A great (and rare) visit to Just for Laughs (the English parts of the
Festival Juste pour rire) Friday: Whoopi Goldberg was visiting at St-Denis
Theatre 1 to host a pair of shows.
The famous actress and hostess (which we may see on a daily basis throughout
the TV show for women The View) proved to be charming in a kind of simple
and relaxed animation leaving any room for her plethora of guests.
Whoopi has nevertheless made her many fans happy by doing monologues on
theme of getting old, on her relationship with her daughter and the word
"stupid." Many slices of life about happiness were delivered with Whoopi
Goldberg familiar tone.
Two of her stories especially made the crowd laugh: her long journey to
travel by bus to Montreal, with everything you can imagine from problems
with customs, and teaching cursed words to her granddaughter.
With all the charisma that she is known to possess, and the sincere joy of
many of her fans of seeing her in person - many viewers have expressed their
love out loud throughout the evening - it did not take much to create a link
with the audience.
Beautiful discoveries
Although no major name appeared on the menu, the comedians at this third
Anglophone gala were not a disappointment.
With its "one-liners and dry humor, the sarcastic, Stewart Francis was the
first to bring a cavalcade of laughs.
Then Jimeoin demonstrated that ingenuity often wins over quantity of ideas.
His imitation of a washing machine, searching for the location was more fun
on stage and his disobedient eyebrows were enough to earn him a warm
ovation.
Aries Spears has made us seen all the colors particularly in portraying a
scene from the film Heat which was originally performed by Al Pacino and
Robert De Niro, but revisited in the way of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
Accompanied by his guitar (which has served to create a pattern of substance
to his hilarious sentences), Nick Thune served us an excellent mix of gags
about the technology and philosophies at two dollars.
More funny than Kevin Hart and his anecdotes, Thune will probably be the
last guest of this event, which has still revealed many English comedy
talents.
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