Published Sep 19, 2023 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 2 minute read
Growing up watching comedy shows on VHS tapes with his dad sparked a love that’s grown into a full-time career for a local entertainer.
“I’ve always loved (comedy),” said Chatham native Max Sheldrick. “My dad used to show me comedy specials. He had a whole ton of them on VHS (analog video recordings).
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“I remember the first one he ever showed me was An Evening With Roger Williams,” Sheldrick said.
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“I told him when I was a young man that I wanted to do comedy.”
Sheldrick, 31, cut his comedy teeth at clubs and open mic nights in Windsor and Detroit before moving to Toronto in 2017.
“I didn’t really know how to do it. I didn’t know where to go,” he said. “I grew up essentially on a farm in Chatham.
“All I knew was I had to go to a city and so that’s why I went to Windsor.”
Sheldrick relies heavily on life experiences for his routines and figures his gift for comedy is enhanced by his energy, delivery and perspectives.
“It’s always personal stories and observations with me,” he said, adding he works hard, always trying to improve his writing and joke structure.
His ultimate goal is to get a visa, which would allow him to work in the United States.
Sheldrick has performed at the Cottage Country Comedy festival in Muskoka, Toronto Comedy festival, Haymaker Comedy Festival in Picton, Georgian Bay comedy festival and The Just For Laughs Toronto festival.
He brings his FOMO Comedy Ontario Tour, along with fellow comedians Jordan Policicchio and Faraz Niafattah, to Windsor’s Meteor Club on Oct. 20.
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Sheldrick said it’s great to bring the show back home.
“It’s tough,” he said. “This is my full-time job so weekends are taken up, always. And my family works during the weekdays.
“So the fact that I can come down, bring a show down, I can see my family (and) they can see what I do for a living and they can have a great time, a great night out. It means the world.”
Fellow comedian Policicchio recently finished a 15-city cross-Canada comedy tour with stand-up comedian and actor Abbas Wahab and has opened for Toronto-based comic Che Durena at New York Comedy Club.
He is a featured act at Toronto’s Absolute Comedy, The Corner Comedy Club and was just added to Yuk Yuk’s Rising Stars roster.
Niafattah is an Iranian-Canadian Toronto-based comedian who performs across Canada, including a recent performance at the Prince Edward County Comedy Festival.
Tickets for the Oct. 20 show are $25 advance through eventbrite or $30 at the door if available.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., showtime is 7:30 p.m.
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