Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival Presents THE SKETCHIEST SKETCH SHOW, 5/19
By: Kelsey Denette
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOSketchFest) returns to Comedy Bar with The Sketchiest Sketch Show, a fundraising event on Saturday, May 19 featuring three hilarious troupes: Approximately 3 Peters, Smells Like the 80s and The Templeton Philharmonic.
The Sketchiest Sketch Show has quickly become a Comedy Bar tradition where three troupes come together to raise prize money for next year’s Sketchiest Sketch Troupe Award winners. The Sketchiest Sketch Troupe Award was established in 2010 to honour retiring sketch troupe The Understudies, who had performed in every TOSketchFest from 2005 to 2009. The Understudies created this peer-nominated award to celebrate the TOSketchFest performer that best embodies what sketch, and being in a sketch troupe, is all about.
The winners of the 2011 Sketchiest Sketch Troupe Award are Approximately 3 Peters, who have performed at TOSketchFest six times. Since forming in 2005 Approximately 3 Peters have performed across North America and staged monthly shows at numerous venues around Toronto. Over the years the troupe members have achieved greatness: Peter Gal (Peter 1) got married and had a baby, Pete Hill (Peter 2) got married and got a fancy shmancy new job, Ian MacIntyre (Approximately) became a Sketcherson.
The inaugural winners of the Sketchiest Sketch Troupe Award were Smells Like the ’80s, for their endless sketchy spirit and for handing out promotional flyers featuring the wrong performance date. Smells Like 80s have been collecting fans across the city with their signature brand of stupid-smart humor and what several ex-girlfriends have referred to as "classically handsome good looks".
Female sketch duo The Templeton Philharmonic have recently appeared at the L.A. Comedy Festival, the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and the Festival St-Ambroise Fringe Montreal. Their vignettes are often peppered with hideous Edwardian dresses, stinging social satire, and deadpan interpretive dance. As University of Toronto drama graduates, they bring a theatre-nerd sensibility to their material by drawing on history, psychology, and whenever possible - the Phantom of the Opera.
For more information about SketchFest Awards, please visit: www.torontosketchfest.com/awards.php
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