Brandon Ash-Mohammed is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose debut comedy album Capricornication was released in 2020.[1]
ABlack CanadianofTrinidadian heritage, he is an alumnus of the comedy school at Humber College.[2] He also has some Muslim ancestry, but was not raised Muslim;[3] one of his comedy pieces on Capricorniation centres on the assumptions that people sometimes make about his identity because of his surname.[4]
Openly gay, he was the creator of Toronto's popular Ethnic Rainbow series of comedy nights for queer BIPOC comedians,[5] and the host of Pride Toronto's televised "Virtual Pride" special during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada in 2020.[6] He was featured in The Comedy Network's 2018 Homegrown Comics special,[7] and has been a writer for the sketch comedy series TallBoyz.[8] He is also a partner with Coko Galore, PHATT Al, Alan Shane Lewis, Nkasi Ogbonnah, Ajahnis Charley, Aba Amuquandoh and Brandon Hackett in Untitled Black Sketch Project, Canada's first all-Black Canadian sketch comedy troupe.[9] He is presently the Toronto correspondent on the 29th season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes,.[10]
In 2022, he appeared in LOL: Last One Laughing Canada,[11] and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the Canada's Drag Race episode "Screech".[12]
