Derek Edwards is proof positive that you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.  His award-winning rural humor has made him the hottest comedy property in Canada. Identifying himself with the ordinary working guy, his comedic gift is making the ordinary extraordinary.  He creates enchanting tales based on everyday subjects and delivers them with polished style and impeccable timing.

Derek Edwards has been a professional comedian for the past fifteen years. In that time he has amassed an impressive string of credits. In 1995 he was the winner of the Vail National Comedy Invitational in Vail, Colorado. In 1996 he stole the show at the Molson Canadian Toronto Comedy Festival and in 1997 he "knocked 'em dead" at the International Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He did the same at Just for Laughs '99. His numerous television appearances include A & E's Comedy On The Road, his own CBC-TV comedy special "COMICS!” The Comedy Network's Launch-A-Thon, Open Mike with Mike Bullard on The Comedy Network and CTV and a Gala performance on the 1997 Just for Laughs Comedy Show. Additionally, he recently filmed his own one-hour special for The Comedy Network's COMEDY NOW series entitled 'Blood, Sweat & Beers.' Derek Edward has also been featured on a variety of national radio programs including CBC'S Laughing Matters, Madly Off In All directions And definitely Not The Opera. He is a favorite on college and university campuses across Canada and the United States, a headliner at all of the major comedy clubs from Vancouver to Vegas and a much sought after corporate entertainer.  As well, Derek was recently featured on the first national 'Craven A/Just for Laughs' Canadian Comedy Tour.  He is also currently appearing in episodes of The New Red Green Show.

As well as performing live to audiences from Boston to Minneapolis to New York to Los Angeles, Derek is currently developing a movie script based on a Vegas-inspired mélange of absurdity (Magnum Opus), with his friend and colleague Mike Wilmot.  Derek was recently nominated as Standup Comedian Of The Year at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards.

 

Testimonials
 
“Derek Edwards is considered to be one of the finest comedy talents in North America. "Derek Edwards doesn't go for one-liners with quick, witty punch lines. Instead, he creates humor as if, to use a bad food metaphor, he's making a pizza, using a situation from life to create the dough topped with layers of tantalizing ingredients. A simple topic like camping turns into a full course meal when observations about hangovers and buying tents are added. Edwards is the kind of guy who could read the nutritional content off a cereal box and have you in tears."
Winnipeg Free Press
 
“Derek is awesome and it is clear his career is going places. His dry sense of humor, exceptional wit and abilities to keep the crowd splitting their sides made for one heck of an evening. I introduced him as the next Jim Carrey – that was an understatement, he’s better!”
Ontario Marina Association
 
“Derek was everything you promised – he used excellent material that the audience could relate to, kept everyone ‘in stitches’, and left the audience wanting more!”
Beamscope
 
 
Past Clients
 
Hub Financial
Equestrian Federation of Ontario
United Van Lines
Markham Board of Trade
CGAAO
Municipal Electrical Association
Tim Hortons
OIAA
Investors Group .