Dylan Rhymer (comedian)
editDylan Rhymer is a professional Canadian stand up comic and comedy writer active in Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe. He is known for his issues-based material often exploring unconventional subjects such as drug addiction, assisted suicide and the abortion debate. He is known for being highly critical of institutions such as organized religion, politicians and the right-to-life movement.
Rhymer has been to several comedy festivals including Just For Laughs, The Vancouver International Comedy Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Chicago Sketchfest, The Newfoundland Screech Festival, The Brighton Fringe, The Glasgow Comedy Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland. He has extensively toured the United Kingdom and Europe.
He has been featured in his own 1-hour stand up special on Comedy Now! series CTV / The Comedy Network and a second one-hour special "Dylan Rhymer: Deliverance" for CHEK television in Canada as well as appearances on The Debaters on CBC Radio. He has acted in small parts on American network series Psych, The Dead Zone and Once Upon A Time. He has appeared in the horror films Wrecker, Flu and Redirect. He created and performed the character Dick Hackney, an obnoxious 1980's club comic in the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
He has written for animated tv shows in the United Kingdom and co-created the online comedy series Red In Tooth & Claw with longtime comedy partner Baljeet Rai. The series depicts the idiotic and sometimes insane ramblings of a washed-up, bitter, alcoholic actor Weston Biggerstaff as voiced by Trevor Devall narrating a nature documentary.
His latest album is titled Dylan Rhymer: Macrodose and is available on 800 Lb Gorilla Records.
Rhymer lives in East Vancouver, Canada.