Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival

In November of 2005, we traveled to Toronto, Canada for the first ever Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Our travel date coincided with Thanksgiving (the US version of the holiday) but the absence of turkey was made bearable by the warm greeting we received by some very friendly Canadians. Special thanks to Sasha Wentges & her roomate Shelley Simmons who graciously opened thier home to two strangers from LA. True to form we were very superficial with them and tried to take advantage of their warmth and hospitality at every opportunity. We broke some of their possessions, stole others and left empty bottles of botox scattered on their floors. We also left the seat up. We made LA proud!
More special thanks to Paul Snepsts and Julianne Baragar who produced the festival and Jay Morneau who ran our tech flawlessly. BIG Thanks to the rest of the staff and volunteers, too.
Our show on Sat. night, Nov. 26th was well received by the audience at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen St. Stephen spent the night there Sat. night and slept safely and soundly in a room decorated with GINORMOUS photo collages of C. Thomas Hall, Shawn Cassidy, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon etc... hanging on the walls. There was also a painting of a large naked man carrying another large naked man with a fig leaf covering his privates. Suffice to say that Jon returned to Sasha & Shelley's house for the evening.
Ten West had a great time up North and we are all the more sad that America's attempt to make Canada our 14th Colony in 1775 failed. Damn that Benedict Arnold!