Gavin Stephens is a Caribbean-Canadian comic, writer, and cultural irritant. Born working class and raised by contradiction, he makes comedy that can’t be branded, bought, or packaged — the kind that forces a system built on surface and spectacle to reckon with substance.

His Juno-nominated album All Inclusive Coma proved that even when the industry doesn’t know what to do with you, undeniable work speaks for itself. With Park Bench Ontology Gavin delivers blue-collar critiques wrapped in existential dread, calling bullshit on polite liberalism, market virtue, and nationalist performance art.

Gavin isn’t here to kill — he’s here to confront. His comedy doesn’t flatter its audience; it implicates them. And in a scene built on market value and middle-class myth, his voice is hard to brand, harder to ignore.

PHILOSOPHY & METHOD

Gavin’s comedy lives where collapse meets clarity. His work blends Afro-Absurdism with Ontological Collapse — a smart, critical, punk-philosophical style that asks not just “What’s funny?” but “What’s real?” It’s comedy that unpacks symbols, implicates the audience, and refuses to let cultural performance pass for meaning.

He calls the method: Lo-Fi Ontological Satire — zine-brained, theory-laced, and low-gloss. It pulls from cultural studies, conspiracy logic, and the poetry of working-class life. It’s cartoonish but brutal, political without sermonizing, and built to push back on every soft lie that holds up a dying system.

Whether in stand-up, podcasting, or longform essays, Gavin’s not here to entertain passively — he’s here to throw a philosophical wrench in the gears. If it can’t be questioned, it can’t be funny.