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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. , August 30, 2017. Winners and nominees References {{DEFAULTSORT:Juno Award For Comedy Album Of The Year |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Kohler
Rebecca Kohler is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose comedy album ''In Living Kohler'' received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Kohler was a competitor in SiriusXM Canada's Top Comics competition in 2015. '''', July 19, 2015. In addition to her performing career, she has been a television writer for shows such as '''', '' |
Charlie Demers
Charles Demers (; born 1980), sometimes credited as Charlie Demers, is a Canadian comedian, political activist, voice actor, and writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but self-identifies as Quebecois. Writing Demers has published four books: two novels and two collections of essays. His first essay collection, ''Vancouver Special'', was nominated for a Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. He has also co-written two further books. Stand-up comedy and voice acting He frequently performs stand-up comedy at live venues across Canada and on CBC Radio One, where he often appears on the comedy panel show ''The Debaters''. Demers was one of the hosts of the CityNews show ''The List''. Demers has provided voices for several episodes of CBC Radio show and podcast ''This Is That''. He is the voice of Walter from the 2016 Netflix original series ''Beat Bugs''. Demers also voices Night Light in the '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' season seven episode "Once Upon a Zeppel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Decker
Ivan Welles Decker (born November 8, 1985) is a Canadian comedian. He won the 2018 Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year for his album ''I Wanted to Be a Dinosaur''."Early Junos Go to Gord Downie, Grimes, Alvvays and More" '''', March 24, 2018. He has performed stand-up comedy across North America and on the program '''', the Winnipeg and Halifax Comedy festivals for |
Air Farce Live (album)
''Royal Canadian Air Farce'' (broadcast as ''Air Farce Live'' during 2007, and ''Air Farce—Final Flight!'' in 2008), and often credited simply as ''Air Farce'', was a Canadian sketch comedy series starring the comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, that previously starred in an eponymous show on CBC Radio, from 1973 to 1997. The top-rated television show was broadcast on CBC Television, beginning in 1993 and ending in December 2008. The ''Air Farce Live'' name was adopted in October 2007. For the show's final season which began October 3, 2008, the series was renamed ''Air Farce—Final Flight!''. The show was a weekly topical sketch comedy series focusing on political and cultural satire and was one of the most popular Canadian television shows. It was initially aired as a radio series beginning in 1973, and on radio, ''Air Farce'' continued for 24 seasons through 1997. In terms of the troupe's TV career, the first Air Farce TV special aired in 1980. A short-lived ''Air Farce'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacLean & MacLean
MacLean & MacLean were a Canadian musical comedy duo. They performed regularly in Canada between 1972 and 1998 and recorded seven albums. The duo consisted of brothers Gary MacLean (1944–2001) and Blair MacLean (1942–2008). The MacLeans were originally from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but were later based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. MacLean & MacLean were best known for their often scatological humour, which was combined with (usually humorous) renditions of folk and popular songs, with Blair playing guitar and Gary playing banjo and bongo drums. The duo began performing in 1972 and during their career played the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, the 1983 Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1974 the pair were asked to leave a tour because of the offensive content of their show. Recordings An early mention of the group appears in the spoken introduction to "Glace Bay Blues" by Donnie McDougall of The Guess Who on their 1972 album, ''Live at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Brew (soundtrack)
''Strange Brew'' is the soundtrack album to the 1983 cult comedy film, ''Strange Brew''. It was released in August 1983 by PolyGram and Anthem Records of Canada (ANR 1-1042). (Full title: ''The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie Strange Brew Excerpts from the Original Soundtrack''). Unlike most soundtrack tie-ins, the album features continuing comedy sketches by the title duo, Bob and Doug McKenzie. Most of the album is sketches and film dialogue, while the music sampling is usually accompanied by the characters' commentary. The main title theme was performed by Thomas' brother, Ian Thomas. The album was produced by Marc Giacomelli, Rick Shurman and Ian Thomas. The album was only available for a short amount of time and currently remains out of print. This is the second and final album released by the duo. Awards The soundtrack won the Juno Award for Best Comedy Album in 1984. Bob and Doug accepted the award in person at the awards ceremony, held 5 December 1984, which also hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Awards Of 1984
The Juno Awards of 1984, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 5 December 1984 in Toronto at a ceremony hosted by Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin of '' SCTV'' at Exhibition Place Automotive Building.Krewen (2010), p. 54. The ceremonies were broadcast on CBC Television from 8pm Eastern Time. 1984 was a pioneering year for music video in Canada as MuchMusic began broadcasting in September, and a new Juno award for " Best Video" was presented for the first time. As it had been 20 months since the last Juno show, a number of new artist nominees debuted this year including Corey Hart, Honeymoon Suite, Platinum Blonde, The Parachute Club and Zappacosta. The Juno Award itself was revised from 18-inches high to a 15-inch statuette, retaining the metronome shape. Awards ceremony In October 1983, Juno organizers CARAS decided to move the awards date later in the year, tentatively to 3 December 1984 at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Onta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Woloshyn
Ted Woloshyn (born December 1953) is a Toronto broadcaster. He hosted ''The Ted Woloshyn Show'', mornings from 5:30 to 8:30 on CFRB-AM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 3 November 1996 until 15 December 2006. He hosted ''Saturdays with Ted'' from 12 to 3pm on Newstalk1010 from 2010 until 2021. He previously worked for Toronto area stations CFNY-FM, CILQ-FM and CKFM-FM. Woloshyn currently lives in Mississauga, Ontario. Woloshyn started his radio career in 1974 at CHIC in Brampton. He moved on to work in Peterborough, Montreal, Hamilton, and finally Toronto. He hosted various shows on CBC Television's Toronto affiliate CBLT in the 1980s including ''Off the Wol'', and ''It's Only Rock'n Roll'' and also contributed to CBLT's local news program. He was also a contributor to ''Midday'' and '' The Journal'' on the full CBC network and to Global News on the Global Television Network. In 1981, Woloshyn released the comedy album ''It's Not the Heat...It's the Humility''. The following year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stark (actor)
John Starcevic, known by the stage name John Stark, is a Canadian stage actor and producer most noted for his long-running one-man show which he performed in character as writer Stephen Leacock. Originally from Rossland, British Columbia, he is an alumnus of Simon Fraser University,Rod Currie, "Leacock heads to Edinburgh". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 28, 1981. He began performing as Leacock in the 1970s, and toured the show extensively throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom."Stark is successful". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 22, 1980. His show was also filmed for broadcast by CBC Television and PBS; his performance at the National Arts Centre was recorded for release on Tapestry Records in 1981, and received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1982. In the 1980s, Stark moved into film production, trying for over ten years to produce a historical drama film about the Doukhobors. His other film projects included a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Harron
Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music series ''Hee Haw'', on which he played his signature character of Charlie Farquharson. Early life Harron's parents owned and operated Harron's Cleaners and Dryers in Toronto. Beginning at the age of ten, he earned extra money for the family during the Great Depression, doing "chalk talks" telling humorous stories while drawing caricatures in coloured chalk at company or club banquets, making $10 or $15 a talk. As a result of his performances, he was invited to audition for, and won, a part in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission radio series ''Lonesome Trail'' in 1935. As a teenager, Harron spent time working as a farm hand in rural Ontario; experience he later credited for the development of his Charlie Farquharson cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
