It is not debatable that Toronto based comedian Steve Patterson winds down his two year long stand up performance “This is Not Debatable” with a Sept. 26 
Lethbridge show at the Yates Theatre.
“ Audiences have been great,” said Patterson from his Toronto home, where he has enjoyed a couple months off looking after his new daughter.
“I”m looking forward to making grownups laugh instead of stopping infants from crying. Though it uses the same skill set,” Patterson observed.
“ It will be nice to get a little break from that,” he said, he will more or less retire his two year “This Is Not Debatable” show by recording a live album in Toronto, Oct. 18.
Then he will sit down and start writing new material, though his set is always changing.
“There will be a little bit of baby stuff in this show about being responsible for a human life. Louis CK has been making a good living talking about how his kid is an a----e,” he said adding his daughter doesn’t speak yet, so there's no problem.
“Not yet. She’s a pleasure,” he said.
“ If she can’t speak, she can’t talk back,” he laughed.
“Basically this tour is don’t be an arsehole. There's a lot of arseholes today,” he said adding the theme is for people to be good to each other.
He has retired more popular bits from past appearances on shows like Just for Laughs such as his bit about touring in Ireland and drinking 12 pins of Guinness in a pub after misunderstanding the time.
He noted he draws a lot of inspirations for things that happen to him in ordinary life.
“ Some comedians do jokes about things that didn’t happen to them, but people know,” he said.
“About 95 per cent of my set is stuff that happened to me. I’ve been a husband for three years, so I know what not to do,” he said.
In addition to his stand up comedy, you can also hear him as moderator on the CBC show “ the Debaters.”
That is a different experience than doing the stand-up routine.
“ There is an art to telling jokes. On the debaters it is more about reacting and being a moderator and being a lot more fun that a politician debate moderator,” he said.
“ A lot of people are surprised when they hear me on the Debaters that I’ve been a stand up comedian for 16 years. I’m not a radio host,” he said adding he is more limited on the air.
“ We’re not jazz musicians. I can interact with the crowd. On stage, I can say all of the stuff I can’t say on CBC. But it isn’t gross. I’m not Andrew Dice Patterson,” he continued.
“He hasn’t performed in Lethbridge for many years, since he was performing with Yuk Yuks Comedy.
“ I think it actually was an Irish pub,” he said.
He promised lots of laughter.
“ If you come to the show and don’t laugh out loud at least twice, you can have a free running kick at my groin,” he deadpanned.
Tickets cost $45 for the show, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 26.
