, strangeness, and occasionally existential darkness. Beyond standard sketch comedy, the Understudies add music, messiness and straight-up madness, though each scene somehow remains grounded and coherent. Expect unexpected twists and turns! Just come along for the ride! They promise it’ll be fun! Active from 2000 to 2010, the Understudies retired and then resurfaced in 2022 and have since played in the past four Toronto Sketch Comedy Festivals, winning the Producer’s Pick award in 2025. They also founded the TOSF’s Understudies Memorial Sketchiest Sketch Troupe Award in 2011. They also made the finals of the 2025 Sketch to the Death competition and have performed throughout their sketch careers at Just for Laughs Toronto, the Cream of Comedy, and the We’re Funny That Way Festival, among countless other shows.

Kristina Guevarra, Maryam Nour, Jeremy Lewis and Jared Wonago are an amalgamation of improvisers, actors, writers, comedians and do-ers. They performed at Montreal Sketchfest’s Best of Fest 2025, Toronto Sketchfest 2026 and are hell bent on having a great time… or else.

BOOBIE TRAP is the most beautiful stunning sketch team of girlies from NYC. Featured recently at SF Sketchfest, ATX Sketchfest, *MTL SKETCHFEST 25’* and the New York Comedy Festival. Regulars at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Soon to be your next 5 crushes. Please expect wigs, accents, and your life to be forever changed.

Tiyawnda/Tia is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist whose focuses include playwriting, acting, creative non-fiction, music, and comedy. As a comedian she performs sketch, stand-up, improv, and musical comedy. Their plays have been produced and awarded in the Toronto Fringe Festival, shortlisted at the Yale School of Drama, and received staged readings with Obsidian Theatre and funding from the Ontario Arts Council. Tia recently finished a run on the Second City Toronto Mainstage (“All Messed Up and Nowhere to Go”, “Duel Citizens”), as well performed her first solo sketch comedy show to sold out audiences at Toronto Sketchfest.

Amanda Xeller is a visceral, raw, and physical sketch and character performer from Brooklyn, NY. Her work is typically called “honest,” “hilarious” and “disgusting.” She’s been featured across the United States, Canada, and as a part of several Sketch Festivals. She won Best of the Fest at Montreal Sketchfest ’25 and the Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Sketchfest ’22. She produces a monthly character showcase in NYC called Character Night, which is consistently recognized as one of the best Character Shows in the city.

Avery and Sabrina have been performing sketch comedy for over four years. As founding members of the Dallas Comedy Club Sketch Team in 2023, they quickly became known for their on stage chemistry, talent, and dedication. Following numerous successful performances, Avery and Sabrina now serve as both coaches and performers, leading the DCC Sketch Team. Their latest venture, “Avery and Sabrina are Doing a Sketch Show,” premiered at the inaugural Dallas Independent Comedy Festival in April 2025. The show has since toured through Dallas Comedy Club, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, New York Sketchfest, First Coast Comedy festival, DC Sketchfest, San Francisco Sketch Fest, and Denver Sketchfest where the show won Best Of Fest. Between Sabrina’s extensive improv background and Avery’s theater degree, these co-writers and friends(?) continue to develop their distinct brand of chaos and laughter on stages across these grand United States of America.

2 Become 1: A Spice Girls banger and the origin story of MaDarlings. Hometown troupes Madame and Diaspora Darlings join forces to bring their comedic melding of minds to Sketchfest. MaDarlings is Mbissine (Diaspora Darlings), Sara Meleika (Inside Scoop; They Go Low, We Go Laugh; Madame; Diaspora Darlings) and Marielle McCrum (Madame; This & That: An Improv and Sketch Comedy Show). MaDarlings is also what you really, really want (zigga zig ah).

Imagine the two most annoying people you can think of…no no, even more annoying. Now, put them on stage for 20 minutes. Pat and Alex (Palex) have been friends and collaborators for years, and are finally coming together to maximize their joint slay on the Theatre Ste Catherine stage. There will be yelling. There will be dancing. There will be crying (unrelated to the show). There will be a sketch where Pat plays a straight guy. It will be wet ‘n’ wild, magical, hysterical and historical. F*ck off, Branjelina, Bennifer, and Bennifer Garner – there’s a new PORTMANTEAU in town.

