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GayNrd Editors November 30, 2022

Following the successful release of two seasons of Comedy InvAsian Stateside on Peacock earlier this year, executive producer Quentin Lee (Margin Films) and distributor Victor Elizalde (Viva Pictures) re-team for Comedy Invasion, a new spin-off TV series spotlighting a fresh cast of diverse Canadian standup comedians to world premiere on Nov 29, 2022 at midnight EST on AAM.tv, and then following Amazon Prime, Roku, Tubi and other global streaming platforms.

Each episode of this first TV series of its kind, Comedy Invasion, will feature a half hour set from a breakout Canadian comic who is either from the disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and/or female community.

The first season of Comedy Invasion mainstages diverse Canadian comedians: Toronto’s Desirée Walsh living with cerebral palsy, Vancouver’s indigenous Keith “Bubbas” Nahanee, Vancouver’s Japanese Canadian Yumi Nagashima, Calgary’s transgender drag queen activist Karla Marx, Vancouver’s queer and Asian DJ On, dual citizen South Asian American, and Canadian comedian Alisha Dhillon, Calgary’s fearless and bisexual female comedian Victoria Banner and Vancouver’s own social media sensation Davin Tong (aka Peter Chao).

Comedy Invasion is the Canadian spinoff of Comedy InvAsian, co-created by Quentin Lee with distribution by Viva Pictures Distribution LLC, Season 1 of Comedy InvAsian had its world premiere on Hulu as an exclusive in 2018. Season 2 of Comedy InvAsian premiered on May 2022 on Peacock and Tubi.

“Despite not getting support from Canadian broadcasters from financing to distribution, an independent Canadian creator must do what they must… to create and release the first TV series of its kind in Canada based on our proprietary format of Comedy InvAsian. Comedy Invasion will be a platform of discovery empowering diverse Canadian comedians to shine and own a piece of global media history,” said Quentin Lee, creator of Comedy Invasion.

“Comedy Invasion is an opportunity to celebrate marginalized and often underrepresented voices of up-and-coming Canadian comedians. Comedy Invasion is the first of its kind and we hope that it will set the stage for many more to come,” said Cindy AuYeung, producer of Comedy Invasion.

“Not unlike Canada’s SCTV when it first released, Comedy Invasion is looking to break the traditional comedy rules with this line-up of diverse comedians,” said Victor Elizalde, President of Viva Pictures, as well as producer and distributor of Entre Nos, the leading LatinX standup comedy show on HBO currently in its 5th season.

Created and directed by Quentin Lee, Comedy Invasion features Canada’s diverse comedians each spotlighted with a 30-minute set. Cindy AuYeung is the producer and editor of the series. Brian Cheung is the cinematographer with original music composed by multi-award-winning Joelysa Pankanea.

Watch the trailer below.