You know what makes the Irish laugh? Everything. Even before the show starts.
Got to perform the inaugural TheatreSports Ireland show thanks to this hard working fella, Darren Yorke of Grand Stretch Improv.
Got too drunk/excited to take a cast photo, but Darren joined me, Denise Jones, Michael Teigen, Dan Dumsha, Duane Keogh, and special guest Dave Keogh on guitar. Here are some of us, already drinking before the show started.
Oh man – this was the VERY last contract that Second City has with NCL. Due to a cast member’s family emergency, I got to swoop in for a week and get one last taste of that delicious sea life on the Norwegian Gem.
There were no better people in the world to get caught in a post-lobster roll Maine downpour than these beautiful maniacs.
Wrote the opening monologue for Anthony Anderson (“Blackish”), which he absolutely nailed.
Then he brought me on stage to give me kudos for writing it.
Who does that? This guys does.
(As you can tell by my goofy facial expression, I was NOT expecting that.)
So this was pretty damn great. I won the Sondra Kelly Award – which is a cash prize given to a women mid-career, who needs some moola to finish a project.
I won with my half-hour comedy, Given Up – about my gong-show life with adoption. The cash not only gives me some breathing room to finish a new version – but it also allowed me to fly out my co-creator Gary Jones. So he could watch me thank him in person.
Yes. I’m up there in bare feet. If you’re curious, these are the sexy new shoes I bought that were trying to murder me after an hour of mingling.
Thanks so much to the WGC and the legacy of Sondra Kelly.
Is there anything more fun that four wickedly hilarious women performing for a group of wickedly appreciative women? Yes. When there’s a guy on piano.
Thanks Jennine Proffeta, Karen Parker, Kevin J. Baker and our hilarious host Laurie Elliot.
I will never forget ‘Over-Sharon’ who pulled her entire skirt over her head while gyrating suggestively towards me.
Oh my home town of Maple Ridge got a face full of funny shit last night.
Things I learned from our Sex & The Suburbs Show on Saturday January 21st, 2017
What a crazy bunch o’ fun working on this show was. We shot four episodes in March of 2016, then CBC Comedy got involved and we shot another two in November.
Watch all six episodes HERE on the CBC Comedy website.
Things I learned on The Smartass-ociates:
L-R: Sarah Goodman, Nicolas Billon, Avrum Jacobson, Diana Frances, Molly Clayton, Eric Putzer & Ruth Madoc-Jones
We did it. After an amazing three months in a writing room with Avrum Jacobson, and another two months working with mentors to create original series ideas, we are DONE.
Click HERE to see the 2 minute teaser for my 1/2 hour original comedy ‘Touring Company,’ based on my early life as a children’s performer.
So much love to my fellow residents, and all the people who work behind the scenes to make the CFC Primetime TV Program such a success. Now, we leave the womb, cut the cord and get shot out into the world of writing television.
So very excited to be one of six residents for the 2015/16 Bell Media Primetime TV Writing Program at the Canadian Film Centre.
Our showrunner will be the lovely Avrum Jacobson (Endgame, The Listener, ReGenesis) and I couldn’t be more thrilled!
Ladies of the Lower Mainland! You are not going to want to miss this hilarious improv show starring the Ladies of Leave it to Cleavage!
Grab your girlfriends, sip snappy cocktails and laugh your lashes off. Complete improvised – even the Talk Show, featuring special guests from the audience. Which could be YOU!
Sex & The Suburbs:
Starring Ellie Harvie, Christine Lippa, Denise Jones and a special surprise guest!
October 9th, 2015
7:30pm
Click HERE to buy tickets!
Diana Frances 
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