Patrick Ledwell is a Canadian stand-up comedian, best known as a frequent guest on the CBC Radio comedy series The Debaters . [1] The son of poet and university professor Frank Ledwell [2] and the brother of musician and artist Daniel Ledwell, [3] he is from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
In 2012 Ledwell published the humour book I Am an Islander, which was illustrated by Daniel. [4] Some copies of the book were sold with a bonus DVD of Think Like a Fish, an animated film on which Patrick and Daniel also collaborated. [4] In 2016, he published the sequel book An Islander Strikes Back.
In 2017 he played John A. Macdonald in Jonathan Torrens's Canada Day comedy special Your Special Canada. [5] Ledwell also regularly performs with musician Mark Haines as part of the Island Summer Review, a music and storytelling show. [6]
In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, he was one of the guest readers in The East Pointers' livestreamed "#Annedemic" readings of Anne of Green Gables . [7]