BOB NEWHART FINDS REGENT PARK

Toronto-based comedian Vivek Srikanthan is proud to present One Man, No City, a solo one night only sketch comedy revue directed by Dave Barclay, on Saturday, November 2 at Native Earth’s Aki Studio.

Take the one-sided conversations of Bob Newhart, the high energy stupidity of Key & Peele characters, run them through the grinder of growing up in Regent Park and you’ve got One Man, No City.

Vivek Srikanthan is an astronaut! Well... not really. But he might as well be in the cold isolation of the cosmos as he can’t seem to connect to his friends, family, or (theoretical) lovers. Audiences will join him as he comedically and painfully pulls apart his life, history, relationships, ethnicity, and family while struggling to understand himself in this meta-fictional, idiotic, self-deprecating, and ambitious solo sketch comedy revue.

A graduate of the Second City Toronto Writing Program, Vivek has previously performed with the sketch troupe Try-Racial with shows at Toronto Fringe and Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. As a solo performer, he was a semi-finalist in Toronto’s Sketch to the Death competition, and has performed at TOsketchfest and Montreal Sketchfest, and was invited to perform at the inaugural Denver Sketchfest in October 2024.

Dave Barclay is an award-winning sketch comedian, actor, writer and director, and was a series regular on CTV’s The Beaverton and YTV’s Popularity Papers. He’s been a part of the sketch outfits Parker & Seville, O Dat Dum, The Wow, Vulnerable Flowers, and now performs as a solo sketch artiste. He has three children, 2/3 of whom still think he’s hilarious.

WHEN AND WHERE

Saturday, November 2 at 7:30 pm, Native Earth’s Aki Studio, 585 Dundas Street East in Toronto.

Tickets: $20/$15 students and arts workers. For more info, click here.