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• Samantha Bee
  Samantha Bee
  Samantha Bee is a Canadian comedic actress and author best known as a cast member on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.-Early life:Bee was born in Toronto, Ontario into an unconventional family...
  
  
• Ryan Belleville
  Ryan Belleville
  Ryan Belleville is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor. He was born in Calgary, Alberta and moved to Toronto where he studied at the Humber School of Comedy, winning the Phil Hartman Award when he graduated. He was the youngest person to tape his own Comedy Now! special for CTV and also appeared...
  
  
• Trevor Boris
  Trevor Boris
  Trevor Boris is an Canadian comedian and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-Television work:Boris is one of the stars of MuchMusic's Video on Trial, and is also a star of Stars Gone Wild...
  
  
• Bowser and Blue
  Bowser and Blue
  George Bowser and Rick Blue, better known as Bowser and Blue, are a musical duo from Quebec, Canada who write and perform comedic songs...
  
  
• Dave Broadfoot
  Dave Broadfoot
  Dave Broadfoot is a Canadian comedian who was born on December 5, 1925 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1943, he joined the merchant navy serving until 1947...
  
  
• Mike Bullard
• Brent Butt]]
• [Jack Bhamra]]

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• John Candy
  John Candy
  John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle...
  
  
• Craig Campbell
• Jim Carrey
  Jim Carrey
  James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Maggie Cassella
  Maggie Cassella
  Maggie Cassella is a former lawyer, stand-up comedian, writer and American-Canadian actress who hosted the Canadian talk show television series Because I Said So.-Biography:...
  
  
• Michael Cera
  Michael Cera
  Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Juno. Cera received the 2008 Canadian Comedy Award for best male performance for his work in Superbad.-Early...
  
  
• CODCO
  CODCO
  CODCO was a Canadian comedy troupe from Newfoundland, best known for a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1992....
  
  
• Carla Collins
  Carla Collins
  Carla Collins is a Canadian comedian, actress, television host and writer. Astand-up, she has been hailed by the press as “Canada’s Tina Fey” and the “Queen of Comedy”. Carla performs across North America. She is a regular at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles and on tour with the renowned “Hot...
  
  
• Sean Collins
  Sean Collins
  Sean Collins may refer to:* Sean P. Collins , American ice hockey defenceman for the Washington Capitals* Sean Collins , retired American minor pro ice hockey forward* Sean Collins Sean Collins may refer to:* Sean P. Collins (born 1983), American ice hockey defenceman for the Washington Capitals*...
  
  
• Michel Courtemanche
  Michel Courtemanche
  Michel Courtemanche is a Québécois comedian and actor. He has drawn hundreds of thousands to his one-man shows in Quebec, France, Belgium and Switzerland....
  
  
• Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for The Gavin Crawford Show and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Crawford is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of British Columbia...
  
  
• Mark Critch
  Mark Critch
  Mark Critch is a Canadian comedian; he was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.He was a writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is now a star after two appearances in the 10th Season and recurring in Seasons 11 and 12...
  
  
• Seán Cullen
  Seán Cullen
  Seán Cullen is a Canadian comedian. He is known for combining improvisation with mimicry and music. Cullen has been described in Time as the "vanguard of comedy's next generation". He is best known for voicing Four, Five & Seven in Seven Little Monsters. -Career:Cullen entered into the public eye...
  
  
• Tommy Chong
  Tommy Chong
  Tommy Chong is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, director, activist, and musician who is well known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners...
  
  

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• Joe Flaherty
  Joe Flaherty
  Joe Flaherty is an American-Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV, from 1976 to 1984, and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks...
  
  
• Dave Foley
  Dave Foley
  David Scott "Dave" Foley is a Canadian comedian, writer, director, and producer best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, A Bug's Life, and Celebrity Poker Showdown...
  
  
• Stewart Francis
  Stewart Francis
  Stewart Francis is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor and writer. In addition to his work in Canada and the USA, he frequently tours in the UK and appears on British television...
  
  
• Michael J. Fox
  Michael J. Fox
  Michael J. Fox, OC is a Canadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...
  
  
• Kevin Foxx
  Kevin Foxx
  Kevin Foxx is a Canadian comedian and radio host. He is best known as the host of the radio program The Kevin Foxx Show on CFRB in Toronto....
  
  
• Nathan Fielder
  Nathan Fielder
  Nathan Fielder is a writer, comedian and filmmaker, born in Vancouver, British Columbia.After receiving the 2006 Tim Sims Award for outstanding Canadian comedy newcomer, Fielder went on to join the cast of the CBC comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a field correspondent.More recently, he...
  
