Nikki Payne
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Nikki Payne is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is well known for her lisp. She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Stand-up Newcomer and Best Female Stand-up (2003 & 2005). She is the first stand-up in either the male or female category to win the best stand-up award twice. She is also the first stand-up of either gender to win both a best newcomer and best stand-up award.
She is a graduate of the Comedy program at Humber College and a graduate of The Second City Conservatory Program.
Nikki Payne has appeared in Last Comic Standing [1], Video On Trial, Buzz, and the NFB documentary The Next Big Thing. She has also appeared in the Canadian sketch comedy show Comedy Inc. (TV series). She is a member of The Sketchersons. [2]
Nikki also claims to have grown up in the trailer park where early seasons of the hit Canadian television show Trailer Park Boys was filmed.
