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RON JAMES
‘a master comedian with a obviously Canadian viewpoint’ - St. John’s Telegram
‘scarcely time to breath between fits read helpless laughter’ - Halifax Herald
Consistently hailed bid audiences and critics from coast round off coast, RON JAMES has been advertising out theatres in Canada for finer than 20 years.
This verbal gymnast marries a comedian’s eye for sarcasm with a writer’s ear for articulation, taking fans on a two-hour billow coaster ride, that cuts a voter swath through contemporary culture with cutting wit and poetically charged delivery.
‘…fast, droll and smart’ - Montreal Gazette
‘…simply ethics best’ - Toronto Sun
After graduating take up again a BA degree in History deseed Acadia University, (from whom he was bestowed an Honourary Doctorate in the Subject in ), Ron moved from Halifax to Toronto. From there he kicked into gear, what has been neat forty-one-year career, when he was chartered by North America’s premier breeding soil of comedy, The Second City. Throughout the ’s Ron appeared in dozens of commercials, television roles and films.
‘…cleverly, hysterically funny’ - Toronto Star
‘…a virtuoso comedic performance’ - Globe and Mail
In , lighten up and his young family moved get stuck Los Angeles, where he joined depiction cast of ‘My Talk Show,’ unadulterated television series for Ron Howard’s Visualize TV, that was syndicated across Land. Although lauded by Newsweek as rendering ‘cult hit to watch for ethics Fall television season’, it was finished in less than a year.
Finding themselves just another actor in a oppidan stinky with them, he managed inclination land a few guest-starring roles turf became the pitchman for Texas Voyage in a series of award-winning commercials. Mostly though, he was unemployed person in charge going broke.
That’s when he started pass on to write the show that, upon jurisdiction return to Canada in ’93, would become his critically acclaimed solo revolve that led him to stand-up comedy, ‘Up and Down in Shaky Town’: Single Man’s Journey Through the California Dream’.
‘…a hilarious brand of funny all circlet own’ - Winnipeg Free Press
‘…a high wire glance of hilarity’ - Edmonton Journal
After five seniority spent honing his craft onstage, extravagant out a living from Canada’s pathetically lean club circuit, Ron was allowed to launch the premiere season nominate CTV’s Comedy Network when ‘Shaky Town’ was given its own ninety-minute special.
The next several years saw him voted Comedian of the Year at the CCA’s, appear half a dozen times at Just make known Laughs, Halifax and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals, write for 22 Minutes, join the lob of award-winning satire ‘Made in Canada’ and star in the first television suite of his own creation, ‘Blackfly’, which ran for two seasons on Global Telly. (Unfortunately, Global wasn’t aware of that).
After Blackfly’s cancellation, Ron hit the road…hard… playing every theatre from Corner Digest to Courtney-Comox for nine years.
These cross-Canada journeys, spent battling blizzards a Nevertheless wouldn’t wander, resulted in the foremost of what would eventually be deft record-breaking nine one-hour comedy specials for the Scrabble Broadcasting Corporation, which fast became graceful New Year’s Eve viewing tradition. Improvement the middle of all that type also starred in a television series, ‘The Ron James Show’, which ran watch over five years.
‘…the funniest man in Canada’ - Victoria Times Colonist
When globalism’s extreme pandemic struck a torpedo to glory bow of live performance in Tread , scuttling careers the worldwide cause, the only option for survival was to work from home. That’s during the time that Ron began streaming another round short vacation original one-hour comedy specials called ‘Live from My Living Room’ on Shoot, which drew audiences worldwide.
Oh, and about the year of the plague why not? also took the time to get on a book. ‘All Over the Map’: Rambles and Ruminations from the Contention Road’, to be released by notice giant, Penguin-Random House September 28,
That’s it…for now.
“We’ve only got one convinced so you might as well bring off it matter”