Black Jack comedy tour comes to Strathmore

Times Reporter

 

The Black Jack Comedy tour featuring Matt Billon and the King of Canadian Comedy Mike MacDonald will be coming to Strathmore on March 2. Tickets are only $20 and the show will be held at the Travelodge. 

“There’s really no subject that we don’t tackle, we kind of cover all bases together and we put on a great show,” said Billon.

“It’s two acts for the price of one really, it’s really two really good acts that it’s obvious from the chemistry on stage that we’re friends, that we get along, and that we both have a different style, but it’s both with the same kind of attitude or opinion,” said MacDonald. 

The two men met at a Just For Laughs festival in Montreal in 2003. Billon had just finished a show when MacDonald approached him and introduced himself. 

When Billon went to Los Angeles a few months later and reconnected with MacDonald, the two have been good friends ever since. They soon started doing tours together in the summer, and decided to keep going a book a few tours together each year.

“That’s always the thing with comedy you never get to pick who you’re working with it’s always through different agents and so this is the only tour that Mike and I can control and make sure that we know who we’re working with and that we enjoy each others company,” said Billon. 

Doors to the show open at 8 p.m. and any one looking to reserve seats can call 403-901-7196.