2024 Editorials | ||||||||||||||||||
Goin', Goin', Gone! | ||||||||||||||||||
Catchin' A Surprise | ||||||||||||||||||
Steppin' Up | ||||||||||||||||||
Workin' Hard or Hardly Workin' | ||||||||||||||||||
Now We Are Rollin' | ||||||||||||||||||
FAQ | ||||||||||||||||||
Jenny Awards | ||||||||||||||||||
Jenny Awards 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
Jenny Awards 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
30th Year Special Features | ||||||||||||||||||
Jenny Awards Gallery | ||||||||||||||||||
Making Contact Write your comments/reviews. Sign your written submission and include a phone number or e-mail address where you can be reached in case we need clarification (phone numbers etc., will not be printed or given out); and get it to us by one of these methods:
Social Media Please Follow us on Social Media to get updates on Reviews, News and other content about the Winnipeg Fringe.
| ||||||||||||||||||
The Jenny Revue is a publication of The Jenny Revue Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, funded solely by advertising and donations. It is not affiliated with The Winnipeg Fringe Festival, MTC, or any other organization. Privacy Policy The Jenny Revue is published on Treaty 1 territory, the lands and traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the Homeland of the Red River Métis. |
Mike Delamont: The Devil
Mike Delamont—MTYP – Mainstage
After four editions of God is a Scottish Drag Queen at previous Fringes, Mike Delamont is trying something new (not including his other show Mama’s Boy, also at this Fringe). Like the Scottish Drag Queen shows, this is basically a stand-up comedy show, mixing scripted and seemingly improvised material while Delamont is in character. This time around, his character looks much like Ken Bone, to whom he alludes, wearing a completely-buttoned red cardigan, glasses, and a pasted-on mustache that he inexplicably removes halfway through the show. He makes the point that he as the devil doesn’t have horns and a tail, as commonly depicted in art, but he never explains his current get up or mine it very much for laughs, like he did for his Scottish Drag Queen.
Unfortunately, this show seems to lack a tight focus. Delamont spends more time on comic book heroes than on Satan’s actual appearances in the Bible, and this is disappointing. Furthermore, many of his jokes are about the coldness of Winnipeg’s winter rather than anything religious. He also seems to lean rather heavily on audience-submitted questions, not all of which he had strong, comedic answers to. For instance, someone submitted the question, “Why is there Donald Trump?” and he couldn’t come up with anything at all. Nevertheless, some of the funniest parts of the show were his snappy responses to real-time interactions with the audience. This helped to generate plenty of laughter from the completely sold-out house, at the performance I attended.
Konrad Antony