Nile Séguin

Who is Nile Séguin?

Nile Séguin is a Canadian comedian from Ottawa, Ontario. He was born to a French Canadian mother and a Rwandan father.

He has appeared on MuchMusic's Video On Trial as well as the film Ham & Cheese. He has written for CBC Television's The Hour with host George Stroumboulopoulos and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

He has written and performed four one man shows Fear of a Brown Planet, Evil is the New Good, History: Deleted Scenes and Extras and Company Man.

In 2011 he performed at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival, the Sudbury Comedy Festival, the Cottage Country Comedy Festival as well as the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. He was also featured in the web series The Originals in which he played one of the leads.

In 2012 he was the opening act for Sugar Sammy on his run of bilingual comedy shows called "You're Gonna Rire." Nile performed his routine in French for fifty shows to sold out audiences of 1300 people. In the summer of 2012 Nile became the first comedian to have performances in both French and English at the Just For Laughs Festival.