Comedy Festival
Earlybird pricing on until March 20
Mar. 01, 2010:
The Winnipeg Comedy Festival is very sad to learn of the passing of Ross Rumberg, owner and operator of Rumor’s Comedy Club, the only full-time comedy club in Winnipeg. Our thoughts are with his family and friends through this difficult period.
Feb. 22, 2010:
We had a fantastic public media launch, thanks to everyone who came out! Press kits are available for download from the media tab on the left.
Want to see what you missed?
Winnipeg Free Press video and Brad Oswald article
Featured Performer
Peter Keleghan
A former member of The Second City, Peter co-wrote and starred in sixty episodes of the Gemini award winning series, The Comedy Mill. For 14 seasons he played Ranger Gord on The Red Green Show and created the role of Jim Walcott with Ken Finkleman for The Newsroom, which won an International Emmy. Peter has been on such series as Made In Canada, Billable Hours and Slings And Arrows. He can currently be seen in the new CBC series 18 to Life. A busy voice-over artist, Peter can be heard on dozens of radio commercials and in animation series nationwide. Peter is a fifteen time Gemini Award nominee and a four-time winner in the category of Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series. He was also nominated twice for a Canadian Comedy Award and for an Actra Award for his role on The Newsroom and was the 2008 recipient of the Actra Award of Excellence.