"If you've seen him before, nothing will keep you away.
If you haven't, see him as a matter of urgency!"
- The Guardian, Scotland
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- April 8-14, 2013: Sean will be appearing at The Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Get your tickets HERE
- CONGRATULATIONS to Sean - on his Canadian Screen Award win for Best Performance in an Animated Series, as the voice of Horn Swoggled on Almost Naked Animals!
- Sean performs the voice of a monkey in the new Teletoon series ROCKET MONKEYS, premiering January 10, 2013!! Check it out!
- Weekdays at 7:00pm: Match Game on The Comedy Network
- The Seánpod PODCAST. Listen to it HERE or download it on iTunes
- Daily: Jimmy Two Shoes on Teletoon.
- Daily: Almost Naked Animals on YTV.
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Expect the unexpected with Seán Cullen, a nimble master of improvisation and accomplished impressionist who delights in the absurd. The 25-year veteran of the Canadian comedy scene is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer.
Cullen has made multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC) and The Late Late Show (CBS). He was a finalist in the sixth season of Last Comic Standing (NBC) and was a regular onThe Ellen Degeneres Show (CBS). He starred in his own television series The Seán Cullen Show (CBC), also serving as creator, executive producer and writer on the series. He hosted the 17th Annual Gemini Awards Gala (CBC) and the travel series What Were They Thinking? (The Comedy Network), earning Gemini Awards for each. He has had several specials including Comedy Central Presents, the Gemini-nominated Comedy Now! special titled Seán Cullen: Wood, Cheese & Children! (CTV/The Comedy Network), the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated Seán Cullen's Home for Christmas (CBC) andCOMICS! (CBC). He has made multiple appearances on Just For Laughs (CBC) earning him a Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Variety Series, Royal Canadian Air Farce (CBC), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC) and Slings and Arrows (The Movie Network), and currently he is a regular panelist on Match Game (The Comedy Network).
His feature film credits include Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies, Mike Myers' The Love Guru and Phil The Alien, the latter earning him a Canadian Comedy Award for best Male Performance in a Film.
Cullen hosted his own show Simply Seán (CBC Radio One) for four seasons and is a regular on The Debaters (CBC Radio + TV) for which he earned two Canadian Comedy Award nominations. His monthly podcast The Seánpod was nominated for a 2012 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Podcast and is available on Apple iTunes. He has leant his voice to a number of animated series, most recentlyJimmy Two-Shoes (Teletoon/Disney XD) earning two Gemini-nominations, Almost Naked Animals (YTV) and Rocket Monkeys (Teletoon) premiering in fall 2012.
Cullen performs live on stage at comedy festivals across Canada, including Just For Laughs in Montreal and Toronto, and has appeared as far afield as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. He created and performed three one-man shows, including the Canadian Comedy Award-winning Seán Cullen: Erotic Laser Swordfight, Seán Cullen: Worm Lover and Seán Cullen: Wood, Cheese and Children! which was nominated for four awards (one Gemini, one Edinburgh Comedy and two Canadian Comedy Award nominations). In recent years he starred in the theatre production of Mel Brooks' The Producers in Toronto and in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Peter Pan at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
A prolific writer, he is the author of five popular young adult novels and is beginning to write a sixth new book. His first novel Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates won a Rocky Mountain Book Award and an Arthur Ellis Award and his book The Prince of Neither Here Nor There was nominated for a 2010 Toronto Book Award. He has written many television comedies and animated series, select credits include the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated The Seán Cullen Show (CBC), the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated Seán Cullen's Home for Christmas (CBC), Seán Cullen: Wood, Cheese & Children!(CTV/The Comedy Network) and more recently, Camp Lakebottom and Rocket Monkeys, premiering on Teletoon in fall 2012. He has also written and performed songs for A Wrinkle in Time (ABC), Just For Laughs 20th Anniversary (CBC), The Gemini Awards (CBC) and the Star TV Theme Song (Star TV, CityTV).
Cullen has released two comedy albums, Seán Cullen Live! and I Am a Human Man are available on Apple iTunes.
Described in Time Magazine as "the vanguard of comedy's next generation", Cullen has earned three Gemini Awards, three Canadian Comedy Awards, an ACTRA Award, a Rocky Mountain Book Award, an Arthur Ellis Book Award and was twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Born and raised in Peterborough, Cullen currently lives in Toronto.
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