Countdown to Bridgetown: Sean Cullen

By BEN WATERHOUSE

In just three weeks, Bridgetown Comedy Festival will flood every venue in the Hawthorne Stumble Zone with some 170 comedians for four days. It's more comedy than it is actually possible to consume, so scheduling your laughs is bound to pose a problem. To get you started, we'll post some fine video from a Bridgetown performer here every day* until the start of the festival.

Let's start with Seán Cullen, whom I love not only for his portrayal of my profession in the Canadian series Slings & Arrows but because he was robbed—robbed!—on season 6 of Last Comic Standing. The man is bizarre, and his comedy seems to come from some alien culture's idea of humor. Observe:

*If, y'know, we get around to it.

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