  

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• André-Philippe Gagnon
  André-Philippe Gagnon
  André-Philippe Gagnon is a Canadian comedian and impressionist. He has been married to Marie-Claude Chantal since the late 1980s....
  
  
• Luba Goy
  Luba Goy
  -Life and career:Goy was born in Haltern, Germany to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa. They emigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, and later graduated from Canada's National Theatre School, before acting in theatre productions in...
  
  
• Rick Green
  Rick Green
  Rick Green is a Canadian comedian, satirist, and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. From 1975 until 1979, he worked as a presenter at the Ontario Science Centre. In 1979, he helped found the Toronto-based comedy troupe The Frantics...
  
  
• Tom Green
  Tom Green
  Michael Thomas "Tom" Green is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show host and media personality. Best known for his shock humour brand of comedy, Green found mainstream prominence via his MTV television show The Tom Green Show...
  
  
• Rob Griffith

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• Phil Hartman
  Phil Hartman
  Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States when he was 10...
  
  
• Toby Hargrave
• Sarah Hennesy
• Jessica Holmes
  Jessica Holmes
  Jessica Holmes is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003. She is married to actor Scott Yaphe....
  
  
• Jeremy Hotz
  Jeremy Hotz
  Jeremy Hotz is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, the Just For Laughs comedy festival, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...
  
  
• Kenny Hotz
  Kenny Hotz
  Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, actor, producer and photographer. He is a former South Park consultant/writer, creator/director/co-star of the Showcase and Comedy Central television show Kenny vs...
  
  
• Louis-José Houde
  Louis-José Houde
  Louis-José Houde is a French-Canadian comedian, who mostly does stand-up comedy and also has his own TV show. Recently Houde has broken into acting in feature films, such as the 2006 hit movie, Bon Cop, Bad Cop and the 2009 hit movie De père en flic...
  
  
• Dan huen
• Andrew Hunt

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• Sabrina Jalees
  Sabrina Jalees
  Sabrina Jalees is a female Canadian comedian, dancer, actor, host and writer from Toronto, Ontario, who writes a weekly column in the Toronto Stars ID section....
  
  
• Ron James
  Ron James (comedian)
  Ron James is a Canadian stand-up comedian.James was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; his family later moved to Halifax during his youth. He attended Acadia University, studying history and political science with the intention of becoming a history teacher...
  
  
• Mario Jean
  Mario Jean
  Mario Jean , is a stand up comedian and movie and television actor from Quebec, Canada.He is currently the star of a series based on his life, La Vie Rêvée de Mario Jean . It airs on Télévision de Radio-Canada, the French division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...
  
  
• Andy Jones
  Andy Jones (comedian)
  Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, and a former member of CODCO.Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador...
  
  
• Cathy Jones
• Daryn Jones
  Daryn Jones
  Daryn Jones is a Canadian comedian and television personality. In 2006 he became the host of MTV Canada's flagship series MTV Live, alongside co-hosts Nicole Holness and Paul “The Intern” Lemieux....
  
  
• Jenny Jones
  Jenny Jones (presenter)
  Jenny Jones is a former Canadian American stand-up comedian and talk show host. She hosted The Jenny Jones Show from 1991 to 2003.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Ron Josol
  Ron Josol
  Ronald Allan Josol is a professional Canadian stand-up comedian of Filipino descent who performs around the globe. He is the first Filipino Canadian Comedian in Canada, and is also an actor. His style is a mix between his experience as an Asian in the North American entertainment industry and...
  
  
• Jason John Whitehead
  Jason John Whitehead
  Jason John Whitehead is a Canadian born stand-up comedian, who has been based in the UK for a decade. He has performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Stand-up:In 2000 Whitehead was the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award...
  
  

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• Jon Lajoie
  Jon Lajoie
  Jonathan "Jon" Lajoie is a Canadian comedian, actor, rapper, singer, musician and Internet celebrity from Montreal, Quebec.- Background :...
  
  
• Mado Lamotte
  Mado Lamotte
  Mado Lamotte, the stage name of Luc Provost, is a Montreal drag queen, author, singer and gay community personality.Lamotte has been performing for more than 15 years. She was a longtime emcee and DJ of Ciel Mon Mardi at Sky, before opening her own drag cabaret, Cabaret Mado, in Montreal's Gay...
  
  
• Bruno Landry
  Bruno Landry
  Bruno Landry is a Québécois comedian and humorist. He was part of the humor group Rock et Belles Oreilles from 1981 to 1995.-External links:...
  
