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Comedian, actor and author, Ron James was a blast to have on the show. Packed with stories from the road, his time at second city, befriending Mike Myers, leaving Canada and moving to LA, odd jobs in between acting gigs when he started out, his own talk ...
Comedian, actor and author, Ron James was a blast to have on the show. Packed with stories from the road, his time at second city, befriending Mike Myers, leaving Canada and moving to LA, odd jobs in between acting gigs when he started out, his own talk show, and a slew of hilarious anecdotal life lessons kept us doubled over with laughter. Can’t wait to have him back on again! Enjoy!
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Comedian / Actor / Author
‘...a master comedian with a distinctly Canadian viewpoint’ - St. John’s Telegram
‘...scarcely time to breath between fits of helpless laughter’ - Halifax Herald
Consistently hailed by audiences and critics from coast to coast, RON JAMES has been selling out theatres in Canada for more than 20 years.
This verbal gymnast marries a comedian’s eye for satire with a writer’s ear for language, taking fans on a two-hour roller coaster ride, that cuts a wide swath through contemporary culture with razor-sharp wit and poetically charged delivery.
‘…fast, funny and smart’ - Montreal Gazette
‘…simply the best’ - Toronto Sun
After graduating with a BA degree in History from Acadia University, (from whom he was bestowed an Honourary Doctorate in the Humanities in 2014), Ron moved from Halifax to Toronto. From there he kicked into gear, what has been a forty-one-year career, when he was hired by North America’s premier breeding ground of comedy, The Second City. Throughout the 1980’s Ron appeared in dozens of commercials, television roles and films.
‘…cleverly, hysterically funny’ - Toronto Star
‘…a virtuoso comedic performance’ - Globe and Mail
In 1990, he and his young family moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the cast of ‘My Talk Show,’ a television series for Ron Howard’s Imagine TV, that was syndicated across America. Although lauded by Newsweek as the ‘cult hit to watch for the Fall 1990 television season’, it was cancelled in less than a year.
Finding himself just another actor in a t… Read More
