Gord Paynter

Entertaining audiences throughout North America with his original brand of humour

For over 15 years, Gord Paynter has been entertaining audiences throughout North America with his original brand of humour.

Losing his eyesight in his early twenties as a result of diabetes, Gord thought his lifelong dream of becoming a comedian was gone forever. In truth, blindness opened his eyes to a whole new world of opportunity, humour and motivation. His lack of vision has not affected his perceptiveness. If anything, it's made him more perceptive, creating a unique style of comedy and motivation that never fails to leave the audiences laughing.

It all began on amateur night at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club. Gord's unique style of comedy surprised the audience and triggered fits of laughter. This laughter sparked the rediscovery of his dream.

Gord tours throughout North America performing as both a stand-up comic and a motivational speaker. Gord has been featured at the international comedy festival Just For Laughs in Montreal, and has appeared on The Comedy Network's Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Club 54, and CBC's Fifth Estate and The Nature Of Things With David Suzuki.

Paynter’s unique ability to drop key company names and work situations into his shared stories and jokes, gives every presentation a fresh and personal feel.

Topics:

“Leave ’em Laffin” - Motivation
Gord tours throughout North America performing “Leave 'em Laffin”, an upbeat motivational presentation, to business audiences. Drawing from his personal experiences, he talks about the new challenges blindness brought to his life and how he managed to overcome those to achieve his goal of becoming a professional comic. Leave ’em Laffin combines Gord’s original brand of humour with emotional, hard-hitting reality. Each show is personalized and presented in an interactive style. Gord touches on many issues that audience members may be dealing with in their own lives.
Comedy Show
In 1984, Gord Paynter ventured into Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club on amateur night. His fresh style and unique perspective drew an overwhelming response from the audience. Gord has been entertaining with his innovative brand of comedy ever since.

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“...he blew them out of the water. He related to the people really well and at the end was given a standing ovation for close to five minutes”. Bruce Municipal Telephone System.

"Inviting you to speak was one of the best decisions we made! Your presentation showed our members that no obstacle is too great and that by setting goals you can achieve results. At one point people were laughing so hard, there were tears streaming down their faces, in the next moment, the room was so quiet, people were forcing the tears back as they were visibly moved by your experience".AT & T Capital.

"You have a wonderful attitude about life. Your talk took about an hour, but I must say with its fast moving mixture of brilliant humour, motivation and inspiration, it flew by" S & C Electric Canada Ltd.

"Our group was riveted to their seats...not wishing to miss a single hilarious moment and then listening in utter admiration to Gord's account of his struggle to realize his dreams. His message combined humour with motivation and highlighted the need to establish a goal and doing everything to achieve it". General Motors of Canada.

“A Standing Ovation! From the moment Gord took the stage, our audience never stopped laughing, that is until he spoke about his motivation to reach his goals, at which point you could hear a pin drop". Hershey Canada.

“Gord was a smash. Everyone was laughing practically the whole time Gord was speaking.” Northumberland Fed. Of Agriculture.

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