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Experience the Amazingly Funny world of Comedy in Motion with Canada’s favourite juggler, Bob Cates. This memorable interactive comedy show includes advanced juggling, wild unicycling and balancing skills, black light laser effects and a finale that you will remember for a long long time. Bob Cates, a Canadian Juggling Champion, physical comedian and new vaudevillian comes from humble roots as a pig farmer’s son. He was ecstatic to be nominated two years in a row for Best One Man Show at the 2006 and 2007 Canadian Comedy Awards which presents awards in many categories including Best Stand up Comedian, Best Improviser, and Best Television Performance.

The Comedy in Motion show is much more than a stand up routine, and involves a great deal of physical skill which has taken years to hone. Some skills include advanced juggling, wild unicycling and balancing skills, Dance Dance Revolution while juggling, Chinese Yo Yo and cigar box manipulation, illusion, slapstick and frantic plate spinning reminiscent of the Ed Sullivan Show. He is one of few performers left in North America performing authentic plate spinning – his signature piece. Overall, the show is very fast paced, highly interactive and uses situational comedy and advanced skills to keep audience members of all ages on the edge of their seats right to the very end.

Bob, a resident of Kitchener Ontario was twice awarded “Best Entertainer of the Year” at the Molson Canadian F.E.O. Awards in 1999 & 2001. He has also been nominated for Best Entertainer of the Year at the 2007 Canadian Event Industry Awards and won the Most Difficult Trick Award at the RIT New York Juggling Festival. He has been a special guest performer at the Israeli Juggling Convention and several National Youth Conventions in the United States. When he is not performing as a headliner on luxury cruise ships for Celebrity, Princess, Holland America or Cunard, he often performs at corporate events and in theatres.

Bob graduated from the Baptist Leadership Education Centre in Whitby Ontario, and completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at McMaster University. After university he volunteered for seven months in Lithuania with IFES, the European version of Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship. Following his return to Canada in 1995, Bob resumed performing full time, and has been ever since.

In June, Bob married his dream girl Jane who in fact had hired him for a show several years earlier. She travels with him now making it a family business, as she works behind the scenes as well as on the stage. They are looking forward to a first year of marriage together with travels taking them to places far and wide, including Paris, the French Riviera, Florida, South Carolina, the Caribbean, Alberta, Muskoka, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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