"Being an improvised actor, I think I know what I would say," he said. "I feel too modest to actually write something down, but I do know who I would want to thank and recognize and my challenge would be to remember it."

He said he's also looking forward to attending the 9th annual Canadian Comedy Awards so he can network with others who work in the field.

"I would love to meet more people who do what I do," he said. "Being based in Toronto, I know the community here, but it is nice to meet other people doing comedy from other parts of Canada because every region of the country breeds different people and they've all got different perspectives on how things are done. It is also a business opportunity to network with executives and people involved in producing this kind of thing."

Raitt is nominated in the One Person Show category for All the Rage. He wrote, produced and starred in the show, which ran at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto in July 2007. All the Rage is a collection of comedic sketches about the impact anger has on people.

"I was pretty much the only person working on it all, so it was a lot of work," he said. "Every character is either dealing with someone being angry or are angry themselves. I just really wanted to create a show that explored that."

Raitt's show is up against four others written by Sean Cullen, David Shore, Ron Sparks and Peter Kelamis.

"I know just about everyone in the category," he said. "I think my material is as good as everyone else's, but it is difficult to predict who will win because the five shows have such different styles."

While Raitt said awards are nice, he uses public success as his measuring stick. His comedic show Between Commutes premiered this summer at the 2008 Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival. It received critical praise and was named a patron's pick of the Fringe. He is hoping to restage the show in Toronto this fall.

"Even more than the comedy award, whether I win that or lose that, the fact I have a nomination is enough," he said. "I feel more strongly about getting the patron's pick because you are getting recognized by your average consumer of comedy and that is something that is really important to me."

Raitt regularly performs sketch comedy and improv throughout the Greater Toronto Area. He also teaches comedic skills through his association with The Second City, but said he is hoping to focus more on writing the next while.

He said he has ideas for a novel and several plays that he'd like to get down on paper.

"I've been working in sketch comedy for my entire career, so I'm looking now to do something that's a little more long form," he said. "I want to enter into a more focused writing phase, where I'm going to try to produce a project that's a little more unified in terms of subject material. I'm wanting to challenge myself to tell longer stories."

Raitt said he's thrilled to be working in comedy full-time, with many more goals ahead.

"Anyone who works in comedy would love to be paid well," he said. "We all have that dream of something that hits really big and be able to be financially independent because of it. Overall, my ambitions are really to have a situation where I could be regularly writing and creating things. I'd love to have a job continuously creating new stuff and having it put out there, so my ultimate dream would be to work as a writer on a sitcom or work as a playwright in residence. I don't seek fame as much as I seek the ability to be working."