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About David Granirer
David is a counselor and stand-up comic. He performs, maintains a counseling practice and teaches Stand-Up Comedy Clinic at Langara College in Vancouver, where he takes people from all walks of life who have had a secret desire to do stand-up comedy and after eight weeks has them on stage performing at a comedy club. Many of his students have gone on to become professional comics, performing at Festivals such as Just For Laughs, The Vancouver International Comedy Festival, and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

A pioneer in the use of humour to increase wellness, reduce stress, and cope with change, David has also taught stand up comedy to recovering drug addicts and cancer patients. His work was profiled in the Global TV documentary Laughing Through The Pain.

He founded Stand Up For Mental Health, where he teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building self-esteem and fighting public stigma. Stand Up For Mental Health has a group in Vancouver and is also offered through the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario in Toronto. A full-length CBC documentary for the Passionate Eye is currently being shot where the producers are following the Vancouver class for a whole year.

David also gives laughter in the workplace presentations to hundreds of organizations across North America, helping them use humor to decrease stress, increase wellness and cope with change.

 

His work has also been covered in magazines, newspapers and on radio and TV across North America. These publications and shows include Vicki Gabereau, As It Happens, CBC radio and TV, CTV, Global, the Globe and Mail, the Chicago Tribune, the Harvard Business Press, the Victoria Times Colonist, the Vancouver Sun, the Province, the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald.

He also performs his irreverent comedy routine on the lighter side of mental health across North America at conferences for mental health professionals.

He is a member of the Canadian Counseling and the Canadian Professional Counselor's Association.

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