Heckled

Ben Miner joins Jimmer Lowe to talk about Sirius XM's Top Comic Competition, leaning into Hecklers and his predictions for the NBA and NHL seasons...that part didn't age well. 

Canadian Comedy Award winner Sandra Battaglini joins Jimmer Lowe for Episode 8 of Heckled to talk Canadian Comedy, CASC (Canadian Association of Stand Up Comedians) and of course, Dried Figs. You can find her on Instagram at @SandraBattaglini and can learn more about CASC at @canadianstandup. 

Craig Scorgie joins Jimmer Lowe to talk Sketch Comedy, the Toronto Sketch Festival and how to start a brawl at a show in London, On. 

Comedian Black Zeus joins Jimmer Lowe to discuss his journey in Comedy, burglary at No Frills, and of course, the positive effects of Acid.

Yuk Yuk's comedian Kyle Brownrigg joins Jimmer Lowe to discuss his journey in Canadian Comedy, what it was like to record his Debut Comedy Album 'Unmedicated The New Fragrance, and his experience getting brutally Heckled in front of his Aunts.

Michael Moses, a rostered Yuk Yuks Comedian, joins Jimmer Lowe to talk Canadian Comedy, the time Michael got hit by a bottle of Heineken and the Raptors chances of repeating as Champions. 

Comedian Leonard Chan joins Jimmer Lowe to talk about his start in Comedy, the business side of Canadian Comedy and his time performing for a Biker Gang Bachelor Party. 


Born and raised in Toronto, Leonard performs stand-up all across Canada. He has been heard on CBC's The Debaters, Laugh Out Loud, and Sirius/XM radio, published on CBC Comedy and the Beaverton, and seen on stage at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival, JFL42, worked with Ronny Chieng, Rhea Butcher, and Joel Kim Booster, and was one of the New Faces at Just For Laughs in Montreal.
He won the 2016 Absolute Comedy Prove You’re a Comic competition and the 2018 Comedy Brawl, besting 400 other comedians for the title. He was recently mentioned by CBC as one of the fifteen Canadian comedians to watch in 2019.
His pilot, Forever Home, was one of five finalists selected for the CBC Originals Stand Up and Pitch contest at the Just For Laughs festival in 2018 and he wrote You Want It What Way: A Boy Band Tale which was recognized as one of the top shows at the 2019 Hamilton Fringe. He’s also spent a little time in the writer’s room for international TV hit Kim’s Convenience.  He has two degrees in chemical engineering which he now uses only as punchlines.

Comedian Karen Parker joins Jimmer Lowe to discuss her progression through Second City, what it’s like on the other side of casting and how comedians can fix their iron deficiencies. 

Karen is a 4 time Canadian Comedy Award winning/Dora nominated actor and an alumnae of the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She has Assistant Directed two MainStage shows, was Director of the National Touring Compnay , Family Co. and House Co. She has performed with theatre companies across Canada. Selected film and television credits include: What We Do in The Shadows, TallBoyz, Mrs. America, Designated Survivor, Odd Squad People of Earth, Baroness Von Sketch Show, Hemlock Grove, Beauty & The Beast, The Firm, Saving Hope and Being Erica. 

When not performing she is an acting and improv instructor at the Second City Training Centre and Making Box Theatre. Karen also travels the world performing with the Lusty Mannequins most recently at the Edinburgh Festival as well as facilitating corporate improv workshops and has worked with companies such as Royal Bank, Rogers, PWC and Deloitte. 

Comedian Guled Abdi joins host Jimmer Lowe to Discuss his role on the new Hit CBC Show Tallboyz, working with Shad and Bruce Mccullugh and his future as a French Horn player for Lizzo.

Guled Abdi is a comedian, writer and 1/4 of the multi-award winning sketch troupe TallBoyz II Men. He's performed at OFF-JFL, Montreal Sketchfest and the Toronto Fringe Festival. You can catch Guled on TallBoyz on CBC Gem or at random bar you didn't know had a comedy show.