~ Newspaper Reviews ~

"The Checkerboard Guy, a Vancouver native who not only juggles, rides unicycles and walks on a tightrope, but is able to balance on an eight foot ladder that isn’t leaning against anything and - here’s the kicker - can program his VCR to tape different shows on different days of the week."

Joel Rubinoff
The Kitchener Recorder (Kitchener, ON, Canada)

"This Guy walks a fine line between alternative theatre and sickly-sweet Disney material somehow managing to appeal to both little Joey and the jaded Gen Xer - kind of like a live-action episode of The Simpsons."

Tom Zillich
The Westender (Vancouver,BC, Canada)

"Now there’s a good reason The Checkerboard Guy has won the award two years running. It’s because his show is filled with juggling tricks, silly jokes and other wacky stuff. He includes lots of audience participation that keeps the crowd in stitches for more than 45 minutes."

Ian MacALPINE
The Kingston Whig-Standard (Kingston, ON, Canada)

"The strength of the man is his genuinely witty sense of humour, which allows him to take advantage of every quirky nuance of human behaviour."

Craig Spencer
The Sunshine Press (Sechelt, BC, Canada)

"David Aiken can do it all. He juggles. He walks tight ropes. He climbs free-standing ladders. He sculpts muscle men from balloons. He tells jokes. He acts in commercials. And he does it all - at least everything but the acting - clad head to toe in checkerboards, hence the name."

Mark Weidmer
Chattanooga News-Free Press (Chattanooga,TN, USA)

"His brand of ultra-physical theatre involves everything from eating ping pong balls to juggling deadly implements - while riding his Great Unicycle of Death."

Jacqueline Nunan
Sunday Metro (Brisbane, QLD, Australia)