FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Unemployment, Illness and Death Unexpectedly
Lead to Comedian’s One-Man Show
New Brunswick Comic Lloyd Ravn’s solo show Funny, Daddy
coming to Wolfville
May 28, 2013
– Wolfville
Acadia
Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville will be home on June 13 to a comedy
show with an unlikely beginning. Sussex-based stand-up comedian Lloyd Ravn will
bring his Funny, Daddy show to Wolfville after performing it in a number of
other Maritime communities to rave reviews from audience members. The show,
which is a combination of Lloyd’s stand-up material honed over the past 7 years
and some more serious stories from Ravn’s time as a father, came about after
the comedian lost his “day job” in October 2012.
“I had a
great job with a high-profile tech company in New Brunswick,” says Ravn, “but
after I got caught up in a mass layoff, I had to reevaluate my direction, so I
decided to make my part-time job of stand-up comedy my full-time gig.” He began
working on Funny, Daddy almost immediately, and premiered the show to a
sold-out crowd of 450 at the Sussex High School theatre.
Lloyd is the
father of three boys, aged 8, 5 and 2, and is fully aware of the ups and downs
of parenting. From dealing with serious
health issues to the usual stressors of raising kids, Lloyd relies on humour to
get him through, and will talk during Funny,
Daddy about how laughter during challenging times has helped him.
The
adults-only show will run approximately 1 hour, 15 minutes and will include
bits from Lloyd’s stand-up act as well as more serious stories from the ups and
downs of Lloyd’s time as a parent including a discussion of the death of his
father shortly after the birth of his oldest child. As ticket buyers are told
on BayOfFunny.com, “you’ll (hopefully) laugh, you (might even) cry, you’ll (at
the very least) have a night out without the kids.”
This show is
part of an ongoing tour of the Maritimes for Funny, Daddy, incluing upcoming
shows in Miramichi, Campbellton, St. Andrew’s, Charlottetown, Halifax and more
dates being announced soon.
Tickets are
$12 and will be available at the Box of Delights bookstore at 46 Main Street or
at TicketPro.ca ($2.00 service charge added).
About Lloyd Ravn
Born and
raised in Sussex, NB, Lloyd began performing stand-up comedy in Toronto in
2006. His material is autobiographical in nature, focusing on his life as a
husband, father of three, former chef, and the youngest person named Lloyd most
people have ever met. Lloyd is the founder and producer of the Bay of Funny
Comedy Circuit. He has performed at venues across Canada and in the United
States, and was selected out of 700 entrants as a top-10 finalist for the
“Canada’s Next Top Comic 2011″ competition.
Lloyd can be
heard on CJCW (AM 590 in Sussex) as the host of Lloyd’s Morning Cup of Jokes, a
2-minute segment featuring clips from some of his favourite comedians
(including himself!) from around the world. His comedy is also in rotation on
Sirius XM Satellite Radio. He was featured as the comedian of the week by GQ
Magazine in the UK, who called him one of “North America’s hottest young
comics” (even though he recently turned 40) and predicted he would soon “storm
the Just for Laughs Festival.”
Studying
under some of the best sketch and improv comics in Canada, Lloyd completed the
Second City Improvisation course series from the world-famous Second City
Training Centre in Toronto. Lloyd has written about comedy and humour for
magazines and even a high school literacy textbook, Nelson Literacy, currently
in use across Canada.
After about
15 years away, Lloyd recently moved back to his hometown of Sussex, but still
has never tried cow tipping.
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