Canadian Audience: Comedy and Immigrant Comics

canadian audience: Not bound by political correctness, they can get away with jokes that others can't, poke fun at others and laugh with a Canadian audience on such sensitive topics as white privilege, according to Toronto Star. Now a group of immigrant comics is hoping to draw on their experiences to entertain multicultural Toronto through a monthly standup comedy show, Comedy as a Second Language, which kicks off Friday at the Social Capital Theatre on Danforth Ave. YouTube By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., Jan. 26, 2017 Caught between cultures, immigrants may say things inadvertently and act in unusual ways that are funny to other Canadians. Comedy is a language. That's how I feel, said Carol Zoccoli, who came up with the idea when she moved here from Brazil in 2013 and found little live comedy for immigrants. I have learned so much about people and their culture through comedy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.