Jeff McEnery
Jeff McEnery is a Canadian comedian born and raised in the small town of Acton, Ontario.
He graduated from Humber College’s Comedy: Writing and Performance Program, and in 2004 won the college’s Best First Year Stand-Up Award. He won the Tim Sims Encouragement Award in 2005 and Yuk Yuk's $25,000 Great Canadian Laugh Off in 2006. He was nominated twice for the Best Stand-up Newcomer Canadian Comedy Award (2006-2007), winning in 2007. Since then, Jeff has appeared at every major Canadian comedy festival including the "Just for Laughs Comedy Festival", "Halifax Comedy Festival", "Winnipeg Comedy Festival", "LOLSudbury Comedy Festival", "Parry Sound Comedy Festival", "Guelph Comedy Festival", “Hubcap Comedy Festival” in Moncton, “Cottage Country Comedy Festival” in Muskoka and "Global ComedyFest" in Vancouver.
Jeff's one hour "Comedy Now!" stand up special was broadcast on CTV and the Comedy Network in summer of 2011 and he has been featured on the shows, "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" and "etalk".
McEnery has also been involved in acting, starring in the feature films "Dog Pound" and "Camille" as well as CTV's "Many Happy Returns" ad campaign and several commercials (Wendy's, Doritos, Comcast etc.) He has made guest appearances on the shows Naturally, Sadie, "The Jon Dore Television Show" and "Covert Affairs" and was also a cast member on the Comedy Network's sketch series "Hotbox".
As a writer, Jeff is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television Program and his short film "Behind the Funny" was broadcast on the Comedy Network on the show "Canadian Comedy Shorts."