Modified On March 21, 2007
In the course of telling a story about how Steve Patterson blew off the evening’s show (in order to fulfill a headline engagement at Ernie Butler’s Comedy Nest across town), the Montreal Gazette’s Bill Brownstein tells how four Torontonian comics made the cut and are heading to the big LCS Seminfinal.
For the record, of the 15 who did make it past the first round, four Toronto-based wits– Deb DiGiovanni, Gerry Dee, Brian Lazanik and Dan Licoppe— were selected for the semifinals in Los Angeles. Not to suggest that Patterson, who bolted Toronto for Montreal a few years ago, would have supplanted one of the others and would have made the cut, but the odds were good (25 per cent) and he did, apparently, slay with his first two-minute audition earlier in the day.
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