Yuk Yuks Comedy Night at BP Cobourg

Join us for a night of food, drinks, fun, and comedic performances brought to you by Yuk Yuks on Tour.

Tickets are $20 per person, groups of more than 6 are to call the restaurant directly for availability. 905-372-4222.

Viewer discretion is advised.

Headliner GEORGE WESTERHOLM

George is a Gemini, Canadian Screen Award and Canadian Comedy Award-winning writer/producer/director/musician/comedian who has worked on numerous television shows, including The Rick Mercer Report, and This Hour has 22 Minutes. In addition to political satire, George has written for award shows, documentaries, the Pan Am games, and animated series, including the critically acclaimed 6teen. 

Some of the many performers he has written for include Howie Mandel, Jason Priestly, Jane Krakowski, Gordon Pinsent, Andrea Martin, Weird Al Yankovic, Tom Green, Mark McKinney, Sean Cullen and Shannon Tweed. George has toured across Canada, the US and Britain as a performer. His theatre show ‘Unscheduled Stopover’ was nominated for ‘Pick of the Fringe’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

You can also read a little about his life as a comic in the book “I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics” published by Crown Publishers. 

MC Danish Anwar

Danish Anwar's comedy resume is so thick that the Kardashians are suing for copyright. He is an award-winning comedian and a trendsetting producer, known for selling out shows worldwide at venues like the iconic Comedy Store in LA, the ultra-cool Tokyo Comedy Bar in Japan, where he's a recurring favourite, and the prestigious National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He has worked with comedy titans like Dave Attell, Russell Peters and Paul Provenza and performed at major festivals like Just For Laughs, ZOOFEST, and the Magners International Comedy Festival in Bangkok. He's also the founder of the comedy label Toronto Comedy All Stars, and was featured in an award-winning documentary about comedy called " Stand Up Toronto. Danish possesses an impressively wide range of comedy, spanning everything from fully uncensored roasts to corporate clean shows, such as writing on CBC shows such as Because News, The Debaters and Laugh Out Loud, and creating the global roast battle sensation Your Hood’s A Joke, which plays in LA, NYC, Tokyo, Winnipeg and Toronto with expansions in Barcelona and Amsterdam in 2023.

Featuring Cathy Boyd

Cathy Boyd is a brutally honest stand-up comedian based in Toronto. Known for her dry demeanour, her punchline-heavy act impresses audiences everywhere. Her most notable recent appearance was on Season One of Canada’s Got Talent, where judge Howie Mandel remarked, “You’re very funny. You’ve found your calling.”

In 2020, Cathy released her debut album, Wise Tracks, available on SiriusXM’s She’s So Funny and SiriusXM Comedy Club, and on most streaming platforms. She can also be heard on CBC Laugh Out Loud Radio. Cathy regularly performs at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs.

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Other notable credits include the Jersey City Comedy Festival, where she was chosen as both an audience pick and an industry pick; the SLO Comedy Festival; Montana’s Big Sky Comedy Festival; Seattle International Comedy Competition; the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston; finalist in New York’s She Devil Comedy Festival; The Boston Comedy Festival; Maine Comedy Festival; and Rogue Island Comedy Festival. In 2019, she was crowned Comedian of the North.