Best friends, best friends, making me laugh!!

Nat and Chrissy (Performed by Nat Feehan and Chrissy DeWitt) is a sketch comedy show that really lets you feel the love that two friends have for their art and the love and appreciation they have for an audience. Each segment of the show was, for myself, adding another layer of delightful joy either to their own isolated portion of the show OR to the overall construction of reoccurring bits.

It would be wrong of me to reveal any of the bits that occur but one of my favourite moments in the show reminded me of my favourite sketch from Saturday Night Live: The Delicious Dish Radio Show Christmas Special.

For those that don't know, that sketch is famous for the driest deliveries of the dirtiest jokes you've EVER heard about Christmas treats; however what makes that sketch live rent-free in my heart is the understanding that there are poor souls driving on the snowy roads on their way to Christmas parties with their families and imagining the mouth a-gapped faces of everyone unfortunate enough to listen to that particular broadcast.

My favourite moment from Nat and Chrissy took me to those places of comedic understanding. Intelligent and layered humour on the simplest of premises.

On occasion, I did ask myself "Is repetition of bits and moments making me feel entertained or am I just pulled out of the moment?" But as I was getting to that point, they pulled me back in and I, no exaggeration, started crying of laughter from how far we had gone and was, again, delighted with where we were at.

I have not known Chrissy or Nat for long at all and have only seen them kill it at Weird Al Kareoke (ALSO on at the Edmonton Fringe) but what I could inferred about them from this show is that they love comedy and making a connection with an audience. That connection, by the way, is not antagonistic.

To any aspiring comedians out there that feels being against the audience, berating, or putting them down sets them up for success in their performances, let Nat and Chrissy: Everything is on the Table stand as an example that the opposite is not just true, but makes the audience what to give you their laughter and love from the beginning to the end 🙌