{"id":175562,"date":"2023-08-28T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=175562"},"modified":"2023-08-29T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:06:00","slug":"comedian-james-mullinger-makes-his-way-back-to-sackville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/comedian-james-mullinger-makes-his-way-back-to-sackville\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian James Mullinger makes his way back to Sackville"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Mullinger can\u2019t wait to get back to Sackville, if only to hit up the Cackling Goose Gluten Free Bakery. \u201cMy wife and I always stop in there when we\u2019re passing through,\u201d says the British-born, New Brunswick-based comedian. But this time he\u2019ll be stopping for more than a six-pack of gluten-free cinnamon buns. Mullinger is returning to Sackville on September 20th with a show at Convocation Hall<\/a> to help launch the Fall Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CHMA spoke with Mullinger to find out more about his tour, his new tv show, and his favourite Sackville spots.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a theme to James Mullinger\u2019s life so far, it would have to be his propensity to \u2018go for it\u2019.<\/p>\n

Just five years into a successful editorial career at GQ in London, Mullinger decided to chase his dream, and in 2005 started the grueling work of stand up comedy, all while keeping his day job. Then in 2014, he and his partner Pam decided that raising a family in busy London wasn\u2019t for them, and so made a radical move, all the way to Saint John, New Brunswick, where Pam grew up.<\/p>\n

When people in Canada told Mullinger he would have to give up on his comedy career while living in New Brunswick, he very happily went about proving them wrong. With a longstanding goal of playing his own stadium show, Mullinger decided to make that dream come true, and within two years of arriving in the city, took on the challenge of a show at Harbour Station Arena in Saint John. (He ended up selling out the venue, and you can watch the tale of how he made it happen, married with thoughtful conversations about the city of Saint John, in the film City on Fire<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Since then, Mullinger\u2019s been working on podcasts, tv shows, books, and has toured his act throughout Canada, generally building the career in comedy that folks warned him he couldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople had said there wasn\u2019t a comedy industry here, so don\u2019t go there. And I said, well, that seems weird because you wouldn\u2019t say to a plumber, hey, there\u2019s no plumbers in that town. Don\u2019t go there,\u201d says Mullinger. \u201cIf there\u2019s no plumbers, then there\u2019s a lot of toilets that need unblocking. So I see myself as the toilet unblocker of comedy in New Brunswick.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Mullinger describes New Brunswick, he doesn\u2019t see a place that\u2019s stodgy or stuck. Quite the contrary: \u201cThe great thing about the Maritimes is that you can carve out your own path,\u201d says Mullinger. \u201cThere isn\u2019t this kind of set way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullinger\u2019s comedy is imbued with a love and enthusiasm for the place he now calls home, and it stretches beyond his beloved city of Saint John. Brit Out of Water is a six-episode sitcom set and filmed in Miramichi, streaming on Bell Fibe TV1<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s our love letter to New Brunswick,\u201d says Mullinger of the series which he co-wrote with Miramichi mayor Adam Lordon, who also co-stars in it. \u201cIt\u2019s a sitcom in the vein of Shitt\u2019s Creek and Corner Gas, where it\u2019s a celebration of small town life in Canada,\u201d says Mullinger. \u201cBut crucially, obviously, filmed and based on the East Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to create a sitcom that New Brunswickers can be proud of, but also obviously poking fun at the idiosyncrasies of the place and the things that we do here,\u201d says Mullinger. It\u2019s a style of comedy that Mullinger also brings to his standup act. \u201cI think the only way in which I\u2019m able to do this is that New Brunswickers have an incredible sense of humour, and are also very, very happy to laugh at themselves,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can never take credit for most of my material,\u201d says Mullinger, \u201cbecause most of it is stuff that people here have said to me or people have sent to me. And so I would like to look at all of my shows as a collaboration between myself and all of the people of New Brunswick, who were kind enough to gift this material.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can catch James Mullinger live at Convocation Hall on September 20, presented as part of the Sackville 2023 Fall Fair. Tickets are available on Eventbrite<\/a>, and are $25 in advance, and $30 at the door. Mount Allison students get a special rate of $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Mullinger can\u2019t wait to get back to Sackville, if only to hit up the Cackling Goose Gluten Free Bakery. \u201cMy wife and I always stop in there when we\u2019re passing through,\u201d says the British-born, New Brunswick-based comedian. But this time he\u2019ll be stopping for more than a six-pack of gluten-free cinnamon buns. Mullinger is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":175568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219],"tags":[29713,29712,29714,9267,29716],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175777,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175562\/revisions\/175777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175562"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=175562"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=175562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}