Stand-Up Night, featuring Derek Edwards & Friends
Saturday, Jan 17
Yukon Arts Centre, 8pm
Tickets $20

Derek Edwards / Stand-Up Night
Derek Edwards has performed live to audiences from Boston to Minneapolis to New York to Los Angeles and across Canada. He was nominated as Stand-Up Comedian Of The Year at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards. He has headlined at all of the major comedy clubs from Vancouver to Vegas and was recently featured on the first national Just for Laughs Canadian Comedy Tour.

Derek recently filmed his own one-hour special for The Comedy Network's Comedy Now series titled Blood, Sweat & Beers. He has been featured on CBC'S Laughing Matters, Madly Off In All Directions and Definitely Not The Opera. He is currently appearing in episodes of The New Red Green Show.

Derek’s numerous television appearances include A&E's Comedy On The Road, his own CBC-TV comedy special, COMICS!, The Comedy Network's Launch-A-Thon, Open Mike with Mike Bullard on The Comedy Network and CTV, as well as a Gala performance on the 1997 Just for Laughs Comedy Show.
" Derek Edwards doesn't go for one-liners with quick, witty punch lines. Edwards is the kind of guy who could read the nutritional content off a cereal box and have you in tears."
—Winnipeg Free Press

Howie Miller / Stand-Up Night (also opening for Don Burnstick)
Howie Miller is one of the fastest rising prospects on the National comedy circuit. A native Canadian adopted by a white family, Howie grew up on both sides of the red and white racial spectrum. After often seeing him use his sense of humor to avoid physical confrontations, his friends and family members realized Howie was a natural performer. After High School, Howie began performing in piano bars developing an unforgettable Elvis impression. He has perfected more than 20 different impressions, from William Shatner to James Brown.

In January 1997, peer pressure led Howie to Yuk Yuk's, where he’s been wowing audiences ever since. Howie won the Just for Laughs comedy contest in Edmonton, which led to his performance at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival in July 2000. The combination of his native heritage, a hilarious stand up routine and a few impressions thrown in make up an amazing recipe of laughter.

Christine Lippa / Stand-Up Night
Christine Lippa has been a working actor, improviser, stand-up comic and writer for over 14 years.

Christine tours across Canada with Yuk Yuk’s as a stand-up comic, and has been involved in 5 Vancouver International Comedy Festivals and 3 Women in View Festivals. She traveled to New York for the International Improv Tournament and appeared there at The Comic Strip. She was a featured performer in Funny Girls, a WTN all woman stand-up special.

She was a host, for 3 seasons, on Zero Avenue, a half hour arts and culture surf on CBC Television, has a recurring role as Doris on UPN’s Mysterious Ways, and has had featured roles on Millennium, DaVinci’s Inquest and Outer Limits.

Christine co-wrote and performed in The Vacant Bachelor, a one woman show first performed at the Fringe Festival in Vancouver in 1992, where it won the Best of the Fringe and Pick of the Fringe.

Chris McNutt / Stand-Up Night
Picked randomly from the Yukon phone book last year to perform as the 2003 festival's ‘Token Yukon Act’, Chris thought up enough new material to be actually invited back. His short attention span has allowed Chris to dabble in various comedic pursuits such as clowning, stand-up, storytelling, radio, comedy theatre, synchronized-swimming, music, and other things he may have forgotten or denies ever doing. Chris has been seen on Yukon and Atlin stages in various capacities throughout the millennia, and despite having formally studied neither baking nor cheese making, he may have once made the perfect grilled-cheese sandwich.