Ryan McMahon (comedian)
{{Short description|First Nations comedian}}
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| medium = Podcast, stand-up, television
| nationality = Couchiching First Nation, Canadian
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| years_active = 2006–present
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| domestic_partner = Madeline Wilson Shaw
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| notable_works = Thunder Bay (podcast)
| website = {{URL|redmanlaughing.com}}
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Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, podcaster, and writer from the Couchiching First Nation.{{cite web |date=December 20, 2012 |title=The Round Dance Revolution: Idle No More |url=http://rpm.fm/news/the-round-dance-revolution-idle-no-more/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920101957/http://rpm.fm/news/the-round-dance-revolution-idle-no-more/ |archive-date=September 20, 2020 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |work=Revolutions Per Minute}}{{Cite news| title = The man behind the satirical Walking Eagle News finally says the things he never could as a journalist |first=Katie |last=Daubs| work = The Toronto Star| access-date = October 2, 2020| date = October 1, 2020 |quote="s Ryan McMahon, a comedian, podcaster and writer who is Anishinaabe"| url = https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/01/10/the-man-behind-the-satirical-walking-eagle-news-edges-close-to-the-line-finally-saying-things-he-never-could-before.html}} McMahon was born in Fort Frances, Ontario, the oldest of four siblings. McMahon was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He graduated from the Second City Training Center.{{cite news |last1=Carleton |first1=Sean |title=Changing the world with comedy |url=https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/changing-the-world-with-comedy |access-date=October 2, 2020 |work=Canadian Dimension |date=March 22, 2016}}
Career
In May 2010, his live performance of Welcome To Turtle Island Too was filmed in St. Albert, Alberta for a CBC television comedy special {{Cite AV media| people = Ryan McMahon (comedian) |title=Welcome To Turtle Island Too| access-date = October 2, 2020|date=May 2010| time = 9:04| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP5YQBp6P3o |work=CBC Television & Radio, Corkscrew Media, and Story Ark Productions |location= St. Albert, Alberta }} and he was included in the New Faces of the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.{{Cite news| last = Blackburn| first = Mark| title = Rising star comedian Ryan McMahon in Montreal just for laughs| work = APTN News| access-date = October 2, 2020| date = July 26, 2012| url = https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/rising-star-comedian-ryan-mcmahon-in-montreal-just-for-laughs/}} In February 2015, CBC Radio 1 national aired an hour-long comedy special of Red Man Laughing .{{Cite news|date=March 6, 2015|title=Ryan McMahon's storytelling uses humour to build awareness|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ryan-mcmahon-s-storytelling-uses-humour-to-build-awareness-1.2984943}}
McMahon was also featured in Indigenous Film-maker's Michelle St. John's Colonization Road.{{Cite news| first = Jessica |last=Nyznik | title = Documentary filmed at Lang Pioneer Village in Otonabee-South Monaghan Township screening Saturday at ReFrame Film Festival in Peterborough| work = The Peterborough Examiner| access-date = January 25, 2017|url = https://www.colonizationroad.com/reviews/2017/3/25/documentary-filmed-at-lang-pioneer-village-in-otonabee-south-monaghan-township-screening-saturday-at-reframe-film-festival-in-peterborough}}
St. John won the Yorkton Film Festival's Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary – Historical/Biography, and was nominated for a 2018 Canadian Screen Award.{{cite web |title=In the Media: Thunder Bay Podcast's Ryan McMahon Talks Canada's Reaction to the National Inquiry |url=https://ualbertalaw.typepad.com/faculty/pop_culture/ |website=Faculty Blog |publisher=University of Alberta |first=Tansi |last=Nîtôtemtik |access-date=October 2, 2020|date=October 17, 2019}}
On May 26, 2017, McMahon hosted "12 Steps to Decolonizing Canada" on CBC Radio's Day 6 program. {{Cite news |last=Vermes |first=Jason |date=June 23, 2018 |title=Ryan McMahon's 12-step guide to decolonizing Canada |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/ryan-mcmahon-s-12-step-guide-to-decolonizing-canada-1.4719567 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |work=CBC Radio}} The show received the Sam Ross award for Opinion and Commentary at the 2018 RTDNA awards.{{cite book |last1=Lehmkuhl |first1=Ursula |title=150 Years of Canada: Grappling with Diversity since 1867 |last2=Tutschek |first2=Elisabeth |date=2020 |publisher=Waxman Verlag |isbn=9783830991243 |page=124}}
Podcasts
McMahon began podcasting in 2008.{{cite news |last1=Nair |first1=Roshini |website=Rabble |url=https://rabble.ca/news/2015/10/indian-and-cowboy-lays-foundation-indigenous-media-revolution |title=Indian and Cowboy}}
McMahon created the podcast Stories from the Land.{{Cite web|date=December 15, 2015|title=Podcasting From The Land|url=https://edgenorth.ca/article/podcasting-from-the-land|access-date=December 19, 2020|website=_EDGE}} In 2016 he co-hosted Canadaland's political show, The Commons.{{cite news |url=http://www.thewalleye.ca/investigating-the-seven-youth-inquest/ |title=Canadaland Turns Podcasting Perspective to TBay |first=Kirsti |last=Salmi |publisher=The Walleye Magazine |date=December 31, 2017 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |location=Thunder Bay, Ontario}}
In 2018 McMahon hosted a podcast called Thunder Bay for Canadaland. The series was largely informed by Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga's award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which investigated the deaths of seven Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario and news reports by APTN {{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/why-tanya-talaga-wrote-a-book-about-the-lives-and-deaths-of-7-indigenous-students-in-thunder-bay-1.4349206|title=Why Tanya Talaga wrote a book about the lives and deaths of 7 Indigenous students in Thunder Bay|last=Patrick|first=Ryan|date=January 8, 2018|work=CBC}}{{Cite news|url=https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/murder-bay-investigations-into-the-deaths-of-indigenous-youth|title=Murder Bay: Investigations into the Deaths of Indigenous Youth|last=Wilson|first=Kim|work=Canadian Dimension}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/thunder-bay-chapter-2-clowns/|title=Chapter 2: Clowns|website=www.canadalandshow.com|access-date=December 12, 2019}}
Opinion essays
McMahon has occasionally freelanced op-eds to Vice News{{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvxqjk/heres-why-as-an-indigenous-person-i-voted-for-trudeau-and-why-im-still-worried |title=Here's Why, as an Indigenous Person, I Voted for Trudeau in the Canadian Election |first=Ryan |last=McMahon |work=Vice |date=October 23, 2015}} The Globe and Mail.{{Cite news| last = McMahon| first = Ryan| title = It all happened in the shadow of the death of Braiden Jacob| work = The Globe and Mail| access-date = October 2, 2020| date = December 14, 2018| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-moment-of-clarity-for-thunder-bay-and-for-canada-on-the-extent/}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.redmanlaughing.com/}} of Red Man Laughing Podcast
- {{Official website|https://www.patreon.com/indianandcowboy}} of Indian & Cowboy Podcast Network on Patreon
- {{Official website|https://www.makoonsmedia.org/}} of Makoons Media Group
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Category:Canadian stand-up comedians
Category:People from Fort Frances
Category:Comedians from Ontario
Category:Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey players
Category:Canadian Screen Award winning writers
Category:21st-century Canadian comedians