Shaun Majumder Biography
Shaun Majumder is a Canadian actor and comedian most known for his part in This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which he performed from 2003 to 2018. He received a Gemini Award for his participation on the series in 2006.
How old is Shaun Majumder? – Age
He is 52 years old as of January 29, 2024. He was born in 1972 in Burlington, Canada. His real name is Shaun Vincent Majumder.
Shaun Majumder Family
Majumder was reared by his mother, Marian Bartlett, a European-Canadian from Newfoundland, and his father, Mani Majumder, a Bengali Hindu Indian originating from West Bengal. After seven years, his parents separated. Majumder has an older sister, Rani.
Majumder claims that because he was reared by a white mother and surrounded by white people, he had no notion he “was anything but white”. In his stand-up performances, he joked about joining his classmates in chanting racist obscenities before understanding he was the victim they were talking about. Majumder was very close to his mother, who he claims raised them selflessly, thus he and his sister were oblivious of the great poverty in which they lived.
Who is Shaun Majumder married to?
Majumder and Shelby Fenner, an American actress, married on December 21, 2012. They’ve got two daughters.
Shaun Majumder Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $400,000.
Shaun Majumder Documentary TV
From 2013 to 2014, Majumder participated in the documentary TV series Majumder Manor, which highlighted his efforts to boost tourism in his scenic birthplace of Burlington, Newfoundland. The show also highlighted his family, friends, and community.
Shaun Majumder Career
Majumder began his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon became the host of the network’s popular morning kids show Brain Wash, where he was known as Ed Brainbin. He also hosted the “Slime Tour” segments of the hit game show Uh Oh!. He eventually joined This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2003, as well as hosting 15 episodes of the Just for Laughs specials on television and performing at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He also starred in Cedric the Entertainer Presents, which aired on Fox in the United States, and The Next Big Thing, an NFB documentary on rising Canadian comics.
Majumder has previously appeared in the CBC comedy pilot Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching, as well as the short film Plain Brown Rapper. He also played Kumar’s brother in the 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
Majumder frequently portrays an alter ego called Raj Binder. Binder is an awkward, nervous, and typically sweaty Indian reporter with a heavy accent. Binder originally debuted in The Bobroom, a comedy showcase with some former YTV costars, and has since featured on Just For Laughs and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Majumder sparked some small controversy when “Raj” posed for a MegaStars group photo at the 2003 Heritage Classic NHL outdoor ice hockey game. In 2006, Majumder won a Gemini Grant for his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Majumder made a visitor appearance on two episodes of the TV series 24, playing Hasan Numair. He likewise played Dr. Freddy Sahgal in the fleeting Fox television series Unfastened, which broadcasted in Walk 2008. In 2010, Majumder had a visitor featuring job as Benny Natchie in Republic of Doyle, and from 2010 to 2011 featured in the American television series Detroit 1-8-7 as Analyst Vikram Mahajan.
In the mid year of 2011 Majumder was projected in The Firm, a Canadian-American co-creation, in the repetitive job of Andrew Palmer, the legal advisor at the firm who becomes friends with Josh Lucas’ personality Mitch McDeere. The show ran for one season. In December 2016, Majumder featured in a disputable humorous short delivered by This Hour Has 22 Minutes, named “Beige Power”, which called for racial oppressors to “embrace the beige” and acknowledge that people will all “appear to be identical continuously 3000”. The short gotten blended audits, with some scrutinizing it for being bigoted, and others thinking that it is hilarious.
In August 2018, Majumder was not recruited back for the following time of This Hour Has 22 Minutes after he sent a letter to the makers with ideas on the future course of the show. Refering to inventive contrasts with Majumder, the creation group decided to cut ties.
Shaun Majumder Movies
♦ 2009 – Bob Funk
♦ 2007 – I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
♦ 2005 – Plain Brown Rapper
♦ 2004 – Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
♦ 2002 – Purpose
♦ 2000 – The Ladies Man
♦ 1999 – Pushing Tin
♦ 1998 – Reluctant Angel
Shaun ioTV Shows
♦ 2022-2023 – From
♦ 2021 – Something Undone
♦ 2018 – Addison
♦ 2017 – A Christmas Fury
♦ 2015 – Breed
♦ 2013–2017 – This Hour Has 22 Minutes
♦ 2013 – Satisfaction
♦ 2012 – The Firm
♦ 2011 – Bad Mom
♦ 2010–2014 – Republic of Doyle
♦ 2010–2011 – Detroit 187
♦ 2009 – Da Kink in My Hair
♦ 2009 – Married Not Dead
♦ 2008–2009 – Less Than Kind
♦ 2008 – Unhitched
♦ 2008 – Robson Arms
♦ 2007 – 24 – Hasan Numair
♦ 2006 – Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
♦ 2004 – Snakes & Ladders
♦ 2004 – Nevermind Nirvana
♦ 2003 – This Hour Has 22 Minutes: New Year’s Eve Special
♦ 2002/2003 – Cedric the Entertainer Presents