Ron James Canadian Comedian

Hey Silverhorners! Welcome back to the Silverhorn Lodge, located high on the side of majestic Silverhorn Mountain, overlooking shimmering Silverhorn Lake!

A long time ago, when the Lodge, and I were young, a handsome young fella and his Dad used to visit here at Silverhorn Lodge for a couple of days of deer hunting, chasing the elusive Silverhorn Whitetail Deer, for which this lodge was named....the whitetail deer of dreams folks, a huge majestic mountain buck, with long pointed antlers that reached the sky, and shimmered in any light, including the dark, with a silver gleam, that mesmerized the hunter, and gave the big buck time to disappear into the forest as mysteriously as he appeared.....he remains an enigma to this day, something like our own enigma, Marcello, Chief Garden Gnome here at the Silverhorn, he too appears and disappears, particularly when there is work to do....

But I digress...which is not unusual given my advancing years and wandering mind....back to what I was telling you...about a young deer hunter who used to visit....well that young fella's name was Ron James a good old Canadian Boy from Glace Bay, who had a hankering to hunt, and a hankering to make people laugh...well...we laughed at his shooting, which was subpar at best....but that wasn't the kind of laughing he had in mind. Instead, Ronnie had it in his Cape Breton Boy's head to hit the stage, run the ramparts, gaze into the camera and the eyes of an appreciative audience.....and he did!

Some of the details are sketchy, or "sketch" as the kids today like to say, but our investigation found that young Ron left Glace Bay on a cold, blustery, winter day in August and headed for the bright lights and warm nights of Toronto, Ontario,  where he cut his improv and acting teeth and lost several wisdom teeth, before he headed out to L.A. and the really big time....and then, not satisfied with entertaining 10 billion Americans, he made a round trip back to Canada, where he settled in and has become as much a Canadian Icon as the Meganser Duck....um....Canada Goose.....ummm....well he's an Icon to his folks and friends in Glace Bay......

Televison shows, specials, and even a series or two, such as the now forgotten fondly remembered Global Television sitcom "Blackfly" which he wrote and also starred in, playing the role of Benny "Blackfly" Broughton, became his stock in trade, along with sold-out one man comedy shows, that have even made it to the CBC on New Years Eve !

We're thinking about asking him up to the Lodge this year to work the Lounge, if we really had a lounge, not just a room with a couple of tables, an ice machine and a 26 inch floor model television...Marcello, our Entertainment Coordinator here at Silverhorn Lodge tells me Ron James shouldn't be too hard to get, apparently he is performing in the Yukon on January 31st 2010....Marcello says anyone playing a comedy gig in the bitter cold excruciatingly dark dreary frozen Yukon in the middle of winter should be pretty economical....

You can find out more about Canadian Comedian Ron James Here!!  And you can get a taste of his humor in the following clip: