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Encyclopedia > Canadian humour

Canadian humour is an integral part of the Canadian Identity. There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French. While these traditions are distinct and at times very different, there are common themes that relate to Canadians' shared history and geopolitical situation in North America and the world. It has been said that Canadian culture rests solely in the effort to distinguish itself from its southern neighbour, the United States. ... Canadian English (CaE) is the form of English language used in Canada, spoken as a first or second language by over 25 million – or 85 percent of – Canadians (2001 census). ... Canada is a nation of 31 million inhabitants occupying almost all of the northern half of the North American continent. ... Geopolitics analyses politics, history and social science with reference to geography. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... The World in plate carrée projection The World In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is age or life of man. Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: the World. ...


Various trends can be noted in Canadian comedy. One thread is the portrayal of a "typical" Canadian family in an on-going radio or television series. Examples include La famille Plouffe, with its mix of drama, humour, politics and religion and sitcoms such as King of Kensington and La Petite Vie. Another major thread tends to be political and cultural satire: television shows such as CODCO, Royal Canadian Air Farce, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, monologuists such as Yvon Deschamps and Rick Mercer and writers, including Michel Tremblay, Will Ferguson and Eric Nicol draw their inspiration from Canadian and Québécois society and politics. Another trend revels in absurdity, demonstrated by television series like The Kids in the Hall and The Frantics, and musician-comedians such as The Arrogant Worms, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and Bowser and Blue. Satire is arguably the primary characteristic of Canadian humour, evident in each of these threads, and uniting various genres and regional cultural differences. La famille Plouffe was a Canadian television drama about a Quebec family that first aired in the French-language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... King of Kensington was a Canadian television sitcom which aired on the CBC from 1975 to 1980. ... La Petite Vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom from 1993 to 1999. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... CODCO was a Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian troupe that aired on CBC from 1988-1992. ... Royal Canadian Air Farce is a Canadian radio and television show, broadcast on CBC Television. ... This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a Canadian television comedy. ... Yvon Deschamps is an author, actor, comedian and producer. ... Rick Mercer Richard Vincent Mercer (born October 17, 1969 in St. ... Michel Tremblay (born June 25, 1942) is an important Quebec novelist and playwright. ... Will Ferguson is a Canadian writer who is best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture. ... In Canadian English, a Québécois (IPA: ), or in the feminine Québécoise (IPA: ), is a francophone native or resident of the province of Quebec, Canada. ... DVD release of Kids in the Hall first season. ... Frantics is the name of: Frantics (band), a punk rock band. ... The Arrogant Worms are a Canadian musical comedy trio that parodies many musical genres. ... Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie are a Canadian comedy group from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ...


Humber College in Toronto has the world's only post-secondary programme in comedy (writing and performance). Montréal is home to the bilingual (English and French) Just For Laughs festival and to the Just For Laughs Museum, a bilingual, international museum of comedy. Canada's major native form of ethnic joke has been the Newfie joke, poking fun at the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (generally referred to as Humber College) is a college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... For other uses, see Toronto (disambiguation). ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay MPs Vivian Barbot, Bernard Bigras, Denis Coderre, Irwin Cotler, Stéphane Dion, Gilles Duceppe, Marlene Jennings, Francine Lalonde, Jean Lapierre, Paul Martin, Réal Ménard, Serge Ménard, Maria Mourani, Massimo Pacetti, Bernard Patry... Canadian English (CaE) is the form of English language used in Canada, spoken as a first or second language by over 25 million – or 85 percent of – Canadians (2001 census). ... Just for Laughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... An outport (small fishing village) in Newfoundland Newfie is a colloquial term used in Canada for one who is from Newfoundland. ... Motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei (Latin: Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Official languages English Capital St. ...

