Anesti Danelis is a Canadian musical comedian from Toronto, Ontario.[1]
Previously associated with the sketch comedy troupe FomoSapiens,[2] he premiered his first solo show Songs for the New World Order at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival.[3] He toured the show to various other Canadian and international fringe theatre festivals in 2017 and 2018, and received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Variety Act at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019.[4]
He returned to the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019 with his second solo show, Six Frets Under.[5] Later that year, he received international press attention when a video of him quitting his job at Starbucks by singing a song to the patrons about what a bad boss the manager was, went viral.[6]
During the COVID-19 pandemic he uploaded songs to social networking platforms such as YouTube and TikTok,[7] many of which were also released on the comedy album Quarantine Bops.[1]
In 2022, he returned to the Toronto Fringe Festival with This Show Will Change Your Life, a show parodying self-help books and themes that also included a song about his bisexuality in which he gets revenge on an ex-partner by dating both of their parents.[8] In 2023, he premiered Artificially Intelligent, which blended some of his older songs with new creations including a song written by ChatGPT, at Buddies in Bad Times during the 2023 Queer Pride Festival.[9]