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Comedy Now!: Simon B. Cotter - King of the Road

Simon B. Cotter

CTV · 1998 · 30 min

A highly polished, clean look at the indignities of domestic life.

Simon B. Cotter spent his early professional life selling real estate before pivoting to stand-up, a background that heavily informs his agreeable stage persona. King of the Road captures him as he was earning his reputation on the Canadian college circuit. He works clean, leaning on universally recognizable domestic friction like marriage, raising daughters, and the mild humiliations of trying to stay in shape.

Produced for the second season of the Canadian stand-up anthology series Comedy Now!, the set aired on CTV in the fall of 1998. Cotter is not trying to reinvent the medium here. He delivers a tightly constructed observational act built for wide appeal. It is the exact kind of polished, reliable material that eventually made him a heavily booked corporate entertainer.

How it plays

Tone
Down-to-earth, clean, observational, and witty.
On stage
Down-to-earth storyteller with a razor-sharp wit and dominating stage presence who makes a trademark of avoiding profanity and cheap laughs based on vulgarity, race, or gender.
Pace
Sharp, lively, and engaging.
About
everyday life observations, life experience, human absurdities

Backstory

Featured as Season 2, Episode 6 of the Canadian standup comedy showcase series Comedy Now! on CTV.

Details

Released
Runtime
30 min
Where
CTV
Honors
Canada's Comedian of the Year award
Topics

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