Arthur Simeon is a

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

based in

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. He was born in

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

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on November 14, 1983 and attended the prestigious Namilyango College between 1996 and 2001. In the fall of 2001, Simeon moved to Canada to attend university in

Peterborough, Ontario Peterborough ( ) is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada, about 125 kilometres (78 miles) northeast of Toronto. According to the 2021 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 83,651. The population of the Peterborough ...

. Simeon first tried stand-up comedy as a teenager while attending

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Trent is known for its Oxbridge college system and small class sizes.

. He has performed multiple times at Just for Laughs and appeared on

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and the

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. In February 2010, Simeon was featured as the cover story of '' NOW'' in Toronto. His debut comedy album, ''Born and Raised'', was released in 2014 on Comedy Records. His sophomore album, ''The Blackest Panther'', came out in February 2020. In the summer of 2020, he wrote and performed on the CBC series ''

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''. Arthur Simeon is part of the Toronto-based label Comedy Records and was featured on their ten-year anniversary album.

References

Four Comics Walk Into A Breakfast Bar

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