Ryan McMahon (comedian)

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Ryan McMahon
Born1977 (age 4647)
MediumPodcast, stand-up, television
Nationality Couchiching First Nation, Canadian
Years active2006–present
Partner(s)Madeline Wilson Shaw
Notable works and roles Thunder Bay (podcast)
Website redmanlaughing.com

Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, podcaster, and writer from the Couchiching First Nation. [1] [2] McMahon was born in Fort Frances, Ontario, the oldest of three siblings. McMahon was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He graduated from the Second City Training Center. [3]

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Career

In May 2010, his live performance of Welcome To Turtle Island Too was filmed in St. Albert, Alberta for a CBC television comedy special [4] and he was included in the New Faces of the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. [5] In February 2015, CBC Radio 1 national aired an hour-long comedy special of Red Man Laughing . [6]

McMahon was also featured in Indigenous Film-maker's Michelle St. John's Colonization Road. [7] St. John won the Yorkton Film Festival's Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary – Historical/Biography, and was nominated for a 2018 Canadian Screen Award. [8]

On May 26, 2017, McMahon hosted "12 Steps to Decolonizing Canada" on CBC Radio's Day 6 program. [9] The show received the Sam Ross award for Opinion and Commentary at the 2018 RTDNA awards. [10]

Podcasts

McMahon began podcasting in 2008. [11]

McMahon created the podcast Stories from the Land. [12] In 2016 he co-hosted Canadaland's political show, The Commons. [13]

In 2018 McMahon hosted a podcast called Thunder Bay for Canadaland. The series was largely informed by Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga's award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which investigated the deaths of seven Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario and news reports by APTN [14] [15] [16]

Opinion essays

McMahon has occasionally freelanced op-eds to Vice News [17] The Globe and Mail . [18]

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