Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we'll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome. He may no longer be standing (perhaps he's sitting, reclining, lounging even), but Toronto comedian Seán Cullen made a solid go of it on Last Comic Standing, despite the fact that Canadians weren't allowed to vote.......

Two Toronto police officers, along with three correctional officers and a real estate agent among others, were arrested yesterday for producing and distributing marijuana during a takedown of 63 grow ops across the GTA. Torontoist has made a principled decision not to make jokes about police malfeasance, mainly because our real names are printed at the bottom of each post. Remember that time you were shopping and had to go to the bathroom really......

Singers, singer-songwriters, comedians, rappers, and good-deed-doers came together Tuesday night at the Drake Hotel for It’s Always Something Else, an evening aid of Gilda’s Club Toronto, the organization named for Gilda Radner that offers free cancer support to those afflicted by the disease. For $25 a pop (or $45 including eats), guests were treated to no less than three floors of solid Canadian entertainment. In the infamously-packed Sky Yard, comics Sean Cullen and the......

Apparently laughing is the new Atkins, so if you're looking for a way to get that bikini bod in shape check out The Second City That Never Sleeps 24 hour comedy marathon this weekend at the city's premier chuckle club. The third annual presentation of this event features twenty-four continuous hours of improv comedy with a core group of actors from the troupe; this year it's Matt Baram, Lisa Brooke, Christy Bruce, Paul Constable,......

Every other Sunday night at the Drake Underground, David Shore hosts the always awesomely hilarious Monkey Toast, an improvised talk show. Each week he interviews a different guest - anyone from Nash the Slash to Quirks and Quarks' Bob MacDonald - and a troupe of six of the city's best improvisors do comedy based on the interview. The next Monkey Toast takes place on Sunday (April 30th) at 8pm, with Sean Cullen as David's guest.......

Sean Cullen is all over the place this summer. When he's not hosting Simply Sean, his summer radio show on the CEEB (Is Cullen heir to Danny Finkleman's recently-vacated throne, with his songs punctured by off the wall ramblings), he's putting together new material for the act he's taking to the Laugh Resort this evening. Cullen's only there for a four-night run, so here's hoping he'll get back to his free Monday night improv music......

The Year that Was: We won't presume to have seen it all, or read it all, or eaten it all. And so, a digested list of good things that happened in and around the GTA and the universe this year. Okay, in and around this year. Arrested Development, the DVD: A show everyone can love, and a replacement for the Office DVD, which we watched until we could watch no longer. "Unlimited juice...This party's gonna......

Those who fear that the execrable comedy stylings of Mike Bullard constitute Canada's only (living) contribution to the world of portly funnymen can take heart in the growing popularity of one Mr. Sean Cullen. Having under his long belt and his Gleasonesque pork-pie hat both a very odd, six-episode CBC miniseries and a stint as Max Bialystock in the TO production of The Producers, Cullen's been attending lately to the sorts of tasks that......