Melissa G. presents Real Live Doll is an adventure into the absurd. Melissa will bring your doll fantasies to life in this show… no, not those ones, the other ones. No, not those ones either. Get your mind out of the gutter AND DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF THE RIDICULOUS! #boioioioing Playing with dolls is fun! Especially, this doll. *wink* Melissa G is a clown, comedy show producer and artist, channeling her inner chaos, outwardly. She’s been part of Montreal Sketchfest, and improv festivals in Ontario & Montreal. Therapy? No need – she has comedy.

Potato Potato makes work about changing climates, both political and environmental. In a world obsessed with the US, Potato Potato shows the Canadian side of the story, throwing light (and shade). Part political satire, part sketch show, and with a generous dose of dread. This is a platform for the problems that terrify us and leave us feeling hopeless, an opportunity to discuss the things that get you in trouble at thanksgiving dinner, and a space to laugh at the things that make you cry. Prepare for bad impressions, heated debates and maybe even a song or two (or six!)..

This year Nicky Fournier and Marty Graham are different. Known for their work in Pickle Party and Lil’ Strawberry Bitch these two smoke shows have been featured in OFF-JFL/Zoofest (rip), Montreal Sketchfest’s Best of the Fest Showcase, Big City Improv Festival (TO), Montreal Fringe Festival and graduated together from UCB’s Level 1 improv Intensive (with honors). Nicky and Marty bring you Beacon of Hope.

One of us can play bagpipes, the other can sing opera and the third gathered them for silly times. Montreal’s own Lady Fingers will regale and regal you of stories that may have happened to you. Well, we hope.

Bring Your Own Juice is McGill University’s premier and only sketch group. We’re actually good though. We’ve been doing sketchfest for years with a rotating cast of students and we’ve never been more excited than 2024. Bring Your Own Juice will bring you back to life.

24 Double B is couple of the worst gingers you’ve ever seen in your life! They are the 2022 winners of the World’s Biggest Improv Tournament, and the 2024 recipients of Sketchiest Sketch Troupe at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival.

Après 5 ans de pause, tout le monde croyait que Doggybag était mort, tous, mêmes ses membres, Mathieu devenu un grand cliché, un coiffeur gay bitch, Léalie, une mère-banlieusarde hyper-conservatrice et la pathétique Marie-Noël, traitresse qui s’est impunément greffée à une autre troupe de sketch. Et bien, que vous le voulez ou non, Doggybag vous revient à la vie avec des idées plus stupides et pétillantes que JAMAIS. Nous vous entendons déjà vous demander impatiemment : mais quel costumes vont-ils porter cette année???

Nous sommes nés dans le sous-sol de la station de métro Lionel-Groulx. Nous avons émergé d’un sac froid de pizza-ghetti avec une mission. Nous donnons vie à la comédie à sketchs. Quatre anglophones, 15 minutes, un objectif… vive le quebec libre.

Ton rire sur ma joue, c’est deux femmes qui aiment jouer des monsieur et un monsieur pas game de jouer une femme. Maïté Sinave, Marie-Noël Cyr et Thierry Leblanc se sont rencontrés il y a dix ans à l’école de théâtre, dans le temps qu’ils apprenaient à jouer du Racine dans des postures complexes sur un tapis de Twister. Les trois ont depuis fait deux enfants chacun, sauf Marie-Noël qui cherche encore son enfant intérieur. Ils se retrouvent sur la scène à l’édition du Montreal Sketchfest 2023 et remportent le prix enviable de BEST TROUP FRANKO. Vont-ils encore tout péter?

Srutika decided to combine her twin passions of people watching and fanfiction writing to create sketches about people with indulgent backstories.

The year is 2046, everything on Earth is (still) a garbage fire, and humanity has decided to pack it in for one last trip… into the Sun. To keep spirits up, one snappy passenger starts a WEEKLY COMEDY OPEN MIC in the ship’s cafeteria. Fast forward 5 months and 1 week into life hurtling through space… we’re at the final show before CRASHING INTO THE SUN. This STAND-UP/SKETCH HYBRID delivers cosmic puns, gallows humour, and something meta about how trivial and comforting it is to be funny while our planet rots/civilization crumbles. It’s balm for the reluctant nihilist’s soul…

Anders Yates is an actor, writer, improviser, sketch comedian and tall person originally from Montréal but currently living in Toronto like a common traitor. In 2022 his solo sketch comedy won him the Montréal Sketchfest Best of the Fest award, and he likes to recreate his acceptance speech daily at various bus stops. In 2024 My Entertainment World called Anders “One of Toronto’s very best comedy performers […] Yates is as surefire as it comes!” and he didn’t even need to cut out anything mean to make that quote look good.

