Image courtesy of Sled Island’s website.
Tamara Shevon performed as a part of Sled Island Comedy, an event that took place during the festival on Saturday, 7pm at Vern’s.
TRANSCRIPT:
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Tamara, thank you so much for making the time to talk to me. I appreciate it. You hosted tonight’s show. Could you tell me a little bit about what it’s like to host versus perform just five minutes?
Tamara Shevon
Yeah, so hosting, you gotta make sure that you get the whole audience on board so that you don’t ruin the show for everyone else. So just a light pressure haha.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Hey, it’s fine, everybody just has to like you or this goes down in flames.
Tamara Shevon
Yeah, yeah, they’re gonna ask for a refund, and it’s gonna be your fault, basically. So yeah, you really have to set the tone, which is super hard to do when you don’t live in the place that you are performing in. So I was happy. Luckily, I lived in Alberta for a bit, so it was nice.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
I’m so sorry to hear that.
Tamara Shevon
It was, it was a national park.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
You lived in? Banff? No? What National Park other than Banff, is there?
Tamara Shevon
I lived in Waterton Lakes National Park. So nice, so nice. But four streets, you get to plan trips to go to Pincher Creek, yeah, so you can get deodorant. So-
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Everybody get in the car. It’s toothpaste day.
Tamara Shevon
It’s toothpaste humble day.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
If it’s not, no name brand, I don’t want it.
Tamara Shevon
Truly, it has to be a quaint.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Life brand from fucking Shoppers Drug Mart. Don’t use their Vagisil, Chlamydia, Chlamydia, Monica will know all about that. She can tell you. So you mentioned that your boyfriend is a white guy. I also date white guys. I have a question for you. Why do they like metal music so much, and how can we get them to stop?
Tamara Shevon
I’m wondering why my boyfriend loves metal so much. I’m like, you have had no struggle, so I don’t understand what you’re screaming about. Your mom makes your lunch, but pop off, yeah, but I don’t know. But, like, we met during a Rammstein concert.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
So I’ve caught you in a lie—no, just kidding, I also like—you’re like me and Rammstein, we got something to yell about.
Tamara Shevon
Yeah, yeah, but our wedding song is gonna be “Du Hast” so.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
That’s kind of beautiful, honestly “Du Hast”-you have me forever. I must come clean and say that my first boyfriend was a metal head and yeah, so we did go to Iron Maiden together. You will catch me at the gig. Verns is actually a well known metal venue. That’s what all those symbols are. That’s what all the stickers are all Calgary metal bands.
Tamara Shevon
Oh, my God, okay, I love that. Because I knew that this was a metal venue when I walked in and I was like, do we have to smoke cigarettes outside?
Brooklyn (CJSW)
No, it’s actually encouraged to do it right here. Shout out the show Indoor Smoking on CJSW 90.9. My really good friend hosts a show called Indoor Smoking because he loves to smoke indoors. He’s not allowed to smoke in the booth. For the record, he doesn’t! How do you feel about smoking?
Tamara Shevon
I love smoking, but I should stop.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
That’s what everybody says, yeah.
Tamara Shevon
Thats the metal in me, that’s-
Brooklyn (CJSW)
That’s what you’re screaming about. Get me off the nic!
Tamara Shevon
Get me off nic!
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Get me off the nicotine. In your set, you said that Calgary people were really nice. Would you like me to be meaner to you?
Tamara Shevon
No, I already live in Toronto. No, I love everyone’s so nice here. They’ll just talk to you, just because you’re talking to them, which is like the nicest thing ever. Literally, someone helped me pull my debit card out of the machine because my nails are too long and like, didn’t even look to see like my balance or rob me. And I was like, okay, Dalai Lama, like-
Brooklyn (CJSW)
In Toronto, they’d cut your hand off and take your debit card.
Tamara Shevon
Yeah, we wouldn’t be doing this interview. I’d be in memorium.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
This is a tribute to Tamara Shevon, who was killed, fatally in a debit card accident. Please, there’s a GoFundMe in bio. Her funeral song will be “Du Hast” by Rammstein.
Tamara Shevon
You’re funny.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Thank you, Monica. See what else I have to say. Your boyfriend’s white. Calgary people, nice. Toronto comedy scene. How big is it? What’s it like? I’ve only ever done in Calgary. I only know about Calgary and Vancouver, really. Give me a little tidbit on the Toronto scene.
Tamara Shevon
There are a lot of people. It’s very fun. There’s a room you can go to it on every night. But the same thing as everything else, it’s like you have, you have a mix, yeah, you have a mix of pros, and then people that are just starting. And we kind of lost the middle area right now. So and the pros are kind of intimidating, so I’m trying to make that more helpful, and like bridge those people a bit more. But it’s Toronto, so it’s gonna take a while.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
They can’t spell friendly. You have to spell it out for him, yeah. Well, no, when I first started at RatBoy, which is here I had Alex, no, cut that out. Her name’s not Alex. Erin Wood—that’s my sister. Yeah, she was, like, the first comedian, give me a hug and be like, fucking awesome. You got to keep with this.
Tamara Shevon
Erin Wood is one of my favorite people ever.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
As I live and breathe Erin Wood,
Tamara Shevon
Erin Wood for president, like, I, like, literally, Erin Wood for prime minister. Erin Wood for mom.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Erin Wood for mother of the year. Give her the Glad, the Emmy, the the whatever, um the Webby, they give that to the internet.
Tamara Shevon
Yeah? The the EGOT. We need give Aaron the EGOT
Brooklyn (CJSW)
The E stands for Erin in EGOT. Let’s hear it for Miss Erin Wood, she also did like a YouTube video with Nathan, or no, a real an Instagram reel.
Tamara Shevon
Okay, no. Comics are in my algorithm. I just, I refuse to watch anyone’s stories but my own. That’s a comic. Because I don’t, I don’t need to see like, show posters all day. Like, when I go on Instagram, it has to be like, Love is Blind updates, like Love Island updates, like Real Housewives of whatever. I don’t care what city it could be. Even in Australia, I don’t care. And then obviously, like Power Slap, which is just like people slapping each other in the face and their eyes change. And yeah, Mug Shotties, which is just like hot girls that get arrested.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
I love Mug Shotties. Shout out Mug Shotties. The hottest bitches are on Mug Shotties. I didn’t say bitches, sorry, this is for work. The hottest young females are on Mug Shotties. Who is your favorite, Real Housewife of New York, and why?
Tamara Shevon
Ooh, I like Luann.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
The Countess, do you like it when she sings?
Tamara Shevon
No, but I think it’s hilarious. I think it’s hilarious. I It’s like, when Kim Zolciak was like, did that? Whoa, whoa, whoa. And he was like, What is this? But I love Luann. Luann just like, so beautiful. So like, in her truth, always likes my Instagram. Comments. Like Luanne, please. Let’s hang out.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
Luann de Lesseps the Countess. She likes my friends, story posts all the time. Yeah, she’s the best. I am a Dorinda truther. She does live in my heart because she can’t say the word, texts “Texas”, and that is really true to me, because my, my dad is, like, almost 70, like, I’m an old dad.
Tamara Shevon
What happens if they get a text in Texas-multiple they get, they have “Texas in Texas”
Brooklyn (CJSW)
We just got a wheelchair them out of there. Honestly, it’s, it’s a wrap for them, a little bit, I fear, the real, the real patients of New York City, throughout the real house patients.
Tamara Shevon
The real homes of Texas.
Brooklyn (CJSW)
The real nursing homes of Texas. Okay, thank you so much. Tamara, this has been absolutely lovely.
Tamara Shevon
You’re the best.