Erica Sigurdson (born 5 November 1974) is a Canadian comedian, writer, producer, and haberdasher. Sigurdson has Icelandic ancestry. She is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee, a

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winning comedy writer and is regularly featured on

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's smash hit ''

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''. She has been performing stand-up across Canada for ten years, has traveled to Afghanistan to entertain the troops and was a semi-finalist in the

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.Sigurdson, Erica. Erica Sigurdson Biography. N.p., 2011. Web. 17 Feb 2012. . She is a nine-time repeat guest on the

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show Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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