

įollowing the cult-like success of Letterkenny, in 2022 Keeso created a spin off series focusing on the titular character of Shoresy which is also set and shot in Sudbury. In 2014, Keeso starred in a Heritage Minute about the Winnipeg Falcons, a team of Icelandic-Canadian hockey players who served in the First World War, and later won the country's first Olympic gold medal in hockey.
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The sketches and TV series are both shot in Sudbury, Ontario.

The series, Letterkenny Problems, has attracted over 100 million views (as of January 2022 ), and became the basis for the hit 2016 sitcom Letterkenny. The channel became an immediate success thanks to a series of shorts sketches depicting the quintessential Canadian farmer and the associated struggles.

In 2013, Keeso and Mike Borden created Play Fun Games Pictures on YouTube. For his performances, he won a Leo Award for Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama and a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series. The first, Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story, aired in early 2010, and was followed by The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II in 2012. Keeso starred as hockey coach, player, and commentator Don Cherry in two CBC television movies about Cherry's life. As a youth, like most boys his age in town, Keeso played junior hockey he played for the Strathroy Rockets of the WOHL with future two-time Stanley Cup champion Jeff Carter, and also the Listowel Cyclones of the GOJHL. The sawmill was destroyed by a fire on September 9, 2018. His family owned and operated the Keeso Sawmill Company, which was founded in 1872, and Keeso spent several years working in the sawmill before embarking on his acting career. Keeso was born in Listowel, Ontario, on July 1, 1984, the son of Anne and Richard Keeso. He is also known for his roles as Ben Chartier in the 2014 series 19-2 (2014–2017), for which he won a Canadian Screen Award, as Don Cherry in the television films Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story (2010) and The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II (2012), for which he won a Leo Award and Gemini Award. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedy series Letterkenny (2016–present), which won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Comedy Series in 2017. Jared Keeso ( / ˈ k iː s oʊ/ KEE-soh born July 1, 1984) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer.
