Nikki Payne w/ Lisa Baker, Amber Harper-Young & Zabrina Douglas

The Grindstone Comedy Fest presents a one hour performance of Stand Up comedy featuring a powerhouse of all female comics, presented by Howl & Roar Records. Join headliner Nikki Payne, with Lisa Baker and Amber Harper-Young, hosted by Zabrina Douglas!

Nikki Payne

Nikki Payne is not good at writing in third person. However, for this bio she is willing to try. You might remember her from Much Music’s “Video on Trial” or NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” before she ran into the wilds of New Brunswick to live with the woodland critters. After being bitten multiple times and covered in ticks she has re-emerged. Her love of comedy could not be suppressed but mostly, her bathroom needs a reno. Payne’s material is filled with piss, vinegar and bad words. Since you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone’s podcast, check out “RX with Nikki and Mandy” wherever podcasts are hatched. This Holiday season you can also look out for her new Christmas album wherever comedy albums are hatched. Currently, you can find Nikki Payne at Mount Allison University pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at a snails pace.

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Lisa Baker

Born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Lisa developed a sharp wit and sense of humor that Newfoundlanders are known for. Since moving to Alberta, Lisa has appeared on CBC's LOL and The Debaters multiple times, she has performed at several comedy festivals across Canada including Just For Laughs NW and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and has self-produced 3 national tours. Lisa is currently burning up TikTok and has recorded 2 albums, "To Completion" and "Super Newfie", which are featured on SiriusXM. She has also just filmed her first TV series, The Canoe Project, and will back in season 2 as an actor and a writer for the series.

Amber Harper-Young

Amber Harper-Young is from southern Ontario but now makes her home in Vancouver. She’s been in Just For Laughs North West/Vancouver. You can hear her on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and or on her EP titled Drenched (available on all streaming platforms) Look for her television debut with the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. And listen for her absurd style of self deprecating humour on the latest Just for Laughs Originals BC Vol. 5

Zabrina Douglas

Zabrina Douglas is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Her comedy album Things Black Girls Say: The Album received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.

Douglas, a registered nurse, performed occasional stand-up comedy sets at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Disciples nights for Black Canadian comedians in the 2000s, and was a nominee for the Tim Sims Award in 2008.

She broke through to wider success in 2020 as the headliner of Laughter from the Frontlines, a virtual comedy show organized by Daniel Woodrow's Unknown Comedy Club featuring frontline health care workers performing comedy and storytelling about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. She subsequently organized Things Black Girls Say, a regular show at Toronto's Comedy Bar, and recorded her sets at the April 15 and 16, 2022, shows for release as an album.

Born and raised in Brampton, Zabrina Douglas is a comedian that draws from her experience as a Nurse, a mother, and the daughter of 2 Jamaican parents. "She's one of the most exuberant and cheerful stand-ups working in the city. She can turn a whole show around by kicking up the energy in the room." Steve Fisher of Torontoist.com. Zabrina has been a regular and headlined Kenny Robinson's legendary "Nubian Disciples All Black Comedy Revue". She Created and Produces her Critically acclaimed show "Things Black Girls Say". She has performed in well known festivals like Just For Laughs Toronto, The Toronto Fringe Festival, Slo Comedy Festival in California and The women's Comedy festival in Boston. Her work can be seen on Teletoons, The Comedy Network and CBC. She has shared the stage with well known comedians Gilbert Godfrey, Cocoa Brown and Luenell.

Article about her album
https://www.goaheadsumi.com/the-top-10-canadian-comedy-albums-of-2022/