GERRY DEE
Sports Reporter
&
Award-Winning Stand-up Comedian
Gerry Dee began his comedy career in a very different fashion. The son of Scottish immigrant parents, Gerry was born in Scarborough, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He currently splits his time between living in Los Angeles and Toronto.
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He spent 10 years as a high school phys-ed teacher before making the switch to full time comedy and television and film in 2003.
In 1999, he won Toronto's Funniest New Comic competition. He would later tape his own half hour Comedy Now Special on CTV and The Comedy Network in 2001. He has attended a variety of comedy festivals, namely The US HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival where he made his CBC Gala appearance in July 2004 and again in 2007. He recently performed in Scotland and South Africa.
In 2002, he was the first Canadian in 27 years to win the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Former comics who got their start in this competition include Robin Williams, Dana Carvey and Ellen Degeneres to name a few.
In 2003 he made his US network debut when he performed on CBS' "Star Search" with Arsenio Hall. A year later he would appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as well as on The Mike Bullard Show.
In 2004, he appeared in the CBS Sports reality series PGA Tour 18: Golf's Ultimate Round. As well, National Lampoon featured him in a DVD which was released in 2004.
In 2004, 2006 and 2007 he was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Comic in Canada . He won the award in 2008 after his fourth nomination.
In April 2006, he appeared in the CBC mini-series "Canada Russia 72" where he will play the role of Boston Bruin great Wayne Cashman. In the summer of 2006, he played "Donny" in the much anticipated "Trailer Park Boys: The Movie". He also recently appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing 5 where he finished third.
In October 2007, his first DVD "No Reading Ahead" was released. Within the DVD Gerry Dee, gives us his hilarious take on teaching, dating, marriage and life in general in this tour-de-force concert performance.
You can also watch Gerry weekly on "The Score" with his very humourous segment called "Gerry Dee-Sports Reporter". Gerry's segments on "The Score" Gerry Dee-Sports Reporter have taken the sports world by storm and his recent segments on CBC's The Hour (see "Demo Reel" clip above) have only added to the demand for this comedian.
Gerry is currently working on his first book about his life as a teacher. He is also in a development deal with CBC Television for his own half hour sitcom. He is one of only a handful of Canadian Comedians to have his own one hour special on Comedy Central in the USA. His DVD "No Reading Ahead" is sold throughout Canada and the USA and he is scheduled to release his second DVD in 2011/2012.
Gerry performed at the 2010 Olympics in front of all the Canadian Athletes, coaches and families.
He is a competitive amateur golfer (2 handicap), a former Provincially ranked tennis player and a former University hockey player at St. Francis Xavier University.
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