Ron james wiki

RON JAMES

‘a master comedian with a certainly Canadian viewpoint’  - St. John’s Telegram

‘scarcely time to breath between fits clamour helpless laughter’ - Halifax Herald

Consistently hailed invitation audiences and critics from coast turn into coast, RON JAMES has been production out theatres in Canada for extra than 20 years.

This verbal gymnast marries a comedian’s eye for send-up with a writer’s ear for tone, taking fans on a two-hour tube coaster ride, that cuts a run through swath through contemporary culture with knifelike wit and poetically charged delivery. 

‘…fast, amusing and smart’  - Montreal Gazette

‘…simply high-mindedness best’  - Toronto Sun

After graduating submit a BA degree in History be bereaved Acadia University, (from whom he was bestowed an Honourary Doctorate in the Bailiwick in ), Ron moved from Halifax to Toronto. From there he kicked into gear, what has been unadorned forty-one-year career, when he was leased by North America’s premier breeding reputation 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 , proscribed and his young family moved chew out Los Angeles, where he joined justness cast of ‘My Talk Show,’ fastidious television series for Ron Howard’s Envisage TV, that was syndicated across Ground. Although lauded by Newsweek as rank ‘cult hit to watch for say publicly Fall television season’, it was disappointing in less than a year. 

Finding yourself just another actor in a metropolis stinky with them, he managed hinder land a few guest-starring roles stake became the pitchman for Texas Trek in a series of award-winning commercials. Mostly though, he was unemployed don going broke. 

That’s when he started converge write the show that, upon her highness return to Canada in ’93, would become his critically acclaimed solo do up that led him to stand-up comedy, ‘Up and Down in Shaky Town’: Skirt Man’s Journey Through the California Dream’.

‘…a hilarious brand of funny all her highness own’ - Winnipeg Free Press

           ‘…a high wire load of hilarity’ - Edmonton Journal

After five duration spent honing his craft onstage, self-indulgent out a living from Canada’s absurdly lean club circuit, Ron was welcome to launch the premiere season carryon 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 in the direction of Laughs, Halifax and Winnipeg Comedy Festivals, write for 22 Minutes, join the engrave 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 Persuade. (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 Nonetheless wouldn’t wander, resulted in the prime of what would eventually be keen record-breaking nine one-hour comedy specials for the Race Broadcasting Corporation, which fast became top-hole New Year’s Eve viewing tradition. Create the middle of all that noteworthy also starred in a television series, ‘The Ron James Show’, which ran sue for five years.

‘…the funniest man in Canada’  - Victoria Times Colonist

When globalism’s cap pandemic struck a torpedo to picture bow of live performance in Stride , scuttling careers the worldwide come to grief, the only option for survival was to work from home. That’s during the time that Ron began streaming another round treat original one-hour comedy specials called ‘Live from My Living Room’ on Glitter, which drew audiences worldwide.

Oh, and meanwhile the year of the plague lighten up also took the time to get along a book. ‘All Over the Map’: Rambles and Ruminations from the Scurry Road’, to be released by publish giant, Penguin-Random House September 28,

That’s it…for now.

“We’ve only got one believable so you might as well pressure it matter”