Since 2007, Em has made audiences laugh in bars, barns and blanketforts. They currently produce and host The Am I the Asshole Game on the 2nd Friday of the month at Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver’s Gastown.
They produced and hosted the “breathtakingly funny, surprisingly hopeful” comedy show called Rape is Real & Everywhere, that toured Canada pre #metoo and was featured in Vice, The Guardian and The Globe & Mail. They are endlessly curious about how comedy helps us process the hard stuff.
Current Projects
The Am I the Asshole Game
November 2024 – Present
For more info on The AITAH Game, click here.
Past Projects
Cathartic Laughs Comedy Writing Community
Producer, Co-Facilitator, Newsletter Publisher
March 2021 – November 2023
Em obtained a Creative BC grant to facilitate an online comedy writing group and occasional newsletter during the pandemic. While any type of humour was welcomed, the focus was on fostering a space where members could share personal challenges openly as they worked to find the humour in darker topics. Adora Nwofor co-facilitated this multi-year project and facilitated thoughtful conversations that allowed members to see issues from multiple perspectives.
Adora’s Bio
As an entrepreneur, organizer, and keynote speaker, Adora Nwofor has spent her life in Calgary championing for the rights and dignity of the BIPOC community and other marginalized folx. As President of BLM YYC, they continue to agitate, educate and organize Calgarians around the message that Black lives matter.
Rape is Real & Everywhere
Producer, Host
November 2015 – October 2019
Rape is Real (RIR&E) was born out of a conversation and grew to a recurring show in Vancouver’s Hot Art Wet City (RIP) where survivors of sexual assault and harassment joked about their experiences before #metoo went viral. The response to the show was electric and the production team organized an independent national comedy tour to 13 cities. Covered by Guardian, Globe & Mail, Vancouver Sun, Vice and warmly reviewed in 2019 by The Georgia Straight.
● Em managed the budget, co-coordinated logistics of national tour, and helped welcome and orient the 25 performers who participated across Canada.
● In 2017, Em presented their evaluation of the RIR&E phenomenon at The Concordia Feminism & Controversial Humour Symposium
● Em was the winner of the 2019 Vancouver ‘Spirit of the Fringe. Award’ for facilitating a challenging topic with compassion.
● RIR&E was the focus in a chapter of an academic exploration of why survivors joke about their assaults. The show has be mentioned in multiple academic theses.
● In 2024 Em was invited to sit on an advisory board for a UK Fellowship relating to Feminism and Subversive Humour.
BlanketFort Comedy
2015 – 2017
Em produced and hosted a unique monthly comedy show where the audience would build a giant blanketfort at the iconic Astoria in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and then comedians would perform to them. Prior to the multitude of queer-focused shows that we now enjoy, the soft context of the fort and the engagement of the audience allowed for comedians to explore new jokes, tell longer stories and invited an intimacy not found in every comedy show at the time.