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Performing comedy that's minus the naughty words, cheap put downs and low-brow humour is no stretch for Denis Grignon.
In his 20 + years as a comedian, he's always been more comfortable with an act that works above the neck, not below the belt..
It's what his clients are more comfortable with, too – whether they're major corporations and organizations, small, rural groups,
or educators ... and this wide variety of clients is happy to recommend - in writing - Denis’s comedy to you.
(Fluently bilingual, he's also comfortable performing in French).
An award-winning journalist and former radio reporter, Denis's work is still featured regularly on CBC National Radio and in the National Post.
He also developed and taught two college credit courses on script writing.
Together with wife, Nancy Payne, Denis Grignon created the successful CBC Radio satirical sketch series, Minivan World¸
which later became a stage play and earned rave reviews.
Indeed, it is Denis's ability to research his audiences and custom write material around them that has made his comedy a hit with
lawyers to landscapers, public servants to farmers.
He’s not only very very funny; his background means he’s also an extremely versatile comedian who knows how to research his audiences.
As a comedian, he’s earned enthusiastic praise for everything from writing awards shows - which have been hosted by the likes of Steve “Red Green” Smith and members of the Royal Canadian Air Farce - to his own hilarious digs at politics and corporate culture.
It’s one reason his clean and clever comedy is seen regularly on the Comedy Network.
He’s also been featured four times on the hit national radio show, Madly Off in All Directions.
Denis is no clueless city boy. In fact, he’s not a city boy at all.
Though his work often takes him downtown, his home town is in rural Ontario.
Indeed, there aren’t a lot of standup comics who have to feed the ducks and shut in the laying hens before they head out to do a show.
Rural audiences react enthusiastically to a brand of humour that’s just as likely to be inspired by a classified ad
in a small-town newspaper as by headlines in the Globe and Mail.
Knowing the audience is paramount for a standup comic—at least, for a smart and conscientious one.
And when it comes to empathizing with corporate culture, Denis can relate.
He spent 10 years as an on-air staff radio reporter and documentary producer with CBC Radio, where he is still a frequent contributor.
His writing appears in the National Post as well as in Canada Post’s corporate publications.
He’s insightful enough to know what his audience wants…and funny enough to deliver it.
A masterful MC, a disciplined writer of funny scripts and a professional comic who knows how to please any audience, Grignon enlivens any event.
A bilingual performer who had the Canada Day crowd on Parliament Hill cheering for more, he’s equally comfortable performing at a corporate awards night
or providing some much-needed humour during a major convention.
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