Phil Nichol

Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter and actor.

Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"

Nichol's 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Things I Like I Lick was nominated for the Perrier Award. In 2006, Nichol won the if.comedy award (successor to the Perrier) with a show entitled The Naked Racist which he performed at The Stand; he later performed the same show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2007, Nichol was nominated for Best Headliner at the Chortle Awards.

On 23 September 2007, he was a last minute replacement to host the second half of the charity show A Seriously Funny Attempt To Get The Serious Fraud Office In The Dock.

In 2014, Phil released his first album of comedic songs since his days in Corky and the Juice Pigs called Late Night Electric Watermelon. It can be downloaded for a small fee from Bandcamp, and his own website.

In 2005, Phil Nichol performed his one-man show of "Nearly Gay," a show about being a straight man with a predominantly gay social group, at the Edinburgh Fringe, to positive critical reviews in the mainstream media. Nichol has stated that the show was partly conceived in response to fellow comic Scott Capurro angrily and repeatedly interrupting a rendition of "Eskimo" - a song about a gay Eskimo with a rubber fetish wishing for whaleskin tights - stating that it was homophobic; Nichol stated that the song was written to "express solidarity." The "Nearly Gay" material itself has been described as Nichol "ranting about queers" and "recounting Nichol's drunken effort to cop off with a transsexual" in a four-star review by The Guardian.

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