Though a stalwart of the Quebecois comedy scene, Jérémy Demay is actually a native of France. Born in Paris and raised in the Burgundy region city of Dijon, he would settle in Montreal in 2005 to intern with the Just for Laughs festival organization.

His big break came in 2008 at the Grand Rire de Québec festival, where he won the Revelation of the Year award; the following year, he emerged victorious on the first season of ‘En route vers mon premier gala Juste pour Rire,' a reality-show competition that awards the winner a prime slot at a Just for Laughs gala event.

With his gangly physicality and charmingly absurd sense of humor, Demay would soon become a regular at JFL and its offshoot Zoofest before premiering his first one-man show, ‘Ça arrête pu d'bien aller!', in 2013. Over the next two years, Demay would perform it more than 180 times for more than 90,000 spectators.

The show's success coincided with the surging popularity of his DIY online video series ‘Demayrathon,' which finds the comedian playfully pranking the public with guerilla ‘Candid Camera'-style shenanigans (like putting on Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" at a department-store listening station and loudly unleashing his worst Steven Tyler impression on unsuspecting shoppers) to the tune of more than 350,000 Facebook followers.

Demay revealed a different side of himself in his 2015 best-selling book ‘La liste,' a self-help memoir inspired by his battles with depression (He's called it the kind of book he would've liked to read when he was going through his struggles). In 2017, he returned to the stage with his second one-man show, ‘Vivant.' Inspired by a famous Oscar Wilde quote —"to live is the rarest thing in the world; most people exist, that is all" — the performance finds Demay humorously addressing weighty topics like the sanctity of life and our collective fear of death, with some musical numbers thrown in to emphasize the joie de vivre spirit.