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Ryan McMahon (comedian)

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Ryan McMahon
Born1977 (age 48–49)
CitizenshipCouchiching First Nation and Canadian
Notable workThunder Bay (podcast)
PartnerMadeline Wilson Shaw
Comedy career
Years active2006–present
MediumPodcast, stand-up, television
Websiteredmanlaughing.com

Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, podcaster, and writer from the Couchiching First Nation.[1][2] McMahon was born in Fort Frances, Ontario, the oldest of four siblings. McMahon was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He graduated from the Second City Training Center.[3]

Career

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In May 2010, his live performance of Welcome To Turtle Island Too was filmed in St. Albert, Alberta for a CBC television comedy special [4] and he was included in the New Faces of the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.[5] In February 2015, CBC Radio 1 national aired an hour-long comedy special of Red Man Laughing .[6]

McMahon was also featured in Indigenous filmmaker's Michelle St. John's Colonization Road .[7] St. John won the Yorkton Film Festival's Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary – Historical/Biography, and was nominated for a 2018 Canadian Screen Award.[8]

On May 26, 2017, McMahon hosted "12 Steps to Decolonizing Canada" on CBC Radio's Day 6 program. [9] The show received the Sam Ross award for Opinion and Commentary at the 2018 RTDNA awards.[10]

Podcasts

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McMahon began podcasting in 2008.[11]

McMahon created the podcast Stories from the Land.[12] In 2016 he co-hosted Canadaland's political show, The Commons.[13]

In 2018 McMahon hosted a podcast called Thunder Bay for Canadaland. The series was largely informed by Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga's award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which investigated the deaths of seven Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario and news reports by APTN [14][15][16] The podcast was adapted into a four-part docu-series also titled Thunder Bay. The series premiered on CRAVE on Februaruy 12, 2023[17][18] McMahon served as executive producer, co-writer, host. and directed two of the four episodes of the series[19] At the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards the series won Best Factual Series with McMahon as producer alongside Jesse Brown, Jocelyn Hamilton and Toby Dormer. McMahon also won for Best Writing, Factual, which he shared with co-writer Michael Allcock for the episode "Whodunit"[20] [21]

McMahon narrated "Home on Native Land", a virtual class on environmental justice issues, Canadian history, and Indigenous law created by (RAVEN) Respecting Aboriginal Values & Environmental Needs.[22]

Writing

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McMahon has occasionally freelanced op-eds to Vice News[23] and The Globe and Mail.[24]

References

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  1. ↑ "The Round Dance Revolution: Idle No More". Revolutions Per Minute. December 20, 2012. Archived from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Daubs, Katie (October 1, 2020). "The man behind the satirical Walking Eagle News finally says the things he never could as a journalist". The Toronto Star. Retrieved October 2, 2020. Ryan McMahon, a comedian, podcaster and writer who is Anishinaabe
  3. ↑ Carleton, Sean (March 22, 2016). "Changing the world with comedy". Canadian Dimension. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ Ryan McMahon (comedian) (May 2010). Welcome To Turtle Island Too. CBC Television & Radio, Corkscrew Media, and Story Ark Productions. St. Albert, Alberta. Event occurs at 9:04. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Blackburn, Mark (July 26, 2012). "Rising star comedian Ryan McMahon in Montreal just for laughs". APTN News. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Ryan McMahon's storytelling uses humour to build awareness". March 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Nyznik, Jessica. "Documentary filmed at Lang Pioneer Village in Otonabee-South Monaghan Township screening Saturday at ReFrame Film Festival in Peterborough". The Peterborough Examiner. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nîtôtemtik, Tansi (October 17, 2019). "In the Media: Thunder Bay Podcast's Ryan McMahon Talks Canada's Reaction to the National Inquiry". Faculty Blog. University of Alberta. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  9. ↑ Vermes, Jason (June 23, 2018). "Ryan McMahon's 12-step guide to decolonizing Canada". CBC Radio. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  10. ↑ Lehmkuhl, Ursula; Tutschek, Elisabeth (2020). 150 Years of Canada: Grappling with Diversity since 1867. Waxman Verlag. p. 124. ISBN 9783830991243.
  11. ↑ Nair, Roshini. "Indian and Cowboy". Rabble.
  12. ↑ "Podcasting From The Land". _EDGE. December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ Salmi, Kirsti (December 31, 2017). "Canadaland Turns Podcasting Perspective to TBay". Thunder Bay, Ontario: The Walleye Magazine. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
  14. ↑ Patrick, Ryan (January 8, 2018). "Why Tanya Talaga wrote a book about the lives and deaths of 7 Indigenous students in Thunder Bay". CBC.
  15. ↑ Wilson, Kim. "Murder Bay: Investigations into the Deaths of Indigenous Youth". Canadian Dimension.
  16. ↑ "Chapter 2: Clowns". www.canadalandshow.com. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Gripping Four-Part Crave Original Investigative Docuseries, THUNDER BAY, Premieres February 17 - Bell Media". Gripping Four-Part Crave Original Investigative Docuseries, THUNDER BAY, Premieres February 17 - Bell Media. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  18. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (January 19, 2023). "'Thunder Bay' investigative docuseries to premiere on Crave next month". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  19. ↑ www.imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26752191/. Retrieved April 21, 2026. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ↑ "McMahon wins Canadian Screen Awards for work on Thunder Bay docuseries – Fort Frances Times". Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  21. ↑ alex (March 6, 2024). "Ryan McMahon, Michael Allcock". Academy.ca. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  22. ↑ Smith, Andrea (February 14, 2023). "How to Talk to Your Racist Relatives about Indigenous Rights". The Tyee. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
  23. ↑ McMahon, Ryan (October 23, 2015). "Here's Why, as an Indigenous Person, I Voted for Trudeau in the Canadian Election". Vice.
  24. ↑ McMahon, Ryan (December 14, 2018). "It all happened in the shadow of the death of Braiden Jacob". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
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