24 Double B is a Toronto based classic guy/girl sketch comedy duo that does sketch comedy and are a troupe consisting of guy and girl. Often blending the absurd with true awesome clean fun comedy this sketch duo has it all; comedy, sibling rivalry and love. Often leaving audience goers even happier than when they entered, because of laughing. 24 Double B strives to bring joy and love to all audiences around the globe no matter their political belief’s.

The cast features comedians Kara Austria, Madeleine Brown, Meghan Bower, Katie Chin, Elanja Corosky, Nessie Cran, Biplob Ghosh, Kent Penaranda, Aaron Rubinoff and Miho Suzuki. They serve as the house sketch troupe for CB Pro, performing their marquee show monthly at Comedy Bar. Trained in improv through Second City Toronto Training Centre, The Annoyance Theatre, and Comedy Bar Pro. Studied clown with Bad Dog Theatre and John Beale. As well as being trained in sketch writing and performance from Second City Conservatory and Comedy Bar Sketch Troupes. You might have seen some of the cast’s faces on Y: The Last Man (FX), Paranormal Survivor (Netflix), and Warigami (The CW/CBC). And hear one of their voices on Assassin’s Creed: Shadows (Ubisoft). Select awards won by members of the cast include the Toronto Fringe Festival’s Patrons’ Pick, the Vancouver Fringe Spirit of the Fringe Award, and the Ellen Ross Stuart “Opening Doors” Award. Members of the cast have performed comedy and festivals in cities worldwide, including Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. Meghan Bower, specifically, is a ranked beach tennis player and is looking for competition.

Tandem Jump are Montreal-based dirty rat people who eat garbage and dirt. They have been seen at the Just For Laughs Festival and selling out their variety show Tandem Jump and Friends at Theatre Sainte-Catherine. At Montreal Sketchfest they have received the Best Local Troupe award twice in 2023 and 2025. They hope to make you proud.

Big Ol’ Mess is a sketch comedy group from Denver, CO, but a Big Ol’ Mess show is not your typical sketch show. Their performances range from smart to dumb, leaving audiences cackling and enamored. Each show is carefully curated with original soundtracks and transition music — all created by the performers themselves — yet the vibe stays fun and loose, as these veteran improvisers welcome discovery and hilarious chaos within every sketch. No two Big Ol’ Mess shows are the same, but see one, and you’ll be in love.

Jon Blair is an extraordinarily convincing scarecrow made of mop handles, old clothes and crumpled up alt-weekly magazines which, when properly jostled around, looks very much like a man performing absurdist character-driven solo sketch comedy. It has previously won Best of Fest and Best Newcomer at Montreal Sketchfest, toured at festivals across Canada and the US, and somehow landed a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Ghosts. Also the mop part of the mop is its hair.

Two friends, two words: avant-garde. Montrealers Marty and Nicky are award winning weirdos. Montreal Sketchfest’s Best New Comer 2024, former members of Pickle Party, Little Strawberry Bitch and Ricky they’ve made appearances at OFF-JFL, Toronto Sketchfest, Big City Improv Festival (Toronto), Montreal Pride Festival and the inaugural Simmer Festival with Imago Theatre where they debuted their short play Mommy i$$ue$.

Michelle Hart and Allie Entwistle have both been performing sketch comedy for over a decade. Their credits include Just For Laughs Vancouver, The Second City, Toronto Sketchfest, The Portland Sketch Comedy Festival, and MSC Cruise Lines. They’ve been performing apart for years, afraid of how powerful they would become if they came together on stage, but have decided to risk it all this year to perform together just for you at Montreal Sketchfest. The result? A hybrid show where they each perform their own solo character work, before bringing their characters together for scenes that burn so bright, you legally shouldn’t watch them for too long. The result is part solo show, sketch collaboration, and part live experiment in whether two actual maniacs can share a stage.

Sarah is a stand-up, sketch and Improv artist who has performed across Canada. Stationed in Toronto, Sarah has been a reaccuring performer at Just For Laughs Toronto. She has been involved in Toronto Sketch Festival as a finalist in “Sketch To Death” competition, and as part of the group “Uncle Mother’s”, and as a solo act. She debuted her half-hour of sketch at Second City’s “Spotlight”. As an actor, Sarah has been featured in Amazon Prime’s “Overcompensating”.

