Derek Edwards is proof positive that you can
take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the
boy. His award-winning rural humor has made him one of the hottest comedians
in Canada! A regular at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, where he
was recently hailed as a "virtuoso at the peak of performance", Derek’s
comedic gift is in making the ordinary extraordinary.
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Based on his Timmins, Ontario rural roots, his backwoods humour is delivered with a
polished style and impeccable timing. A professional comedian for the past 15 years,
he creates enchanting tales based on everyday subjects and delivers them with polished
style and impeccable timing.
Edwards has amassed an impressive string of credits. In 1995, he was the winner of the Vail
National Comedy Invitational in Vail, Colorado. In 1996, he stole the show at the Molson
Canadian Comedy Festival in Toronto and, in 1997, knocked 'em dead at the Just For Laughs
Comedy Festival in Montreal and was featured on the 2003 Just For Laughs Comedy Tour
across Canada with Rick Mercer. His numerous TV credits include The New Red Green Show,
A&E’s Comedy on the Road, CBC’s Comics! and the Comedy Network’s Laugh-a-Thon and Comedy Now.
Derek is currently touring his one-man show, The Other Shoe Drops, in a 60 city cross-Canada tour.
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"Derek Edwards did a fantastic job, we loved him, and nobody missed his performance.
We had about 90 people there and we all laughed very hard."
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Sobeys
"Derek Edwards is one of the finest comedy talents in North America.
He is the kind of guy who could read the nutritional content off a
cereal box and have you in tears."
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Winnipeg Free Press
"...there wasn't a dry eye in the house! How refreshing to hear
comedy without racial slurs, sarcasm or curses!"
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Ontario Insurance Adjusters Association
"Derek is awesome and it is clear his career is going places. His
dry sense of humour, exceptional wit and abilities to keep the crowd
splitting their sides made for one heck of an evening.
- Ontario Marina Association
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