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Hello everyone, welcome to October. I call it the best month for several reasons, mostly Halloween at the end of the month. My last two years’ costumes have been pretty… involved, as you can see here and here. This year I still haven’t settled on a costume – feel free to give me some ideas.

As for shows in the month of October, there’s already some pretty cool stuff in the works. This Sunday you can see me at Sunday Night Live, with our host Amanda Walsh (formerly of MuchMusic and other stuff). She was at read-through tonight, and was super-funny. After that show I’m taking a week off to head back to Nova Scotia for my traditional Thanksgiving meal of several donairs. I’m going to see if there’s an open-mic of any kind I can perhaps drop in on. After I get back, Sunday Night Live is gonna have a pretty awesome guest… I’m not sure I’m supposed to say anything, so I, uh, won’t. Yet.

As for shows here in Toronto, I’ll be appearing next Wednesday night at Corktown Comedy (one of my favourite rooms in the city, which I randomly ended up hosting last Wednesday). After that you can see Approximately 3 Peters at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Saturday November 6th. There’s rumoured to be a special guest in attendance… okay, it’s my Mom. But it’ll be the first time she’s seen me perform live in years. Come on out and convince her that her son is funny. Finally, I’ll be doing my first set at The Rivoli’s ALTdotCOMEDY stand-up show, Monday November 8th.

Finally, I recorded a radio commercial for Mobilicity Wireless this week – listen for the one with the dopey guy who’s locked into a cellphone contract! Oh, and the McDonalds commercial should begin airing any time now.

In parting, two awesome events happening in Toronto this weekend. One is the Nuit Blanche festival, which is seriously one of my favourite things about this city. I highly encourage all to take part. Secondly is the Fresh Meat Showcase, happening Monday night at the Second City. I’m hugely excited and proud that my girlfriend Alice Moran has been invited to perform – 5 nominees will be selected for this year’s Tim Sims Encouragement Award. It’s gonna be an awesome night!

I leave you all with a picture from Nuit Blanche 2008. Be there!

I think this art was made out of old water bottles. Either way, we randomly saw the mayor checking it out!

Some fun stuff going on in the past few weeks, as well as some great shows coming up.

This week I shot a McDonald’s commercial, which saw me eat about 60 muffins (or at least, bites of muffins) in one day. Look for that commercial to start annoying you during your favourite shows in a few weeks.

Last night I hosted the latest show by The Majors (Pete Hill, Mike Kiss, Paul Snepsts, and Brian Crosby). If there’s an unfunny sketch about the Incredible Hulk, I haven’t seen it. I also just got the news that Approximately 3 Peters will be performing at this year’s Toronto Sketch Festival. Check us out Saturday, November 6th at Comedy Bar.

Speaking of Comedy Bar, I practically live there now. Sunday Night Live has been going great, and we’ve got another show coming up this weekend. Sunday, September 19th with host Dan Galea and musical guest Sarah Loucks.

Lastly we have new episodes of The Puffin, plus a review I recently wrote of The Social Network, for Dork Shelf. In the world of “things I didn’t have a hand in”, I saw this last night on The Daily Show, and this on The Colbert Report. I think it might be road trip time…

So this past weekend saw a lot of time spent at Comedy Bar. Friday night Alice Moran, Cam Wylie, and myself played our first Catch 23 show under the team name Mighty Morphin’ Pizzeria (so named for Billy, the Blue Ranger, and the pizza franchise he currently owns). Oddly we managed to win – so we’ll be back at Catch 23 soon enough!

Saturday was the Peters 5th Anniversary, which was even more fun than I could have imagined. Sets from Boiled Wieners, Ms. Chickaburns, and the Somethingorothers – it doesn’t get any better than that. You can also see the behind the scenes video Brian Crosby (Accidental Company, The Puffin) shot:

Seriously, thanks to all who came out and wished well!

The following day I did my second Sunday Night Live show, which saw me playing an escaping convict, a blind king, an angry father, and an underground muffin enthusiast. Thanks, theatre degree! Next week we’re back with an all-new host!

This weekend I’ll be covering the Toronto Fan Expo for Dork Shelf, and trying to sneak in as much Assassin’s Creed 2 as I can. See you on the con floor!

Hey everyone, so the moment is finally here! Tomorrow night at Comedy Bar we have the Approximately 3 Peters 5th Anniversary! Woo! As previously stated we’ll be joined by 2 amazing troupes – The Boiled Wieners and Ms. Chickaburns – but we’ve also added another seldom-seen comedy act to the bill. They’re one of my personal favourites… The Somethingorothers! Plus, the entire evening will now be hosted by Mr. Mike Kiss!

Oh, and there’s been press for the show – you can check out what Eye Weekly and Panic Manual had to say! You can also hear me go on at great length about the 3 Peters on last week’s Comedy Above The Pub podcast, with Todd Van Allen and Ian Atlas. That one was a load of fun.

