Comedian Darryl Lenox hits pop-up Laugh Track Comedy Club, November 20 and 21
His loyal Vancouver following knows his easygoing delivery disguises craft and depth
Darryl Lenox performs at the pop-up Laugh Track Comedy Club at 1006 Granville Street on November 20 and 21. See site for COVID-19 safety measures
COMEDIAN DARRYL Lenox, one of the biggest comedians to come out of this city (via America), spent 11 years honing his craft in Vancouver before hitting the big time.
In the ensuing years, he’s seen a concert filmed at the Vogue become the first comedy special to air on the Starz network, he’s appeared on Conan and Mark Maron’s WTF podcast, and his CD Blind Ambition was named one of the top five comedy albums of 2012 by Stagetime Magazine. He’s become a draw at JFL NorthWest Comedy Fest here, as well as fests across North America.
What’s made him a favourite of local comedy nuts is the way his casual, self-effacing delivery disguises his craft and depth. He’s as apt to make cutting comparisons of the U.S. and Canada (“When you offend somebody you just say, ‘Sorry’” he tells us) as more loaded observations on race (one of his well-known bits recounts his shock and awe at his first Canucks game, seeing former Vancouver Canucks enforcer Donald Brashear punching the crap out of a Swedish player on the ice). Some of his rawest material is inspired by his nearly going blind.
And so here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, with a rare opportunity: the chance to see Lenox work his jokes with a small (socially distanced and masked) audience, in Laugh Track’s pop-up in the basement of the retro-cool Belmont Hotel at Nelson and Granville streets. For those willing to venture out in search of much-needed laughs, Lenox--as his loyal Vancity following knows--always delivers.
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