David Pryde began referring to himself in the third person in 1997, shortly after earning a journalism degree in Halifax. During an in-depth investigative piece on post-grad unemployment David discovered stand-up, which he found refreshingly different from journalism in every way save the microphone and filtered point of view. After returning to his hometown of Montreal, David turned heads in 1999 when he won the first prize at the Comedy Night in Canada Competition at the Just for Laughs Festival. The slight bump in notoriety made David prone to brief, ego-centric spasms of speaking in the first person, which he now has relatively under control, but I digress.

Since then his credits include three galas at Just for Laughs, his own special on CTV’s “Comedy Now”, CBC Radio’s “The Debaters” and an appearance on the “Pass the Mic” segment on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. He’s also branched out beyond stand-up by joining the Montreal improv troupe On the Spot and taking on numerous acting gigs. These include a production of “Glengarry Glen Ross”, YTV’s “Prank Patrol” and a run at the Montreal Fringe Festival in “Never Surrender: Centaur, Centaur, Centaur!” where he played the title role of “Centaur.” He made his television sitcom debut as a powerfully awkward tobacco magnate in “The Festival” (which aired on IFC in the U.S. and The Movie Network in Canada) and recently dabbled in referring to himself in the second person which you really don’t want to go into.

David has written for numerous comedy specials and series like CBC’s “This Hour has 22 Minutes” and IFC’s “The Business” and is negotiating the production of a series he created which he would describe in the third person subjunctive if he were allowed.

David lives in Montreal with his girlfriend, an English teacher (who knew?) and a baby boy to whom all two-legged creatures are “Daddy” and all four-legged creatures are “Cat” (wings count as legs, by the way). David’s ambitions are to enjoy comedy to the fullest, have a happy home life, and try to speak in predominantly self-referential imperative sentences.

Go, Dave, go!