{"id":553,"date":"2017-11-22T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:19:44","slug":"paul-myrehaug-joins-ed-1st-leg-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/2017\/11\/22\/paul-myrehaug-joins-ed-1st-leg-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Myrehaug joins Ed on the 1st leg of his tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ed is accompanied on the first leg of his tour by the Canadian comedian Paul Myrehaug. Paul started his comedy career in Alberta, Canada, and now tours internationally, as well as appearing on television, radio, and at world-renowned comedy festivals and competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At twenty-two Paul moved to Toronto and started measuring his talents against other professional acts in comedy competitions around North America. After a second place finish in the prestigious <\/span><b>Seattle International Comedy Competition <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2006 and winning the $25,000 dollar grand prize in the 2007 <\/span><b>Great Canadian Laugh Off seen on The Comedy Network<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Paul launched himself into the television, radio and festival circuit including: two appearances with <\/span><b>CBC\u2019s Ha!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a feature on <\/span><b>The Comedy Network\u2019s \u201cComedy Shorts\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, performed at the <\/span><b>Just for Laughs Comedy Festival<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, entertained troops in <\/span><b>Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Italy and Kosovo <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a spot in the finals of the <\/span><b>Boston International Comedy Competition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can also hear Paul regularly on <\/span><b>XM Sirius Satellite Radio <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the hit show<\/span><b>\u201cThe Debaters\u201d on CBC Radio One<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live performances in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, the UK, Italy, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Austria, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Australia, Thailand and China make Paul a sharp international performer with a great stage presence and an extremely fun comic to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Carries the comedy off with a natural flair, in a manner so effortless one might think it was ingrained in his DNA&#8221; &#8211;<\/span><b>The Hindu, India<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Hilarious Enough to Stand Alone.&#8221; &#8211;<\/span><b>The Seattle Stranger<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Comic Myrehaug Making Waves.&#8221; &#8211;<\/span><b>The Toronto Sun<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed is accompanied on the first leg of his tour by the Canadian comedian Paul Myrehaug. Paul started his comedy career in Alberta, Canada, and now tours internationally, as well as appearing on television, radio, and at world-renowned comedy festivals and competitions. At twenty-two Paul moved to Toronto and started measuring his talents against other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edbyrne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}