{"id":789868,"date":"2026-07-09T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789868\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:38:08","slug":"summer-of-laughs-coming-to-yuk-yuks-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789868\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Summer of Laughs\u2019 coming to Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              \u2018Summer of Laughs\u2019 coming to Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:30 pm Wednesday, July 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSummer of Laughs\u201d is coming to Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The two-month celebration of stand-up comedy will feature nationally acclaimed headliners, exclusive showcase events, and the debut of the Rising Comics Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Comic Patrick Maliha kicks off Yuk Yuk\u2019s Summer of Laughs with shows at the club July 10 and 11. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuly also features Canadian favourites Mike Greenwood, Steve Taddy and the White Samosa comedy event starring Harmeet Singh Kohli,\u201d Eric Y. Lapointe\u2014CEO of Icarus Capital, the organization that owns Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey\u2014said in a press release for the Summer of Laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing its annual B.C. Day long weekend break, the laughs resume with one of the summer\u2019s most anticipated events as Los Angeles comedian Kiki Yeung headlines a special one-night-only performance on August 7,\u201d he added. \u201c(She\u2019ll) be joined by Seattle-based TikTok sensation Ellen Acuario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lapointe noted the August lineup will be filled out by Chris Griffin, the return of Hat Trick Comedy (featuring Jon Endo, Cass Furman and Travis Watters, Roman Danylo), the hit all-female Bad Moms showcase, and concludes August 28 and 29 with Los Angeles headliner Sharon Mahoney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdding even more comedy to the schedule is the inaugural Rising Comics Championship, the newly reimagined competition formerly known as the B.C. Yuk Off,\u201d Lapointe revealed. \u201cBeginning July 16, the championship brings live comedy to Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey every Thursday throughout the summer as more than 60 emerging comedians from British Columbia and Washington State compete across six preliminary rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the Rising Comics Championship with end with two semi-finals and a championship final in September. In those rounds comics will battle for cash prizes, the Garry Yuill Memorial Award, and future performance opportunities with Yuk Yuk\u2019s B.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal was simple: make Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey the place to laugh all summer long,\u201d said Arjun Rudra, manager of Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey. \u201cWe\u2019ve created a lineup that offers something different nearly every week. Whether you\u2019re a regular or visiting us for the first time, it\u2019s going to be an unforgettable summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey is located within Elements Casino at 17755 60th Avenue in Cloverdale.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, to look at the Summer of Laughs schedule, or to grab some <a href=\"https:\/\/yukyuks.com\/surrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tickets, visit yukyuks.com\/surrey.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Summer of Laughs\u2019 coming to Yuk Yuk\u2019s Surrey Published 9:30 pm Wednesday, July 8, 2026 The \u201cSummer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-789868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}