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ANDREW CLARK
He's a bow-legged 26-yearold brown-haired, browneyed. 5-foot-8
son of Greek parents, and an escapee from the University of British
Columbia . He's also a stand-up with a lot going for him. His name:
Peter Kelamis and for the past six year he's been roaming the country
trying to raise a few laughs.
Kelamis, who play The Laugh Resort Oct. 25-27, started his comedy
career at a UBC lunchtime "joke-off." He won 10 bucks,
headed down to Punchlines and booked on to a few amateur nights.
A year later it was goodbye university and hello headlining.
 "I
like going into a lot of characters from my family and friends,"
Kelamis said from his home in Vancouver. "I do this bit about
my mom, who is your typical Greek mother - you know, five-foot with
broken English - and how I never have installed an answering machine
because my mom is always around to answer the phone. The problem
is she only knows a few names basically, the apostles: you know
Matthew, Luke. My friends would call up and say, 'Is Rumpelstiltskin
there?' "
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 Kelamis
writes this sort of "weird life stuff' at his trusty desk (still
a bit o' the student in him) and then riffs it on stage. He shies
away from spritizing. He seems to have a pretty active gag-muse,
which supplies him with plenty of material "by accident"
as he sits around his apartment.
"I moved into a new apartment and the landlord told me it
was haunted. So I asked: 'Haunted by who?' Since itcan make a big
difference, you know Casper or Satan" It turns out it's haunted
by a 93-year-old ghost with Alzheimer's, which isn't so bad. He
goes 'Gehhht oooout . . . hey where're you going?' ".
Such bits have landed Kelamis on The X-Files, where he played a
computer clerk who somehow survived the episode ("I kept asking,
'Can I get killed?' ") and on The Commish. He's just taped
a CBC Comics episode, which will air sometime in '95.
You can catch him sooner by seeing him live. And see his bow-legs.
"When I go to a tailor for alterations, pi generally involved
in the calculation."
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