The Ryan and Amy Show

The Ryan and Amy Show is a Vancouver-based Canadian sketch comedy duo composed of Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy. They have toured Canada and the United States including doing Sketch Fest in Montreal and Vancouver as well as Just For Laughs.[1][2][3] The group produces sketch comedy shorts that are distributed via YouTube and on their website, but have appeared on other sites as well such as Funny or Die. Goodmurphy and Steele have starred together in many television shows including the YTV show The Funny Pit with Roman Danylo, The Face of Furry Creek, CBC's The Pitch, and Out For Laughs. Steele made a memorable appearance on the second season of The Amazing Race Canada, coming in 3rd place with co-worker Rob Goddard.[4] While Goodmurphy has been in Super Channel's Too Much Information with Geri Hall, Mark Forward and Lauren Ash,[5] as well as Thirty Seventeen directed by Michael Coleman. The duo was short-listed for a Canadian Comedy Award in the Best Live Ensemble category in 2016.[6] In early 2018 the duo's short film White Wine Boys Club won first prize at the Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prize competing Internationally against other JFL Film Festival winners. The Ryan and Amy Show have signed with Hadron Films to produce a 22 minute sketch comedy pilot, produced by Miles Forster & Chris Wilkinson.

The Ryan and Amy Show
FormationApril 28, 2007 (2007-04-28)
TypeTheatre group
PurposeSketch Comedy
Location
Membership
Ryan Steele, Amy Goodmurphy
Notable members
Baby, Monster, Smoker Girl, Ladies of the Day, Moms over Miami

Members

Ryan Steele

Ryan Steele grew up in the city of Langley, British Columbia, where he graduated from H. D. Stafford High School. He became interested in comedy at an early age, and started making comedy videos in his early-teens, with early successes 'Ferry Death' and 'Big Mac Attack'. After being diagnosed with testicular cancer at 19, he gave up the dream of being a comedian for a while. In his late 20s, he went to a Tony Robbins' like workshop where he was told to start doing Sketch Comedy, so he started his own ensemble sketch show.[7]

Amy Goodmurphy

Amy Goodmurphy grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and is a St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School alumna. She started comedy at the age of 23 after meeting Steele at the bar where he worked. He convinced her it would be worth her while to join his ensemble sketch show. It wasn't, so she started studying acting at Vancouver Acting School, graduating in 2012.[8]

Style

The Ryan And Amy Show is unique in that it doesn't just do sketch comedy but is interspersed with previously recorded video. The smart transitions from video to sketch back to video is unrivaled in the industry today. Their style spans a wide variety from horror to displacement sketches. They've been described as a modern day Three's Company meets Mr. Dressup, for their affinity for tickle trunk magic and the lingering question of whether Steele may actually be straight.

Kelowna Song

In May 2017 the duo had a viral hit about the town of Kelowna, racking up over 150,000 hits in under a month. Performing as Mom's over Miami, they sang 'My Sharona' by the Knack but with different lyrics.[9]

References
  1. "Sketch comedy duo Ryan and Amy are back with live stage shows". VanCity Buzz. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  2. "A serious influx of comic talent is coming to town for Sketchfest". Cult Montreal. 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  3. "JFL NORTHWEST UNVEILS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED LINEUP OF COMEDY GREATS & BEST OF THE WEST". Just for Laughs. 2015-12-04. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  4. "West End's Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard to compete on Amazing Race Canada". The Georgia Straight. 2014-06-19. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  5. "Too Much Information features cavalcade of comedians". Toronto Star. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  6. "2016 CANADIAN COMEDY AWARDS". Canadian Comedy Awards. 2016-10-31. Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  7. "Video: Letters to a Younger Me: Ryan Steele". The Vancouver Sun. 2015-01-07. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  8. "Comedians go for laughs in The Funny Pit". North Shore News. 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  9. "Comedy duo sings hilarious song about Kelowna's stereotypes". Infonews.ca. 2017-05-31. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
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