Wednesday 1 March 2023

Upcoming Shows!

UK (mostly London):

Nov 01 - Kilburn Comedy Club

Nov 01 - Shakespeare Comedy Club

Nov 02 - Poster Comedy @ Dalston

Nov 03 - Craft Comedy @ Coach & Horses

Nov 06 - Maple Laughs @ Maple Leaf Pub Nov 08 - Misfits Comedy @ Shoredtich Balls (HL)

Nov 10 - Comedy Bin @ T-Bird

Nov 11 - Downstairs at the Kingshead (Opener)

Nov 12 - The OM Show @ North Nineteen (HL)

Nov 13 - Too Far Comedy @ Artillery Arms (HL)

Nov 14 - Boat Show Comedy

Nov 15 - Shakespeare Comedy Club

Nov 16 - Great North Comedy @ The Post Bar (MC)

Nov 17 - Elefunny Comedy @ Blue Elephant Theatre Nov 17 - Made Up Stand Up @ Free Association

Nov 20 - Maple Laughs @ Maple Leaf Pub (MC)

Nov 21 - Angel Comedy Club

Nov 22 - South Ken Comedy @ Hoop & Toy

Nov 24 - Milkdrop Comedy @ Lucas Arms Nov 26 - Bushy Comedy @ Hoxton Shepherd's Bush Nov 27 - Egan's Comedy Club @ Sommar Birmingham Nov 28 - Egan's Comedy Club @ Victoria Birmingham Nov 29 - Honk Comedy @ Relais Henley Hotel Nov 30 - Mirth Control Comedy Woking (MC)

Dec 04 - Maple Laughs @ Maple Leaf Pub

Dec 06 - South Ken Comedy @ Hoop & Toy

Dec 07 - Great North Comedy @ The Post Bar (MC)

Dec 10 - Shtick Comedy @ Rose & Crown Kentish Town

Performs regularly at:
Vauxhall Comedy, Poodle, Camden, Backyard, Kingshead, Stand-Up Clubs London
Absolute Comedy & Yuk Yuk's Ottawa and Toronto.

Tuesday 2 January 2018

Bio and Credits and References

Greg Houston
GregHoustonComedy@gmail.com
www.GregHoustonComedy.com
instagram: @GregHoustonComedy twitter: @GHoustonComedy

“Houston is definitely funny - great laughs.” -New Ottawa Critics.
“Houston earns many laughs with his self-deprecating sense of humour.” -On Stage.

BIO:

Greg Houston has been delighting audiences across Canada and the UK since 2012. Born in Toronto, raised in rural Ontario, he grew his first beard in the capital of Canada. He recently moved to London to eat all of its biscuits.

Houston has made people laugh at the: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Camden Fringe, Hastings Fringe Festival, Cottage Comedy Festival, Brantford Comedy Festival, CROM Festival, Pouzza Fest, Ottawa Fringe Festival, JFL Toronto, Tunbridge-Wells Fringe, and Kingston Storefront Fringe Festival (award winning show).

One time when he was 12 the puck he threw made it to the centre of the ice at a Bracebridge Bears game and he won $123 cash. He's worked with Tig Notaro, Doug Stanhope, Mike MacDonald, and Jon Dore to name a few. He can be heard on SiriusXM or on his upcoming debut album.

Winner of the 'Funniest of the Fringe' Award Winner - Kingston Storefront Fringe Festival.

Winner of the Ottawa Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2012.

Winner of Ottawa Comedy Awards Best Independent Show 2014.

Smart and hip - Greg Houston wows audiences with his nuanced perspective about life and the struggle. A cleaner comedic approach gives him the ability to perform to any crowd and bring them along for a roller coaster ride of laughs.
Email for any and all bookings.
Personal Creative Profile: by Spoiled Rotten Life.
-GH

Comedy Credits:
Selected to open for Tig Notaro - Bronson Centre September 2016
Winner of the 'Funniest of the Fringe' Award Winner - Kingston Storefront Fringe Festival.
Winner of the Ottawa Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2012.
Winner of Ottawa Comedy Awards Best Independent Show 2014.
Opened for Doug Stanhope 2015 Weeping Liaisons Tour & 2013 Tiny Blisters Tour (June 11th 2015 & August 20th 2013, Babylon Nightclub, Ottawa, Canada).
Supporting Act for Neil Hamburger 2016 at Yuk Yuks Ottawa.
Has performed with: Jon Dore, Mike MacDonald, Mark Little, Chris Locke, Carmen Lynch, Mark Forward, K. Trevor Wilson, Derek Seguin, Ali Hassan, Stephanie Tolev, John Hastings, Dave Merheje, Don Kelly, Arthur Simeon, Tyler Morrison, Fraser Young, Sean Donnelly...
Performs regularly at Absolute Comedy (Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto - Canada).
Performs regularly at Yuk Yuks (Ottawa, Toronto, Mississauga - Canada).
Performs regularly at Comedy Nest (Montreal, Canada).
Performed at Cracking Up the Capital Festival 2015 - BattleCom.
Performed at Ottawa Fringe Festival 2017, 2015.
Performed at Ottawa Explosion! Festival 2015, 2014, 2013.
Performed at ChinatownRemized 2015 ,2014.
Performed at the Cottage Comedy Festival 2014.
Performed at the Dark Comedy Festival 2014.
Hosts a weekly Brewery Bingo night at Lowertown Brewery York st.
TV credits: Rogers Ottawa, CTV Ottawa