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Literature

See also: Literature of Canada

From the first major work of Canadian humour, Thomas McCulloch’s Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure (1821-23) in the Halifax weekly Acadian Recorder, Canadian humorous writing has tended more towards prose than poetry. McCulloch's satirical letters have been described by Northrop Frye as "quiet, observant, deeply conservative in a human sense…” McCulloch's satirical persona, the "conventional, old-fashioned, homespun" farmer, is part of a tradition that originates with Addison and Swift. Compared to McCulloch’s dry, and understated style, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, showed the same conservative social values in the brash, overstated character of Sam Slick, the Yankee Clockmaker. Haliburton’s Sam Slick persona in The Clockmaker (1836), as Arthur Scobie notes in The Canadian Encyclopedia, "proved immensely popular and, ironically, has influenced American humour as much as Canadian." [1] How to describe the literature of a nation is often debatable, and is also in natural flux throughout the nations history, so this beginners guide to Canadian literature will offer links to as many actual Canadian authors as possible so the reader can weigh what is being said... Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic, one of the most distinguished of the 20th century. ... Joseph Addison, the Kit-cat portrait, circa 1703–1712, by Godfrey Kneller. ... Genera Many; see text. ... Thomas Chandler Haliburton Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 - August 27, 1865) was one of the first major Canadian authors. ... Sam Slick was the pseudonym of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Canadian judge and author. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Folk humour and satire were responses to the domination of 19th-century French Canadian culture by the Catholic Church. Napoléon Aubin satirized Québec public life in his journals Le Fantasque (1837-45) and Le Castor (1843), and through his theatre troupe, Les Amateurs typographiques, established in 1839. He was imprisoned during that same year for his views. This cosmopolitan tradition is also seen in the journalism of Arthur Buies, editor of La Lanterne canadienne (1868-69), a highly satirical journal of that era. French Canadian is a term that has several different connotations. ... The Roman Catholic Church believes its founding was based on Jesus appointment of Saint Peter as the primary church leader, later Bishop of Rome. ...


Light comedy that mocked local customs, was typical of 19th-century theatre in Québec. Examples include Joseph Quesnel's L'Anglomanie, ou le dîner à l'angloise (1803), which criticized the imitation of English customs, and Pierre Petitclair's Une partie de campagne (1865). More serious dramas attacked specific targets: the anonymous Les Comédies du status quo (1834) ridiculed local politics, and Le Défricheteur de langue (1859) by Isodore Mesplats, (pseudonym of Joseph LaRue and Joseph-Charles Taché), mocked Parisian manners. Other examples of theatrical satire were Félix-Gabriel Marchand's comedy, Les faux brillants (1885) and Louvigny de Montigny's Les Boules de neige (1903), which took aim at Montréal's bourgeoisie. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Parisian is also a moderate to upscale U.S. chain of department stores, based in Birmingham, Alabama. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay MPs Vivian Barbot, Bernard Bigras, Denis Coderre, Irwin Cotler, Stéphane Dion, Gilles Duceppe, Marlene Jennings, Francine Lalonde, Jean Lapierre, Paul Martin, Réal Ménard, Serge Ménard, Maria Mourani, Massimo Pacetti, Bernard Patry... Bourgeoisie (RP [], GA []) in modern use refers to the wealthy or propertied social class in a capitalist society. ...


By the early 20th century, the satirical tradition was well developed in English Canada as exemplified in the writing of Stephen Leacock. In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Leacock, renown for his satirical wit, used tragic irony and astute insight in examining day-to-day, small-town life. The book remains a classic of Canadian literature. An annual Canadian literary award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, is named in his memory. The award is presented to the year's best work of humorous literature by a Canadian. English Canada is a term used to describe either: the English-speaking residents of Canada or the Canadian provinces which are majority anglophone, i. ... Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph. ... Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. ... The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Stephen Leacock Award) is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian. ...


Following the Révolution tranquille in Québec, theatrical satire reappeared in 1968 with Michel Tremblay's play Les Belles sœurs, written in Québécois joual. The controversial play picked apart the myth of a stable bourgeois Québec society with a mix of realistic comedy and allegorical satire. Following Tremblay’s lead, Jean Barbeau exposed Québec popular culture in La Coupe stainless (1974). Tremblay and Barbeau set the stage for reviews such as Broue (1979), a collective production, which toured English-speaking Canada as Brew (1982). Jean Lesage, Daniel Johnson Sr. ... Michel Tremblay (born June 25, 1942) is an important Quebec novelist and playwright. ... Joual is the name given by some to a working-class sociolect of Quebec French spoken in Montreal, after its pronunciation of the word cheval (horse). ...


