Canada-based British comic James Mullinger has filled Harbour Station stadium arena in Saint John for a second time. Four years ago when he moved there, he was told he wouldn't get any work as a comedian because New Brunswick didn't like comedy. Twenty four months later in 2016 he sold more tickets than Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden, Dane Cook, Snoop Dogg, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Dunham and Alice Cooper at the biggest indoor venue in the province
In 2016 he also beat Jerry Seinfeld's attendance record at this venue and he now claims to have beaten it again.
Mullinger says: "Nothing major has happened in those two years. I haven't done some big televised festival. I haven't been given a CBC show. I have just gigged away. Performed almost every night in venues varying in size from 20 seats to 5000. Which is what I love so much about this part of Canada. It's just all about hard work. No favours. No back room deals. We do things differently here. It's organic and real. I don't have any industry "buzz". Frankly no one in the comedy industry cares about me and what I do. Possibly because of where I am. Or because they don't like my act. But it doesn't matter because I run this business the same way a plumber or a builder runs their business. I do good work and enough people like it so they come back. End of. It's really very simple."
"Thank you to Lexus Of Saint John and Saint John Toyota for making the show happen and everyone at SSI Audio and Harbour Station for being so frightfully lovely that the entire process from beginning to end was a total joy. And thank you to all of the lovely people who came out to the show. Without you, this would have sucked. I have done gigs in London to 2 people. So please trust me when I tell you that I really, really appreciate it."
The stand up special of the 2016 show was released by Hulu in the States and Amazon Prime internationally. A number of international streaming networks and Canadian broadcasters are interested in this latest show already.
Subscribe to James Mullinger's YouTube channel here for video highlights from the show that will be posted over the coming week.
