One of the stand-up comedians who will be at the Orpheum Theatre in Estevan on May 25 is looking forward to the performance.
Kevin McGrath, who is based out of Alberta, will be joined by Danny Knight and Joel Jeffrey on the stage for the show. While he hasn’t worked with those two funny men before, he said people can look forward to a lot of laughs.
Much of his routine involves stories with his wife.
“I’ve been doing this for 35 years … so I have a lot of material to choose from,” said McGrath.
McGrath entered the stand-up world because he and his brothers would entertain their family.
“We’d do a lot of impressions. We’d do the Beach Boys and the Bee Gees and Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, and that kind of stuff. And then we ended up going to the legion, and my dad got us up on stage, just because there was a band and they took a break. My dad went up and said ‘Here’s my three sons.’”
The stand-up show lasted about 45 minutes. A month later, the legion offered them a chance to perform again, this time for money.
Stand-up comedy isn’t something he intended to go into; it just kind of happened.
He was part of a group that had its own agency for a couple of years, but then people started going to Yuk Yuk’s, so he joined them.
He’s a self-described extrovert who lives out in the country, so stand-up comedy affords him the opportunity to interact with a large crowd.
“I’m kind of isolated in the country, but this way I get to talk to a few hundred people at a time, and I love it. It’s cathartic. It’s therapy for me.”
McGrath has been largely able to focus on comedy during his career. He has never had a long-term, full-time job, but there have been odd jobs here and there.
While the stop in Estevan isn’t part of a tour, McGrath said he will heading out to a few stops later this year, including Edmonton and Calgary.
“It’s kind of like a little tour, but I get to go home,” he said.