Humorous fiction in French Canada draws from the oral tradition of folk songs and folktales which were the common coin of humour in the 19th century. Only a few of these folk tales surfaced in writing prior to the 20th century. However, contemporary writers such as Jacques Ferron in Québec (Contes du pays incertain, 1962) and Antonine Maillet in Acadian New Brunswick (La Sagouine, 1974, and Pélagie-la-Charette, 1979), rely extensively on folk humour and popular culture. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular ethnic population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Antonine Maillet in 1984 The Honourable Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10, 1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. ... The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 11th 72 908 km² 71 450 km² 1 458 km...


The plain talking alter-ego as an instrument of satire continued with Robertson Davies' series of Samuel Marchbanks books (1947-67) and John Metcalf's James Wells in General Ludd (1980). Davies is one of many Canadian writers of "serious" literature who were also renowned for humour in their work. Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Paul Quarrington, Mordecai Richler, Carol Shields, W. O. Mitchell, Pierre Berton and Miriam Toews are all acclaimed writers of mainstream literature who have also been acknowledged for using humour and wit in their writing. Robertson Davies in 1984 Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... Samuel Marchbanks wrote editorials for the Peterborough Examiner newspaper in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, northeast of Toronto, during the middle of the 20th century. ... John Metcalf is the real name of Blind Jack. ... Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood, CC (born November 18, 1939) ) is one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers. ... Farley McGill Mowat OC , BA , D.Litt (born May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. ... Paul Lewis Quarrington (born July 22, 1953) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. ... Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter and essayist. ... Carol Shields, CC , OM , D.Litt. ... The Honourable William Ormond Mitchell, PC , OC , D.Litt (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer. ... Pierre Berton Pierre Francis Berton, CC , O.Ont , BA , D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... Miriam Toews (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian novelist and humorist of Mennonite descent. ...


Many other writers of Canadian humour have been published as newspaper or magazine commentators, including Gary Lautens, Richard J. Needham, Eric Nicol, Joey Slinger, Will Ferguson and Linwood Barclay. Gary Lautens (November 3, 1928 - February 1, 1992) was a Canadian humorist and newspaper columnist. ... Richard J. Needham (1912-1996) was a legendary Canadian humour columnist for The Globe and Mail. ... Will Ferguson is a Canadian writer who is best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture. ...


Humour is also central to the work of Canadian children's writers such as Gordon Korman, Dennis Lee and Robert Munsch. Gordon Korman is a Canadian author of novels, primarily for children. ... For the inventor, see this Dennis Lee entry. ... Robert Norman Munsch CM (born June 11, 1945) is a Canadian childrens author. ...


Music

Particularly in recent years, Canada has produced a number of famous musical groups who have been described as "comedy rock". Bands such as Barenaked Ladies, Moxy Früvous and Rheostatics are sometimes misunderstood as being strictly novelty bands, but in fact many of their songs use humour to illuminate more serious themes. Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL) is a Canadian alternative rock band composed of Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Steven Page, Tyler Stewart, and Jim Creeggan. ... Moxy Früvous is a folk-pop/geek-rock band from the Toronto, Ontario area. ... Rheostatics are a Canadian indie rock band. ...


A number of other acts, such as Corky and the Juice Pigs, Arrogant Worms and Bowser and Blue write specifically comedic songs. Nancy White is a noted Canadian musical satirist, whose comedic folk songs about Canadian culture and politics have regularly appeared on CBC Radio programs. Corky and the Juice Pigs is a Canadian comedy musical group made up of Phil Nichol, Greg Neale, and Sean Cullen. ... The Arrogant Worms are a Canadian musical comedy trio that parodies many musical genres. ... Nancy White is a Canadian comedian and singer-songwriter, whose satirical songs on political and cultural topics have been a regular feature on CBC Radio One programming since the mid-1970s. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the common people. ... CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...


Jann Arden, a singer-songwriter renowned for writing sad love songs, is also paradoxically known as one of Canada's funniest live performers, whose witty, unpretentious stage patter about herself and her family is as much a part of her relationship with her audience as her music is. Jann Arden (born March 27, 1962) is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter with a popular fan base, mostly in Canada. ... Patter is a glib rapid speech, that accompanies and comments some actions, e. ...


