Brandon Ash-Mohammed is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose debut comedy album Capricornication was released in 2020.Glenn Sumi, "5 new Toronto comedy albums to get you laughing" . Now, December 22, 2020.
A Black Canadian of Trinidadian heritage, he is an alumnus of the comedy school at Humber College.Brian Uluocha, "Brandon Ash-Mohammed: A Place For Black Queer Comics". Jejune, August 3, 2020. He has some Arabic ancestry, but was not raised Muslim;Amanda Ghazale Aziz, "Being Muslim In Canada comedy show went beyond Trump jokes". Now, March 2, 2017. one of his comedy pieces on Capricorniation centres on the assumptions that people sometimes make about his identity because of his surname.Amil Niazi, "Brandon Ash-Mohammed just wants to make Toronto laugh". Toronto Star, January 31, 2021.
Openly gay, he was the creator of Toronto's popular Ethnic Rainbow series of comedy nights for queer BIPOC comedians,Peter Knegt, "The Ethnic Rainbow: How Brandon Ash-Mohammed is letting queer comedy shine in living colour". CBC Arts, June 11, 2019. and the host of Pride Toronto's televised "Virtual Pride" special during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada in 2020.Liz Braun, "Virtual Pride captures live spirit for 2020". Toronto Sun, June 28, 2020. He was featured in The Comedy Network's 2018 Homegrown Comics special,Bill Brioux, "Standup star K. Trevor Wilson takes another step up with comedy special". Toronto Star, September 2, 2018. and has been a writer for the sketch comedy series TallBoyz.Ryan Porter, "Toronto comedian Brandon Ash-Mohammed says racism, homophobia left him feeling 'very alone' in Canada's standup scene". Toronto Star, June 27, 2020. He is also a partner with Coko Galore, PHATT Al, Alan Shane Lewis, Nkasi Ogbonnah, Ajahnis Charley, Aba Amuquandoh and Brandon Hackett in Untitled Black Sketch Project, Canada's first all-Black Canadian sketch comedy troupe.Del Cowie, "Canada's first all-Black sketch troupe (unless someone tells them otherwise)". CBC Arts, May 5, 2021. He is presently the Toronto correspondent on the 29th season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.Bill Brioux, "CBC comedy '22 Minutes' touts bigger, younger, more diverse cast and writing staff". Toronto Star, November 1, 2021.
In 2022, he appeared in LOL: Last One Laughing Canada,David Friend, "Tom Green, Andrew Phung vie to be 'last one laughing' on Canadian reality competition". Toronto Star, January 12, 2022. and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the Canada's Drag Race episode "Screech".Greg David, "Corner Gas Animated, The Hardy Boys, Mary Berg and Canada's Drag Race win during Night 3 of the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards". TV, eh?, April 6, 2022.
In 2025, Ash-Mohammed was cast as Shawn in the Crave sports romance drama series Heated Rivalry.
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