Doug Canney is National Touring Comic and former 80’s traveling musician, Doug has been on stage since 13. Traveling on both coasts every year, his Comedy and Music have entertained in Bars, Nightclubs, Comedy Clubs and Corporate events since 2005. His whacked out way of interpreting others behavior, years on the road with a band added with a string of unsuccessful relationships encompass the angst in Doug’s life. New York City Comic and Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker Reality Show participant John McClellan said “Doug has the ability to pull the funny out of decisions that should NOT have been made”.
Doug grew up in the South primarily but spent time up North with relatives every year. This influence shapes a good portion of his style and occasionally, you’ll hear the “Red Neck” come out in him. He has worked with Comedians from Comedy Central, HBO, BET, Letterman and the Tonight Show and can be seen in the Dark Comedy “The Brannigan Account”. Doug Canney came into comedy after working as a musician for 22 years. He did stand-up with the band, and started touring in 2010 as full-time comedian. “I only started to get good at it last week,” says Doug.
Canney is first a Southern boy from rural North Carolina, where you’re either funny or you work on a farm with goats,” he says. “I taught guitar and bass for 20 years and went to music school, becoming a professional traveling musician in 1981. “I thought I was going to change the world. I did not. Former 80’s touring musician and current nationally touring comedian, Doug has been entertaining people with his music and comedy since his early teens. Doug’s first stand-up performances were impromptu, off the cuff sets when all hell would break loose during a band show. “The first time I did 15 minutes of stand-up was when our drummer had an asthma attack at the end of the song ‘Hot For Teacher’. I knew right then, I loved stand-up and we probably needed a new drummer”.
Living in his car for most of the year, doing over 300 shows and setting his personal record of 9500 miles in 21 days, he’s the epitome of the old school “road-dog” comedian. He’s been called the “human energy drink” and his sometimes spastic performances reflect this well-deserved moniker. “In a lot of tough situations, my sense of humor got me out of it,” Canney says. “Whenever a breaker would blow or a light would pop, I had my ‘magic 12’ — 12 minutes of stand-up that would normally work.” When he turned 40, Canney realized he couldn’t play Van Halen and ’80s music his whole life. Canney feels he is weird for a stand-up comedian to really have a passion for Slapstick is what’s really funny to him. Doug is high energy; not dirty; looks crazy doing a lot of one-liners and self-deprecating stuff.