Another noted Canadian musical comedian is Mary Lou Fallis, an opera singer who performs both in classical opera roles and as the comedic character "Primadonna", a satirical take on popular stereotypes of opera divas. Mary Lou Fallis (born April 22, 1948 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian opera singer. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about female singers considered divas. ...


Radio

Many of Canada's comedy acts and performers have started out on radio, primarily on the national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) network. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...


While individual comedy show and segments have been around almost as long as the network, the focus has tended be more on specific shows featuring particular groups of comedians. The real beginnings of Canadian radio comedy began in the late 1930s with the debut of The Happy Gang, a long-running weekly variety show that was regularly sprinkled with corny jokes in between tunes. It debuted in 1938 and ran until 1959. The Wayne & Shuster show debuted on CBC radio in 1946, their more literate and classy humour regularly appearing on the airwaves well into the early 1960s. Wayne and Shuster was a Canadian comedy duo formed by Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. ...


The Royal Canadian Air Farce started as a radio show debuting in 1973 featuring mainly political and some character-based comedy sketches. It ran for 24 years before making a permanent transition to television. It started a tradition of topical and politically satirical radio shows that inspired such programs as Double Exposure, The Muckraker and What A Week. Royal Canadian Air Farce is a Canadian radio and television show, broadcast on CBC Television. ... Promotional image of Linda Cullen and Bob Robertson for the CBC radio show Double Exposure Double Exposure was a Canadian radio and television comedy series which mocked contemporary Canadian politics. ... What A Week was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One that ran for two 13-episode seasons in 2003. ...


A zanier, more surreal brand of radio comedy was unveiled in the early 1980s with the debut of The Frantics' Frantic Times radio show, which ran from 1981 to 1986. Its smart and surreal style fostered a new take on Canadian radio comedy that was followed by the likes of successor shows as The Norm and Radio Free Vestibule. Frantics is the name of: Frantics (band), a punk rock band. ... The Norm was a CBC radio comedy show than ran between 1986 to 1988. ... Terence Bowman, Paul Pare, and Bernard Deniger are the three members of Radio Free Vestibule, a Canadian surrealist comedy troupe also known as simply The Vestibules. ...


By the 1990s the satirical and zany elements merged into two of the more notable CBC radio comedy shows of the 1990s: The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour, a show that offered bitingly satirical pieces from a First Nations perspective mixed in with general silliness; and Great Eastern, a show set in a fictitious Newfoundland "national" radio station featuring improbable news stories, fictitious archival recordings and unlikely archeological findings played straight. Promotional shot of Tom King, Edna Rain (Gracie), and Floyd Favel Starr (Jasper) recording the show The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One for four seasons, running from 1997 to 2000. ... Carved mask in Vancouver First Nations is a term for ethnicity used in Canada to replace the word Indian. It refers to the Indigenous peoples of North America located in what is now Canada, and their descendants, who are not Inuit or Métis. ... The Great Eastern was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One. ...


CBC Radio continues to play an important part in developing comedy performers on radio. The weekly Madly Off In All Directions, hosted by comedian Lorne Elliot, continues to provide regional stand-up comics and musical comedy acts with a weekly national forum. Madly Off In All Directions is a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One, featuring Canadian comedian Lorne Elliot. ...


Television

Many of Canada's most popular and enduring comedy shows are in the sketch comedy genre. Paradoxically, Canadian television has fared poorly with conventional, American-style sitcoms, but has often fared better with dramedies and other types of programming that break the sitcom form. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ...


Canadian television comedy begins with Wayne and Shuster, a sketch comedy duo who began on radio in 1946 before moving to television. They became one of Canada's most enduring comedy teams, not just on Canadian television, but in the United States as well: they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show 67 times, a record for any performer. They were particularly famous for their Julius Caesar sketch, Rinse the Blood off My Toga, with its legendary catch phrase, "I told him, Julie, don't go!" Wayne and Shuster were a Canadian comedy duo formed by Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. ... Ed Sullivan The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ... A bust of Julius Caesar. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...


Wayne and Shuster continued to appear on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) until the late 1980s, with specials that mixed new sketches with their classic material. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...


