Fringe veteran goes solo for 30th anniversary show

Stephen Sim is saying yes to himself.

The veteran improviser has been making people laugh at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival for 30 years, as one-half of the improvisational duo CRUMBS, or as the host of The Big Stupid Improv Show, a fringe favourite since 1999.

This year, he’s doing something new. Something scary. Something he’s wanted to try for a long time. The Smallest Stupid Improv Show (Venue 5, to July 30) will be Sim’s first solo improv show.

“I have not felt this way about a show or about opening a fringe or about anything in a long time, because this is so new for me,” says Sim, 50.