Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ngozi Paul calls out Toronto, reverse racism and being married to a white Michigan man who might just storm a Capitol.
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FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 – Jokes, Jokes, Jokes is a fresh take on marking Emancipation Day in Canada—an eight-episode comedy series for CBC Gem that centres truth, joy, and resistance. Each digital short features one of Canada’s sharpest comics, including Chris Robinson, Lisa Berry, Daniel Woodrow, Ngozi Paul, Keesha Brownie, Alan Shane Lewis, Hoodo Hersi, and Tamara Shevon taking the mic to share stories, observations, and moments only they could deliver.
This is freedom experienced live and unfiltered through humour, honesty and the immediacy of stand-up comedy. From family dynamics and historical absurdities to everyday truths, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 is an open invitation to laugh, think, and genuinely connect. Because sometimes the most radical thing we have is laughter.
Stream all 8 episodes on July 30 on CBC Gem.
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CBC Comedy is your destination for funny Canadian comedy and comedians in Canada, clips from TV shows like Schitt's Creek, Workin' Moms, Baroness von Sketch, Tallboyz and more!
Ngozi Paul calls out Toronto, reverse racism and being married to a white Michigan man who might just storm a Capitol.
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FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 – Jokes, Jokes, Jokes is a fresh take on marking Emancipation Day in Canada—an eight-episode comedy series for CBC Gem that centres truth, joy, and resistance. Each digital short features one of Canada’s sharpest comics, including Chris Robinson, Lisa Berry, Daniel Woodrow, Ngozi Paul, Keesha Brownie, Alan Shane Lewis, Hoodo Hersi, and Tamara Shevon taking the mic to share stories, observations, and moments only they could deliver.
This is freedom experienced live and unfiltered through humour, honesty and the immediacy of stand-up comedy. From family dynamics and historical absurdities to everyday truths, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 is an open invitation to laugh, think, and genuinely connect. Because sometimes the most radical thing we have is laughter.
Stream all 8 episodes on July 30 on CBC Gem.
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Follow CBC Comedy:
On Instagram: instagram.com/cbccomedy
On Facebook: facebook.com/cbccomedy
CBC Comedy is your destination for funny Canadian comedy and comedians in Canada, clips from TV shows like Schitt's Creek, Workin' Moms, Baroness von Sketch, Tallboyz and more!
