Comedian Lars Callieou bringing laughs to a few Grande Prairie backyards this week
Edmonton comedian Lars Callieou is bringing his Firepit Comedy Tour to Grande Prairie this week.
Callieou, who has been a traveling comedian for the past 17 years and has toured to 25 different countries, created the tour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Edmonton native was on tour with another comedian in Australia back in early March to kick off a three-month tour when COVID-19 started to spread rapidly.
“We landed in Australia at the beginning of March. I go there each year for three months and we got the call home,” explained Callieou. “We were just over a week into our three-month tour and the Prime Minister came on TV and said, ‘if you’re over seas you need to come home’, and we came home and isolated for a couple of weeks and then went 46 days without doing a live comedy show.”