Brandon Hackett

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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 .

He identifies as queer. [8]

References

  1. Trish Crawford, "Toronto's entertainment rookies of the year: Two musicians, a theatre producer, a comedian and two dancers shone in 2015". Toronto Star , December 27, 2015.
  2. Andrew Friesen, "Seasonal drollery". The Varsity , December 6, 2015.
  3. Glenn Sumi, "Second City goes to the dark side with Come What Mayhem!". Now , August 24, 2016.
  4. Debbie Fein-Goldbach, "Second City’s Everything Is Great Again… isn’t". Now , March 29, 2017.
  5. Bruce DeMara, "Second City takes on mash-up of hot topics". Toronto Star , April 11, 2018.
  6. Glenn Sumi, "Toronto SketchFest 2020 review: Hackett & Langdon, Sex T-Rex and more". Now , March 7, 2020.
  7. Del Cowie, "Canada's first all-Black sketch troupe (unless someone tells them otherwise)". CBC Arts, May 5, 2021.
  8. Geremy Bordonaro, "Challenging the audience". The Annex Gleaner, April 10, 2017.