

Presented by Candy Roberts
Conceived, Written and Performed by: Candy Roberts
Director, Dramaturge, and Clown Coach: Sonia Norris
Additional Clown Coaching: Deanna Fleysher
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts channels her alter ego in this electric account about a well-meaning hoser's epic (and mostly misguided) attempt at self-improvement.
Meet Larry—he’s no “idiom,” but when the band bails, this tech guy is left to wing it and convince the audience that he’s more than capable of pulling off the show. What could go wrong?
In a brilliant display of stupidity, Larry offers stand-up comedy, life-couching (yikes), and live music before taking a hard left into a revelation that’s as unexpected as it is hilarious.
It’s Bob and Doug McKenzie meets Gloria Steinem. It’s feminism meets headbanging. Gear Down, Big Rig— the world is a hard, let's go laughing.
Running time: 60 minutes/ with optional artist talkback/workshop
Rated: 18+ recommended, Nudity, Course Language, Strobe, Haze, Alcohol
WINNER: VICTORIA's BEST SOLO COMEDY 2025
WINNER: Critic’s Pick for Outstanding New Work Orlando Winter Fest
WINNER: Edmonton’s Artist’s Pick of the Fringe
WINNER: Artistic Risk Award Vancouver Fringe 2019
WINNER: Pick of the Fringe Vancouver 2019
WINNER: Best of the Fests FRINGE ENCORE SERIES- Soho New York
LISTED as one of Colin Thomas’ SIMPLY THE BEST most meaningful theatrical experiences of 2019
SOLD OUT RUNS
Vancouver 2019 and 2023
New Orleans 2019
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A masterful, weird, poignant, gut-busting, vulnerable, and thought-provoking tour de force from Candice Roberts”- Cincinnati Fringe
“I don’t transcend in the theatre on a regular basis, but Larry opened me up and took me to a higher plane. Roberts’s clowning technique is first-rate — once she gets you laughing, she will not fucking let up.”– Colin Thomas – Simply the Best of 2019
“This superior, adult-oriented clowning comedy is far deeper than it first appears. It’s funny, weird and telling — with something important to say.”- Orlando Weekly
“A bare-bones, outrageously funny send-up and exploration of gender, gender roles, masculinity, stereotypes and affirmation”– René Grayre, Show-score, NYC
“Larry is leaning SO heavily into hyper-masculine stereotypes while he journeys to be a woke guy, that you do want to NOT like this dad joke-making, out of touch, over the top, clown. But that is just it. Roberts is a PRO clown, bringing so much to this character and making such an unlikeable, stereotypical person very lovable and very personal. Because it’s a gut-busting story that challenges the extremes and limitations of the gender binary told through a woman playing a man discovering his inner woman. This story uses comedy to very compassionately look inside the complexity of character, misogyny, and stereotypes.” -Riot Mueller, New Orleans Box Office
“This is a daring, weird, hilarious show with head banging, so basically everything you could want.” —the Georgia Straight
“GO SEE THIS F*CKING SHOW. I laughed so hard I cried, and then I cried some more—for entirely different reasons.“- #YEGARTSINREVIEW
“a highly skilled physical comedian, and, as you’ll see in the course of Larry, her bravery is virtually unlimited” – Liz Nichols, 12thnight.ca
“A fearless performer”– CBC
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Impressive theatrical understanding and an enormous amount of social context”- Winnipeg Free Press