We’re like your friend’s girlfriend that he always talks about but doesn’t bring to social events: we go to a different school and live in Canada, you’ve probably never met us but I swear we exist! A few things you should know about us are: one of us used to collect rocks, and the other one currently doesn’t pay for metro passes.

Three funny ladies cooking up comedy…Madame is Marilyn DT (Improvised Bridgerton; Wassup?; Martine fait de l’impro), Marielle McCrum (SKAAATCH; This & That: An Improv and Sketch Comedy Show), and Sara Meleika (Inside Scoop; They Go Low, We Go Laugh). Madame is delighted to be back at Montreal Sketchfest, where they made their debut in 2022. Get ready for a little sugar, spice and everything but the bagel seasoning in this comedic melding of minds!

We found former Best of Fest winner Jon Blair in an old dive bar in the middle of the day. “Jon Blair?” we asked.
He looked up from his beer and scratched his big scraggly beard. “…Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.”
“It’s Sketchfest,” we said. “We need you to come back and perform another set of one-man sketch comedy so that… wait, you haven’t heard your OWN name in a long time?”
“No.”
“Not even on the phone or like at the bank?”
“Nope”
“Weird. Anyway come do Sketchfest”
“Yeah cool alright”

Tandem Jump are Montreal’s premier sketch comedy sewer rats. We feast on dirt and live in stinky garbage.

Andy Assaf, originally from Montreal, is a Toronto based sketch and improv comedian who’s fresh off of his 2 year run as a member of The Second City Mainstage cast. Known for his belligerent characters who like to riff with the audience, come be hypnotized, berated and maybe you’ll learn something about driving in the city. You might know him from his improv duo Frank Mythic, the Recruit on Netflix, or you might of seen him as that guy in the Dominos commercial.

Solid Bronze is a Montreal Sketch troupe consisting of three goof balls with a background in Improv Comedy. Heidi Lynne Weeks, a Studio 58 professional theatre program graduate and Vancouver Theatre Sports League alumna, has been performing Improv for 20 years. Sandi Armstrong, with 25 years of comedy experience, is excited about being a sketch performer in Solid Bronze. Maïté Sinave, a UQAM’s École Supérieure de Théâtre graduate, is an improviser, teacher and actress who loves making people laugh. Theatre Sainte-Catherine is their home base and together, they aim to rock your night with laughter, combining their talents and experience to create a memorable night of third place comedy.

If you love music but wish it was funnier, then you’ll love Lou Laurence. Lou is an award-winning singer, comedian, songwriter, and improviser. She’s got a big, deep, soulful voice, jazzy-acoustic songs, and a quick, charming wit. Last year, her show, “Love, Sharks & Frenching: a hot date w/ Lou Laurence,” won Best Solo Show at the Victoria Fringe Festival. This year, she’s touring Canadian sketch festivals and performing “It’s Time to Love Lou Laurence.” Because it is. It is time to love Lou Laurence. After all, Lou loves you.

Soyez prêt for a 45-minute sketch comedy variety show en BILINGUE! Préparez-vous pour un rollercoaster ride of hilarity, des personnages absurdistes, and de l’humour unpredictable. You will laugh (TRUE), you will cry (NOT TRUE) in this evening where chaque moment is une aventure dans l’inconnu!

Tom is a multiple award winning Sketch Comedian and has toured his 5 star reviewed solo shows all over North America. A former cast member of the Second City, a Canadian Comedy Award and winner of multiple best of the fest awards for his solo show ‘Gay Garbage’. He has amassed over 500k followers on social media and over 130 million views m. In 2022 Tom launched his ‘Ina Garten’ series,Tom’s impression has been featured on the TODAY SHOW, Delish, BBC, reposted by the food network. Tom was recently named one of the “Top Queer Tik Tokers to Follow in 2023” by ET Canada. Tom can also be seen in various Film and TV projects.

He’s back! Pat Gourdeau is a comedian, actor, writer and improviser who’s been delighting audiences in both Toronto and Montreal for the past few years. In addition to co-producing and performing in Toronto’s monthly hit show Unhinged, he has trained and/or performed at Toronto’s Second City, New York’s Del Close Marathon, Off-JFL, Zoofest and this very Sketchfest, where he was highlighted as one of the ‘Best of the Fest’ in 2023. Some have described him as annoying but ugh they just don’t get him!!!!!

