Corky and the Juice Pigs was a Canadian comedy musical group made up of Phil Nichol, Greg Neale, and Sean Cullen. Their output consisted mainly of original comedic songs, largely satirical and often parodying various musical styles. Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Seán Cullen Seán Cullen (born 1965 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian who has been active in the comedy world for the past fifteen years. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...

Early History

Corky and the Juice Pigs got their start doing a comedy radio show on the University of Windsor's CJAM campus station. Under the leadership of Joe Costa, the group (Joe, Sean, and Phil) hosted a show called "Last Laughs on Us" (which aired on CJAM between 1984 and 1985). They referred to themselves as "The Little Bits of Gravel". Phil performed under the name Jimmy McWhistle. Sean honed his improv story telling (featured on such songs as "Truckers") skills doing a regular feature called "Epic of the Wedgies". The Wedgies were amorphous little creatures created by a group of capricious gods to be alternatively rewarded and tormented by their creators. The University of Windsor is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational, public comprehensive university located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. ... CJAM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 91. ...

After their stint on college radio, Joe, Sean, and Phil entered a comedy competition hosted by Eugene Levy that was touring Canadian university campuses in the late '80s. They joined the contest under the monikor Corky and the Juice Pigs. Sean claims he wanted to use the Corky and the Juicy Pigs name for a jug band project he was kicking around. Corky and the Juice Pigs did not win but were runners up. Joe Costa left the group early into their career and was replaced by Sean and Phil's University of Windsor drama school mate Greg Neale.

Biography

Skilled improvisers, they are best known in the United States for their performances on MADtv, including their most famous song "Eskimo", more commonly known as "Gay Eskimo", where the lyrics discussed the problems facing the sole homosexual in an isolated environment. The group also parodied specific performers, often by performing their own songs in the style of others (famously their MADtv performance of "Eskimo" ended with versions of the chorus in the styles of The Proclaimers, Bob Dylan, Ric Ocasek from the Cars, Portishead, Oasis, and Van Morrison). MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, Mad. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... The Proclaimers are a scottish band composed of identical twins Charlie and Craig Reid. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ... The Cars were an American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... For the town, see Portishead, Somerset. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...

Other songs dealt variously with the troubles to be faced with a possessed pair of pants ("Curly's Pants"), dating the Devil's daughter ("666-6666") and using your grandma as a skateboard ("Skateboard"). Even being the child of a moderately successful Bearded Lady and impressively unsuccessful Bearded Man were addressed, in the song "Circus Freaks". There was little considered too odd to become subject matter. Satan frozen at the center of Cocytus, the ninth circle of Hell in Dantes Inferno. ...

The group also toured internationally, netting a Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1993. They also attracted a small fan base in Australia thanks to performances at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival towards the end of their career. The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is held each April in a number of venues across Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

The group disbanded in the late 1990s after a career spanning over 11 years.

Members

• Phil Nichol
• Greg Neale
• Sean Cullen

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Albums

• 1993 Corky and the Juice Pigs

1. Pandas
2. Basketball
3. Gameshow
4. 666-6666
5. PSA
6. Doubt
7. Skateboard
8. Eskimo
9. Todd
10. Concierge
11. Psycho
12. Buddhists
13. Truckers
14. Rok Stedy
15. Candy
16. Love Affair
17. Miners
18. When the Moon
19. Captain Greg
20. Suzanne
21. Americans

• 1994 Pants

1. Pants
2. Circus Freaks
3. Rabies
4. Janitor
5. Enviro Girl
6. Dolphin Boy
7. Diet Riot
8. Curly's Pants
9. The Church
10. Christmas Dreams
11. Picnic Party
12. French Cowboys
13. BVG
14. Hot Squat Hombre
15. REMember

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Filmography

1996 - A Little Off the Top 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Trivia

While the concept of a gay Eskimo seems absurd and comical to the average non-native Westerner, there is in fact a tradition of Two-Spirit people in North American native culture. Berdache (from French, from Arabic bardajo meaning kept boy) is a generic term used by some for a third gender (woman-living-man) among many, if not most, Native American tribes. ...

The Juice Pigs filmed a music video for "REMember", parodying REM's "Losing My Religion" video in 1994. The video is very rare and is not shown very often, but every once in a while gets airplay on MuchMusic and The Comedy Network in Canada (usually during comedic video programming or "Canadian Comedy Shorts").

External links

• IMDb Entry for A Little Off The Top
• The most recent site devoted to Corky and the Juice Pigs (2004)