Darren Stevens (comedian)

Darren Stevens (born April 13, 1965), commonly known as The Real Darren Stevens, is a Canadian radio personality, best known for his shows as heard on 54 Rock, 106.9 The BEAR & CHEZ 106 in Ottawa and B101 in Barrie; as well as his behind the scenes programming work in Barrie, Ont. Darren Stevens is not to be confused with WMXJ radio personality Darren Stephens.

Career

Stevens has been a writer/producer/voice of comedy segments for CBC Radio national morning shows, CJSB (Ottawa), CKQB-FM (Ottawa), CIQB-FM (Barrie) and program director for CIQB-FM, CHAY-FM (Barrie) and CKCB-FM (Collingwood).

He is a versatile performer has done everything from newspaper columnist, radio host to TV including national TV commercials for Yamaha, national voice over host for Global's A Place in the Sun, appearances on Cooking For Love, performer in music videos, and other TV including writer / performer / producer of the sketch comedy series The Real Darren Stevens Show which aired on The Comedy Network.

It was the period of 1997-2007 under the guidance of program director Darren Stevens that radio stations CIQB-FM & CHAY-FM rose to prominence. Both the stations & Stevens have been highly recognized in the radio industry.

On December 10, 2007 after 10 years off the Ottawa radio airwaves, "The Real Darren Stevens Show" returned to the weekdays 3pm - 7pm on CHEZ-FM for a brief period. His final show aired on Wednesday February 20, 2008

In a strange twist of fate, on March 29,...
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