Don’t Listen To Trevor Dean! He’s Garbage & Doesn’t Mean It! Does He?

The set this weekend at the comedy club in Regina will be pressure.  One could assume it’s for a number of reasons.  It could be because some of Regina’s funniest comics will be in the audience that night.  It could be the fact that I only have a tight seven minutes, so I need to come out swinging right...

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“C” Is Not For Cookie

  I was going to write about the difference for me between playing a set at a bar rather than a comedy club.  But for whatever reason it’s just not coming to me tonight.  It’s a struggle to piece together.  So instead, I thought I’d talk instead about confidence, how it took so long to get and...

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Finding Freedom Through Forgiveness – With A Laugh & A Tear

I didn’t think I would write a post in continuation of the last one.  I didn’t think I would write another post that partly dealt with Nicki, but here we are.  I need to share something that God placed on my heart today that not only gets into my failed relationship, but it’s something that gets...

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Nicki, The Roller Coaster & Opposite-Land

It was never supposed to be this way.  It wasn’t supposed to get to this point, to have a legitimate following, all the failures, the spirit crushing sets not to mention the equally spirit crushing conversations, the threats, the bullying, being looked down upon for having a comedy coach…..but it did.  It...

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Here Is Post #200 – Written By Veronica

Wow! Blog post #200, and I get to be a part of it! I’m not a comedian. I’m not a journalist. I’m not even a blogger! I’m a smart ass, a jokester, and an audience member. But most of all I’m a friend! I have watched this journey that Trevor has been on since the beginning on October 4, 2011. I was so honoured that he...

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Can I Get A Bit Of Robin Williams For #199?

After four years and three months of doing comedy we have come to post number 199 of The Stand Up Diaries.  Tonight, of all nights I finally am able to answer the one question I didn’t think had an answer to it.  It’s a question that some of you may have pondered at some point.  Well, I have the answer to...

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