Brandon Ash-Mohammed is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose debut comedy album ''Capricornication'' was released in 2020. A

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heritage, he is an alumnus of the comedy school at

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. He also has some Muslim ancestry, but was not raised Muslim; one of his comedy pieces on ''Capricorniation'' centres on the assumptions that people sometimes make about his identity because of his surname. Openly gay, he was the creator of

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's popular Ethnic Rainbow series of comedy nights for queer

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comedians, and the host of

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's televised "Virtual Pride" special during the

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in 2020. He was featured in

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's 2018 ''Homegrown Comics'' special, and has been a writer for the sketch comedy series ''

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''. He is also a partner with Coko Galore, PHATT Al,

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, Nkasi Ogbonnah, Ajahnis Charley,

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and Brandon Hackett in Untitled Black Sketch Project, Canada's first all-

sketch comedy troupe. He is presently the Toronto correspondent on the 29th season of ''

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'',. In 2022, he appeared in '' LOL: Last One Laughing Canada'',David Friend
"Tom Green, Andrew Phung vie to be ‘last one laughing’ on Canadian reality competition"
''

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'', January 12, 2022. and won the

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for Best Writing in a Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Series at the

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for the ''

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'' episode "Screech".Greg David
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''TV, eh?'', April 6, 2022.

References

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