  
• Guy A. Lepage
  Guy A. Lepage
  Guy A. Lepage is a Canadian comedian turned producer.-Career:Lepage was one of the five founding members of the Quebec comedy group Rock et Belles Oreilles , and remained with the group from 1981 to 1995.Lepage became a media mogul and...
  
  
• Eugene Levy
  Eugene Levy
  Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, television director, producer, musician, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein...
  
  
• Rich Little
  Rich Little
  Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canadian-American impressionist and voice actor. He has long been known throughout the world as a top impersonator of famous people, resulting in his nickname, "The Man of a Thousand Voices"....
  
  

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• Bette MacDonald
  Bette MacDonald
  Bette MacDonald, a Canadian comedian, is well-known for her comedic series Rideau Hall. Bette is married to teacher, actor, writer and director Maynard Morrison...
  
  
• Mike MacDonald
• Norm Macdonald
  Norm MacDonald
  Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years...
  
  
• Ryan Maglunob
  Ryan Maglunob
  Joseph Ryan Maglunob is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor of Filipino descent.He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Claudine Mercier
  Claudine Mercier
  Claudine Mercier is a Québécoise comedian, singer, actress and impressionist.Mercier began her performing career in the early-80’s singing with the a cappella vocal group Artishows for several years, and with Canadian singer Norman Iceberg...
  
  
• Greg Malone
  Greg Malone (actor)
  Greg Malone is a Canadian impressionist and actor.He is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II....
  
  
• Shaun Majumder
  Shaun Majumder
  -Life and career:Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador to a European descended mother from Newfoundland and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show Brain...
  
  
• Howie Mandel
  Howie Mandel
  Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host, and actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role on...
  
  
• Bruce McCulloch
  Bruce McCulloch
  Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...
  
  
• Kevin McDonald
  Kevin McDonald
  Kevin Hamilton McDonald is a Canadian comedian and actor, known as a member of the Canadian sketch comedy group The Kids in the Hall.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mark McKinney
  Mark McKinney
  Mark Douglas Brown McKinney is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Following the run of their television series and feature film , he went on to star in Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1997...
  
  
• Rick Mercer
  Rick Mercer
  Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger.Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one man show Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in...
  
  
• Lorne Michaels
  Lorne Michaels
  Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dominique Michel
  Dominique Michel
  Dominique Michel, OC, CQ is a Quebec comedian, actress, singer and artist.- Biography :...
  
  
• Rick Miller
  Rick Miller (comedian)
  Rick Miller is a Canadian actor, comedian and playwright, currently living in Toronto. Miller is most well known for hosting the television series Just For Laughs and for performing a version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" during which he impersonates "twenty five of the most annoying voices in the music...
  
  
• Mista Mo
  Mista Mo
  Mista Mo is the star, writer, music producer, segment and co-executive producer of the Buzz, a sketch comedy television series featuring him and fellow comedian Daryn Jones of YTV & MTV fame. Mo is responsible for coming up with popular segments such as: Nuts 4 Bucks, Jesus Caught on Tape, Buzz...
  
  
• Colin Mochrie
  Colin Mochrie
  Colin Andrew Mochrie is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and US versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rick Moranis
  Rick Moranis
  Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician, and a magician. Moranis came to prominence in the late 1970s on the sketch comedy show Second City Television, and later appeared in several Hollywood films including Strange Brew; Ghostbusters; Spaceballs; Little Shop of...
  
  
• Jordi Morgan
  Jordi Morgan
  Jordi Morgan is a well-known radio and television broadcaster in Nova Scotia, Canada.Morgan worked in a number of capacities for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation throughout the 1990s, including a stint as Halifax morning host on CBC Newsworld until 1999, when the morning programming was...
  
  
• Mike Myers
  Mike Myers (actor)
  Michael John "Mike" Myers is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer of British parentage...
  
  

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• Alan Park
  Alan Park
  Alan Park is a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Alan gives humorous commentary on current events...
  
  
• Pardis Parker
  Pardis Parker
  Pardis Parker is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and comedian.-Early life:Pardis Parker was born to an Iranian father and Sri Lankan mother in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Shawn Parkinson
• Nikki Payne
  Nikki Payne
  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...
  
  
• Ron Pederson
  Ron Pederson
  Ronald "Ron" Pederson is a Canadian actor and comedian, who has performed extensively throughout Canada and in the United States....
  
  
• François Pérusse
  François Pérusse
  François Pérusse is a Québécois comedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humor. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple...
  
