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Frantic Times (album)
''Frantic Times'' is a Canadian comedy album, performed by The Frantics comedy troupe. The original LP was released in 1984, and was reissued as a CD with additional tracks by Deep Shag Records in 2003. The album is wholly made up of sketches and songs that appeared on their CBC radio show Frantic Times. The skits were recorded in front of a live audience in the Blue Orchid Room at the Ontario College of Art. Personnel * Paul Chato * Rick Green * Dan Redican * Peter Wildman * Carolyn Scott Carolyn Scott is an American art director and set decorator. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''The Madness of King George''. Selected filmography * ''The Madness of King George'' (1994) * ''Back to Scho ... (Special Guest) Track listing #"''Car Noises''" – 3:02 #"''Ed's Perfume''" – 1:18 #"''The Human Race''" – 2:19 #"''Mrs. Sarnicky's Soap''" – 1:16 #"''Heaven Is For Presbyterians''" – 3:57 #"''Butcher's Heart''" – 2:34 #"''Odd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantics (comedy)
The Frantics is a Canadian comedy troupe consisting of Paul Chato, Rick Green, Dan Redican and Peter Wildman. The group formed in 1979. In 1981, they were given a weekly radio slot on the CBC Radio show ''Variety Tonight'', then hosted by Vicki Gabereau. In the summer of 1982 they were the summer replacement for the Royal Canadian Air Farce. They got their own permanent time slot in the fall of 1983. Between 1981 and 1984, their show, ''Frantic Times'', ran for 113 episodes. Each episode regularly featured a female "special guest": in the earlier episodes this was Carolyn Scott, while later it was Mag Ruffman. Sound effects formed an important part of the show and were generally provided by Cathy Perry, longtime CBC sound technician and later a producer at CBC. The album '' Frantic Times'' was released in 1984 and collected the best sketches and songs from the radio show. In 2003, Deep Shag Records reissued the album with a new cover and three previously unreleased selections. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Shag Records
Deep Shag Records is an American record label started in 2000 by Michael Reed. The label is known for the ''On the Road With Ellison'' series of releases by Harlan Ellison and for re-issuing rare 1980's modern rock, New wave music, new wave, comedy, and spoken word albums which were previously unavailable on CD. History The founder of Deep Shag Records, Michael Reed, began the label out of a love of records and frustration that certain titles in his personal collection had not been brought into the digital age. Fearing that the cherished music, comedy, and spoken word releases of his youth would be lost to history, Reed relied upon his 15 years of experience in the music industry to create a new home for these almost forgotten gems. In 2001, Deep Shag was fortunate enough to secure the rights to the rare 1982 spoken word album On the Road with Ellison Volume 1 by noted author and raconteur Harlan Ellison. The release was a great success and Deep Shag was granted access to the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot To The Head
''Boot to the Head'' is a comedy album performed by the Canadian comedy troupe The Frantics. Originally released as an LP in 1987, it was re-issued in 1996 as a CD with the same track listing. The album features a number of skits from their radio show ''Frantic Times'', as well as a few sketches that could not be aired to a general audience. The sketches were recorded over a three-day period in front of a live audience at the Toronto Free Theatre. Personnel * Paul Chato * Rick Green * Dan Redican * Peter Wildman Track listing #"A Piece of Pie" – 4:33 #"I Shot Bambi's Mother" – 1:20 #"Driving Chicks Mad" – 3:23 #"A Poem" – 0:35 #"Game Show, Game Show" – 2:02 #"Bill from Bala" – 4:42 #"A Poem" – 3:11 #"Architecture Today" – 3:11 #"Mrs. G" – 2:24 #"Worshippers 'R' Us" – 4:05 #"You People Are Fat" – 3:32 #"Making Love" – 2:14 #"A Poem" – 1:12 #"Make Up Dirty Words" – 1:58 #"You Scare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate the CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique. (International radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website.) The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario College Of Art
Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD, is a public art university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus is spread throughout several buildings and facilities within downtown Toronto. The university is a co-educational institution which operates three academic faculties, the Faculty of Art, the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Design. The university also provides continuing education services through its School of Continuing Studies. Established in 1876 as the Ontario School of Art by the Ontario Society of Artists, the institution was the first school opened in Canada dedicated to art education. The institution was renamed twice in 1886 and 1890 before it was granted a provincial charter and renamed the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1912. The institution was known as the OCA until 1996 when it was renamed the ''Ontario College of Art and Design''. The institution was granted university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chato
