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 20,000 subscribers and 7.3 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. (Earlier this year I temporarily worked at a call center. At the end of the six weeks of training I had put together a ten minute comedy video with my various characters talking about the call center. The whole class erupted into laughter throughout the video, and it sure brought back memories from the past once more...)

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.) I started to be creative in my teenage years by writing poetry, which surpisingly was never humorous, but serious. (Check out some of my poetry elsewhere on this site.) 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 comedy cd with Eric Myers called "Redneck Canadian", which you can listen to  here.   I also have a newer comedy CD with Russ Krauch called "I'm Not Crazy" and you can listen to the songs 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. You can see the video on Brian's 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 on this site here.

I am now remarried and my beautiful wife Deb's website with her amazing artwork can be found at Debzart Online  She has always been very supportive of my creativity. I have also received thousands of kind comments for my stories, videos and songs throughout the years and I thank everyone for that. Of course, there are always "haters" to ruin everything, but I have learned to just laugh them off, ignore them or even write back to them and say "Thanks. Have a super dooper day!" It's a great way to kill the negativity...

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.   Please subscribe at my YouTube channel if you like what you see.