Charles Demers Biography
Charles Demers is a Canadian comedian, writer, voice actor, and political activist who put out the comedy CD Fatherland in 2017. The album received a nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the 2018 Juno Awards.
How old is Charles Demers? – Age
He is 44 years old as of 2024. He was born in 1980 in Vancouver, Canada.
Charles Demers Family
Based on his family’s descent, he self-identifies as Québécois and was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Charles Demers Wife
Demers has a daughter and is married. He co-wrote the book The Dad Dialogues, drawing inspiration from his own experiences as a father.
Charles Demers Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.2 million.
Charles Demers Stand-up – Netflix
He regularly does stand-up comedy on CBC Radio One, where he frequently participates in the comic panel show The Debaters, as well as live in locations around Canada. Demers co-hosted the CityNews program The List. This Is That, a podcast and radio program on CBC Radio, has featured Demers’ voice in multiple episodes.
From the 2016 Netflix original series Beat Bugs, he provided Walter’s voice. In addition, Demers lends his voice to Dirk Savage, the former bully in the Netflix series The Last Kids on Earth, and to Night Light in the seventh-season episode “Once Upon a Zeppelin” of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Charles Demers Books
Demers is the author of four books: two picture books and two essay collections. Vancouver Special, his debut essay collection, received a Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize nomination. In addition, he co-wrote two other works.
Charles Demers Political views
Demers used to be the participation secretary for the Alliance of Moderate Voters. In later civil races, he has been an ally of OneCity Vancouver, an ever-evolving urban party of which his better half is an establishing part.
On 8 October 2018, Demers was the visitor on the well known interview based digital recording WTF with Marc Maron. Maron referenced that Demers has opened for him at stand-up parody shows in Canada.
In the Marc Maron web recording Demers discusses his political convictions and his initial connection as a youngster with a little communist extremist gathering in Vancouver. His obligation to the gathering was to such an extent that he at first chose to renounce going to college and on second thought find a new line of work in a lighting processing plant where he would have liked to build the political cognizance of his kindred specialists. He conceded anyway that the points of the association were fairly obscure and that the endeavors to raise the awareness of individual laborers were for the most part met with bemusement. By the by, Demers holds left-wing political perspectives and hosts the month to month digital recording Great Reds A Left Book Webcast.
In Maron’s meeting with Demers, Maron portrays himself politically as “a Lefty to some extent” and proposes that Demers is further to one side. Maron takes note of the battle in the US Progressive alliance between the more liberal segment of the party and the anti-extremist area, with the last option believing the Radicals to be at risk for making the party unelectable. Demers answers by expressing that “the issue is that the Left and the middle frequently need to cooperate however the Left comprehends the displeasure that is on the Right and the middle simply doesn’t comprehend outrage, they imagine that outrage generally must be appalling.”
Demers lost his mom to malignant growth when he was a decade old. He portrays the injury of the involvement with the Maron digital broadcast yet in addition depicts it as “an early political example” in the significance of free medical care that was implanted in him by that experience and by his dad’s words at that point.
One more such illustration in the advantage of living in Canada accompanied the experience of Demers’ mother by marriage who is initially from Hong Kong and moved to Canada from Chicago because of Pierre Trudeau’s expressed arrangement of multiculturalism. Demers relates that on his wedding night his mother by marriage requested that he recognize the part that Pierre Trudeau played in bringing Demers and his significant other together. In spite of these Canadian benefits anyway Demers recommends “in Canada overall there is a propensity towards conceit” since Canadians accept their nation has far less issues than the US yet that this prompts “individuals putting off managing Canada’s genuine issues.” He proceeds to make reference to ecological issues, disparity and messy drinking water on native stores as specific illustrations.
In Walk 2019 an article by Demers about the rebranding of the SiriusXM Canada satellite radio broadcast Canada Giggles as Only for Snickers Radio and the station’s racked plan to sideline autonomously created Canadian substance for sound accounts of sets from the Only for Chuckles parody celebration from for the most part American humorists was distributed in the communist magazine Jacobin.