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CODCO was a Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian troupe that aired on CBC from 1988-1992. This show is a pun on this theatre troupe's origins. Founded as a theatrical revue in the early 1970s in the island-province of Newfoundland, CODCO draws on the province's cultural history of self-deprecating "Newfie" humour, frequently focusing on the cod fishing industry. Motto: Quaerite Primum Regnum Dei (Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital St. ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas state-owned radio and television service. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
Species Gadus morhua Gadus macrocephalus Gadus ogac This article is about codfish; for other meanings, see COD. Cod is the common name for the genus Gadus of fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes. ...
From these roots, CODCO subsequently developed a half-hour, television comedy program of the same name, for national broadcast, produced in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's regional studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and on location in St. John's, Newfoundland. {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) City Symbol: Kingfisher Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada Location. ...
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Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
CODCO's pointed satire takes aim at regional differences, national assumptions, politics, sexism, gender roles, gay codes and television genres. The general format of CODCO's satire is sketch comedy, with sets, costumes and make-up that replicate the sources under attack. Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...
Politics is the process and method of making decisions for groups. ...
Sexism is discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits. ...
Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes, or sketches, commonly between one and ten minutes long. ...
The CODCO members' theatrical roots trained them to shape detailed caricatures, with nuances that dismantle not only the conventions of the source personas and genres but also the ideologies of a medium colonized by commercialism.
Spun from the collective writing and acting skills of the members, and ably directed by the experienced John Blanchard and David Acomba, the CODCO members' sketches show the tightness of well rehearsed scene studies, rather than the loose burlesque of Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ...
CODCO was produced by Salter Street Films. Salter Street Films was a Canadian television and movie production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...
Cast
Andrew Jordan Jones (born January 15, 1948) is a member of CODCO. Andy Jones was born in St. ...
Catherine Frederica Theresa Jones (born April 6, 1955) is an actress and comedian, also well known as her stage name, Cathy Jones. ...
Greg Malone is a Canadian impressionist and actor. ...
Tommy Sexton was born in St. ...
Mary Cynthia Walsh (born May 13, 1952, St. ...
Occasional Guests Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951, Montréal, Québec) is a Canadian actor. ...
Greg Thomey was born in May 8, 1961 in St. ...
Segments and Characters All five members cross-dress, and their ability to traverse sex roles plays to CODCO's evident interest in social transgression and critique. Cathy Jones and Mary Walsh portray a variety of males, from macho through wimpy, along with their femme fatales, "loud feminists" and pesky middle-aged, bingo-bent matrons.
The sketches featuring the homely, dateless "Friday Night Girls" satirize the isolation of women in Newfoundland's island life. Walsh's Dakey Dunn, replete with gold chain, hairy chest, cigarette and beer, might explain the dilemma of the Friday Night Girls; in one monologue, Dakey admits to not completing high school and, in crude English, lays out a macho view of economic and cultural matters.
Greg Malone's Queen Elizabeth and Malone's and Tommy Sexton's gay lawyers, Jerome and Duncan, share an excessive style and gay-rights politics that only satire can contain on broadcast television. Malone was also known for his spot-on drag parody of Canadian television journalist Barbara Frum. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The Queen, is the Queen regnant and Head of State of the United Kingdom, as well as the Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea...
Drag in its broadest sense means a costume or outfit that carries symbolic significance, but usually refers to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of the other gender. ...
Barbara Frum (September 8, 1937_March 26, 1992) was one of Canadas most respected and influential journalists, a legendary news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
The End of CODCO In 1992, the CBC refused to air a CODCO sketch involving two Catholic priests discussing their sexual experiences with altar boys. The Mount Cashel Orphanage child abuse controversy was very much in the news at the time, and as Newfoundlanders, the CODCO crew quite naturally had very strong opinions on the matter. As a result, Andy Jones quit the show in protest, effectively spelling the end of the series. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Following the end of CODCO, Walsh and Cathy Jones worked with Thomey and Rick Mercer to create This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Rick Mercer Rick Mercer (born October 17, 1969 in St. ...
This Hour Has 22 Minutes This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a Canadian television comedy. ...
Sexton died in 1993 of complications from AIDS. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a global, human epidemic. ...
Malone ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in a Newfoundland byelection in 2000, losing by less than 100 votes to Loyola Hearn. The New Democratic Party (NDP) (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD)) is a social democratic political party in Canada. ...
2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Loyola Hearn (born March 25, 1943 in Renews, Newfoundland) is a Canadian politician. ...
External links - CODCO: Musieum.TV (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/codco/codco.htm)
- CODCO: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (http://www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/codcoprof.html)
- IMDb entry (http://imdb.com/title/tt0177644/)
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