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Doug Morency

Canadian comedian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ5300764 ↗
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Doug Morency is a Canadian actor and comedian who was a member of The Second City comedy troupe and The Williamson Playboys. He played Al Gore in a comedy show about global warming called An Inconvenient Musical.

Morency has won three Canadian Comedy Awards; two for Best Male Improviser (2003 and 2005) and one for Best Comedic Play in 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Doug Morency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.