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Encyclopedia > Elvira Kurt
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Elvira Kurt is a Canadian comedian and the host of the entertainment satire/talk show PopCultured with Elvira Kurt on the Comedy Network in Canada. The show began in 2005, and was canceled early 2006. She is of Jewish Hungarian descent. Openly lesbian, she coined the popular term "fellagirly" to describe herself and other queer females whose style is a blend of butch and femme, as opposed to strictly one or the other. A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... PopCultured is a Canadian television program that is broadcast on The Comedy Network. ... Comedy Network is a Canadian specialty channel with comedy programming. ... A lesbian is a female who is exclusively emotionally, sexually, and romantically attracted to other females. ... Butch is a common nickname, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries for boys. ... Butch and femme are terms often used in the lesbian and gay subcultures to describe a persons approximate adherence of traditional masculine and feminine gender roles respectively, within a same-sex relationship, or to describe an individual generally. ...


Popcultured with Elvira Kurt was considered a brazen rip-off of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart by almost everyone who saw it. It featured a supporting cast of well-connected but untested amateur Toronto comics, thought by most critics to be too young to either understand or write political satire or humourous commentary. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart on the set of The Daily Show The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, also known as TDS to fans and staffers) is a half-hour satirical fake news program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in...


The show became the opposite of what it promised, as it promoted several shows on its host corporation's channels, CTV and the Comedy Network, in Canada. CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... The Comedy Network (colloquially often just Comedy) is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with comedy programming. ...


It is widely regarded by most critics as being almost the worst television show ever produced in Canada, not far behind The Trouble with Tracy, Bruno Gerussi's Celebrity Cooks, and Danger Bay. The Trouble with Tracy was a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1971–1972 television season. ... Bruno Gerussi (1928 - November 21, 1995) was a Canadian television actor born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, best known for the CBC series The Beachcombers, shot in and around Gibsons, British Columbia from 1972 to 1989. ... Celebrity Cooks was a Canadian cooking show produced by the CBC in the late 1970s starring Bruno Gerussi who introduced various celebrities who chatted with Gerussi and prepared dishes for the audience. ... Danger Bay was a television series filmed in British Columbia, Canada that ran on the CBC & Disney Channel from 1985-1990. ...


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chrominance » The Elvira Kurt Hate Club (375 words)
As if that premise weren’t bad enough, it’s hosted by Elvira Kurt, a woman whose every joke is like a punch in the neck.
I agree that Elvira is not funny.I recently saw her at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Not only was she not funny, but she screwed up three times and they had to re-take each screw up because it was in front of a live audience.
Eye Weekly - COMEDY: Elvira Kurt is out there - 01.28.93 (683 words)
Kurt was living with another Yuk Yuk's comedian, and every night her friend would pretend to offer Kurt "a drive home." "I started out thinking that there wasn't a difference," Kurt says.
Kurt now realizes that censoring her sexual preference meant censoring large segments of her life -- parents, for example -- making it impossible to be autobiographical.
Kurt still has to eat, however, and that means taking gigs in towns like Belleville, where she played last week.
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