After a particularly chilly and wet winter and spring, Pacific Northwesterners are happily diving into the promise of sun-kissed summer days spent under cooling forest canopies and on glistening waterways throughout the region.
Apart from that, there’s not a weak album on the list. And the comics hail from across the country, so there’s that.
Horse Power
Vancouver-based comic
Jacob Samuel is technically one of the best stand-ups of the bunch. He’s perfected his wise, snarky delivery, and his material feels uniquely his own. But in
Horse Power (800 Pound Gorilla Records), something about his act seems too exact, almost chilly; there’s no warmth, nothing to endear him to us.
That’s not to say he isn’t clever. The way he deconstructs the cliché dating advice “there are lots of fish in the sea” to comment on the environment is sharp. And you get a good sense of his personality by the way he analyzes the word “efficient”.
Reviews of this year’s Juno-nominated comedy albums
Matt Wright and Nick Nemeroff head up a strong list of hilarious, but not very diverse, comedy albums By Glenn Sumi
Mar 12, 2021
There s not a weak link among this year s Juno nominees for comedy album, so it s too bad the list lacks diversity.
There’s a glaring lack of diversity in this year’s nominees for best Juno comedy album. All five comics are white, and four are straight dudes. Where’s Brandon Ash-Mohammed’s Capricornication or Nick Reynoldson’s I’ll Be Fine (both reviewed here), or Rebecca Kohler’s Guilty And Disgusting, or Michelle Shaunessy’s Botoxic?