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About
David
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.
