McGill Grads Need More Than Hinge. Montreal Gets a Live Show.

Parc-Extension is Montreal’s South Asian epicenter. Walk down Jean-Talon west of the market and you’ll hit Indian restaurants, sari shops, and grocery stores that stock everything your mom needs. The community here is largely Tamil, Punjabi, and Gujarati, and it’s been growing for decades.

The format from New York: singles go on dates on stage, comedians host, and the full room mingles before and after. In Montreal, where dating already crosses language barriers, the show adds another layer by pulling Parc Extension locals, McGill internationals, and Concordia grads into a room that skips the bilingual small talk and gets straight to the point.

Montreal has McGill and Concordia pulling in massive international cohorts, a ton of whom are South Asian. Add in the working professionals in tech, healthcare, and academia, and you’ve got a deep pool of single people who are done with apps but haven’t found an alternative. The bilingual factor makes Montreal’s dating scene uniquely tricky. Throw cultural expectations on top and you get why people are ready for something different.

The comedy scene in Montreal is already world class. Just for Laughs runs out of this city. The idea of a live dating show with comedy woven in isn’t a hard sell here. The audience gets it.

Waitlist is open. Get on it for first access to Montreal dates, or apply to be a contestant. The show works in English, so don’t worry about your Frenglish.