  
• Matthew Perry
  Matthew Perry
  Matthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...
  
  
• Russell Peters
  Russell Peters
  Russell Dominic Peters is an Indo-Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.-Early life :...
  
  
• Phillip (South Park)

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• Simon Rakoff
  Simon Rakoff
  Simon Rakoff is a Canadian comedian. He is the brother of humorist David Rakoff. He has appeared on numerous Canadian television shows and festivals, including the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and Just for Laughs...
  
  
• Dan Redican
  Dan Redican
  Dan Redican is a Canadian comedy writer and performer and puppeteer, best known for his work with the comedy troupe, The Frantics. As a founding member of the troupe he has worked since 1979 on numerous stage shows, the Frantic Times radio show, Four on the Floor TV show...
  
  
• Ryan Reynolds
  Ryan Reynolds
  Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his roles in such films as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., The Amityville Horror, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, Buried, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Green Lantern.One of his best known...
  
  
• Caroline Rhea
  Caroline Rhea
  Caroline Gilchrist Rhea is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until she was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season...
  
  
• Kenny Robinson
  Kenny Robinson (comedian)
  Kenny Robinson is a stand-up comic, actor, and occasional DJ. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto in 1983 to pursue a career as a comedian.In 1998 he was chosen by Now Magazine as their Comic of the Year....
  
  
• Seth Rogen
  Seth Rogen
  Seth Rogen is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and voice artist. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a small part in Freaks and...
  
  
• Stéphane Rousseau
  Stéphane Rousseau
  Stéphane Rousseau is a Québécois actor and comedian. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Barbarian Invasions . He has also been in Asterix at the Olympic Games...
  
  

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• Will Sasso
  Will Sasso
  William "Will" Sasso is a Canadian comedian and actor. He is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on the American sketch comedy series MADtv, spending five seasons on the show.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tommy Sexton
  Tommy Sexton
  Thomas "Tommy" Sexton was a Canadian comedian. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, he was the youngest member of the CODCO comedy troupe....
  
  
• Sandra Shamas
  Sandra Shamas
  Sandra Shamas is a Canadian comedic actress and writer.The oldest of three children born to Lebanese immigrants, Shamas left home at age 17 and moved to Toronto, where she held a variety of jobs before a workshop at The Second City inspired her to pursue a career in performing arts...
  
  
• Martin Short
  Martin Short
  Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best-known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live...
  
  
• Frank Shuster
  Frank Shuster
  Frank Shuster, OC was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster ....
  
  
• Steve Smith
  Steve Smith (comedian)
  Steven "Steve" Smith, Jr., is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian.Smith was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Before turning to comedy, he studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs...
  
  
• Ron Sparks
• Sugar Sammy
  Sugar Sammy
  Samir Khullar, better known as Sugar Sammy, is a canadian comedian, actor, writer and producer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His irreverent style is what sets the tone for his brand of unique and off the wall comedy. He is known as much for his no holds barred style of comedy as he is for his...
  
  

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• Mary Walsh
• Mike Ward
• Johnny Wayne
  Johnny Wayne
  Johnny Wayne was a Canadian comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster....
  
  
• Peter Wildman
  Peter Wildman
  Peter Wildman is a Canadian actor, voice actor, musician, writer and member of the Frantics comedy troupe. He voiced Buzz Sherwood on The Red Green Show, Mojo on the X-Men Animated Series and Sergeant Murphy in the series The Busy World of Richard Scarry....
  
  
• Mike Wilmot
  Mike Wilmot
  Mike Wilmot is a Canadian stand-up comedian. In 2005 he won two Canadian Comedy Awards for best male stand-up and best actor for his work in It's All Gone Pete Tong....
  
  
• Harland Williams
  Harland Williams
  Harland Williams is a Canadian actor, comedian, author, artist, musician and radio personality.-Personal life:Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine , a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, who worked as a member of the Ontario Provincial...
  
  
• John Wing, Jr.
  John Wing, Jr.
  John Wing is a Canadian comedian and author from Sarnia, Ontario. He is of Irish-Italian descent. He has lived in the United States.His books include Cup of Nevermind: New Poems , --And the Fear Makes Us Special , None of This is Probably True , Ventriloquism for Dummies: Life as a Comedian , ...
  
  

See also

• Canadian humour
  Canadian humour
  Canadian humour is an integral part of the Canadian Identity. There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French. While these traditions are distinct and at times very different, there are common themes that relate to Canadians' shared history and geopolitical situation in...
  
  
• List of comedians
• List of Quebec comedians