Indigenous comedy duo eager to embrace ‘Bad Apples’ label – Timmins Press

Nov 28, 2023

Pair mine heritage for laughs, Thursday at the Vic

A pair of Indigenous comedians are getting ready to bring their Bad Apples Comedy Show to Ontario, with Timmins serving as one of nine stops on this tour.

Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 on eventbrite.

While Mayer and Stewart both hail from Manitoba, they’ve been travelling across Western Canada since the beginning of October under the Bad Apples banner, mining their respective Métis and First Nations upbringings for laughs.

In fact, the name of the show is taken from a well-known slur directed at Indigenous people labelled “red on the outside and white on the inside.”

“So we kind of adopted that and took it back and said, ‘We’re proud of our heritage, we’re proud of our background and we’re going to be the Bad Apples,’” Mayer said.

Mayer said he’s constantly aware of his dual identity as a Métis citizen and international performer, especially now that he splits his time between living in Winnipeg and Los Angeles for work.

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