The Ryan and Amy Show is a Vancouver-based

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sketch comedy duo composed of Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy. They have toured Canada and the United States including doing Sketch Fest in Montreal and Vancouver as well as Just For Laughs. The group produces sketch comedy shorts that are distributed via YouTube and on their website, but have appeared on other sites as well such as

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. Goodmurphy and Steele have starred together in many television shows including the YTV show ''The Funny Pit'' with Roman Danylo,

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, CBC's ''The Pitch'', and ''Out For Laughs''. Steele made a memorable appearance on the second season of ''

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'', coming in 3rd place with co-worker Rob Goddard. While Goodmurphy has been in Super Channel's ''Too Much Information'' with Geri Hall,

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and

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, as well as Thirty Seventeen directed by Michael Coleman. The duo was short-listed for a

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in the ''Best Live Ensemble'' category in 2016. In early 2018 the duo's short film ''White Wine Boys Club'' won first prize at the Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prize competing Internationally against other JFL Film Festival winners. The Ryan and Amy Show have signed with Hadron Films to produce a 22-minute sketch comedy pilot, produced by Miles Forster & Chris Wilkinson.

Members

Ryan Steele

Ryan Steele grew up in the city of Langley, British Columbia, where he graduated from H. D. Stafford High School. He became interested in comedy at an early age, and started making comedy videos in his early-teens, with early successes 'Ferry Death' and 'Big Mac Attack'. After being diagnosed with testicular cancer at 19, he gave up the dream of being a comedian for a while. In his late 20s, he went to a

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' like workshop where he was told to start doing Sketch Comedy, so he started his own ensemble sketch show.

Amy Goodmurphy

Amy Goodmurphy grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and is a St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School alumna. She started comedy at the age of 23 after meeting Steele at the bar where he worked. He convinced her it would be worth her while to join his ensemble sketch show. It wasn't, so she started studying acting at Vancouver Acting School, graduating in 2012.

Kelowna Song

In May 2017 the duo had a viral hit about the town of

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, racking up over 150,000 hits in under a month. Performing as Mom's over Miami, they sang '

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' by

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but with different lyrics.

Cameo

In 2019, Ryan and Amy released their self-titled film, 'The Ryan and Amy Show' to rave reviews. Afterwards they were personally invited by Cameo owner Steven Galanis' second cousin Fergus Galanis to participate on the website as one of their main comedy duos. They take this job really seriously, as it is now one of their main sources of income after they stopped showing re-runs of 'Smoker Girl' on syndicated television.

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