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Jackie Pirico
Jackie Pirico is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Her comedy album ''Splash Pad'' received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023. She has also had acting roles in the comedy-drama film '' Sundowners'', the web series ''True Dating Stories'' and the television series ''Children Ruin Everything'', and appeared in two episodes in the second season of ''Roast Battle Canada ''Roast Battle Canada'' is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered on CTV Comedy Channel in October 2021. An adaptation of the American series '' Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'', the series presents battles in which pairs of comedi ...'' against Daniel Woodrow and Nick Nemeroff. She was featured in a third-season episode of '' The New Wave of Standup''."TV & Film News – Can ...
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Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ...
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Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. The Juno Awards are often referred to as the Canadian equivalent of the Brit Awards in the United Kingdom or the Grammy Awards given in the United States. Members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), or a panel of experts, depending on the award, choose the award winners. However, sales figures are the sole basis for determining the winners of nine of the forty-two categories like Album of the Year or Artist of the Year. CARAS members determine the nominees for Single of the Year, Artist and Group of the Year. A judge vote by experts in the relevant genre, determines the nominees for the remaining categories. The names of the judges remain confidential. Th ...
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Juno Award For Comedy Album Of The Year
The Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year is awarded as recognition for the best Canadian comedy album released in the previous year. Irregularly presented from 1979 to 1984, the award was then discontinued until the Juno Awards announced in 2017 that they would revive the category for the Juno Awards of 2018."The JUNO Awards Bring Back Comedy Album of the Year!"
, August 30, 2017.


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Juno Awards Of 2023
The Juno Awards of 2023 was a music awards ceremony that was held on March 13, 2023 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta."Actor Simu Liu to host 2023 Juno Awards in Edmonton"
, December 1, 2022.
It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year determined by the members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Canadian actor



CBC Music
CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a new " adult music" format with a variety of genres, with the classical genre generally restricted to midday hours. In 2009, Radio 2 averaged 2.1 million listeners weekly, and it was the second-largest radio network in Canada. History The CBC's FM network was launched in 1946, but was strictly a simulcast of the AM radio network until 1960. In that year, distinct programming on the FM network began. It was briefly discontinued in 1962, but resumed again in 1964. In November 1971, the CBC filed license applications for new FM stations in English in St. John's, Halifax, and Calgary, and in French in Quebec City, Ottawa, and Chicoutimi, telling the CRTC that it intended to start a second "more extended and more leisurely" program servic ...
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Sundowners (2017 Film)
''Sundowners'' is a 2017 Canadian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Pavan Moondi.Norman Wilner"Sundowners serves up low-key pleasures" ''Now'', August 24, 2017. The film stars Phil Hanley as Alex, an aspiring filmmaker who is stuck working as a wedding videographer for unscrupulous boss Tom (Tim Heidecker). Assigned to shoot a destination wedding in Mexico, he enlists his friend Justin ( Luke Lalonde) to come along as his assistant only for an endless series of mishaps and snafus to bedevil the proceedings, including Justin's ex-girlfriend ( Leah Fay Goldstein) showing up to demand that he pay for the abortion she just had without telling him; groom Mike's (Nick Flanagan) fear that his fiancée Jenny (Cara Gee) will leave him when she finds out he recently declared bankruptcy; and best man Nick (Nicholas Thorburn) planning to break up the wedding because he's in love with Jenny.Frank Scheck"‘Sundowners’: Film Review" ''The Hollywood Reporter'', December 15, 2017. The ...
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Children Ruin Everything
''Children Ruin Everything'' is a Canadian sitcom television series, that premiered on CTV on January 12, 2022. Created by Kurt Smeaton for CTV and Roku and co-produced by New Metric Media and Bell Media Studios, the series focuses on Astrid (Meaghan Rath) and James (Aaron Abrams), a young couple struggling to define their lives outside of their role as parents. Smeaton described the series as inspired by his understanding that parenting "is time-consuming and expensive and frustrating. So I wanted to create a show that acknowledged that but also showed the other side, which is having a family is worth it." Cast and characters * Meaghan Rath as Astrid, a mother of three * Aaron Abrams as James, Astrid's husband, a father of three * Ennis Esmer as Ennis, James's best friend and co-worker * Nazneen Contractor as Dawn, Astrid's sister * Logan Nicholson as Felix, Astrid and James's seven-year-old (eight-year-old) son * Mikayla SwamiNathan as Viv, Astrid and James's four-year-old d ...
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Roast Battle Canada
''Roast Battle Canada'' is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered on CTV Comedy Channel in October 2021. An adaptation of the American series ''Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle'', the series presents battles in which pairs of comedians take turns roasting each other on stage, before a panel of judges who decide the winner of each battle. The judges for the series are Russell Peters, Sabrina Jalees and K. Trevor Wilson, with Ennis Esmer serving as host of the series. The first episode, featuring comedians Daniel Woodrow, Keith Pedro, Brittany Lyseng and Mike Rita, received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for best performance in a variety or sketch comedy program or series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.Brent Furdyk"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack" ''ET Canada'', February 15, 2022. The second season premiere, featuring Salma Hindy, Sophie Buddle, Jean Paul and Ron Josol, was nominated in t ...
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Daniel Woodrow
Daniel Woodrow is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted as part of the ensemble that received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards, for the debut episode of ''Roast Battle Canada''. He has been an organizer of the Underground Comedy Railroad, an all-Black Canadian comedy tour which takes place each year during Black History Month. In 2021, with the tour unable to take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, he created the Unknown Comedy Club, an online streaming platform for comedy performances."The Unknown Comedy Club streaming new shows weekly"
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Nick Nemeroff
Nick Nemeroff (December 28, 1989 – June 27, 2022) was a Canadian stand-up comedian. He was most noted for his 2020 comedy album ''The Pursuit of Comedy Has Ruined My Life'', which was a Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. Career Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Nemeroff appeared on '' Conan'' and on The Comedy Network's 2018 ''Homegrown Comics'' special, and has performed at Just for Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Halifax Comedy Festival. He was a Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Breakout Artist at the 18th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2018. In 2022, he appeared in the CBC Gem web series '' The New Wave of Standup'', and in two episodes of ''Roast Battle Canada''. On June 27, 2022, Nemeroff died at the age of 32. The news, which was confirmed by his family and management company in statements posted to social media, did not detail his cause of death, but his manager, Morgan Flood, indicated in a text message ...
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The New Wave Of Standup
''The New Wave of Standup'' is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Gem.Tom Zillich"‘That night was so much fun’: Surrey-raised comedian in ‘New Wave of Standup’ series" ''Surrey Now-Leader'', July 8, 2020. The series features performance sets by 12 emerging Canadian comedians, recorded at the Vancouver edition of the Just for Laughs festival in February 2020. Performers in the first season were Cassie Cao, Jacob Samuel, Al Val, Yumi Nagashima, Aaron Read, Salma Hindy, Kyle Brownrigg, Paul Rabliauskas, Brittany Lyseng, Ola Dada, Matty Vu and Brett Forte. A second season was released in 2022, featuring performances by Andrea Jin, Hisham Kelati, Allie Pearse, Nick Nemeroff, Abdul Aziz, Tin Lorica, Juliana Rodrigues, Maddy Kelly, Hoodo Hirsi, Steev Letts, Janelle Niles, Ajahnis Charley and Marito Lopez. A third season, released in 2023, features Malik Elassal, Courtney Gilmour, Travis Lindsay, Heidi Brander, Seán Devlin, Rachel Schaefer, Dino Arc ...
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21st-century Canadian Comedians
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