Jackie Pirico is a fast-rising and highly coveted stand-up comedian originally from Guelph, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto, Canada. Originally a Linguistics major at Concordia University with plans to go into speech pathology, Jackie instead discovered her love for comedy while working at a comedy bar in Montreal, Quebec. In 2013, she made the decision to follow her passion and pursue stand-up comedy as a career. In 2014, after moving to Toronto, Jackie landed her first professional opportunity in her hometown at the Guelph Comedy Festival. Her first big break came in 2016 when she was called to do a network television taping for the largest International Comedy Festival in the world, Montreal’s Just For Laughs
