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The New Wave of Standup is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Gem. [1] The series features performance sets by 12 emerging Canadian comedians, recorded at the Vancouver edition of the Just for Laughs festival in February 2020.
This Is That was a news satire program broadcast on CBC Radio, which aired comedic news stories presented in the style of a real CBC Radio public affairs program. [1]The program began as a summer replacement in 2010, [1] returned in the summer of 2011, and was added to the regular schedule in the fall of 2011. [2]
In 1978 at the age of 24, MacDonald began to frequent clubs where he could try his own kind of stand-up comedy. [1] He moved to Toronto, where he began to perform throughout the city on a regular basis. [1] As his reputation grew, job offers did as well. MacDonald quit his day job so he could make comedy his sole living. He began to perform ...
Because News is a Canadian radio and television program, which airs weekly on CBC Radio One. [1] Hosted by comedian Gavin Crawford , the program is a panel show , on which three celebrity panellists, often but not always stand-up comedians , compete to answer questions about current news stories. [ 1 ]
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (commonly shortened to 22 Minutes since 2009) is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television.Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics with a combination of news parody, sketch comedy, and satirical editorials.
Rick Mercer Report (also called the Mercer Report or RMR) is a Canadian television comedy series which aired on CBC Television from 2004 to 2018. Launched as Rick Mercer's Monday Report, or simply Monday Report, by comedian Rick Mercer, the weekly half-hour show combined news parody, sketch comedy, visits to interesting places across Canada, and satirical editorials, often involving Canadian ...
The show's cast also included Keith Cole and Adamo Ruggiero. [5] In 2014, he starred in Maureen Bradley's film Two 4 One as Adam, a trans man who winds up unexpectedly pregnant, [6] and in the sitcom 24 Hour Rental as J.R. Beginning in 2015, he is the host of the comedy news quiz series Because News on CBC Radio One. [7]
On April 1, 2008, the CBC and Air Farce jointly announced that the Royal Canadian Air Farce would wrap up its weekly television show in the 2008/2009 season. The plan as announced was for nine new Air Farce shows to be produced for the fall of 2008, and then the series would end with a New Year's Eve special at the end of 2008. [12] [13]