(JUST DON'T BRING THEM!)
The Winter Garden Theatre
Nikki Payne is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is well known for her lisp and her inability to pronounce the word "liaison" because of it. She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Stand-up Newcomer and Best Female Stand-up (2003, 2005 and 2008). She is the first stand-up in either the male or female category to win the Best Stand-up award twice. She is also the first stand-up of either gender to win both a Best Newcomer and Best Stand-up award. She cites Emo Phillips as one of her biggest inspirations.
She graduated from of the comedy program at Humber College at the top of her class and is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory Program, where she received a participant ribbon.
Payne has appeared in Last Comic Standing, Video on Trial, Buzz, Am I Right??, and the NFB documentary The Next Big Thing. She has also appeared in the Canadian sketch comedy show Comedy Inc. She is a member of The Boom comedy troupe.
