Anesti Danelis is a Canadian musical comedian from Toronto, Ontario.Glenn Sumi, "Why one comic is mourning the death of Yahoo Answers". Now, May 4, 2021.
Previously associated with the sketch comedy troupe FomoSapiens,Liane Faulder, "Basic Witch". Edmonton Sun, August 19, 2016. he premiered his first solo show Songs for the New World Order at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival.Debbie Fein-Goldbach, "Fringe review: Songs For A New World Order". Now, July 10, 2017. He toured the show to various other Canadian and international fringe theatre festivals in 2017 and 2018, and received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Variety Act at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019.Joel Levy, "'A Day in the Life' with Toronto Creative Anesti Danelis". Toronto Guardian, July 10, 2019.
He returned to the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019 with his second solo show, Six Frets Under.Kevin Ritchie, "Fringe review: Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under". Now, July 5, 2019. Later that year, he received international press attention when a video of him quitting his job at Starbucks by singing a song to the patrons about what a bad boss the manager was, went viral.Nadine DeNinno, "‘F–k this, I quit!’: Starbucks worker rips boss in viral resignation song". New York Post, December 12, 2019.
During the COVID-19 pandemic he uploaded songs to social networking platforms such as YouTube and TikTok,Karen Fricker, "He went viral with his I-quit-from-Starbucks song. Now comic songwriter Anesti Danelis has a Fringe revue taking aim at self-help books". Welland Tribune, July 11, 2022. many of which were also released on the comedy album Quarantine Bops.
In 2022, he returned to the Toronto Fringe Festival with This Show Will Change Your Life, a show parodying self-help books and themes that also included a song about his bisexuality in which he gets revenge on an ex-partner by dating both of their parents.Glenn Sumi, "Fringe review: Anesti Danelis show could use a more intimate venue". Now, July 7, 2022. In 2023, he premiered Artificially Intelligent, which blended some of his older songs with new creations including a song written by ChatGPT, at Buddies in Bad Times during the 2023 Queer Pride Festival.Stephi Wild, "Anesti Danelis Brings ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's 2023 Queer Pride Festival". Broadway World, May 25, 2023.
He is slated to appear in the fifth season of Canada's Got Talent in 2025."Canada’s Got Talent Reveals the Showstopping Acts Competing for $1M Grand Prize from Rogers". Rogers Communications, March 4, 2025.
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