Shaun Vincent Majumder is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where he worked from 2003 until 2018. He won a Gemini Award for his work on the series in 2006.
Russell Dominic Peters is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and producer. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and won a Gemini Award in 2008. In 2013, he was number three on Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid comedians, and became the first comedian to get a Netflix stand-up special. He also won the Peabody Award and the International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming for producing Hip-Hop Evolution (2016). He lives in Los Angeles.
Debra McGrath is a Canadian actress and comedian.
Nikki Payne, is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Born with a cleft palate, she is well known for incorporating her lisp into her comedy act. She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Stand-up Newcomer and Best Female Stand-up in 2003, 2005 & 2008.
Debra DiGiovanni is a Canadian stand-up comedian originally from Tillsonburg, Ontario.
Comedy Now! is a Canadian comedy television series which debuted in 1997 and ended in 2014 featuring the newest in Canadian comedic talent. The show has won numerous Gemini Awards as well as many international awards. It is broadcast in Canada on The Comedy Network and CTV while in the United States, the program airs on Comedy Central.
Danielle Ward is a British stand-up comedian and writer.
Helen Keen is an English alternative comedian and writer born in Yorkshire, now living in London. She suffered with SM as a child but overcame this before becoming a comedian.
Sugith Varughese is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor.
Meredith MacNeill is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is most famous for her roles in the sketch shows Man Stroke Woman and Baroness von Sketch Show, and the film Confetti.
Jonathan David Dore is a Canadian comedian and actor currently based in Juneau, Alaska.
Pete Zedlacher is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor and television writer. Originally from Wawa, Ontario, he has appeared at Just for Laughs and the Halifax Comedy Festival, and won the 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up. He has also performed for the Canadian Forces on several Canadian Forces Show Tours, entertaining the troops in such places as Alert, Nunavut, the Persian Gulf and Kandahar, Afghanistan. As an actor, he has appeared in the movies American Pie: The Naked Mile and Survival of the Dead and on TV in The Jon Dore Television Show.
Gerald Potterton was a Canadian director, animator, producer and writer. He is best known for directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and for his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Rebecca Drysdale is an American comedian and writer who was a member of the Second City Chicago E.T.C. cast. She won the 2005 Breakout Performer Award at the 2005 United States Comedy Arts Festival. She performed as part of the multi-arts group performance Synesthesia. She has written for sketch comedy shows such as The Big Gay Sketch Show and Key & Peele. In 2011, she made a video for the It Gets Better Project.
Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian-Irish comedian, writer, presenter, actress and singer.
Sofie Hagen is a London-based Danish comedian, author, podcaster, fashion designer, and fat acceptance campaigner. She has toured with comedy shows, released a book and hosted and co-hosted a number of podcasts.
Mae Pearl Martin is a Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter. They co-created, co-wrote and starred in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series Feel Good. They received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for their work on the series.
Cheryl Dawn Foggo is a Canadian author, documentary film director, screenwriter and playwright.
Carolyn Taylor is a Canadian actress and comedian, best known as one of the creators and stars of the sketch comedy series Baroness von Sketch Show.
Robby Hoffman is an American-Canadian writer, comedian, and talk show host. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career as a writer and is known for her work on The Chris Gethard Show, Baroness Von Sketch Show, Workin' Moms, and Odd Squad, the latter of which won a Children's & Family Emmy Award for outstanding writing in 2019. Hoffman released her first stand-up special, I'm Nervous, in 2019. She was named one of Comedy Central's Up Next comedians in 2018, appeared on Conan O'Brien's Comics to Watch list, as well as on Vulture's The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020.
