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Offline Pinus or Vid or...?????

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Great Canadian Comedy Shows.
« on: May 28, 2019, 02:27:15 am »
My favorite:

SCTV.  It ran from 1976-84.  I was too young to appreciate the humor during the initial run, but would always watch the reruns in the late 80s/early 90s.  One of the most underrated comedy shows ever.
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2019, 05:50:45 am »
My favorite:

SCTV.  It ran from 1976-84.  I was too young to appreciate the humor during the initial run, but would always watch the reruns in the late 80s/early 90s.  One of the most underrated comedy shows ever.

Well, ok but it's not exactly unknown.  The stars went on to great careers.

I would say SNL is Canadian because the entire concept and execution is done by a Canadian - modelled against a CBC show he had "The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hart_and_Lorne_Terrific_Hour

Kids in the Hall - if you don't know this then do.

Baroness Von Sketch - a new one that shows much promise

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Leaving out stand-up and sitcoms here but the going theory is that Canadians are the perennial outsiders - forced to watch the big show - and therefore excel at commentary.  This is seen in academic theory (McLuhan) Journalism (anchor Peter Jennings & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_expatriate_journalists_in_the_United_States ) Comedic observation (Sketch and Stand-up)

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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2019, 06:09:05 am »

Kids in the Hall - if you don't know this then do.


Not sure why, but I never fully appreciated Kids in the Hall. It came out when I was in Jr High, and ended in my high school years. It had it's moments though.  The show "Codco" came on before it for a few years, and that show left me howling with laughter sometimes.  It was a Newfoundland production, and I really got into the off the wall humor.  I remember reading that at it's peak, one of the actors that wrote all the skits, quit when CBC refused to air a skit about three priests discussing their sexuality, probably because it was a year after the Mt Cashel Catholic Church scandal. Ironically, CBC would run the skit unedited a couple of years later:



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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2019, 06:30:57 am »
Codco - I forgot how great that was.  They did a famous banned episode that eventually aired where priests just walked around and quietly boasted to each other of their buggery of altar boys.  Dark humour.

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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2019, 06:31:33 am »
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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2019, 09:48:31 am »


Kids in the Hall - if you don't know this then do.



Kids in The Hall is classic.  :)




I have a freind, an American, in California who thinks Eugene Levy is comedic genius because of SCTV.   :D
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« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2019, 08:44:10 am »
Letterkenny Season 7 dropped.

These are people I grew up with....

LOVE the show

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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2019, 08:55:16 am »
I don't know of any Canadian comedy shows, but I do binge Murdoch Mysteries, as they have it on Comcast (xFinity on demand). Though a drama, it has its funny moments. And I understand John Harris (right?) who play Constable Crabtree was a stand-up comedian or something like that.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2019, 09:25:48 am »
I had no idea that they export that.