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Seguin Nile

Joined:

Nov 07, 2007

Last upload:

Nov 11, 2007

Country:

Canada

Nile Seguin

“funny, uncompromising and intelligent” – Now Magazine “delivers more laughs and entertainment than most comedy clubs.” – Eye Magazine “unabashedly gutsy…one of the best comedic sets you will see anywhere.” – The Hour It doesn’t take long to see that being biracial has allowed this comedian to see life in a much different perspective and to shed some pretty harsh light on taboo subjects many comics try to avoid talking about. Nile began his comedy career on a high note placing in the finals of Toronto’s Funniest Person with a Day Job competition (losing to Gerry Dee who later went on to Last Comic Standing fame). It was also in that year that his comedy garnered him his first official accolade The Toronto Theatre Alliance Cross Cultural Scholarship (an award that had never been given to a stand up comic before or since). Nile’s style has shown itself to be adaptable for stage, television, radio and film. Besides performing for over seven years to critical acclaim (Best Solo Comedy at the San Francisco Fringe, Best Independent Producer’s Award and Best of Fest at the Rogue Performance Festival), Nile has also written for and performed on national television for shows such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Get A Life, Elvir Kurt’s Adventures in Comedy and in 2004 was picked for his first featured film role in the critically acclaimed indie comedy Ham and Cheese. His writing has taken him to the Just For Laughs festival two years in a row for short films he has written and co-directed. Nile spent last year as a Senior Writer and Featured Performer on the nationally televised late night talk show The Hour. He is also currently developing a radio show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and will be taping a pilot for the show at this year’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival. This success in television and radio has not prevented him from performing however and he recently brought his cutting material to the Freespeech Comedy Series in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A festival that has featured such acts as Rick Shapiro, Emmy award winner Rick Overton and Doug Stanhope. Nile’s edgy yet accessible material as well as his charming delivery not only have allowed him to get away with ripping into taboos but they also allow him to be as comfortable performing in clubs such as the Comic Strip and Stand Up New York as he is in alternative venues such as Toronto’s ALT.COMedy Lounge and larger theatrical venues such as the Factory Theatre, the Theatre Passe-Muraille. and the Isabel Bader Theatre. Often referred to as half white and half black, Nile Séguin is most definitely fully talented and fully funny. A smart and gifted writer as well as a talented and unique performer, Nile is becoming one of Canada’s hottest comedic properties.

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