There will be some major laughs to be had in Cochrane this weekend with the third annual YYComedy Festival making a stop in town.
The festival runs from Sept. 29 until Oct. 4 and features over 40 performers at various venues around Calgary and surrounding communities.
Comedian Lori Ferguson Ford will be performing as the headliner of the night at the Hideout Pub in Cochrane Oct. 4.
Ferguson Ford has been a professional stand-up comic for over 20 years and recently moved from Chilliwack, B.C. to Calgary this year.
She said that Calgary’s comedy scene is “pretty damn good” and she has found it to be even better than Vancouver’s.
“There are just more open mic nights and there are more nights to go out and try new stuff every night,” said Ferguson Ford.
At the time of the interview she was getting ready to perform at Calgary’s Broken City, which has a comedy Monday night that has become famous across the country and is hosting the kickoff event for the YYComedy Festival, which Ferguson Ford was a part of.
Ferguson Ford’s career started when she was a waitress and said one of her regulars tipped her $52,000 to do whatever she wanted with, and she used it to get into comedy and travelled to Los Angeles.
Since then, Ferguson Ford has toured all over Canada and the United States, performing on the stages of Yuk Yuks, The Improv, The Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store and has also made television appearances on CTV, CBC, WTN and The Comedy Network.
After all of these years, Ferguson Ford said the thing she enjoys most about performing is just making people laugh and she doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.
“That’s all I know how to do. I have no backup plan. It is what I’ve been doing my whole life,” she explained.
Twenty tickets remain for a roast beef dinner and show package at the Hideout Pub for $25 per person; tickets for the show are $10 and it starts at 8 p.m. For more information visit yycomedy.ca.
