Gallery: Sunday Night Live – Big City Improv Festival Edition

The Big City Improv Festival – the first of two improv festivals in Toronto this month (it’s a long story) – kicked off at Comedy Bar this weekend.

Guests Jerry Minor (Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show) and Steve Little (East Bound and Down) lent their talents to whole slew of opening weekend shows, topping it off by co-hosting Sunday Night Live.

Playing two superhero “besties”, a couple of sizzle-before-steak lawyers, and a pair fraudulent Milli Vanilli-style R&B stars, Minor and Little were fully game to roll up their sleeves and embrace whatever ridiculousness the Sketchersons threw their way.

The Big City Improv Festival continues all week at Comedy Bar, topped off with performances next weekend by headliners Ted & Melanie (Jet Eveleth and SNL’s Paul Brittain).

Lineups and ticket information at www.bigcityimprovfestival.com.

Photos copyright Sharilyn Johnson / Third Beat Magazine.

Tags: improv, jerry minor, steve little

About the Author

Sharilyn Johnson is the author of the book Bears & Balls: The Colbert Report A-Z. Called "one of the city’s most discriminating comedy critics” by NOW Magazine, Sharilyn has been covering comedy for longer than she cares to admit. She served as the comedy reporter for Winnipeg's Uptown Magazine for five years, and was the host of the radio show Laugh Tracks for three seasons. Her work has also appeared in the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, The Apiary, and on CBC Radio's national comedy programs LOL and Definitely Not the Opera.