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Trevor Boris
Canadian comedian (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trevor Boris (born September 10, 1980)[2] is a Canadian comedian, writer and television producer.
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Boris is one of the stars of MuchMusic's Video on Trial, and is also a star of Stars Gone Wild. He has appeared on many other MuchMusic specials, including Stars on Trial, LOL!, Spring Break '07, Totally 80s Video on Trial, Video on Trial: Holiday Crap, Overrated in 06, and wrote the special Famous Fallouts. He was a producer of Video on Trial at one point, as well as a presenter at the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards and a spokesperson for Sunsilk, which aired numerous Hair on Trial commercials on MuchMusic. He also made an appearance on The Latest Buzz on Family Channel.
In 2007, Boris had his very own Comedy Now! standup special air on CTV and The Comedy Network, was the runner-up in the 2006 Great Canadian Laugh Off (the winner received $25,000) that aired on The Comedy Network, and was the host of the same-sex wedding show I Now Pronounce You... on OUTtv. He has been nominated twice for the "Best Stand-up Newcomer" Canadian Comedy Award, and has performed at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, as well as at the CBC Winnipeg, Halifax, Vancouver Comedy Festivals, and the 2006 Cape Town Comedy Festival in South Africa.
He has been featured numerous times on entertainment shows, such as eTalk Daily, Star! Daily, Inside Jam!, CBC Television's The National and CBC Radio One's The Debaters, and was recently[when?] featured on the cover of NOW in Toronto. He has also written for The National Post.
In addition, he was part of season five of Last Comic Standing when they auditioned in Montreal, Quebec. He made it to the Finals of Canada (Top 15) but did not advance to L.A.
In 2012, Trevor made his late-night U.S. TV debut when he performed standup comedy on Conan.[3]
He has worked as a television producer, most recently as a Supervising Producer on Big Brother Canada. Since the first season, he has been the voice of Marsha the Moose, a magical moose who lives in the house and occasionally gives secret tasks to the houseguests. Marsha became a hit and is now seen once a season.[4] Since season two of the show, he has served as a challenge producer, coming up with different challenges.[5] He also worked on Season 18 of Big Brother USA in LA in 2016. He also produced Canada's Got Talent, which was retired after one season.
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He is openly gay.[6]
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