Ron James

Ron James brings his new standup comedy show The Noise Between Our Ears to Prince Edward Island next month, with stops at Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside on November 6 and at Confederation Centre of the Arts on November 7. Showtime is 7:30 pm.

 With a seismic level of socio-political change shifting a reality we long took for granted, what better way to process the cacophonous overload of stimuli than in the language of laughs? 

 The content skewers everything from the tyrannical “Tangerine Genie“ south of the border looking to turn Canada into the 51st state, to aging Baby Boomers now only 20 years away from roaming “the home” in their Led Zeppelin onesies, just one more sing-along away from taking a Stairway to Heaven. Alongside these macro issues is a window on the daily trials of a technologically compromised ADHD-addled adult, who came of age in a day when a hash tag was something you got after getting too close to the hash knives. He gets comedic mileage from classic bits on generational differences in families then and now, the terrors of public-school teachers, hand-me-down hockey gear, and party-hearty camping trips with pals in those “bullet proof days of yore.” There’s something for everybody. 

Ultimately though, The Noise Between Our Ears sees Ron as the ever-struggling “Everyman,” doing his best to make sense of a world off kilter while bedeviled by forces beyond his control, where airlines constantly lose luggage, stock portfolios nosedive, mortality has become the new reality, and the barber spends more time trimming your ears than he does your head.

Visit harbourfronttheatre.com and confederationcentre.com for tickets.