La famille Plouffe, the first regularly scheduled television drama in Canada, was produced in 1953 by Radio-Canada, in French. The program was broadcast on both English and French networks of CBC TV from 1954 to 1959, (in English as The Plouffe Family). It was a mix of drama, humour and social commentary about a working-class Québec family in the post-World War II era. La famille Plouffe was a Canadian television drama about a Quebec family that first aired in the French-language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 8 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. ...


Another pioneer in Canadian television comedy was, oddly, a news series. This Hour Has Seven Days, which debuted in 1964, was primarily meant as a newsmagazine, but its segments included political satire as well as serious news reports. Later series such as Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report have all drawn on the tradition of political satire established by Seven Days, and have been among Canadian television's most popular comedy series in recent years. This Hour Has Seven Days was a controversial CBC Television newsmagazine, which ran from 1964 to 1966. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... Royal Canadian Air Farce is a Canadian radio and television show, broadcast on CBC Television. ... This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a Canadian television comedy. ... Rick Mercer Report (or The Mercer Report; formerly known as Rick Mercers Monday Report or Monday Report) is a Canadian television comedy series. ...


Canadian born Lorne Michaels, who had moved from Toronto to Los Angeles in 1968 to work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, launched the NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live in 1975. Over the years, several Canadians came to fame as part of the SNL cast, including Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, and Mike Myers. Michaels also produced The Kids in the Hall for Canadian TV in the 1980s. Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels CM , LL.D (born November 17, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television producer and writer best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC Network. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Dan Aykroyd (left) with John Belushi in The Blues Brothers Daniel Edward Aykroyd, C.M. (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician. ... Martin Hayter Short CM (born March 26, 1950) is an actor, writer, and producer best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. ... Mike Myers as Austin Powers Michael Myers (born May 25, 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. ... DVD release of Kids in the Hall first season. ...


Many Canadian comedy shows, while not directly about politics per se, have made profound political statements by satirizing society and pop culture. This includes shows such as SCTV, Buzz and CODCO. CODCO, in particular, was intensely controversial at times for its use of comedy in tackling sensitive subjects; the show ended when Andy Jones quit in protest after the CBC refused to air a sketch that made a very explicit political statement about the Mount Cashel child abuse scandal. Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of The Second City. ... Buzz is a Canadian comedy television series that airs on the Comedy Network. ... CODCO was a Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian troupe that aired on CBC from 1988-1992. ... Andrew Jordan Jones (born January 15, 1948) is a member of CODCO. Andy Jones was born in St. ...


Other shows, such as The Kids in the Hall, The Frantics, Bizarre and Puppets Who Kill, revelled in absurdist humour, making household names out of characters such as Chicken Lady, Mr. Canoehead and Super Dave Osborne. The Kids in the Hall was a Canadian sketch comedy group, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin MacDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. ... Frantics is the name of: Frantics (band), a punk rock band. ... Bizarre was a weekly 1980s Canadian TV sketch comedy series. ... Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by and appearing on the Canadian Comedy Network. ... The Chicken Lady was a character portrayed by Mark McKinney on the sketch comedy show Kids in the Hall. ... Super Dave Osborne (born November 20, 1942, in Los Angeles, California) is the stage name of Robert Bob Einstein. ...


Other notable sketch series have included Zut!, The Gavin Crawford Show and The Holmes Show. Canadian television also frequently showcases stand-up comedians. The popular series Comics, based around one comedian each week, has been the first national television exposure for many of Canada's current comedy stars. Another series, Just for Laughs, has for many years presented comedians appearing at the Montreal International Comedy Festival. That series has also spawned the more recent Just For Laughs Gags, a practical joke show similar to Candid Camera. Zut! was a Canadian sketch comedy television series which aired Saturday evenings from 1970 to 1971 on the CBC. It was based loosely on relations between Quebec and the rest of Canada. ... The Gavin Crawford Show was a Canadian sketch comedy series that ran from June 2000-February 2002. ... The Holmes Show was a Canadian sketch comedy television series which starred Jessica Holmes, Roman Danylo and Kurt Smeaton. ... Just for Laughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The current Just For Laughs Gags logo (from 2003 onwards) A gag on Just For Laughs Gags Just For Laughs Gags is a silent comedy show that is a sister show of the TV series, Just For Laughs. ... Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ...


