Courtney Gilmour
| Courtney Gilmour | |
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| Gilmour performing stand up Gilmour performing at The Great Hall in Toronto | |
| Born | Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
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| Website | Official website |
Courtney Gilmour is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose performances centre on her experiences as a congenital triple amputee.[1] She is most noted as the joint winner with D.J. Mausner of the annual Homegrown Comics competition for emerging Canadian comedians at the 2017 Just for Laughs festival.[2]
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, and raised in Waterloo, Gilmour was born without forearms and with only one leg.[3] She began pursuing comedy while studying at the University of Windsor.[3]
Following her Homegrown Comics win, she performed in 2018 at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival [4] and the Halifax Comedy Festival.[5] In 2019 she premiered the one-woman stage show Congratulations at the Toronto Fringe Festival.[6]
In 2021 she appeared as herself in an episode of Jon Dore's CBC comedy series Humour Resources .[7] She has also appeared in The Beaverton , The Stand-Up Show with Katherine Ryan , and the web series Space Dragon and Kim.
In 2022 she competed in the second season of Canada's Got Talent , and was announced on April 26, 2022, as advancing to the semi-final round,[8] and winning the judges vote to the finale. She also appeared in two episodes of the second season of Roast Battle Canada .[9]
Her comedy album Let Me Hold Your Baby received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.[10] In the same year, she was featured in a third-season episode of The New Wave of Standup .[11]
References
[edit ]- ^ Raju Mudhar, "Comedy champ Courtney Gilmour makes use of what's missing". Toronto Star , May 6, 2018.
- ^ "For the first time, two women share Just For Laughs comedy title". CTV News, August 1, 2017.
- ^ a b Vanja Mutabdzija Jaksic, "'That's my life': How Courtney Gilmour approaches disability and comedy, and beyond". CBC Comedy, December 3, 2019.
- ^ Jill Wilson, "Out on a limb: Comedian has no fear about addressing her missing hands and leg". Winnipeg Free Press , April 9, 2018.
- ^ "Ha!ifax Comedy Fest 2018". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , April 25, 2018.
- ^ Jeff Hicks, "Waterloo comedian Courtney Gilmour prepares for one-woman show in Toronto". Waterloo Region Record , July 1, 2019.
- ^ Greg David, "Just for Laughs wraps production on Humour Resources for CBC". TV, eh?, October 29, 2020.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "'Canada's Got Talent': Dance Crew The Renegades Receive Surprise Golden Buzzer As Semi-Finals Acts Revealed". ET Canada , April 26, 2022.
- ^ Greg David, "CTV COMEDY CHANNEL READIES UP FOR MORE JABS WITH ROAST BATTLE CANADA SEASON 2, BEGINNING JUNE 13". TV, eh?, June 3, 2022.
- ^ "Here are all the 2023 Juno nominees". CBC Music, January 31, 2023.
- ^ "TV & Film News – Canada Media Fund opens Canadian Content industry survey". Broadcast Dialogue, March 2, 2023.