In The Perhaps system, the people are presented two separate yet equally important performers: the Maïté Sinaves, who investigate characters; and the Alasdair Tremblay-Birchalls, who prosecute the zingers. These are their sketches.

Nkasi is an alumna of The Second City’s Mainstage. She was a member of Toronto Fringe Festival’s “Woke ‘N Broke,” which earned Best Ensemble from NOW Magazine. Nkasi along with her dramaturge, Ajahnis Charley were founders of Untitled Black Sketch Project, Canada’s first and only all-Black sketch ensemble. She has performed at notable festivals such as JFL, Montreal Sketchfest and NXNE. Her dream is someone from the Canadian Space Agency sees the show and hires her for something… anything. Please hire me CSA. Her Instagram is @nkasiogbonnah… In case anyone from the CSA would like to contact her.

Potato Potato is an award-winning Toronto Sketch Troupe that combines the talents of a diverse group of comedians to find humour in Canadian politics and climate change, fueled by a combination of training in musical and devised theatre. Potato Potato’s comedy is current, political, and environmental, taking the opportunity to address the harsh realities of our time and laugh in the face of it all. Part political satire, part sketch show, and with a generous dose of dread about our planet’s future, Potato Potato takes the issues facing Canadians today and presents them with a comedic, oftentimes musical, spin. Potato Potato was established for the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival, with It’s Getting Hot in Here! (My Entertainment World Favourable Review, Chosen for Second City’s JCB Series). In 2021 they forayed into the digital world with You Can Do It/ Put Your MASK Into It! (Parton and Pearl favourable review) and Potato Potato Presents: Potato Potato (Nominated for The Best of Fest, TO Sketchfest 2022). They performed in Toronto Sketchfest (2023, 2024 [best of fests showcase], 2025), Montreal Sketchfest (2024, 2025), in the Second City Spotlight Series, and as the winners of the 2024 Sketch to the Death competition.

She/They is an award-winning Canadian comedy duo. Bronwyn Farkas (she/her) and Sophie Jean (they/them) are experienced actors and improvisers who found a shared voice in sketch comedy. Their dynamic will leave you wondering: Will they? Won’t they? She/They. Together they have performed at Toronto Sketchfest (2026), Just For Laughs 2025, (Two sold-out shows) Montreal Sketchfest (Best of the Fest, Best New Troupe Award 2025), won Montreal Theatresports (2025), and been featured in countless other sketch, improv, and stand-up shows. Bronwyn Farkas (she/her) is an actor, comedian, and writer whose work blends sharp instincts with grounded performance. She has deep roots in Montreal’s improv scene, honing her craft at Montreal Improv since age 15 and performing with their Harold team. Her creative work spans film, theatre, and voice. As Wyn Wolf, her music has been featured on CBC Radio (“Montreal Discovery Artist,” Radio-Canada 2022). She is one half of She/They (the first half*). Sophie Jean (they/them) is an actor, comedian, and writer known for their absurd humour and unpredictable performance style.They are currently pursuing a master’s degree in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at York University, working on a research-creation project surrounding sketch comedy. Sophie is one half of She/They (the second half*). She/They, a one-woman show.

Jacked to the Tits is a newly founded sketch group by Jared Wonago and Maria Besko. They first started performing together back in 2016 as rookies part of Rapid Fire Theatre Company in Edmonton (Alberta). They are both professionally trained actors and take things very seriously (sometimes). They had their official sketch debut at Toronto Sketch Festival earlier this March and look forward to adding Montreal Sketch Fest to the list!

Tom & Erica are back… Did you miss us? Cuz we like kinda missed you or whatever. Bring a wig to celebrate 10 years of Tom & Erica with their BRAND NEW CAMPY SHOW! Together they won BEST ENSEMBLE at Fundy Fringe & Sketchiest Sketch Troupe at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival! As a duo they have been featured at Chicago and MTL Sketchfest, NC Comedy Festival, JFL Toronto, 420 Comedy Festival and more. PULL UP.