Although several notable Canadian sitcoms have been produced, such as King of Kensington, Hangin' In and Corner Gas, Canadian TV has also produced what is widely regarded as one of the worst sitcoms in television history, The Trouble with Tracy. Other sitcoms, including Material World, Mosquito Lake, Snow Job, Check it Out!, Rideau Hall, Excuse My French and Not My Department, have generally fared poorly with critics and audiences as well. Critic Geoff Pevere has pointed out, however, that American television has produced a lot of bad sitcoms as well. The difference, according to Pevere, is that the economics of television production in Canada mean that a Canadian television network can't always cancel a bad homegrown sitcom as easily as an American network can. King of Kensington was a Canadian television sitcom which aired on the CBC from 1975 to 1980. ... Hangin In was a Canadian television sitcom which aired on the CBC fron 1981 to 1987. ... Canadian DVD release of Corner Gas first season. ... The Trouble with Tracy was a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1971–1972 television season. ... Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1989 to 1993. ... Snow Job was a Canadian television comedy series airing on the CTV network. ... Check it Out! was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1988. ... Rideau Hall is a Canadian television series broadcast since 2002 on CBC. It stars: Bette MacDonald, Fiona Reid, Jonathan Torrens, Joe Dinicol, and Rejean Cournoyer. ... Excuse My French was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CTV from 1974 to 1976. ... Not My Department was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on the CBC in 1987. ... Geoff Pevere is a Canadian pop culture critic, film reviewer, and frequent media pundant. ...


On the other hand, Canadian television comedy fares much better when it breaks the sitcom form, especially with dramedy. Unconventional comedy series such as The Beachcombers, Due South, Made in Canada, Chilly Beach, The Newsroom, Primetime Glick, The Red Green Show, La Petite Vie, Seeing Things, Trailer Park Boys, Supertown Challenge, Les Bougon and Twitch City have been much more successful than most of Canada's conventional sitcoms, both in Canada and as international exports. Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... The Beachcombers was a popular Canadian television program broadcast on CBC. The series ran from 1972 to 1989 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for Canadian television. ... Due South was a Canadian television police drama, following the adventures of a fictional Mountie living and working in Chicago. ... Made in Canada is a Canadian television sitcom / single camera comedy, which aired on the CBC from 1998 to 2003. ... Animated cast of Chilly Beach. ... The Newsroom is a Canadian television dramedy series which ran on the CBC in the 1996-1997 and 2003-2004 seasons. ... The Red Green Show is a television comedy that has aired on the CBC in Canada and on PBS in the United States from 1991 to the present, with the series finale to be aired on March 17, 2006 [1]. Reruns currently air on CBC Country Canada and The Comedy... La Petite Vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom from 1993 to 1999. ... Seeing Things was a Canadian dramedy mystery television series which aired on the CBC in the 1980s. ... Trailer Park Boys is a popular Canadian mockumentary that premiered in 2001 focusing on the misadventures of ex-convicts living in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park which is located near Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... Supertown Challenge was a Canadian comedy series, which aired from 1998 to 2000 on The Comedy Network. ... Les bougon - cest aussi ça la vie! is a popular quebec satirical comedy broadcasted by Radio-Canada since 2004, written by François Avard and Jean-François Mercier and produced by Fabienne Larouche. ... Twitch City was a Canadian sitcom produced by the CBC. The series aired as two short runs in 1998 and 2000. ...


Canada has a national television channel, The Comedy Network, devoted to comedy. Its programming includes some of the classic Canadian comedy series noted above, repeats of several hit American and British series such as The Simpsons, South Park and Absolutely Fabulous, and original series such as Kevin Spencer, Odd Job Jack, The Devil's Advocates, Improv Heaven and Hell and Puppets Who Kill. The Comedy Network (colloquially often just Comedy) is a Canadian cable specialty television channel with comedy programming. ... The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ... For other uses, see South Park (disambiguation). ... Patsy and Eddie Absolutely Fabulous (popularly referred to as Ab Fab) is a British sitcom written by Jennifer Saunders and starring Saunders and Joanna Lumley. ... Kevin Spencer is a cartoon television series developed by Greg Lawrance, aired in Canada on The Comedy Network and aimed at adult audiences. ... Odd Job Jack is a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one guys misadventures in temporary employment. ... Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by and appearing on the Canadian Comedy Network. ...