Successfully run Open Mic nights at Mugshots Jail Bar, Manx Pub, Maxwells Bistro.
Previous ran a Monthly Roast Show at Pour Boy on Somerset the third Sunday of each month.
RIPTacoMic.
RIPGRINDRComedy.
RIPBrewHaHa.
RIPMaXXXedOutMonday.

Other Credits:
Curated and run a group art show as Oz Kafe May 11 2015 PIZZA ART SHOW.
Presenter at Pecha Kucha x Ottawa Architecture Week 2015.
Hosted Herd Magazine Launch Party volume: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
MC'd many music shows for RockSteady Bookings. Rock, Hip-Hop, Alt-Rock, Rap, Punk.
Hosted the First Annual Ottawa Food Truck Rally for Ottawa Community Housing.
MC'd the MOMENTUM Grad Exhibit's First Party (January 26 2013, Ritual Nightclub, Ottawa, Canada).
Hosted the Tits N' Stache Fashion Show (November 12th 2012, Ritual Nightclub, Ottawa, Canada).
Hosted the Plaid Party and Logger Release at Kichesippi Brewery (November 3rd 2012, Ottawa, Canada).
MC'd the 4th Annual Zombie Strippers Rockalily Burlesque Show (October 31st 2013, Babylon Nightclub, Ottawa, Canada).
MC'd the Beau's Main Stage at ChinatownRemixed 2014.
Hosted the Beer Barley and Food (Cowboy Campfire Edition) Event (October 19th 2014, Rideau Pines Farm, Ottawa, Canada

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*Photo credit: Nix Paul
[]Poster Design: Tyler Joseph Roy
+Poster Design: Gary Franks
^Poster Design: Sophye Robert
; Poster Design: Megan Honey

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Media Interviews n Stuff

The Hustle: Greg Houston

September 21, 2015

mclean

http://www.mcleanisms.com/#!The-Hustle-Greg-Houston/h06fp/55fc5f270cf25fa7fe1026ca

http://apt613.ca/greg-houston-wants-to-sell-you-on-just-for-laughs/
http://fourthmic.com/2015/07/15/introducing-greg-houston-for-just-for-laughs/

http://www.spoiledrottenlife.com/blog/creative-profile-greg-houston

CREATIVE PROFILE: GREG

June 10, 2015

GREG HOUSTON

OTTAWA, ONTARIO

I AM a Pizza Demon Comic. I started doing comedy 3 years ago in a University Sport Pub for a charity event - just like Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, and Drew Carey. It went well? all things considered. So I signed up for Yuk Yuks Ottawa in March 2012 and had a killer set - the owner came up after and said great job! So I decided comedy was easy and then sign up for Yuks again May 23 2012 and I went on stage and bommmmmmmmbed so hard. I ate a big pile of poop on stage and the owner ripppppped into me. That's when i consider taking comedy seriously and the start to my career. I've have some mild success thus far with some cool credits, like opening for Doug Stanhope and working with Mike MacDonald. Doing festivals like Cottage Comedy Festival, Ottawa Explosion Festival, Chinatown Remixed. For some reason I won "Least Worst New Comic 2012" and "Best Independent Show 2014" from the Ottawa Comedy Roast and Award Presentation Show OCRAPS.

I also do Yoga volunteering because somebody's gotta clean up that sweat and fold towels to get your namaste on.

I also swear to god one day I will make a canoe that real live human beings can use.

I'm also a pretty fresh uncle. (re #UncleDumDum) in the family game. Babies are cool? But also terrifying and gross. Thank god my nephew isn't ugly.

I MAKE local comedy-centered events for the Ottawa region with funny people from all over Canada and partner with cool groups and people like OXW, Herd Mag, Apt613 and dope local venues. I get to employ my artistic friends to make event posters and cool online/social media stuff. I also have a couple shows that involve bands or DJs and so i get to book some wicked acts too and give the a different crowd/venue than they are used to. I also got to throw a Pizza Art show at a local bar/resto called Oz Kafe. It was the most stressful thing in the world BUT it friggin rocked! We had like 10 artists from a bunch of different medias - graphic design, illustrators, painters, wood-workers, textile creators - and they all made sick pieces that were pizza themed (because I know nothing about art but I know A LOT about pizza). So then we had a pizza party vernissage where I got the Rock n Roll Pizza Party DJs to come spin. We also ordered about $200+ of pizza for the art show attendees! I'm hoping to do this yearly whilst changing the artists around. I'm going to pick up wood-working as a hobby super soon at Ottawa City Woodshop. So get at me for some bad shelves, maybe a paddle or cutting board?

