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Steven Shehori (born October 28, 1971) is a multiple award-winning Canadian writer, director, journalist, playwright, actor, author, and comedian from
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, Ontario. He contributes to
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, and worked as a writer, editor, and celebrity interviewer for
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from 2008 to 2018, contributing humor, film, music, political, and journalism pieces. In 2010, his satirical musical comedy ''Stephen Harper The Musical'' became the first-ever play to be staged at the international comedy festival Just For Laughs. In 2011, he broke the front-page Huffington Post story of the Toronto Catholic School Board dropping a lesbian comedian from its homophobia awareness event after discovering she was gay married. That same year, Shehori made headlines for securing the first post-series finale interview from ''
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'' creator
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, where instead of discussing the show, the two men wrote out a beat-by-beat alternate version of ''
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''.  Since 2007, Shehori has written for 10 national awards shows, including the
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, The
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, and the
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Awards. In 2009, he served as a producer and writer on two
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Just For Laughs galas, including ''Sarah Silverman & Friends'', which starred comedians
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,
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, and
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. In 2010, Shehori wrote for five national programs: '' Baxter'', ''
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),'' where he wrote and starred in sketches with numerous guests, including
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, and
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. Additionally, he assisted with the development of the acclaimed CW comedy series '' Backpackers,'' and wrote and directed the comedic short film ''The Hills After Show Spinoffs'' starring ''
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'' creator Dan Levy. From 2001 to 2013 Shehori wrote, directed, and segment produced for ''
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'' and its sister program ''Naked News TV''. He subsequently starred in the 2013 SuperChannel documentary series ''Naked News Uncovered.'' From 2012 to 2015, he served as a contributing writer to
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. In 2015, he contributed to the pop culture book ''The Take2 Guide to
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''. From 2014 to 2018, Shehori co-hosted 140 episodes of the comedy podcast ''You Better DON'T!'' In January 2018, he hosted an episode of ''Wishlist'' on
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. Later that year, he was invited to perform several stand-up comedy sets at the 2018 Burbank Comedy Festival. In 2019, he served as a senior comedy writer and cartoonist for Macaulay Culkin's satire site ''Bunny Ears,'' and hosted the
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shows ''With the Beatles'' and ''Classic Rock, Classic Comedy''. Shehori has made appearances as an actor and pop culture commentator on several national Canadian television programs, including
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's ''Punched Up'',
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's '' Video on Trial'' and '' Stars Gone Wild'', and
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's ''Listed''. As a voice actor, he has recorded several dozen TV and television commercials, and played the lead role of 'Fighter' in 125 episodes of North America's adaptation of the anime TV series ''Let's & Go''. Shehori has produced over 100 live comedy shows with his brother Daniel under the name ''The Shehori Brothers''. These include ''The Shehori Brothers' Character Night'' (deemed the longest-running production in the history of
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Toronto), and ''An Awkward Evening With Martin & Johnson'', which featured the creators of the
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-winning Broadway musical ''
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''. The Shehori Brothers have written, directed, and produced five full-length theater productions to date: ''Mikayla'' (2000), ''Radcliffe & Minotauk Falls'' (2002), ''Swiss Family Guy Robinson'' (with
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—2006), ''One-Woman Show'' (with Marco Timpano—2008), and ''Stephen Harper the Musical'' (2010), with each one nominated for national awards. In 2017, they co-wrote the book ''Media Whore'', published by Self-Counsel Press.


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Steven Shehori IMDB page

Steven Shehori Huffington Post page

Sweat Equity Publicity homepage
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