What's New
- Don't You Forget About John Hughes
- Favourable Fringe Reviews for "About An Hour"
- "Tazed and Confused" Nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award
- "About An Hour" Playing Nightly at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival
- The Zombie Dialogues Or "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Master"
- Last Night at Second City - Sunday, May 4, 2008
- "Tazed and Confused" Now Playing
- Previews for "Tazed and Confused"
Press Quotes & Articles
Here you will find a collection of newspaper interviews and performance reviews. Feel free to peruse the selected quotes or click on the links provided to read the full article.
Interviews
| Q&A: Jim Annan | "Jim Annan is the latest in a long line of great Second City straight men like Bob Martin, Jonathan Wilson and Paul Bates: clean-cut, unthreatening and funny as hell...", Glenn Sumi - NOW Toronto |
Reviews
| Review of | ||
|---|---|---|
| About An Hour - Toronto Fringe | "About an Hour features some of the best long-form improv I have ever seen." J. Kelly Nestruck - Globe and Mail | See full article |
| About An Hour - Toronto Fringe | "Welcome to About an Hour, where one audience suggestion explodes into 60 minutes of side-splitting improvised comedy." Mark Selby - Toronto Star, Highly Recommended | See full article |
| About An Hour - Toronto Fringe | Eye Weekly & NOW Magazine both award 4 out of 5 stars, and choose the show as a "Critic's Pick" | See full article |
| Tazed & Confused | "From start to finish, there's not a single boring sketch; the cast is skilled, Doug Morency's direction brisk...Annan is killer as a blond-tressed hunk, and the dialogue is so ripely sexual it can't be quoted in a family newspaper. It's hysterical..." Richard Ouzounian - Toronto Star, 3 out of 4 stars | See full article |
| Tazed & Confused | "The veteran in the lineup is fair-haired Jim Annan, who is especially winning as a divorced dad..." Robert Cushman - National Post | See full article |
| Facebook of Revelations | "Jim Annan is front and centre from the very start, as he slickly leads the company...", Richard Ouzounian - Toronto Star, 4 out of 4 stars | See full article |
| Facebook of Revelations | "...it's probably got the highest sketch-to-laughter ratio of any SC show in years.", Glenn Sumi - NOW Toronto, 4 out of 5 stars | See full article |
| Facebook of Revelations | "It's been a long time since I've seen a Second City revue as thoroughly entertaining as this one", Michael Posner - Toronto Globe and Mail, 3.5 out of 4 stars | See full article |
| Facebook of Revelations | "You know you're watching a comedy sketch fated to live again in future Second City 'best-of' shows when it gets loud applause in the middle of the sketch." Jim Slotek - Toronto Sun, 4.5 out of 5 stars | See full article |