This Pint Has 20 Ounces

Were can you find standup comedy, knife juggling, and fire breathing in one place? With this week’s guest, Tom Allen of TomCat Performance! In our final remote-recorded episode we talk about how to get into circus performance, and the difference between English and Canadian comedy audiences. Tom says he has always had a performative compulsion, which led him to become a circus performer nearly 15 years ago, before immigrating to Canada. This started out with juggling fire, and led into fire eating, fire breathing, sword swallowing, unicycle riding, and a lot of other head turning performances. As a circus performer he had always tried to incorporate comedy into his routine, which he says is cheating a little bit, since it allowed him to get away with making mistakes that might have sunk a more serious performer.After moving to Canada a decade ago Tom gravitated towards circus performing here as well, and during the last oil boom frequently performed at corporate gigs, and even once set himself on fire doing s