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please go to seattlecomedy.net for a whole review of the competition from a guy who loves comedy and can speak very well about everyone. He takes into account everyones style.

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Last year's competition was dominated by Canadians...and won by a Canadian. Thus, it makes sense to alert the audience to the first Canadian of the competition to take the stage--one of the most intriguing performers in the competition, DARREN FROST.

Darren's entry DVD was jawdropping...both because it was damn funny...but also because it took no prisoners, it killed countless sacred cows...and most of all, it didn't give a damn what you thought of it.

Of course, he had to be in this year's competition.

And the genteel nature and tranquil pool of Laughs in Kirkland was disturbed...some waves were made... Even in Darren's first joke, about being naked in a field, calling the 1-800 number on beer bottles "if you have questions" earned him more than a few whispered "Wow..."'s from an audience that suddenly realized that they should be holding on.

Darren is very short. Perhaps there's a little Napoleon in him. (Certainly couldn't be a big Napoleon--heyyyyyoooooo, try the veal!) He suffers no fools, gladly or not...and even when I realized he was trying to tone it down for tony Kirkland...it was still like being barked at by a terrier with the heart of a feral pit bull.

Or, as Darren would describe himself later in his set, "a dolphin on crack."

At one point, Darren warned the audience that if they don't start laughing, he'd bite his own arm off and ram it up their asses. That's a threat that I believe many in the audience felt him to be capable of...

He has a distinct cadence and a meter to how he says whatever he wants to say. Imagine, if you can, an angry and unfiltered John Pinette with no obsession with food...and you can kind of hear in your mind what Darren Frost sounds like.

Tacoma-based comedian Riggs, also known for not toning his style down, smiled as he listened to Darren's performance, saying "Oh, I SO wanna work with THIS guy!"

One word that I haven't mentioned yet in reviewing Darren's performance...is undeniable. Undeniably funny and his getting his encore point was undeniable.

After his set, when complimented on his set, Darren made it clear that these people have no idea what his set COULD have been...

To which I point out...the week is very young, yet.