Stand-up comedian Derek Edwards is proof positive that you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy. His award-winning rural humour has made him the hottest comedy property in Canada. Identifying himself with the ordinary working guy, his comedic gift is making the ordinary extraordinary. He creates enchanting tales based on everyday subjects and delivers them with polished style and impeccable timing.
Derek Edwards has been a professional comedian for the past ten years. In that time he has amassed an impressive string of credits. In 1995 he was the winner of the Vail National Comedy Invitational in Vail, Colorado. In 1996 he stole the show at the Molson Canadian Toronto Comedy Festival and in 1997 he "knocked 'em dead" at the International Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He did the same at Just for Laughs '99. His numerous television appearances include A & E's Comedy On The Road, his own CBC-TV comedy special "COMICS!" The Comedy Network's Launch-A-Thon, Open Mike with Mike Bullard on The Comedy Network and CTV and a Gala performance on the 1997 Just for Laughs Comedy Show. Additionally, he recently filmed his own one-hour special for The Comedy Network's COMEDY NOW series entitled 'Blood, Sweat & Beers.' Derek has also been featured on a variety of national radio programs including CBC'S Laughing Matters, Madly Off In All directions and definitely Not The Opera. He is a favourite on college and university campuses across Canada and the United States, a headliner at all of the major comedy clubs from Vancouver to Vegas and a much sought after corporate entertainer. As well, Derek was recently featured on the first national 'Craven A/Just for Laughs' Canadian Comedy Tour. He is also currently appearing in episodes of The New Red Green Show.
As well as performing live to audiences from Toronto to Vancouver to New York to Los Angeles, Derek is currently developing a movie script based on a Vegas-inspired mélange of absurdity (Magnum Opus), with his friend and colleague Mike Wilmot. Derek was the 2005 winner of the stand-up comedian of the year at the Canadian Comedy Awards.