Hafeez Ladha is a Toronto-based comedian and father of two who quit stand-up years ago to make responsible adult decisions. He now has two children, a mortgage, and very little evidence that this was a good idea.
After more than a decade away from the stage, he’s back with some grievances. Toddlers, who contribute nothing financially and somehow run the household. Immigrant families, where love is conditional and disappointment is a competitive sport. A wife who has discovered manifesting and is now making increasingly unreasonable demands of the universe. And Rogers, the longest and most emotionally abusive relationship of his adult life.
Some Conditions Apply is an evening of personal, very Toronto stand-up from a man who is older, greyer, and beginning to suspect that quitting comedy was the last sensible decision he ever made.