PAT THORNTON HEADLINES EMERSON109 SATURDAY FEB 2ND, 9PM. $10 ONLINE, $15 AT THE DOOR.



FEATURE ACT: ANTHONY MLEKUZ

PLUS MICHELLE ZHITOMIRSKY AND PETER FRASER





Pat Thornton is a Canadian stand-up comic, television actor, sketch comedian. You may have seen him on Just for Laughs, the Comedy Network, CBC and HBO. A founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Sketchersons, he has also appeared in sketch comedy programs Hotbox and Sunnyside.





Pat’s acting roles have included a recurring role in the CTV sitcom Satisfaction, the web series Space Janitors and Everyone’s Famous, and guest appearances in Warehouse 13, Working the Engels, Spun Out and Royal Canadian Air Farce. He garnered two Canadian Screen Award nominations in 2014, in the categories of Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Satisfaction, and Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media for Everyone’s Famous. Pat can also be seen as the lead in the critically acclaimed independent feature Filth City where he plays Mayor Tom Hogg.





The feature act is Hamilton's own Anthony Mlekuz. In 2015 he performed at the prestigious "Just For Laughs 42" festival. That same year he was part of Toronto's NXNE fest, and was nominated for the "Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award" recognizing young, Canadian, comedic talent. Anthony has performed throughout Canada and the US, and his comedy has been featured on Sirius XM radio and MTV Canada. His debut comedy special "Strangebarn" was released in August 2017.