Comedian Derek Edwards is returning to Vernon with his new show, My Blunderful Life, which comes to the Performing Arts Centre May 12.
Edwards’ new show is a wildly entertaining comedic exposé by “a virtuoso at the peak of performance.”
With a wit and will forged in Timmins, Ont., Edwards guides his audience through the pivotal life moments we’re all confronted by in our 20s, 30s, 40s and on –– snapshots of the past and the world around us, skewed and imbued with a small town charm and tempered with an inimitable quirky perspective.
Is it really wrong, he wonders, to extend a misspent youth that extra 30 years?
A 14-year vet of the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, and the only Canadian to win the prestigious Vail, Colorado Invitational Comedy Competition, Edwards is universally considered to be among the top comics in the country.
Certainly his peers think so, as evidenced by the fact that he’s a four-time nominee, and winner of Best Stand-up Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards, and by his Gemini nominations for Best Performance in a Comedy.
Clearly the critics agree: He’s been called “the funniest man in Canada,” and “the comedian’s comedian” with a “common sense and an inspired sense of the ridiculous –– a recipe, road-honed, for a stellar night of laughs.”
Tickets to see Edwards at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre go on sale Monday, and cost $48 at the Ticket Seller box office, 549-7469, www.ticketseller.ca.
