Comedian Derek Edwards is bringing his latest standup show to Sudbury later this month.

The Timmins native is a 17-year vet of the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, which included a cross-Canada tour with Rick Mercer, who has deemed him “the funniest man in Canada.”

He is now touring his one-man show, titled Oxy Moron, across the province.

Edwards has appeared on A&E’s Comedy Hits the Road, CTV’s Comedy Now, CBC TV’s Comics (garnering him a Gemini nomination for best comedy), CBC Radio’s Madly Off In All Directions, The Multi-Cultural Show, The Prime Minister’s Show, Sleeping With The Elephant and The Halifax Comedy Festival (resulting in another Gemini nomination).

“Every few millennia, a comic emerges, born from the cosmic soup of fate and time, jostled by the gales of change ont

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