Jared Keeso

Canadian actor, screenwriter, producer and comedian Jared Keeso grew up in Listowel, Ontario, and spent some years working at his family's sawmill before he began performing. He played hockey commentator Don Cherry in two CBC television films, Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story and The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II, earning a Leo Award and a Gemini Award. A Canadian Screen Award came his way for playing Ben Chartier in the drama series 19-2. In 2013 he and Mike Borden started the YouTube channel Play Fun Games Pictures, whose Letterkenny Problems sketches, watched more than 100 million times, became the basis for the sitcom Letterkenny, which he created and starred in and which in 2017 took a Canadian Screen Award as best comedy series. He created the spinoff Shoresy in 2022 and appeared as Nicholas in Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball.