People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week’s bonus guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of the true iron men of the Toronto comedy club scene: Kenny Robinson. Since 1983, he’s been performing at YukYuks as well as at Just For Laughs and other Canadian comedy venues. Close to 30 years ago — with the go ahead of impresario Mark Breslin — he launched The Nubian Comedy Revue, a showcase for BIPOC entertainers. It is performed on the last Sunday of every month at YukYuks in Toronto.
Directed by Darrell Faria, the documentary features several performers who see The Nubian Show as the Def Jam of Canadian comedy. Among them are Russell Peters (the “Brown Sinatra,” as Robinson calls him), Hassan Phills, Crystal Ferrier, Marito Lopez and Zabrina Douglas.
Listen as Robinson, who is also the president of the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame, looks back on his career and reminisces about some of his comedy heroes as well as others he met along the way. To listen to the full podcast episode, simple click on the white arrow in the blue dot above.
