Shaun Majumder Biography

Fast Facts

• Shared a 2006 Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series with his This Hour Has 22 Minutes castmates
• Received a 2002 Canadian Comedy Award for his stand-up act
• Belonged to the famous Second City comedy troupe for a time
• Set out to study either sports medicine or anthropology at college, but after his first year decided to pursue comedy full time instead
• His first starring role, in a seventh-grade school play, proved a disaster---he forgot all of his lines
• Delivered his first punch line at age 8 in school
• While tearing off the wrapping from a present, he quipped "this is a rip-off!" Raised in Newfoundland by his mom until he was 14, when he moved in with his dad in Ontario
• (His parents divorced when he was 3
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