PARKER AND SEVILLE: THE PARKER AND SEVILLE OF COMEDY!

Hot Diggity Ding Dong Day! Parker and Seville are Toronto’s most beloved Vaudeville Duo!

Formed in 2007, Parker and Seville are a homage to and parody of the old-time classic comedy duos, like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, and Hope and Crosby. Their ridiculous physicality and hilarious jokes make for an experience unlike anything else in comedy.

Parker and Seville are well loved in Toronto’s Comedy, Burlesque and Circus scenes, having performed at such illustrious venues as Yuk Yuk’s, the Rivoli, Second City, the Gladstone, the Drake, The Centre of Gravity’s Lunacy Cabaret and many more across Canada and the United States. They have been featured at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, the Toronto Burlesque Festival, the Toronto Festival of Clowns, and the Ottawa and Toronto Fringe Festivals.

The boys are at their best performing in their monthly comedy revue at the Comedy Bar, ParkerandSevilleVillePark, which takes place the first Monday of every month and has featured a bevy of fantastic comedians, including Ron Sparks, Winston Spear, Pat Thornton, Kathleen Phillips, Chris Locke, and the hilarious Tim Gilbert, who appears every month as the Curmudgeonly Mr. McGudgeon

Parker and Seville are also proud to be the hosts of Toronto’s classiest Burlesque outfit, Starlight Burlesque, led by the incomparable Virginia D’Vine and frequent hosts to the world’s greatest Burlesque entertainers.

Dave Barclay (Parker) and Matt Kowall (Seville) met at Humber College in 2005 in the Comedy Writing and Performance Program. A few months later they wrote their first sketch together, “Grade Two Boys News”, and have been collaborating ever since. In January 2007 they threw together a couple of characters for an audition asking for ‘vaudeville entertainers’, and although they didn’t get the gig, they loved the characters so much they thought it might fly at a comedy club. They’ve been performing as Parker and Seville ever since, and never fail to elicit gales of laughter from their audiences.