Debra DiGiovanni says there are times in her act when she thinks she might be sharing just a little too much about herself.

鈥淚 do have moments when I鈥檓 like, 鈥業 shouldn鈥檛 be telling these people this, but it just kind of happens,鈥� said the comedienne.

DiGiovanni, who spent most of her life in Toronto but for the last five year has been living in Los Angeles, said her material comes from a personal place, and 鈥渨hatever鈥檚 happening in my life is going to be happening on stage.鈥�

鈥淚 know that a lot of comics, they kind of keep it about their life, about their families and whatever and I do the same thing except I don鈥檛 have a family so it鈥檚 all really selfish, to be honest,鈥� Giovanni said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all about me.鈥�

She said her act draws on the feeling of being the odd one out, watching her contemporaries become domesticated while she鈥檚 鈥渟truggling along in a world where people are at this point mature and settled and I鈥檓 not.鈥�

鈥淎t this age most of my friends are married with children and I still live a very kind of college lifestyle, if you will,鈥� she said. 鈥淟ike I never really know where I鈥檓 going to be and I work at night, so I鈥檓 just not on the same page.鈥�

This winter, and again in the spring, DiGiovanni will be joining fellow Canadian comics Paul Myrehaug, Dan Quinn and Pete Zedlacher on their nationwide Snowed In Comedy Tour, which features nearly 30 dates across nearly every region of BC in January and February.

This is DiGiovanni鈥檚 second time on the tour, after being asked on short notice to fill in for a comedian who had to drop out last year.

鈥淭hey called me on a Wednesday and I joined them on a Friday,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey were just like, 鈥楥an you drop everything and come do the tour for a month?鈥� So last year it was a fluke but then we had so much fun that they are kind enough to bring me back this year.鈥�

She said the four of them fit together well. She said Quinn discusses life as a newlywed, Myrehaug talks about living as a Canadian ex-pat in Europe and storyteller Zedlacher closes the show.

鈥淪ometimes comics are too different on the bill 鈥� Like the people are really dirty and then really deadpan or something,鈥� DiGiovanni said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 got to be a flow to the show. So we have good flow for sure.鈥�

The tour plays Terrace, Smithers, Prince George and Quesnel this week, followed by dates in Port Alberni, Campbell River, Courtenay, Nanaimo and Victoria next week, before crisscrossing back to the Okanagan and the Kootenays, with dates in Salmon Arm, Kamloops, Penticton, Kelowna, Cranbrook, Trail, Vernon, Revelstoke, Golden and Nelson.

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