George Essley

High-energy, deliberately unhinged set billing himself as 'ugly Ryan Gosling' fresh from a strangling competition, with cartel and autism bits. Lebanese Arab, born in Montreal and raised around Ottawa, Ontario; says he is 29 and started at 19, so ten years in comedy. Panel guest Chris O'Connor called it 'hard to go from real weird to fake weird' following Martin Malloy. Got a medium-sized joke book; the surname spelling is the weakest in this episode.