Creative Third Thursday - November
You are invited to Creative Third Thursdays on November 21, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
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Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Agenda:
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Mix and Mingle
5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - Interview
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. - Mix and Mingle
Location: Cowork Chilliwack #12 - 8465 Harvard Place
Stand-up comedian, writer and producer Harry Doupe was born and raised in Fort Langley, BC and began his comedy career shortly after moving to Vancouver. Early on he would win the 20th Century/Fox “King of Comedy” contest and over the next few years develop a reputation as one of the country's hardest working road comics.
Through the 1990s Doupe appeared in such television shows as Comics! (CBC), Comedy On The Road (A&E) and Off the Record (TSN). He also became one of the most in-demand writers in the country with his extensive knowledge of sports, music and pop culture, making him a perfect fit for awards shows.
An award-winning comedian and writer, Doupe performed at Expo '86, the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the 1995 Grey Cup in Regina, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, and became the first comedian to play Toronto's Air Canada Centre three times, appearing once with Weird Al Yankovic and twice with the Tragically Hip during their 1999/2000 New Years shows.
In the 2000’s, he continued to write and perform, doing both on Toronto 1's The Toronto Show (2003) (for which he won a 2004 Canadian Comedy Award as a writer). He also acted as head writer for the CBC's Tsunami Fund-raiser "Canada For Asia", and was the co-creator, and was producer of the TV series, Kraft Hockeyville (2006). He would write for four Olympic Games (2008-2018), produce and write the Canadian Comedy Awards (2009-2011) and co-found and act as producer of Calgary’s YYComedy Festival. Since returning to the Fraser Valley he has kept himself busy doing various projects with UFV’s CIVL radio, produce, write and host the Abbotsford Arts Council’s awards (2017-2019) and the Fraser Valley Music Awards (2017-2021), and act as one of the hosts of the Mission Folk Music Festival (2017-present).
Having previously lived in Vancouver, San Francisco and Toronto, Harry now calls Chilliwack home.
