David Pryde

On the surface David Pryde is the shy, quiet, straight-arrow whose homework you wanted to copy as a kid. However, beneath it all lays the bizarre, brilliant, and wicked mind that's blindsided audiences as one of the freshest comedy acts in the country. With the easy, unassuming delivery of a Jimmy Stewart/Charles Grodin love-child, Pryde tackles topics from obscure trivia to mundane everyday experience, twisting the most familiar ideas in hilarious ways you've never imagined. Whether he's being surreal, sweet or shocking, laughter is the end result.

Pryde first turned heads in 1999 when he came from out of nowhere to run away with the first prize in the Just for Laughs Comedy Night in Canada Competition. Soon after, he was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award as Funniest New Comedian in Canada. Since then he has performed in shows all over Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. He has written for Open Mike with Mike Bullard and This Hour has 22 Minutes; joined the award-winning On the Spot Improv Troupe and amassed a ton of TV and radio credits. These include performances at the Halifax Comedy Festival, Madly Off in All Directions, two galas from the Just for Laughs Festival, and his own special on CTV's Comedy Now. He's done a lot in a relatively short career and shows no signs of slowing down.

If you like comedy that's smart and original, then treat yourself to the wonderful, warped wit of David Pryde. His mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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