Events
Alex Mackenzie's Comedy for a Cause at the Cleland Community Theatre
- Fri • May 5, 2023 • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
- Event Cost: $40
The goal of Alex Mackenzie’s Comedy for a Cause Tour is to build a sense of community by bringing people together through the power of laughter, love and giving. Our mission is to provide professional entertainment to large audiences across Canada while contributing proceeds to local Not for-Profit Organizations.
Alex Mackenzie’s Comedy for a Cause Tour is a world class comedy show featuring the best comedians in the world. These acts have been featured on Netflix, Sirius XM, Just for Laughs, CBC’s LOL and so much more!
Proceeds going to Critter-Aid!
Meet the Comedians:
Alex Mackenzie
Alex Mackenzie has been described as a happiness cheerleader. “A genuinely funny man with a sincere desire to spread happiness” says Stage Whispers Australia. Alex Mackenzie lives in BC, but he could live anywhere! In 2019 Mackenzie quit his six-figure job at the pulp mill, sold his house and moved into an RV to chase his stand-up dreams! Now he is in international demand – Mackenzie tours around the world performing in sold out theatres. He’s performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, is the Host of the Hungry for Laughs Comedy Tour and his charisma and clever joke writing have gained him rapid popularity online that’s increasing daily with his videos reaching over 60 million views! He often gets recognized in public and is asked to move his RV.
Efthimios Nasiopoulos
Efthimios is from Toronto, ON. Growing up in a blue-collar family and living in a multi-cultural city gave Efthimios his first influences as a comedian. His comedy gives us a hysterical insight into human nature and tears down many social conventions we take for granted. While using his acerbic wit and charm, he takes his audience to places further than they expected! Efthimios has performed at JFL Northwest, The Hubcap Comedy Festival, CBC’s The Winnipeg Comedy Festival and CBC’s LOL. You can hear him on Sirius XM where he has released his first album ‘Efthimios’ – it is also available on iTunes.
Chris Griffin
Think of your wildest story. The one you love to tell people at parties. Chris Griffin has A LOT of them, and his comedy show is the party to share them with you. Having established himself as one of comedy’s most dynamic storytellers, Griffin lives life with reckless abandon both on and off stage – always chasing a crazy new experience. After winning a regional comedy competition a year into his career, he sold his house, quit his job and began touring the country telling jokes. In recent years, Griffin has won the Vancouver Yuk Off Comedy Competition, made the finals of the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition, appeared six years in a row at the Just For Laughs Northwest Festival, along the way sharing the stage with notable comics such as Norm MacDonald, Doug Stanhope, Fortune Feimster, Tom Papa, Dulcé Sloan, Bert Kreischer, Mark Normand and fellow bad dude Bret “The Hitman“ Hart. The past two years Griffin has been nominated for 5 and took home 2 Vancouver Comedy Awards, including Best Comedian on Tour. Watch out for his second full length comedy album to be released in 2021 with 800 Pound Gorilla Records.
Sophia Johnson
Sophia Johnson is an actor and comedian from New Zealand. You might have seen her on Netflix’s ‘Ash vs the Evil Dead’ or CW’s ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ and ‘Nancy Drew’. Sophia has performed at three New Zealand International Comedy Festivals; including her sell out show ’50 minutes Plus Laughs’! She also worked as a writer for several years on the hit New Zealand Comedy TV show ‘7 Days’. Sophia has recently recorded for Just for Laughs Originals ‘Best of the West’.
Get tickets through comedyforacause.ca!
Doors open at 6:30pm Show starts at 7:30pm
Venue Information
- Cleland Community Theatre
- 325 Power Street, Penticton, , V2A 7K9
- 250-490-2426
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