Derek Seguin is a Canadian stand-up comedian."Standing together through standup; Derek Seguin is among a host of Quebec comics who have built bridges with bilingual performances". Montreal Gazette, March 13, 2014. Of mixed French Canadian and Irish descent, he is best known for comedy which plays on the cultural differences between English Canada and French Canada,"Laughter unites two solitudes". Montreal Gazette, March 7, 2012. which he performs in an intentionally exaggerated stereotype of a Québécois accent."Derek Seguin: Nasty and nice". Rover, June 10, 2014.
Comedy career He is a regular performer at comedy festivals across Canada, including Just for Laughs and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival,"Derek Seguin: Finding bliss on the work front – on his own terms". Montreal Gazette, March 11, 2015. appears regularly on the CBC Radio comedy series The Debaters,"Derek Seguin: Nasty and nice". Rover, June 10, 2014. and appeared with Sebastien Bourgault in the comedy web series Language Police in 2013.
In 2008, he collaborated with Mike Ward and Maxim Martin on "French Comedy Bastards", a touring show which brought Quebec-style comedy — a style which blends stand-up and sketch elements more freely than is typical in English Canada — to anglophone audiences."Best of both worlds; French Comedy Bastards gives three French-Canadians an opportunity to showcase a form of comedy that may not be familiar to anglo audiences". Montreal Gazette, July 10, 2008.
Awards In October 2015, Seguin won the 6th annual Canadian Top Comic competition, presented by SiriusXM Canada in association with the Just For Laughs festival.
His comedy album PanDerek (1st Wave!) received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021.Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021. He received a second Juno nomination in the same category at the Juno Awards of 2024 for Life of Leisure."Here are all the 2024 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 6, 2024.
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