Derek Edwards

Standup comedian Derek Edwards proves that you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy. Edwards's award-winning humour has made him one of the hottest properties 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.

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!, the Comedy Network's Laugh-a-Thon and Comedy Now. Edwards is currently touring his one-man show, The Other Shoe Drops, in a 60 city cross-Canada tour. Derek Edwards, DerekEdwards, booking derek edwards, comedian derek edwards, derek edwards bookings,

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