I LOVE Ottawa, Comedy, Friends, DIY (spoiledrotten shout-out), Making-Out, #UsingHashtagsIncorrectly, Drinking, Xtremely Friendly Softball, Arboretum Festival, Ottawa eXplosion Weekend, Yoga, My dumb Newphew, Curling, Badminton, Beer festivals, Thomas Abrams, Pizza, Space Jam.

WWW.GREGHOUSTONCOMEDY.COM
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F ACEBOOK

Gracias, Greg! Hey person reading this: are you creative? Fill out your Creative Profile here. Fun times.

http://www.herdmag.ca/comedy-explosion/

Comedy Explosion at the Gladstone

POSTED ON JUNE 5, 2015 BY HERD

Photo courtesy of Chris Locke

This weekend at the Gladstone Theatre, Ottawa Explosion Weekend will take over the venue….with comedians. It will be the first time the Gladstone plays host to standup comedy as well as the popular Ottawa Explosion Weekend. But an amateur comedy event this is not. With comics as celebrated as Mark Little, who was recently featured on Conan and is widely popular not only in Canada but in the US as well, and Chris Locke, winner of the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Male Standup, podcast supernova, and Just for Laughs veteran—this is an A-list event not to be missed.

Photo courtesy of Greg Houston

But what would comedy in Ottawa be if not for its most prevalent hipster-comic, Greg Houston, who has hosted and performed all over our city and works his ass off to build an alternative comedy scene worthy of our attendance. Houston, who curated the event, has teamed up with Ottawa Explosion Weekend to bring us what will surely be a wild and laughter-filled weekend produced by local talent as well as featured talent from across the nation.

Join the Facebook event here

Or learn the old fashioned way by reading the details below.

ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE

$12.50/night or $20 for both nights

Order tickets by sending Interac Etransfer to:

capitalrehearsal@rogers.com

Please add $1 proccessing per transaction (not per ticket ordered).

Please print your accepted money transfer as proof of payment to present night of.

AA/19+
$12.50 adv / night – $20 adv / both nights
7pm
The Gladstone Theatre

Written by herd

http://apt613.ca/comedy-explodes-in-ottawa-this-weekend/

Comedy Explodes in Ottawa this Weekend

Written by Jared Davidson on Friday June 5th, 2015

Chris Locke, and his cat Bernadette, from the Comedy Explosion Facebook page

If you’ve ever found yourself walking about this city and thinking something the lines of, “I’m simply not laughing anymore,” you might be in for a surprise treat this weekend. Why? Because this weekend will see a veritable explosion of stand-up comedy in the form of Comedy Explosion, a pre-Ottawa Explosion explosion of comedy!

Featuring the Toronto-based headliners Mark Little and Chris Locke, and showcasing some of the best of Ottawa’s local comedy scene, the festival will run this Friday and Saturday at the Gladstone Theatre with ticket prices at $20 for both nights, $12.50 for one. It’s the first time stand-up comedy has been featured at the thirty-three year old theatre. And though it’s possibly a departure, it does seem to fit well. I mean, the theatre is already licensed.

“We tried to get the best comedy talent Ottawa could offer,” said festival presenter, and festival performer, Greg Houston. “Plus where else can you see standups like Mark Little and Chris Locke for $20?”

Indeed, both Toronto comics come highly acclaimed. Little, Friday’s headliner, has won the Just for Laughs Homegrown competition as well as Yuk Yuk’s Great Canadian Laugh Off. He’s a regular on TV’s Mr. D and writes for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Saturday’s closer, Locke, is an alumnus of MTV Canada and has won the Canadian Comedy Awards Best Male Stand Up. Add to those closers the plethora of local talent on display, and you have yourself a couple solid evenings of comedy. See the Facebook page for the full lineup, which features such names as Tom Henry, Ian Gordon and Patric.

The festival is a pretty clear sign that there’s something going on in the Ottawa comedy scene. Recently, it seems more comedy murmurings have echoed throughout this city, with the increasing prevalence of weekly comedy evenings and events. And if Houston has his way, this won’t be the last we hear from the Comedy Explosion.

“It’d be nice to turn this into a semi-regular thing,” says Houston. “But we’ll focus on executing this one really well and then hopefully…”

Plus, if he’s going out like this, he’s not going out with much of a laugh, and as all comedians know, you always, always go out on a laugh.

Comedy Explosion runs this Friday and Saturday (the 5th and 6th of June) at The Gladstone Theatre. Tickets for both nights are $20, and one night will cost you $12.50. For tickets and more info about Comedy Explosion, check out its Facebook event.