About Shawn
Dubai-based comedian and content creator, turning a love of comedy into a livelihood, one character at a time.
Ever since I can remember, I’ve been captivated by comedy
I was born in Canada and raised in Dubai by a single mother, growing up between cultures and collecting the voices around me. In high school I taught history lessons in a German accent. Nobody asked me to.
After university I went into marketing and strategy, then left it to make people laugh full time. It’s not just a passion. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to turn this love for humour into my livelihood.
Funny travels further than a slide deck
He writes and performs everything himself. Every video starts as a storyboard, built from real conversations he overhears and saves in an ever-growing idea bank. Each character gets refined until the accent, the walk and the logic are exactly right. The comedy pokes at cultural stereotypes without ever punching down, which is exactly why it travels so well between cultures.
Today he tours his live show Laughing in Translation around the world, works with brands from Porsche to Virgin Mobile, and gives keynotes on cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence and human behaviour, just a bit of proof that funny travels further than a slide deck.
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