Nightmare Slags are two stanky beauties trying to maintain an upbeat attitude in the face of the unwavering stupidity of the masses. KISS KISS!

Bitty-Bat on Planet Earth is a clown solo show performed by Toronto-based performer Emily Jeffers. Bitty-Bat is a unique creature in the animal kingdom – not quite a vampire, not quite a bat, and not quite sure what you’re doing in her cave. Take a peek into Bitty-Bat’s world in this ridiculous physical comedy that will delight and baffle, creating a perfect escape from the doldrums of the real world. If you need a break from reality, turn your brain off and go see this silly show.

Vivek Srikanthan doesn’t know who he is or what he wants, so he’s deciding to leave it up to you. Join him as he comedically and painfully pulls apart his life, history, relationships, and family as he struggles to understand himself in this meta-fictional, idiotic, self-deprecating sketch comedy revue. Vivek has previously performed at the Toronto Sketchfest, Toronto Fringe Festival, and Montreal Sketchfest as part of the troupe Try-Racial. This is his first solo revue.

A Montreal based troupe, with backgrounds in improv, clown and stand up. The troupe uses sketch as a vehicle to explore the truths and absurdity of the human condition.

Joy Provision, made up of Rena Taylor and Ethan Resendes, have had the pleasure to strut our stuff at TOsketchFest (Producer’s Pick 2022), Montreal SketchFest (Best of Fest Showcase), Philly SketchFest (Winners of The Most Likely to confuse Taco Bell for the Liberty Bell), as well as had the pleasure to perform at the DC Improv with our buddies over at Bad Medicine.

The Templeton Philharmonic are a comedy duo based in Toronto, Canada. Comedians Gwynne Phillips (STARZ’ American Gods, CBC’s Gayl Pile) and Briana Templeton (SyFy’s The Expanse and Amazon’s The Boys) are known for their unique brand of comedy that blends period pieces, surrealism, and biting social commentary with a feminist bent.

We’re Ghost Girl, a sketch comedy team hailing from the vibrant comedy scene of NYC! We’ve been on the scene since the fall of 2022, and we’re proud to be a house team at the renowned Magnet Theater. Our unique blend of creativity, diversity, and comedic talent sets us apart. We’re all about making the boldest, funniest decisions possible. Whether we’re exploring bizarre scenarios, reimagining everyday situations in hilarious ways, or taking a comedic dive into the unknown, we’re always striving to keep our audiences rolling with laughter. Our performances are a rollercoaster of wit, charm, and pure entertainment. So, prepare for laughter, prepare for the unexpected, and prepare to be thoroughly entertained by Ghost Girl!

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.

In the 2010 World Cup anthem ‘Waka Waka,’ pop superstar Shakira declares ‘This time for Africa’ and thus Diaspora Darlings was born!! Diaspora Darlings is an all African sketch comedy troupe created by Portia K, Mbissine, Guled Abdi & Sara Meleika. They premiered their hit show ‘Gu Paul’s African Race’ at the Toronto Fringe, and have gone on to perform at the Toronto Sketchfest. They are so pleased to be back home at Theatre Sainte Catherine for Montreal Sketchfest.

Tongues is a zesty, all lady/enby sketch group from Montreal comprised of long standing improvisers and theatre makers. They’ve been seen at other sketch festivals such as Toronto Sketchfest, New York Skechfest, and were the recipient of MTL Sketcfest’s best new troupe award for 2023. Tongues brings quick wit, bold characters, and a metric truck ton of puns to the stage exploring all kinds of experiences like our emotional baggage, girly pop demons and much more comedy goodness that will tickle your taste buds. It’s gonna be feral.

Tony Ho still exists. All these years later, your favorite creeps are still making sketch comedy about what they find sad now and forever.

Erica Gellert is a Toronto based comedian and writer. She has performed in JFL42 and various comedy festivals across North America since 2016. She is an alumni of the Canadian Comedy Award winning sketch collective, the Sketchersons. In 2023, Just For Laughs awarded Erica at the Montréal Sketch Comedy Festival for her solo sketch comedy performance. She frequently performs live comedy around Toronto and loves a good wig.

Closing out the fest in true Montreal Sketchfest tradition will be a BEST OF, showcasing our picks of the litter of the year! 10 of the festival’s top troupes perform one sketch each in this rapid fire explosion of sketch comedy. The Best of the Fest show sells out every year, so you should probably just go ahead and buy a ticket right now.
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