The Dirty Bucket Comedy Show

No Cheat Codes Productions—Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame

Take your classic stand up Fringe show with a rotating cast of local and travelling comedians, and shake it up with a bucket full of the audiences best to worst ideas. The comedians themselves were good, in my showing, but that like always is a bit of a crapshoot with these sorts of things, due to the daily swap over. The twist on the formula in the form of the bucket was, itself, a bit of a mixed bag (or bucket, I suppose.) Some of the prompts were solid, and allowed the comedians to mix up their set and keep things fresh and spontaneous. Other prompts were really unfortunately repetitive, with multiple fairly milquetoast sex prompts coming in one after another. Still, the pre-prepared stand-up was good, and the prompts themselves are different each night, so this likely isn’t a consistent issue.

Josh Fidelak