One of the most famous figures in Canadian television comedy in the 1990s and 2000s has been Rick Mercer. Mercer began his career in 1990 with a touring one-man show, Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, about Canadian life in the immediate aftermath of the failed Meech Lake Accord. That show was a sellout success; in 1993, he made his television debut as one of the writers and performers on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Mercer's "rants", short op-ed pieces on Canadian politics and culture, quickly became the show's signature segment. When he published a collection of rants in 1998 as Streeters, the book quickly became a bestseller. Mercer left 22 Minutes in 2000 to devote more time to his other series, Made in Canada. When that series ended its run, he launched the new Rick Mercer Report. Rick Mercer Richard Vincent Mercer (born October 17, 1969 in St. ... The Meech Lake Accord was a set of failed constitutional amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the provincial premiers, including Robert Bourassa, premier of Quebec. ... Rick Mercer Report (or The Mercer Report; formerly known as Rick Mercers Monday Report or Monday Report) is a Canadian television comedy series. ...


Another famous comedic export in the same era was Tom Green, whose surreal and sometimes grotesque humour on The Tom Green Show began as a community cable show in Ottawa before becoming a momentary hit on MTV. Tom Green, as he appears on the Freddy Got Fingered original movie poster Michael Thomas (Tom) Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian shock comic. ... The Tom Green Show was a Canadian (later American) television show which first aired in 1993 on Rogers Community 22, a community channel in Ottawa, Ontario, and was later picked up by the Comedy Network. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ville dOttawa, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


As with many other genres, Canadian television comedy also frequently plays with the topic of Canada's relationship with the United States. Mercer turned another 22 Minutes segment, Talking to Americans, into a 2001 television special, which was a ratings smash. In Talking to Americans, Mercer, in his 22 Minutes guise as reporter "J.B. Dixon", visited American cities to ask people on the street for their opinion on a Canadian news story -- the joke for Canadians was that the news story was always fabricated, and either inherently ridiculous (e.g. a border dispute between Québec and Chechnya or an annual Toronto polar bear hunt) or blatantly out of context (e.g. wishing Canadians a "Happy Stockwell Day".) Talking To Americans was a regular feature presented by Rick Mercer on the Canadian political satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 2nd 1,542,056 km² 1,183,128 km² 176,928... Capital Grozny Area - total - % water 78th - 15,500 km² - negligible Population - Total - Density 49th - est. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 The Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as white bear or northern bear or sea bear, is a large bear native to the Arctic. ... Hon. ...


Another notable show, the sitcom An American in Canada, reversed that formula, finding comedy in the culture shock of an American television reporter taking a job with a Canadian TV station. Tom Green once played with this staple of Canadian comedy as well, during a controversial segment in which he burned a Canadian flag. An American in Canada is a Canadian television sitcom which airs on the CBC. The show stars Rick Roberts as Jake Crewe, an American television news host who is forced, after beating up his station manager, to accept a job in Calgary, Alberta as the host of the lowest-rated... Culture shock is a term used to describe the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, confusion, etc. ...


Personalities

Other famous Canadian humourists and comedy-professionals include:

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See also

This is a list of Quebec comedians and comedy groups. ... Blame Canada is a song from the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut in which the fictional parents of South Park decide to blame Canada for the trouble their children have been getting into since watching the Canadian-made Terrance and Phillip movie, refusing to address the reality that they... For other uses, see South Park (disambiguation). ...

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Humour at AllExperts (1719 words)
A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
White once said that "Humour can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, as follow.
In this context, humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
EPL.ca: Canadian Humour in Books (611 words)
Canadian humour writers use familiar settings, familiar voices, and a common history to tell a funny story.
A great place to start when looking for Canadian humour is the list of the winners for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour which are handed out annually for humourous works by Canadian authors.
The most wicked, yet profound use of humour is by Mordecai Richler in his novel Barney's Version, (c.1997).
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