Profile
- Comedian Type: Magician and Speaker
- Show/Info: Canada's only golf Pro magician. David is regarded as one of Canada’s premier corporate comic magicians and is a professional key note speaker.
- Achievements: He has performed on all five continents at over 3200 corporate events, 1400 golf outings and has been to 54 countries with seven of the world’s best cruise lines over his career.
- Performs: David Merry is Canada’s premiere comic magician and has travelled the globe making people laugh for the last thirty years. He is a past recipient of Canada’s “Club Comic of The Year” award and has been nominated at the Canadian Comedy Awards for “Best One Man Show”.
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Biography
Canada’s Foremost Stand-up Comic/Magician
He has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Comedy Magic Seminar, is a past recipient of Canada’s “Club Comic of The Year” award and has been nominated at the Canadian Comedy Awards for “Best One Man Show” and “Best Variety Act.” In NYC he won “Best Variety Performer” at the NE Entertainment Corporate Awards.
After high school, David started with the Second City workshops and soon tried his hand at stand up comedy on amateur night at the local comedy club. After “huge success” on his third night, he has never looked back.
Background
He has since performed over 7000 shows in twelve different time zones and been on over 70 TV shows. He is a United States patent holder and lectures, performs, invents and sells magical apparatus to magicians all over the world. He played on a professional blackjack team in Las Vegas, has written has a book on roulette called RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL and currently plays poker semi-professionally, having played in the World Series of Poker three times. After attending Q school he became a golf professional and played in events on the Canadian, Great Lakes and North Atlantic Tours.