Brian Aylward's Long Goodbye

Brian has been a Comedian for 17 years, performing more than 3000 shows in 32 countries.  Aylward is a former Canadian Comedy Award winner for "Best Standup Comic."

Brian headlines Best Kind Comedy Tour, one of the biggest annual stand-up comedy tours in Canada. In February 2017, Aylward's solo show “Big In Asia” was nominated for “Best Comedy” at Fringe World in Perth, Australia.

In 2014, Aylward set the unofficial Comedy World Record, performing twenty-one different 10-minute sets in one day at the Haebangchon Festival in Seoul, South Korea.

Based on a bet made back in 2005, Newfoundland native Brian Aylward stepped on stage for the first time at a rowdy expatriate bar in Anyang, South Korea. Aylward went on to pioneer the English stand-up comedy scene in South Korea, officially establishing Stand Up Seoul in 2009, and turning the country into a legitimate destination on the international comedy circuit.

Aylward has performed hundreds of shows across Asia, including Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Cambodia, India, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Oman, Myanmar and more.

Upon returning to his native Canada in 2010, Brian went on to become the twice finalist in SiriusXM Radio’s “Canada’s Top Comic” (2011/2013), a national headliner with Canada’s Yuk Yuk’s comedy clubs and he performed theatre tours across Newfoundland. Brian has performed at many festivals around the world, including Just For Laughs 42, Halifax Comedy Fest, Hong Kong International Comedy Festival and the Magners International Comedy Festival. He has also appeared several times on Canada's hit CBC Radio show "The Debaters."

Aylward's numerous social media rants and sketch comedy character "Fadder" have garnered millions of views online.

Brian is also Founder of Mad About Comedy (Bangkok) and Creative Director & Producer of "Your Hood's A Joke" (South Asia).

"One of Asia's most influential stand up comedians." - The Korea Times

"One of Canada's funniest." - The Telegram