Paul Chato is a Canadian comedian and writer, the president of a web design company, and a former television executive. He was born in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Hungarian parents. Chato grew up in the first planned community in North America, Don Mills. Graduating from Don Mills Collegiate in 1973, he went on to graduate from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Radio Television Arts. From Ryerson, he went on to become an art director with Kelly’s Stereo Mart and from there joined Rick Green to form Green and Chato, a two-man comedy team. In 1979, Green and Chato joined up with Dan Redican and Peter Wildman to form the comedy group The Frantics. From 1989 to 1991, Chato was head of television comedy at CBC Television. Apart from his continued association with The Frantics, Chato is the president of Your Web Department (formerly Electramedia), an international web development company. Chato posts an IT-related comedy tech vlog on YouTube and Odysee LBRY (), is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Green (comedian)
Richard "Rick" Green, BSc (born November 4, 1953) is a Canadian comedy writer, producer, director and performer. He is most well known as co-creator of ''The Red Green Show'', creator of ''ADD & Loving It?!,'' creator of ''History Bites'', founder of ''Rick Wants to Know'', and co-founder of comedy troupe The Frantics (comedy), The Frantics. Green also hosted ''Prisoners of Gravity'' on TVOntario. Profiles Rick holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. His first job was as a demonstrator at the Ontario Science Centre, where he worked as a presenter from 1975 until 1979. In 1979, Green plunged into show business full-time when he helped found the Toronto-based comedy troupe The Frantics (comedy), The Frantics. In 2009 Green wrote and directed a documentary entitled ADD & Loving it!'' The film, featuring fellow comedian Patrick McKenna, won a New York Festivals Silver World Medal for Best Medical Documentary and earned Green the CAMH Foundation Celebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Redican
Dan Redican (born 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and performer and puppeteer, best known for his work with the comedy troupe, '' The Frantics.'' As a founding member of the troupe he has worked since 1979 on numerous stage shows, the ''Frantic Times'' radio show, ''Four on the Floor'' TV show (which aired in England and the US under the name, ''The Frantics''). They also have written and performed many albums which are still available on the website, Frantics.com. Redican started his career as a puppeteer, performing with various partners at birthday parties and church functions, before joining Tom Vandenburg to perform two family shows at The Toronto Centre for the Arts on Dupont Street: The Old Fisherman and A Day At Rotten Cheese Gulch. After this, Redican focussed on solo performances in London, Ontario at Smale's Pace (later renamed the Change of Pace) Redican entered the world of television puppetry on CHCH's ''Adventures of Snelgrove Snail'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wildman
Peter Wildman (born December 29, 1954) is a Canadian actor, voice actor, musician, writer and member of the Frantics comedy troupe. He appeared as Buzz Sherwood on ''The Red Green Show'', and voiced Mojo in '' X-Men: The Animated Series'' and Mr. Fixit in the series ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry''. He was also a writer on ''The Red Green Show'' from 1994 until 1998. On television, Wildman has also appeared on ''Babar'', ''Piggsburg Pigs!'', '' Transformers: Cybertron'', ''Shining Time Station'', ''Peep and the Big Wide World'', ''Puppets Who Kill'', '' The Avengers: United They Stand'', '' Street Legal'', '' Rupert'', ''Four on the Floor'', ''RoboRoach'', ''Undergrads'', '' Wild C.A.T.s'', ''History Bites'', '' Little Bear'', ''Free Willy'', '' Highlander: The Animated Series'', '' Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'', ''Flash Gordon'', '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''Dog City'', ''Cyberchase'', ''Freaky Stories'', ''Tales from the Cryptkeeper'', '' Anatole'', ''Rescue Heroes'', ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Scott
Carolyn Scott is an American art director and set decorator. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''The Madness of King George''. Selected filmography * ''The Madness of King George'' (1994) * ''Back to School with Franklin ''Back to School with Franklin'' is a 2003 Canadian animated comedy film. It is the third '' Franklin'' film and was released direct-to-video and on DVD. This animated film was directed by Arna Selznick. Cole Caplan takes over for Noah Reid as the ...'' (2003) References External links * Living people American art directors American set decorators Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Best Art Direction Academy Award winners {{US-artdirector-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
