Two Canadian comedy legends are reuniting at Second City next week
On May 12, Mike Myers and Colin Mochrie will perform in an improv-and-interview comedy show on the same stage that launched Myers’s career
After Mike Myers’s recent rallying cry for Canada on SNL and a surprise cameo in the Liberal campaign video that followed, the Scarborough-born comedian will be returning to our sovereign state for a rare live appearance.
On May 12, the Wayne’s World star will take the stage at Second City Toronto, his original stomping grounds, for It’s Always Something: Open Mike, a fundraiser in support of Gilda’s Toronto. The cancer support community is named after the late SNL legend Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989. For Myers’s first performance at Second City Toronto in 30 years, he’ll be joined onstage by fellow Canadian comedy icon and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Colin Mochrie. Related: Untold stories from the early years of Second City, the group that changed comedy
The show is hosted by David Shore, another Second City alum and founder of improv troupe Monkey Toast. Shore will interview Myers and Mochrie in two separate acts, and members of Monkey Toast will then use the interviews as springboards to create improvised scenes. The evening will toggle between candid conversation and comedy.
Gilda’s Toronto is raising money to further its mission of supporting people with cancer through free social and emotional initiatives including group therapy, meditation, yoga, wellness counselling and art therapy. “Myers’s and Mochrie’s participation just made sense as we pay tribute to Gilda Radner’s legacy,” says Elizabeth Dalgleish, the organization’s executive director. “Just as Gilda used laughter to navigate life’s hardest moments, they bring that same spirit to the stage.” Related: “Mark Carney loves a dramatic pause”—Comedian Mark McKinney on poking fun at the prime minister
“You can’t get through this life without being touched by cancer,” says Mochrie. “How can you not want to help in any way you can?” With an emphasis on levity over gravity, It’s Always Something is a chance to see two beloved Canadian comedians turn laughter into a lifeline.
Correction: In an earlier version of this story, it was incorrectly stated that Shore would be taking audience suggestions during the show.
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