Just discovered this RU-vid video. I did not know that Acadia had given Ron an honorary doctorate degree. I will forever remember him in the musical Kiss Me Kate, where I first met him when we were both students at Acadia!
Well said Bra, we are first and foremost where we are from, not defined by terminology created by settlers. And WE can choose how we want to be addressed, not someone half way around the world who does not understand our history and journey!
This is my favourite guy. Hilarious. He has Trump bagged and packaged perfectly. Good on ya bud, for calling out the technology nerd. What a dead crowd. Must be too rapid fire ten dollar words for you Toronto. Wow, get a clown because you need to laugh. Poles firmly planted in most of them.
I put this on to show my kid what a great funny man Ron James was. Man, this was just terrible. He bombed, huge. It wasn't just the audience, his jokes were terrible and his timing was WAY off. Too many times he was fumbling for his next line. I don't know what was going on with him, but I hope he can recover.
...nothing wrong with his bits...was laughing hard here....he feeds off the crowd, and that crowd was shite...either too sensitive for a Ron James show (the likely problem) or just couldn't keep up...and he was slower than usual...see it more often nowadays....crowds are getting too 'weak kneed' anymore...lot of the best wouldn't likely go over as well these days....he was fumbling trying to figure out what was going to jar these guys awake...almost as if it wasn't geared to the 'right now' they just didn't get it....
Either this crowd is full of shit and can't enjoy comedy (half-assed laughing and limp handed clapping) or they're told not to. I stand on the other side of Ron's politics but love every word that he says, and defend his right to say them. One of the funniest guy's around. Way to go fellow bay boy!
It's a corporate gig so it is probably not geared to pick up audience reaction like they do for comedy shows where they mike the audience ... Check their website to have an idea of the audience he had to work with: www.ideacity.ca/about/ (;^)
The crowd must have come from a casino where the had lost everything they owned. He did fall a wee bit hard in some areas but he’s pretty funny for the most part in my opinion.
I see dead people. Horrible editing with long shots of sad looking people interrupting the man we came to watch, short clips of laughing people is the norm. All the same enjoyable, thank you for posting it.
Seen Ron James in old 'Air Farce' episodes, liked his bits, & decided to look him up. This is the first video I watched. What a disappointment! :( He made his lack of respect for conservatives, Americans, & history pretty clear. I was put off early by his joke that southern Alberta was a place where jokesters like him are whisked off to have their wagons fixed by goons working for Stephen Harper. Now obviously, that was in jest, I understand. But if you're trying to get on the good side of an audience, exaggerating the malevolence of the prime minister & smearing a region of Canada (my home) isn't the way to do it. My hope is that he was funnier in his younger days, because his work here mainly reeks of liberal boomer angst.
Ron used to be good. This was a lame set. The American political stuff > from a Canadian< was pitiful. He should leave it alone. It aint working. And I doubt he will be around much longer.
Sorry , but all he does is put down people. First he came out all positive about Canada, and being Canadian, but then he switched to hating on The U.S. Many canadians love America and have many relatives who live there, so his snarky comments on their brother to the south was met with stares of derision. A good comedian must know his audience, and do a bit of research before putting his foot in his mouth.
