Brandon Hackett is a Canadian sketch comedian, writer and actor. [1] He is most noted as a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series, receiving two nods at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 as part of the writing team for The Beaverton , and one at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021 as part of the writing team for This Hour Has 22 Minutes .
He began his career as an improv comedian, appearing with the Toronto company of The Second City in shows such as Unwrapped, [2] Come What Mayhem!, [3] Everything Is Great Again [4] and The Best Is Yet to Come Undone. [5]
He was later a partner with Jonathan Langdon in the sketch comedy duo Hackett & Langdon, [6] and with Coko Galore, PHATT Al, Alan Shane Lewis, Nkasi Ogbonnah, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Aba Amuquandoh and Ajahnis Charley in Untitled Black Sketch Project, Canada's first all-Black Canadian sketch comedy troupe. [7]
He has also been a writer for the television series TallBoyz , The Parker Andersons/Amelia Parker , Overlord and the Underwoods , Doomlands , Run the Burbs , The Next Step , Shelved and Popularity Papers , and has had acting roles in Diamond Tongues , The Amazing Gayl Pile , Gary and His Demons , Baroness von Sketch Show , Detention Adventure , Odd Squad and Pinecone & Pony .