Marty Adams is a
Canadian
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television
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and
film
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actor/writer and
comedian
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.
He began a football program at
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
but injured his knee. His sister encouraged him to get involved in a comedy program at
Humber College
The Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, commonly known as Humber College, is a public College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1967, Humber has two main campuses: the Humber North c ...
which got him his first major comedy gig in the Facebook of Revelations at
The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre op ...
. His last Second City main stage show was "0% Down, 100% Screwed", leaving the main stage on 21 June 2009.
TV appearances include seventeen episodes (as of 25 August 2010) of ''
Video on Trial''
Film roles include a mockumentary called ''
Now Magazine The Movie'' and ''
Saw IV
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''.
Humber
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Comedians from Ontario
Canadian male television actors
Canadian television personalities
21st-century Canadian male actors
People from Parry Sound, Ontario
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian male comedians
Canadian comedy writers
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