Jason Beck – Corporate Stand-Up Comedian – Winnipeg, MB

Jason Beck is a Winnipeg comedian and former journalist who first broke into stand-up in the late 90s and has developed a reputation for wry wit, quick one-liners and inventive audience interaction. His material is clean, friendly and topical while entirely based on real life experiences. Delving into relationships, family life and popular culture, Jason is an observational comic with a sarcastic edge.

Jason spent a decade performing stand-up comedy weekly as a host and emcee at Rumor’s Comedy Club (where he has also headlined), has performed in the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival multiple times, has appeared on XM satellite radio and the CBC’s “So, You Think You’re Funny?” and “DNTO” (Definitely Not The Opera) and also performs across the country from time to time on the Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club circuit.

Jason performed in the Winnipeg Fringe Festival as a member of the hit 5 Winnipeg Comics stand-up show for eight straight years (2000-2007). Jason was a regular performer at the Press Club Comedy Night which he founded at the Winnipeg Press Club and ran from 1998 to 2010 (the show also spent two years at the West End Cultural Centre, a year at the Pyramid Cabaret and three years at the Charleswood Hotel), spent a decade as a regular cast member of the Beer & Skits sketch variety show and has performed with such comics as Gilbert Gottfried, Emo Philips, Russell Peters, Pauly Shore, Mike MacDonald, Brent Butt, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Green, Derek Edwards, Greg Proops, Ron James, Glen Foster, Gerry Dee, Jo Koy, Stewart Francis, Orny Adams, Alonzo Bodden, Dean Haglund, and Pete Zedlacher.

Jason has also performed a large number of corporate shows both in Winnipeg and on the road over the years, appearing in some of the most glamorous small towns in Canada and for such organizations as the Optimist’s Club of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS), the Manitoba Child Care Association, the Kinsmen Club of Manitoba, the Dauphin Kinettes Club, and the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba (for whom he performed for over 900 people at Winnipeg’s historic Pantages Playhouse Theatre in October 2004).

He has been the feature act (middled) at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Clubs in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto and Vancouver. Across the border, Jason’s resume includes performances at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago and The Comedy Store in Hollywood, California.

On December 11, 2005, Jason’s comedy career was profiled in a full-page cover story on the front page of the Entertainment section of the Winnipeg Free Press.

CORPORATE CLIENTS INCLUDE:

THE GLAMOROUS SMALL TOWN SHOW CHECKLIST

Some of the small towns Jason has performed in (that he can remember) include:

Morden, Manitoba
Morris, Manitoba
Petersfield, Manitoba
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Rivers, Manitoba
Roblin, Manitoba
Russell, Manitoba
St. Andrews, Manitoba
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Selkirk, Manitoba
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Somerset, Manitoba
Steinbach, Manitoba (not worth the trip)
Swan River, Manitoba
The Pas, Manitoba
Thompson, Manitoba
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Virden, Manitoba
Wadena, Saskatchewan

FESTIVALS

CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival

2011
Performer (“Rumor’s Series”)

2009
Performer (“The Winnipeg Show”, “Kings Of Komedy”)

2008
Performer (“Big Daddy Tazz & Friends”, “English Rural Tour”)

2007
Performer (“English Rural Tour”)

2006
Performer (“The Winnipeg Show”)

Winnipeg Fringe Festival

2007
5 Winnipeg Comics in… “The BIG BIG Show: I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”
Perfomer/Producer

2006
5 Winnipeg Comics in… “The Evolution of Comedy”
Perfomer/Producer

2005
5 Winnipeg Comics in… “Live From The Press Club!”
Perfomer/Producer

Big Daddy Tazz in… “Bi-Polar Buddha”
Producer

2004
5 Winnipeg Comics in… “What has 5 Heads and 9 Nuts…?”
Perfomer/Producer

2003
5 Winnipeg Comics… in “THE FUNNIEST SHOW ON EARTH! (Results May Vary)”
Perfomer/Producer

2002
“5 Winnipeg Comics… in an Air-Conditioned, Fully-Licensed Venue!”
Perfomer/Producer

2001
3 Winnipeg Comics in… “Crouching Set-Up, Hidden Punchline”
Perfomer/Producer

2000
3 Winnipeg Comics on… “Jerry Springer, Ricky Martin & The Seven-Day Movie Rental”
Perfomer/Producer

REVIEWS

“Jason Beck’s performance is charged with energy and it’s worth the ticket price just to see his Ricky Martin act.”
– Holly Moncrieff, Winnipeg Free Press, July 2000

“Jason Beck nimbly avoids the self-pity that usually comes with self-depreciating humor. We laughed at Jason’s woes… .”
– Broose Tulloch, The Jenny Review, July 2002

“Jason Beck gave a hilarious description of his Yoda fetish… .”
– Jonathan Ball, newwinnipeg.com, January 2003