Chris Locke (comedian)

Chris Locke is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor,[1] most noted as the winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up at the 15th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2014.[2]

A native of Toronto, Ontario,[3] he began his comedy career in the mid-2000s. He has performed at comedy festivals and undertaken his own solo tours,[2] and has released two solo comedy albums, The World is Embarrassing (2014) and Demons Are Eating My Head (2016).[3]

He is a frequent collaborator with Seán Cullen, including the short comedy albums Chris and Seán are Tony and Keith in Nature and Chris and Seán are Tony and Keith in Horror,[4] and joint comedy shows.[5]

In 2018 he premiered the comedy web series Learning Nature with Chris Locke, on Funny or Die.[6] The series, in which Locke tries to create a nature documentary despite not knowing anything about the subject, was a Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Web Series, and Locke was a nominee for Best Performance in a Web Series, at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019.

In 2024 he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, for his role in the film Who's Yer Father?.[7]

He has been a guest on Stop Podcasting Yourself,[3] and hosts the podcast Happy Good with Chris Locke.[5]

He is married to comedian and actress Kathleen Phillips.[8]

  1. ^ Josiah Hughes, "Comedian Chris Locke Is Begging Jim Carrey to Paint His Portrait". Exclaim!, April 11, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Bill Brownstein, "Comic Chris Locke rises from the film dead with Mini-Donuts tour and solo play". Montreal Gazette, June 3, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Jon Cranny, "Comedian Chris Locke returns to Vancouver with new material". The Georgia Straight, November 13, 2019.
  4. ^ Vish Khanna, "Chris Locke and Seán Cullen Prove Themselves as Two of Comedy's Sharpest Minds with 'In Horror!'". Exclaim!, November 1, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Free show to feature pair of Canadian comics". Guelph Today, June 10, 2023.
  6. ^ Greg David, "Web series Learning Nature with Chris Locke is balls-out hilarity with an edge". TV, eh?, April 3, 2018.
  7. ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.
  8. ^ Bill Brownstein, "Delivering the laughs; Locke's comedy routine veers into new territory thanks to arrival of baby". Montreal Gazette, May 26, 2016.