Maryelle Turner

I'm here to make you feel better about yourselves", jokes Maryelle Turner. She does make everyone feel better as she sends audiences rolling in the aisles with laughter. Maryelle's absurd realities leave the crowd giddy. Her comedy filled with personal, light, sarcastic humor takes the audience on her silly journey. At a family function she is definitely the person you want to sit next to! Maryelle is a comedian, writer and actor; has performed stand-up at top NYC Comedy Clubs, festivals and acted in several sitcom & comedy pilots and films. Recently cast in an indie feature… stay tuned!

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Comedy as controlling language

According to cultural analyst Susan Purdie, the true aim of humor is to regulate language and meaning. When comedians command a podium, they assume a position of power. In civic society, this mantle,

Comedy should punch up rather than kick down

Rich Vos, an American comedian, recently threw racist "jokes" at female Indigenous guests at a Winnipeg comedy club, as though he hoped the ladies would be arrested for driving under the influence on

Comedy for survival

Being what the great Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor refers to as "a person of pallor" — white — I can't understand the historical and current anguish that Indigenous people have endured as a result