The announcer of the Metro Centre said: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mark Farrell!”
Most comics have a story of gig that went wrong. This is mine.
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I was a landed immigrant so couldn’t vote in federal and provincial elections until I became a Canadian citizen in the early 1990s. Since then I have voted at e...
When I was growing up in Halifax I came up with something called The Some Guy’s Dad Theorem: When one of those silly things that doesn’t make any sense happens ...
I have always loved the movie Airplane! Sure (not "surely," and don’t call me that), some of the jokes in it are to put it euphemistically (the English lan...
I was thinking about that writer a few months back who wrote a column for a Windsor, Ontario publication slamming Pier 21 in Halifax. It takes a lot of cognitiv...
My life changed when a comedy club opened in Halifax in 1986. It was a Yuk Yuks and I worked up the courage to do an amateur night. I bombed. I remember my open...
A few years ago I was lucky enough to appear on CBC Radio’s The Debaters, taped here in Halifax, and I enjoyed myself. It was fun to try and persuade the people...
Mark Farrell grew up in Halifax and moved to Toronto in 1988 to become a professional stand-up comic. After appearing on Just For Laughs, Comedy Now, NBC's Friday Night Videos and CBC's series The Newsroom, Mark returned to Halifax as a comedy writer, working on such shows as This Hour has 22 Minutes, Made in Canada, and Corner Gas. He still lives in Halifax where he spends most of his time writing about himself in the third person.
