Biography

Derrick Beckles is a Canadian writer, director, actor, and comedian. He is the host of the Adult Swim television show ''Hot Package'', creator of the "TV Carnage" compilations, Directed several Music Videos & helped found Vice TV.

From Scarborough, Ontario he moved to Toronto as a teen, where after joining several Punk bands which led to experimenting with film and ultimately enrolling in Concordia University. Soon after, Beckles began working with and shaping what was then a ten-page weekly called The Voice of Montreal, which grew into VICE Magazine. Beckles was a regular contributor who molded the magazine's unique sense of humour.

In the following years he became a familiar face on Canadian TV while occasionally doing stand-up in Toronto and New York. He produced and directed a hit festival documentary called Strip Club DJs and was a reporter on ''The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos''.
- IMDb mini biography by: Alex Huszagh

Afro and sometimes thick black glasses

Was a correspondent for Vice Magazine VICE News and produced wrote, directed VICE TV's Danny's House.

A satirist who has done irrelevant stories such as the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley to serious issues like toxic waste in West Virginia and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

I found this pamphlet saying "missing" with this little White girl on it, and when I walked up to it I was like, "Oh man a missing kid, OK, I want to be a good citizen," but then underneath it, it said, "The White Race is Going Missing!" [Laughs] So I was like, "Oh my God, you suckered me right into this!"