Friday's Featured Comic: Mel Silverback

This season of NBC's "Last Comic Standing" is shaping out to be loaded with strong seasoned comics. A few names that I was familiar with like Sean Rouse and Arj Barker had even advanced past the first auditions. However, none appealed to me more than the banana loving, South African stand-up gorilla comic from Canada - Mel Siverback.

Watching Silverback perform is like experiencing a sort of lounge lizard act but with the comedic genious of Andy Kauffman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Primate themed one liners abound, this is one creative act that I hope to see in the U.S. comedy circuit soon. Silverback's comedian bio says that he is "an old time mountain gorilla comic who tells it like it is," and that Silverback is "the love child of a mountain gorilla and a Catskill’s comedian."

This Gorilla's credits currently include the Alternative Stand Up Festival in Vancouver; Real Madness Comedy Festival in Toronto; and opening for Randy and Lahey of the Trailer Park Boys. Uptown Magazine referred to Silverback's appearance at the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival as the "biggest buzz of the festival."

"Last Comic Standing" airs Wednesday nights at 9pm.

Mel's network television debut!

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