Bart Cannaerts

Bart Cannaerts (Duffel, 19 June 1980) is a Flemish stand-up comedian, television maker and television presenter. Cannaerts is by training a bio-engineer. After that he taught for several years. He debuted in 2006 as a stand-up comedian and shortly afterwards won the Culture Comedy Award. In 2007 he won Humo's Comedy Cup.

Ik tel tot tien was his first full-length show, which premiered on 1 October 2009 and ran until 2011. In early 2012 he started his second show, Waar is Barry?, which ended in May 2013. In November 2013 Cannaerts premiered his new performance Wanneer gaan we nog eens Bowlen. In November 2021 Cannaerts began his show We moeten nog eens afspreken. He has been a jury member in De Slimste Mens ter Wereld since 2013.

Cannaerts was in 2009 one of the founders of Shelter, for which he worked among other things on the programmes Benidorm Bastards and Wat als?. Since 2022 he presents in the spring the daily late-evening quiz De dag van vandaag on VRT 1. In the autumn of 2022 he took part in De Allerslimste Mens ter Wereld where he played 17 consecutive episodes and ultimately finished second. In January 2023 he won for this, as the first, the new media prize Kastaar as 'Deelnemer van het jaar'.