Comedy in Motion with Bob Cates

11/29/2024

https://my.linkpod.site/cim

Clean Corporate Comedy Entertainer, Event Entertainment

11/22/2024

First holiday gala show of the season and some moms showed up to cheer on the team.

11/18/2024

Getting ready for a busy weekend with shows Friday at People's Church Grande Prairie Alberta, Saturday at Clive Baptist Church, Clive Alberta, and Sunday at the Kerry Vicar Centre in Melfort Saskatchewan. https://peoples.churchcenter.com/calendar/event/172148317
Now to check the weather...

Bob Cates is a Canadian Juggling Champion, clean comedian and physical variety artist. Bob keeps the crowd laughing with fast-paced comedy routines involving advanced juggling, wild unicycling and balancing skills, and an insane real plate-spinning finale that has to be seen to be believed. Bob was....

11/14/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ew94GHtR4/

SPECIAL FAMILY EVENT!
The Happy Day Kids Club and Brigden Community Church have planned this special event for THIS Saturday, NOVEMBER 16th at 7 PM at our church. Bob Cates is a multi-award winning entertainer combining comedy and illusions. This is a great opportunity to bring out the whole family for some fun! The leadership has covered the cost of this event, so it's FREE to attend. So please take advantage of this and invite EVERYONE you know! It's going to be a lot of fun!
PLEASE SHARE this post and promo on your socials.
We will have snacks afterwards as well!
See you then!
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11/14/2024

A fun moment with a volunteer.

11/04/2024

I'm still open for shows on Dec 13-23. Send your event planner to

Interactive comedy and event entertainment by 3 Time National Entertainer of the Year, Best Variety Act winner, & Juggling Champion

11/02/2024

An early morning, set up at the Toronto children’s ministry conference

10/31/2024

Happy reformation day!

10/25/2024

I call this the "I should have stretched more" hat trick.

10/25/2024

SPECIAL FAMILY EVENT!

The Happy Day Kids Club and our leadership have planned this special event for Saturday, NOVEMBER 16th at 7 PM at our church. Bob is a multi-award winning entertainer combining comedy and illusions. He is also a Christ follower and will present the Gospel at the end of his show. This is a great opportunity to bring out the whole family for some fun! But not only that, bring out your friends families too! The leadership has decided to cover the cost of this event, so it's FREE to attend. So please take advantage of this and invite EVERYONE you know, lol!

Certainly, use this poster to share on your socials.

We are planning having snacks afterwards, but we'll need YOUR help with that..sign up list to come!

10/25/2024

Sarnia Lambton Friends

SPECIAL FAMILY EVENT!

The Happy Day Kids Club and our leadership have planned this special event for Saturday, NOVEMBER 16th at 7 PM at our church. Bob is a multi-award winning entertainer combining comedy and illusions. He is also a Christ follower and will present the Gospel at the end of his show. This is a great opportunity to bring out the whole family for some fun! But not only that, bring out your friends families too! The leadership has decided to cover the cost of this event, so it's FREE to attend. So please take advantage of this and invite EVERYONE you know, lol!

Certainly, use this poster to share on your socials.

We are planning having snacks afterwards, but we'll need YOUR help with that..sign up list to come!

10/18/2024

All set in Brooks Alberta 

10/15/2024

It always helps to match

10/15/2024

Tillsonburg friends - come see us on Monday night. (free registration!)

Comedy In Motion – Friendship Dinner Date: October 21st, 2024Time: 5:30 PMWhere: First Baptist Church – 18 Harvest Ave, Tillsonburg, ON N4G 0H9 Featuring Bob Cates Register Name First Last Email Number of Guests

10/09/2024

This just MIGHT be the best reaction I ever had to my plate spinning.

Spinningwww.comedyinmotion.com

10/04/2024

If you're a Canadian in Children's ministry, you'll want to attend this big conference next year. Jane is helping to organize it and I'll be making an appearance as well.

A Canadian conference dedicated to equipping and mobilizing church leaders, volunteers, and families for the discipleship of children. May 29-31, 2025 | Cambridge, ON REGISTER TODAY! MAIN STAGE SPEAKERS: Marty Machowski Lauren Jackson Julie Lowe Jared Kennedy Jack Klumpenhower VIEW ALL 30 SPEAKERS A...

10/03/2024

Comic juggler coming home for drop-in fundraiser
Bob Cates, a veteran comedy juggler raised near Sarnia, is coming home Friday for a fundraiser for a downtown drop-in centre.

Comedy juggler Bob Cates, who grew up on a farm near Forest, will perform Friday in Sarnia at a fundraiser for the Nightlight Sarnia drop-in centre. Handout
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Bob Cates, a veteran comedy juggler raised near Sarnia, is coming home Friday for a fundraiser for a downtown drop-in centre.

The 7 p.m. show at the Sarnia LIbrary Theatre will help support Nightlight Sarnia. Tickets, $30, will be available at the door.

The Christina Street drop-in centre, open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with free coffee and snacks, provides “a safe place for meaningful relationships,” said Gwen Stephenson, a founder. “We’re often serving those who end up being marginalized in our society.”

That includes people experiencing homelessness or who “don’t have a safe network of friends,” she said.

Nighlight, a non-profit that gets no government funding, relies on donations and fundraising to keep its doors open, she said.

A silent auction is being held at Friday’s show.

Cates, who began juggling in his final year at North Lambton secondary school in Forest, became a full-time entertainer shortly after graduating from university with a commerce degree.

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“I’m still making a living, almost 30 years full-time now,” Cates said from his home in Cambridge, where he runs the entertainment business, Comedy in Motion.

“Sometimes people still ask me, ‘How long are you going to do it?’ ” he said. “As long as people keep hiring me, I’ll still do it.”

He grew up on a farm near Forest and gave juggling a try after seeing a juggler on television. The next day, he found a friend at school knew how and showed him using chalk brushes.

“I actually went and got a book from the Sarnia Library” on how to juggle because there wasn’t one at the Forest library, and it was before the internet arrived, Cates said.

Everything he juggled in the beginning was homemade, he said: “It had tennis balls and bean bags my sister sewed . . . (wooden) juggling clubs a friend at church made on a lathe,” real machetes and fire torches he made from a broomstick.

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Being an introvert with “a weird personality” led him to add comedy to the act, Cates said. “The introvert side helps with the juggling, because you’ve got to spend hours and hours alone practising, and then the weird side helps with the comedy.”

Along with juggling, his family-friendly shows can include a unicycle, specialty yo-yos, spinning up to 24 plates at a time and “lots of interaction with the crowd,” he said.

“I have quite a bit of material to choose from,” Cates said.

He performs around North America and about 30 per cent of his appearances are at faith-based events, along with corporate functions, conventions, galas, and occasionally cruise ships.

His 15-year-old son has begun assisting him onstage and will be part of Friday’s show, Cates said.

After university, Cates spent a year serving on a mission before becoming a full-time performer, he said. “I never really had a regular job.”

His commerce degree came in handy, because having business skills is really the only way to succeed as a performer, he said. “It’s 98 per cent business and two per cent show.”

Over the years, Cates has won best variety act at the Canadian Comedy Awards and entertainer of the year at the Canadian Event Awards.

10/02/2024

https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/news/local-news/comic-juggler-coming-home-for-drop-in-fundraiser

Bob Cates, a veteran comedy juggler raised near Sarnia, is coming home Friday for a fundraiser for a downtown drop-in centre.