The idea of comedy at the Sasquatch Music Festival (from now on referred to as TSMF) is somewhat funny itself, as the constant surround noise made it hard to hear set ups & punch lines. The laughs were scheduled during the day in a tent called the Banana Shack, which then turned into the place for electronic blips and bleeps in the evening. I was excited to see the Great White North's Trailer Park Boys in the flesh as I've been a fan of the television show for ages. I've always thought that their movies didn't deliver the same wit, but the series was consistently laugh-tastic. We arrived early in what seemed to be the middle of Tig Notaro's set, which was absolutely brilliant. Her style is rather monotone and charmingly almost misanthropic, her jokes more psychological than typical. She spent ten minutes attempting to imitate the sound of a clown horn, unhappy with her results and then repeating the same noise. Her rapport with the audience was perfect as she dealt with the wits and dolts with candor. If you like subtle and intelligent humor, Tig Notaro has heaps of it to offer.

• Derek Erdman
• Tig Notaro was born in MISSISSIPPI.

Twenty minutes later, the Trailer Park Boys performance started with what seemed like a prerecorded video sequence that was poorly recorded and hardly audible. Eventually Ricky, Julian & Bubbles appeared on stage in what seemed like a hysterical fit. It was hard to hear much because they were all talking at once. Eventually they pretended to be astronauts and a video was shown of them taking off in a rocket. Rickey threw a piss jug into the crowd & a sex doll was tossed onto the stage. The biggest disappointment for me is that Bubbles didn't seem like Bubbles at all. His voice was different and his demeanor was much more abrasive than usual. He always struck me as the calm & stable foil to the two other characters, but here he seemed like a mix between Jim Lahey, Randy & J-Roc. It was confusing. After the show a friend of mine came upon all three actors hanging out behind the tent. He heard one of them mention that Trailer Park Boys and TSMF wasn't a good fit and that they didn't have the best time. While I was walking away from the tent, three young men covered in body paint walked by drinking tall-boys of Corona Extra. I overheard one of them say, "Fuck, that shit was so fucking funny, I have to piss so bad."

And the world keeps turning and turning and turning and turning.