The Gazette: The beauty of the Fringe Fest

When two eager young McGill students, Kris Kieren and Nick Morra, founded the Montreal Fringe Festival in 1991, on a shoestring budget ($50,000), nobody could have predicted that the 20th edition would ever come to pass. Or that the attendance numbers would grow from 5,000 in 1991 to 55,000 by 2009, and the budget to a still-modest $400,000. Or that a young comedian named Stephen who performed with a Florida-based sketch troupe at that first Fringe would one day have a late-night television show of his own called the Colbert Report...