Daryn Jones
A veteran broadcaster using the comedy club to finally yell.
1 special · 2004
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Daryn Jones holds a microphone like it is a physical extension of his arm. He moves around the stage with the hyper-verbal pacing of a guy who spends his mornings talking into a radio void, but now has an actual audience to bounce off of. He leans hard toward the front row, grinning, hunting for a target to launch a tangent. When he winds up for a rant, he modulates his voice with a broadcaster’s instinct, dropping to a mock-serious whisper before spiking into a yell at the punchline.
Specials
On stage
In the Canadian comedy ecosystem, he occupies a distinct lane: the familiar media personality who still puts in hours at the club. Most of his audience already knows his voice from somewhere else, whether it is a daily radio show or a national television gig. Stand-up acts as his unfiltered outlet. It is the place where the broadcast standards disappear and he can simply work a room.
His material rarely aims for heavy introspection, building sets instead around pure exasperation. He will isolate a mundane social irritation and inflate it into a loud, frantic argument. He relies heavily on momentum. If a prepared bit hits a quiet patch, he doesn’t force it. He abandons the premise entirely to mess with the crowd, leaning on decades of live banter to reset the energy.
He started performing at Yuk Yuk’s as a teenager, long before he co-created the chaotic cable sketch show Buzz or became the face of MTV Canada. His entire career rests on live, unscripted talking, and his stage act is the most direct version of that.
Turning points
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Gemini Award Win for Buzz
After starting out on Toronto community access television, Jones and Morgan Smith saw Buzz picked up nationally by The Comedy Network, winning the 2001 Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series.
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2006–2012
Anchor Host of MTV Live
Jones became the flagship host of MTV Canada's daily broadcast MTV Live for six years, winning a Gemini Award for Best Talk Series.
At a glance
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Also on screen
- 2000–2005
- Buzz
- Rick Mercer Report
- 2006–2012
- MTV Live
- 2012–2013
- Over the Rainbow
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- Donut Showdown
A clip to start with
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