 My name is Larry
Graves, although on the Internet I am better known as the "Canadian Studmuffin."
My
main
following
is
on
YouTube,
with
over
27,500
subscribers
and
over
14.7
million
total
video
views.I was born in North Bay, Ontario Canada on February 28th, 1958. One of my first memories (besides being beaten up by my two older brothers) was seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964. Since that time, music (more than comedy) has been the main influence in my life for being creative.  Around this time also I imagined hosting my very own variety show, in which I was the host, which I had named "The Mark Singingsong Show." While other children were outside playing with toys and running around, I was usually entertaining myself in front of my Mom's mirror pretending to entertain people. (I never said I was normal...) I was told by my Mom that I was named after a local popular radio disc jockey with the first name Larry. I guess even my mother knew I would love the field of entertainment. I think the first time I realized that I might have a gift for humor was when everyone in my Grade 4 class had to write a short story and read it to the class. My story involved a kid getting bubble gum as his Christmas present. The whole class erupted in laughter as I told the story. I quickly became the "class clown", although I really did not like the attention, as I was and still am a shy, quiet person, but I sure loved to hear my classmates laughing. The years went by and I lost my way in school and became a bit of a recluse, with only a couple of close friends. My love of music helped me through the teenage years (and the music that influenced me can be read on my Favorite Rock Albums page on this site.) I started to be creative in my teenage years by writing poetry, which surpisingly was never humorous, but serious. In my early twenties I finally found my way in life, got married and had two sons.  Around 1993 I slowly started to write a bit and before I knew it I had a small collection of humorous stories, which I printed up as newsletters called "Grave Times". I handed these newsletters to family and friends and luckily never got sued. I remember once my boss at the factory I was working at came out of his office after reading one of the newsletters and said to me "What are you doing working here?", and that sure got me thinking. Maybe I actually had some talent after all, but I rarely had any confidence to go with the talent. When the Internet came into our lives (around 1997), I made up this website, which has now been online for over twelve years. It started out as gravetimes.com but became canadianstudmuffin.com in the last year. It was neglected for a few years, as I took a big interest in creating comedy videos, but I am slowly bringing back most of my humorous stories back online, but also adding more things to it, such as the many stories I have had on coincidences in my life. I did a redneck comedy cd with Eric Myers called "Redneck Canadian" in 2007 and the songs are free to download here. One of my proudest moments was working with Brian Ray on a video for a song from his solo album. Brian just happens to be the guitarist for a guy named Paul McCartney. Thanks to Brian, my wife and I got to see Paul McCartney in concert and also go backstage this past August to meet Brian and the the rest of Paul's great band. We had superb seats (9 rows back, center stage.) Photos are in my "Larry Graves Photos" section. You can also see the video I did for Brian Ray on his YouTube channel here. Going back a few years again, our family was shocked when we learned that my first wife Nancy had cancer. She got the news in June of 2003 and she passed away (at the age of 40) in January of 2004. There is a tribute page to her here. I remarried in 2005 to Deb Graves. I did a joke video with her called "Wife Caught In Bikini" which now has over 1.3 million views. I'm planning to do "Husband Caught In Bikini" this summer. You have been warned... I graduated from a two year Advertising course at a local college in June of 2009. If you get a chance, please check out my comedy videos on YouTube here. You can also message me from there. P.S. Please "like me" on Facebook! Larry Graves/January 2012 |
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