Shaun Majumder

Shaun Majumder (born January 29, 1972) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where he worked from 2003 until 2018. He won a Gemini Award for his work on the series in 2006. His other television credits include Republic of Doyle (2010–2014) and From (2022–present).

Early life

Majumder was born on January 29, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario to Mani Majumder, an Indian father from West Bengal, and Marian Bartlett, a European-Canadian woman from Burlington, Newfoundland. He was raised in his mother's hometown of Burlington. His parents separated after seven years. Majumder has an older sister named Rani. In his standup acts, he jokes about joining his schoolmates in chanting racist slurs before realizing that he was the victim they were talking about. Majumder was very close to his mother who he says raised them selflessly so that he and his sister were unaware of the extreme poverty in which they lived. His mother died of a heart attack in 2003. Majumder credits Newfoundland as an influence over his work. and also hosted 15 episodes of the Just for Laughs specials on television and participated in the Comedy festivals in Montreal. He was also a star of Cedric the Entertainer Presents, aired in the United States on the Fox network, and appeared in an NFB documentary on aspiring Canadian comics, The Next Big Thing.

Majumder has also starred in the CBC comedy pilot Hatching, Matching and Dispatching and the short film Plain Brown Rapper, as well as playing Kumar's brother in the 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

Majumder often plays an alter ego called Raj Binder. Binder is an awkward, nervous and usually excessively sweaty Indian reporter with a strong accent. Binder first appeared in a sketch from a comedy showcase with some former YTV costars called The Bobroom, and also appeared on Just For Laughs and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Majumder caused some minor controversy when "Raj" posed in the MegaStars group picture during the 2003 Heritage Classic NHL outdoor ice-hockey game. In 2006, Majumder won a Gemini Award for his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Majumder made a guest appearance on two episodes of the television series 24, playing Hasan Numair. He also played Dr. Freddy Sahgal in the short-lived Fox TV series Unhitched, which aired in March 2008.

In 2010, Majumder had a guest starring role as Benny Natchie in Republic of Doyle, and from 2010 to 2011 starred in the American TV series Detroit 1-8-7 as Detective Vikram Mahajan.

In the summer of 2011, Majumder was cast in The Firm, a Canadian-American co-production, in the recurring role of Andrew Palmer, the lawyer at the firm who befriends Josh Lucas' character Mitch McDeere. The show ran for one season.

From 2013 to 2014, Majumder starred in the documentary TV series Majumder Manor, which documented his quest to develop the tourism potential in his picturesque hometown of Burlington, Newfoundland. The show also featured his family, friends, and community.

In December 2016, Majumder starred in a controversial satirical short produced by This Hour Has 22 Minutes, titled "Beige Power", which called for white supremacists to "embrace the beige" and accept that humans will all "look the same by the year 3000". The short received mixed reviews, with some criticising it for being racist, and others finding it humorous.

In August 2018, Majumder was not hired back for the next season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes after he sent a letter to the producers with suggestions on the future direction of the show. Citing creative differences with Majumder, the production team chose to cut ties. and the first season of the series was released globally in 2022.

Personal life On 21 December 2012, Majumder married American actress Shelby Fenner. They have two daughters. Majumder lived in Los Angeles but moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2025.

Filmography Films Year Title Role Notes 1998 Reluctant Angel Male Clerk 1999 Pushing Tin New Controller 2000 The Ladies Man V.S.A. Member 2002 Purpose Victor 2004 Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Saikat Patel 2005 Plain Brown Rapper Sundeep Rappa short 2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Protester Outside of Court Uncredited 2009 Bob Funk Raymundo

TV Year Title Role Episode1997Uh Oh!HimselfAbsence Maze the Hat Grew Fonder 1997 Once a ThiefThe PrinceIt Happened One Night 1998–1999 SketchCom Various The Bobroom and Pale by Comparison/The Bobroom and the Stand-Ins 1999 The City Mick Blood Sports 2000 The Bobroom VariousTV special 2001 Relic Hunter Baz The Light of Truth 2002 Royal Canadian Air Farce Chip Kellaway / The Visible Minority Episode 9.13 2002–2003 Cedric the Entertainer Presents Various 17 episodes 2003 This Hour Has 22 Minutes: New Year's Eve Special TV movie 2004 Snakes & Ladders Daniel Ivory Sisters 2004 Nevermind Nirvana Raju MehtaTV movie 2006 Hatching, Matching and Dispatching Cyril Pippy6 episodes 2007 24 Hasan NumairDay 6: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m./Day 6: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. 2008 Unhitched Freddy 6 episodes 2008 Robson Arms Dr. Jordan Cohen Baby? What Baby? 2009 Da Kink in My Hair Sanjay Oil's Well That Ends Well/Coming Out of the Closet/Of Papers and Patois 2009 Married Not Dead Jay TV movie 2008–2009 Less Than Kind Tito French Is My Kryptonite/I Am Somewhere/Fatso Loves Lesbo 2010–2011 Detroit 1-8-7 Detective Vikram Mahajan 18 episodes 2011 Bad Mom Kevin TV movie 2012 The Firm Andrew Palmer 12 episodes 2013 Satisfaction TrevorFirst contact 2010–2014 Republic of Doyle Benny Natchie Fathers and Sons/ True Lies 2015 Breed Teddy TV movie 2013–2017 This Hour Has 22 Minutes Various 82 episodes 2017 A Christmas Fury Cyril PippyTV movie 2018 Addison Max 10 episodes 2021 Something Undone Coroner 3 episodes 2022–2026 From Father Rudra Khatri 16 episodes 2025 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Dr. Trunn Voor One episode

Radio Year Title Role Episode 2006–2007 The Debaters Original Series Host Season 1 (26 out of 32 episodes) 2007–2008 The Debaters Host Season 2 (3 episodes)

Web series Year Title Role Notes 2025 Tales From Woodcreek Cyrus Flynn Actual play; guest role