Like Father, Like Son? Sorry

What if he's nothing like me?

What if he's just like me?

Superman, C-sections, lying to people, horror-movie voices in the middle of the night, the regrets of a life half-lived and why talking to strangers is never easy.

A stand-up comedy show about the fears and worries of being a father and the absolute terror of wanting to be a good one.

History

The show premiered at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival, where it won Patron's Pick. It then played to sell-out houses at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (and would have won the best of fest, apparently, but I had to go to Just For Laughs. Just saying.) I was invited to perform it at the 2010 Next Stage Theatre Festival, and later in the 2010 Uno Festival. In April 2010 I performed an excerpt for the "True Stories And Other Lies" gala at the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Then the show sold out and was held over at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.

Next Up are the Calgary and Vancouver Fringe Festivals.

Like Father, Like Son? Sorry

“The comic's tremendous energy and wit sweeps the audience along like a heady drug.”
Victoria Times Colonist

“Gibbs' hour of observations about his first two years of fatherhood is as clever and funny a show as you'll see at this festival. A thoroughly entertaining and hilarious show that has my highest recommendation.”
Dean Jenkinson, CBC

“the improvisations, digressions, stumbles and dead-ends are as much part of the fun as his central narrative... laugh-for-laugh, Like Father (which features some of Gibbs's darkest, most personal material to date) is as funny as any show he's produced. Highly recommended.”
Eye Weekly, Toronto

"goes way beyond navel-gazing to ask profound (and very funny) questions about life, death and Star Trek, all delivered in Gibbs’s genial, self-effacing manner."
Now, Toronto

"He's one of the most uniquely persuasive solo performers around... it's all fresh, it's all funny, it's presented with wit and style... Highly recommended"
Toronto Star

“The jokes come so fast you could miss a third of them while you’re laughing.”
Winnipeg Free Press

"Gibbs is a master of the humour of self-consciousness, using digressions within digressions, asides within asides, to highlight his supposedly numerous failings while they simultaneously reveal his abundant wit.”
Eye Weekly, Toronto

“Gibbs' comedy is unparallelled. His observations about what it means to be a parent are honest, funny but above all, true and had me howling with laughter for the entire hour.”
Uptown Magazine

"Gibbs is at the top of his game, delivering what might well be his funniest stand up show ever, which for Gibbs is really saying something.Don't miss this show unless you don't like laughing your head off for sixty minutes."
UMFM