Courtney Gilmour

Courtney Gilmour
Gilmour performing stand up
Gilmour performing at The Great Hall in Toronto
BornSarnia, Ontario, Canada
Medium
  • Stand-up
  • television
  • film
Education
Genres
Subject(s)
WebsiteOfficial website

Courtney Gilmour is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose performances centre on her experiences as a congenital triple amputee.[1] She is most noted as the joint winner with D.J. Mausner of the annual Homegrown Comics competition for emerging Canadian comedians at the 2017 Just for Laughs festival.[2]

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, and raised in Waterloo, Gilmour was born without forearms and with only one leg.[3] She began pursuing comedy while studying at the University of Windsor.[3]

Following her Homegrown Comics win, she performed in 2018 at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival[4] and the Halifax Comedy Festival.[5] In 2019 she premiered the one-woman stage show Congratulations at the Toronto Fringe Festival.[6]

In 2021 she appeared as herself in an episode of Jon Dore's CBC comedy series Humour Resources.[7] She has also appeared in The Beaverton, The Stand-Up Show with Katherine Ryan, and the web series Space Dragon and Kim.

In 2022 she competed in the second season of Canada's Got Talent, and was announced on April 26, 2022, as advancing to the semi-final round,[8] and winning the judges vote to the finale. She also appeared in two episodes of the second season of Roast Battle Canada.[9]

Her comedy album Let Me Hold Your Baby received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.[10] In the same year, she was featured in a third-season episode of The New Wave of Standup.[11]

  1. ^ Raju Mudhar, "Comedy champ Courtney Gilmour makes use of what's missing". Toronto Star, May 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "For the first time, two women share Just For Laughs comedy title". CTV News, August 1, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Vanja Mutabdzija Jaksic, "'That's my life': How Courtney Gilmour approaches disability and comedy, and beyond". CBC Comedy, December 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Jill Wilson, "Out on a limb: Comedian has no fear about addressing her missing hands and leg". Winnipeg Free Press, April 9, 2018.
  5. ^ "Ha!ifax Comedy Fest 2018". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, April 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Jeff Hicks, "Waterloo comedian Courtney Gilmour prepares for one-woman show in Toronto". Waterloo Region Record, July 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Greg David, "Just for Laughs wraps production on Humour Resources for CBC". TV, eh?, October 29, 2020.
  8. ^ Brent Furdyk, "'Canada's Got Talent': Dance Crew The Renegades Receive Surprise Golden Buzzer As Semi-Finals Acts Revealed". ET Canada, April 26, 2022.
  9. ^ Greg David, "CTV COMEDY CHANNEL READIES UP FOR MORE JABS WITH ROAST BATTLE CANADA SEASON 2, BEGINNING JUNE 13". TV, eh?, June 3, 2022.
  10. ^ "Here are all the 2023 Juno nominees". CBC Music, January 31, 2023.
  11. ^ "TV & Film News – Canada Media Fund opens Canadian Content industry survey". Broadcast Dialogue, March 2, 2023.