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Three Welsh comics off to give Toronto a tongue-lashing at St David's Day comedy gig
Heard the one about the three Welsh comedians heading to Toronto to celebrate St Davids Day?
The St Davids Society of Toronto will hear all about it on Saturday night (March 3) as Phil Evans, Gary Slaymaker and Daniel Glyn jet into Canada for a night of stand-up comedy.
The three comedians will be performing their critically-acclaimed show The Dragon Has Three Tongues.
Its a showcase of the very best in Welsh comedy, said Evans.
Welsh audiences will be familiar with what the show is all about, but this is the first time we have taken it abroad.
The St Davids Day Society of Toronto is made up of Welsh exiles in Canada, so well be mixing the comedy with some hiraeth (longing) for the Land of My Fathers.
Messrs Evans, Slaymaker and Glyn are three familiar faces and voices in Wales and appear regularly on S4C (Welsh language TV) as well as BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.
Two years ago they joined forces to create The Dragon Has Three Tongues to provide an innovative showcase for their different talents.
Its funny and entertaining, with the accent firmly on matters Welsh, said Evans, the man who puts the cwtsh into comedy in Wales.
Its the comic equivalent of buy-one-get-one-free, except, of course that you get three comedians for the price of one, laughed Evans.
We can promise Toronto a true taste of Wales, something that will give them that extra-special cwtshi feeling.
Evans sparked an internet debate earlier this year on the use of the word cwtsh.
According to Evans, the resident Hug-meister of Wales, the correct spelling of the word is cwtsh.
I am sure there will be plenty of Welsh scholars out there willing to say different, but in my book it should always end in sh rather than ch, said Evans. It should be self evident as the ch in Welsh is usually pronounced in the same way as youd say loch.
Daniel Glyn has been working in comedy since 1991. He jokes that one day he'll get it right!
As well as performing stand-up in Welsh and English, he has also written gags for Stuart Cable, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Jonathan Davies, Bryn Terfel, Lesley Phillips, Dewi Pws Morris and Rhys Ifans.
After a varied career working in a video shop, comics shop, a bar and as a labourer, his big break came in the late 1980s when he presented a late-night show on BBC Radio Cymru.
He later moved over to television, presenting his film-review show Slaymaker.
In 2005 he published his first Welsh language novel 'Y Sach Winwns' (The Onion Bag).
Myfanwy Bajaj, President, of The St Davids Day Society of Toronto, said the The Dragon Has Three Tongues show would be a departure from the standard St Davids Day fare in Toronto.
She said: They say that a change is as good as a rest. Well there wont be any rest because we will all be too busy laughing!
Mixing our St Davids Day dinner with a comedy show is a new departure for us, but weve heard good reports that The Dragon Has Three Tongues is a highly-acclaimed show.
We have a new, younger group coming onto the Board of the Society, hoping that this will infuse some new life and enthusiasm into the society. It is very important to keep the Welsh connection alive in this diverse city of Toronto. We must all try to keep our identity in our multicultural surroundings.
Weblinks
http://www.philevans.co.uk
http://www.dewisant.com/stdavid/
@TheSlay
@DanielGlyn
@philevanswales
Pictures above of Phil Evans, Daniel Glyn and Gary Slaymaker and the poster for the Toronto gig.
Diolch for posting Robert
Wish I lived a bit closer to Toronto.