Seriously, it doesn’t get any better than this show. We’ve got some of our favourite old material, plus a surprising amount of new scenes. The whole show starts at 8pm sharp, Comedy Bar (945 Bloor St. W. $5.00).

In other comedy news, you can also catch me… at Comedy Bar (I’m just gonna set up a cot there). Tonight I’ll be performing in Catch 23 with Alice Moran, and Sunday I’ll be performing with The Sketchersons at Sunday Night Live. Our guest this weekend is Graham Chittenden, and musical guest is Carly and Mark. So much comedy…

Oh, and if you haven’t seen it already, one of my favourite comic book series came to a close this week. Here’s to Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina #50!

Hey everyone, lots of new coming up this summer. First off, I’ll be joining the Sketchersons at their weekly Sunday Night Live show! Huzzah! My first show will be Sunday August 15th (9:30pm, $8, Comedy Bar). The host will be TSN’s Dan O’Toole – come check out the show.

The next weekend you can come on back to Comedy Bar, to see the Approximately 3 Peters 5th Anniversary Show! We’ve got a 50-minute set of some of our favourite, funniest, most popular, or least-seen sketches, plus some all-new material, and we can’t wait for you to see it! Show is Saturday August 21st (8pm sharp, $5, Comedy Bar). Joining us will be special one-night-only performances by some of our favourite sketch troupes of the past few years – Boiled Wieners, and Ms. Chickaburns! Seriously, this is gonna be the social event of the season!

Finally, you can come see me compete in the Semi-Final of the Toronto Comedy Brawl, up against such excellent comedians as K. Trevor Wilson and Jamie O’Connor. I may even try to be funny. Come see that one Tuesday August 24th (8pm, $5, Crown & Tiger).

The only other news I’ve got is that this summer has been great – saw Jerry Seinfeld the other night (something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid), the new Arcade Fire album is pretty solid, and I’m currently enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon with 1989′s Batman on Sun TV . Have a good one!

Hey everyone, just finished the Sunday Night Live Audition Show on Sunday, which was a drunken blast! Tonight I’m off to the Crown & Tiger to compete in the 2nd round of Ian Atlas’ Toronto Comedy Brawl, Round Two! $50 is on the line here, people!

In other news, the Peters and I are working on our 5th Anniversary Show – looking forward to dusting off some old classic scenes!

5 Years Later...

There’s a new Puffin this week, plus some new MacIntyre Dispatch on the way. Oh, and I have yet to see Inception, which shames me. Hope everyone’s having a great summer!

*UPDATE!* In last night’s Comedy Brawl Quarterfinal Show, Ian MacIntyre (ie. myself) came in a respectable 3rd place, and will be moving on to the Semi-Finals in August! Also moving on from that evening are Diana Love, Geoff Hendry, and Miriam Verburg! Check back for more info on the shows, and perhaps a satisfying explanation of how I squeaked through after only bringing one friend to the show.

Hey everyone, so this week I’ll be working on a showcase show for long-running Toronto sketch comedy outfit The Sketchersons (those of Sunday Night Live). Our show will be on Sunday the 20th – I know everyone involved will be pulling out all the stops. It’ll be a hot show – you heard it here first.

In other news, Just For Laughs was fun (saw a Patton Oswalt show that was well worth the price of admission). The Peters and I just finished a wicked show at the Polaris Sci-Fi Convention (in the hugest land-based venue I’ve ever played), new Puffin last week, and I’ve put some new posts up on The MacIntyre Dispatch.

Oh, and the trailer for Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s The Social Network is the second best thing I’ve seen all week (the best was Alice’s killer stand-up set at Corktown Comedy). Check both out at your next opportunity.

Hey everybody reading this (?), had a couple of really great shows this week. I performed last night with Pete Hill at the Fringe Festival tent to promote next week’s Just For Laughs show. Lot’s of fun stuff from Pat Thornton, John Hastings, and Mark Forward – and us, who had to shout into mics to be heard.

PET3RS at Just For Laughs!

Speaking of Just For Laughs, we’re doing Just For Laughs! The Peters and I have wanted to do this festival for years, and now we’re opening for TJ Miller and Heavyweight. It’s this coming Saturday at… the Rivoli (we’ll try to act surprised). Check it out here!

Also this past week, I somehow made it past the first round of Ian Atlas’ Comedy Brawl Tournament. My next set will be Tuesday, July 20th – I’m planning to get trounced by some amazing comics like K Trevor Wilson and Stacey McGunnigle. More info here!

Oh, and in keeping with the title of this post, new Futurama is back, and it’s awesome. That is all.

Hey everyone, this is Ian MacIntyre – welcome to my website! Huge thanks go out to Alice Moran, who set this site up for me.

I’m a writer, comedian, and actor based out of Toronto, Ontario. I’m originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia… but you can learn all that stuff here on the website. I’ll be keeping this up to date with news about upcoming shows, projects and information. Hope you like what you see!