Elvira Kurt

Elvira Kurt is a Canadian Comedy Award winning, three-time Gemini Award nominated stand-up comic and Second City veteran, who’s starred, hosted or appeared in too many TV shows and comedy specials to mention. Well, if you insist… for starters there’s Popcultured with Elvira Kurt on The Comedy Network, the first late night talk show hosted by a woman which Elvira created and produced; host and headliner of CBC’s first ever all gay comedy special from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and star of an award winning one-hour CTV comedy special, Big Girl Now! Plus appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBC’s upcoming The Debaters, and CBC comedy specials from Montreal’s Just For Laughs and Halifax Comedy Festivals. Elvira’s own comedy specials air on Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, E!, and Bravo. On MTV’s LOGO network Elvira headlined “One Night Stand-Up” from Washington D.C. and hosted First Comes Love and Cruising The Caribbean with Olivia. On CBC’s The Second City’s Search For The Next Comedy Legend Elvira, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas served as judges; she guest starred on Degrassi: The Next Generation, hit the stage in the Vagina Monologues and is featured in several comedy films like the multiple award winning Laughing Matters…More! When Elvira’s not on stage she writes for TV series and specials, most notably Ellen DeGeneres on HBO. But that’s not all! Elvira’s toured North America as one of the hottest college acts around, nominated as both U.S. College Comedian and Entertainer of the Year. Want more? Just turn on the radio. Besides her stint as a panelist on CBC Radio’s As It Happens or as a regular on The Debaters, Elvira passionately skewers pop culture each and every week on CBC Radio One, PRI and Bold TV’s number one hit show, Q with Jian Ghomeshi.