Darren Frost
Darren Frost's stated aim as a stand-up is "to slam a stapler against the forehead of popular culture," which tells you most of what you need about the live act. It is Canadian club comedy of the confrontational kind, described by people who have sat through it as eccentric and way out, built out of dark revelation and lunacy in roughly equal measure.
The screen career runs almost perpendicular to that. Frost came out of Brantford, Ontario and into the Toronto production economy, which meant two things: small live-action parts in whatever happened to be shooting in the city, and a great deal of work in a recording booth. The film credits are one-scene men, a cameraman, a janitor, an ice cream vendor, an elf. The animation is where he actually gets room, playing Squirt in Kamp Lakebottom, Chet in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race and Stomper in Ranger Rob.
That split is common for Canadian comics and rarely discussed honestly. An abrasive stage persona does not book you the family Christmas movie; a large, elastic voice does. Frost has spent two decades doing children's cartoons for a living while running a stand-up show that would horrify the audience for them, and his filmography reads thin only if you count screen time, which is the wrong way to count it.
Movies (6)
TV (6)
Where to start with Darren Frost
The cartoons are the real body of work, so begin there. Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race gives Frost the most to do, with Chet built as one half of a permanently bickering pair, and Kamp Lakebottom applies the same energy to a summer-camp cast where nobody is required to be likeable. 6teen is worth a look for the Darth Mall gag alone, and Ranger Rob shows the softer, younger-skewing end of the same voice.
For live action, calibrate your expectations: these are bit parts. Santa Who? at least hands him a named elf, Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer gives him three roles at once, and Hairspray is a single-scene cameraman credit best treated as trivia rather than a reason to watch.