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It doesn't get any more GAYlarious than this New West Pride fundraiser

The New West Pride Society is inviting everyone to share a night of laughs for a good cause. The society is holding its GAYlarious fundraiser at Lafflines Comedy Club on Wednesday, July 3.
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The New West Pride Society is inviting everyone to share a night of laughs for a good cause.

The society is holding its GAYlarious fundraiser at Lafflines Comedy Club on Wednesday, July 3.

The night will feature a lineup of LGBTQ+ and ally comics, including some drag queen and king stand-up.

Hosting the evening will be Jennifer Robertson, best known to many as Jocelyn Schitt on CBC’s hit show Schitt’s Creek.

At the microphone will be Janice Bannister, an international headliner who hails from New Westminster. She’s a two-time winner of B.C.’s Funniest Female and has been featured on CBC, CTV and the Women’s Network. She has toured with I Am Woman Hear Me Laff (in 2014 and 2018) and with the Ha Ha Sisterhood, and she runs stand-up comedy classes through Laughter Zone 101.

Also onstage is Yumi Nagashima, a mainstay on the Vancouver comedy scene who has been featured on Just for Laughs North West and CBC’s Debaters and who was a finalist in the 2016 and 2017 Yuk Off competition.

Other comics include New Westminster’s Erin Jeffery, who was recently named to the Top 10 in the CBC Next Up Comedy Competition, and Steev Letts, “a big sweaty gay oaf” who won the 2018 Vancouver Yuk Off and the Breakout Artist of the Year title at the 2019 Vancouver Comedy Awards.

And, for the drag fans, Dust and Channing Titanium, known as two of the Lower Mainland’s most comedic drag performers, will also take to the stage.

Lafflines Comedy Club is at the Columbia Theatre, 530 Columbia St. GAYlarious is onstage from 6:30 to 10 p.m., and doors open at 6 p.m.

The show is for ages 19 and up, and viewer discretion is advised.

Book your tickets ahead through www.eventbrite.ca (you can use a direct link at www.tinyurl.com/GAYlarious2019). You can also find out more at www.lafflines.com.