Ewen Gilmour
Ewen Gilmour is known as ‘The Westie’ and New Zealand’s most unusual ‘Cultural Ambassador’, most recently he was named the male Comedian of the Decade at the 2010 Comedy Awards which most certainly is a career highlight.
Since hitting the comedy circuit in 1995, Ewen quickly became one of New Zealand’s best stand-up comedians with a string of credits in television and the live comedy circuit, both nationally and internationally.
Ewen was presented with the inaugural Billy T Award for comedy in 1997, the same year Waitakere City titled Ewen as ‘Cultural Ambassador’, an honour presented by the city’s Mayor Bob Harvey.
As well as touring all over New Zealand, Ewen has performed internationally on a regular basis for the last eight years, from the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs, to Sydney, Ireland, Paris, Holland, Melbourne, Brussels and entertaining the New Zealand troops in East Timor.
Ewen has been involved with Variety since 1996, and has been a Variety ambassador since 2004. He often joins the Variety Bash, helping to raise money for under privileged children. Ewen has been giving back to the community throughout his career, but not more so than in his role as Waitakere City Councillor from 2003-2006.
Only Ewen Gilmour could find a way of riding his Triumph motorbike onto a show like the 2005 NZ series of ‘Dancing with the Stars’. His Triumph also featured on Marcus Lush's show ‘Off the Rails’ and he has appeared on television shows such as ‘Intrepid Journeys’, ‘Celebrity Treasure Island’ and ‘Here to Stay’.
Ewen is a registered Marriage Celebrant and Civil Union Partnership Celebrant.
As New Zealanders we love to laugh at ourselves, and one New Zealander we love to laugh at is Ewen. The V8 of New Zealand comedy, he is quick off the mark and his performances race from laugh to laugh.
Testimonials
Ewen's presentation exceeded my expectations. He was very professional, funny and easy to communicate with. The audience were captivated. He was very humorous and read the crowd well.—Motor Trade Association (Inc)
Ewen made everyone relax and laugh after a long day at conference. Most of the audience had tears from laughing so much!—Palmerston North City Council
Ewen pitched his presentation right for the audience. We were delighted with him.—Golf Managers Association
Ewen incorporated our 'Westie' them excellently. Everyone enjoyed the performance and laughed to excess.—ANZ Banking Group Ltd
Ewen was very accessible prior to our night and was fully engaged in establishing the elements and structure we wanted to cover. Ewen made very worthwhile suggestions and recommendations which we took on board. He operated within the brief we had established, yet remained flexible enough to 'amp it up' a bit in response to our customers' requests.—Gerard Roofs
Could not fault Ewen, very entertaining and approachable guy. He made the day a success. Mixing with the guys afterwards, left very favourable lasting impressions.—Westland Milk Products Ltd
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