“A decade ago is when I said to myself, ‘I want to do this, I have to do it now, or when am I going to do it?’ So I got a deal with HarperCollins and still I was dragging my feet. “That (book) was 10 years ago - at least that’s when I started to write it,” Walsh noted. Her current tour includes some film clips and also a preview of Walsh’s new novel, called But I Don’t Want To Come Home Year 1966, which will follow her 2017 debut book, Crying for the Moon, the story of Maureen, a teenage girl navigating a tough life in late-1960s St. On This Hour, Walsh busted guts with her character Marg Delahunty, who ambushed politicians with satirical interviews on a national TV show that lampooned the nightly news.

And there’s some political comedy and also Miss Eulalia – she’ll be there.” “It’s comedy,” Walsh explained, “and I do some reminiscing – a bit of CODCO stuff in there and also some This Hour along with some new things I’m doing, The Missus Downstairs and Dad and the Fridge Box, little snippets of that stuff, and hopefully I talk about it all in a comedic way. Limited seats remain for sale on, or call 60. In Surrey, “An Evening with Mary Walsh” promises all kinds of laughs for those who attend the $54-a-ticket show. Theatres were closed, and I could have come but people wouldn’t have had any place to sit down.”Īn Order of Canada-winning actor, comedian, writer and social activist, Walsh is probably best known for her work on the TV shows CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. “The dates this month were delayed and contracted pre-COVID, right.

“I did an Ontario tour in July and then Newfoundland in August, but before then I hadn’t toured because of COVID,” Walsh explained in a phone call from her home in St. 29 on the Main Stage at Bear Creek Park, with other B.C. The Newfoundlander’s February tour of Western Canada was shelved until this month, with a show long ago rescheduled for Saturday, Oct. Canadian comedy queen Mary Walsh is finally set to perform at Surrey Arts Centre, following a COVID-caused delay of eight months.

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