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The Debaters
''The Debaters'' is a Canadian radio comedy show hosted by Steve Patterson. It airs on CBC Radio One, Saturdays at 1:30PM and Wednesdays at 11:30AM, Eastern Time. During each episode, two debates take place between two sets of two contestants. The topics are deliberately comedic, including "Apples are better than oranges" and "Darth Vader was a bad father". The winner is chosen by audience reaction at the end of the debate. Each season has approximately 33 new episodes. These are recorded in front of live audiences in studios, theatres and clubs across Canada. In 2011, the radio series also taped a number of episodes for broadcast as a television series on CBC Television, but did not get a second season. History The show was created by Richard Side and was first broadcast in September 2006, replacing the long-running comedy show ''Madly Off in All Directions''. It was produced by Side, along with Phillip Ditchburn and Anna Bonokoski. Whereas the first season was entirely host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Gould Studio
The Canadian Broadcasting Centre, also known as the CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre, is an office and studio complex located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It serves as the main broadcast and master control point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English-language television and radio services. It also contains studios for local and regional French-language productions and is the headquarters of the North American Broadcasters Association. The analogous facility for CBC's French language services is Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, while corporate headquarters are located at the CBC Ottawa Production Centre. The Canadian Broadcasting Centre is at 250 Front Street West in downtown Toronto, with additional entrances at 205 Wellington Street West and 25 John Street, directly across from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It is within walking distance of Union Station, the Rogers Centre, and the CN Tower and connected to the city's PATH underground walkway network. History T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Kurt
Elvira Kurt (born December 9, 1961) is a Canadian comedian, and was the host of the game show '' Spin Off''. She hosted the entertainment satire/talk show '' PopCultured with Elvira Kurt'', which began on The Comedy Network in Canada in 2005. That show's style was similar to ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. It was cancelled due to poor ratings in early 2006. She is of Jewish Hungarian descent. Openly lesbian, she coined the term "fellagirly" to describe herself and other lesbians whose style is a blend of butch and femme, as opposed to strictly one or the other. Her comedic style relies heavily on complaints about celebrity culture, her own appearance, and the effects of aging. Kurt was the first out LGBT comedian to perform on national Canadian television, with her performance on CBC talk show ''Friday Night! With Ralph Benmergui'' in 1993. She performed at the inaugural ''We're Funny That Way!'' comedy festival in 1997, and appeared in the festival's documentary film i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Proops
Gregory Everett "Greg" Proops (born October 3, 1959) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his guest appearances on the U.K. and U.S. versions of ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. He has also voiced the titular character on the U.S. version of ''Bob the Builder''. Early life Proops was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco, attending San Carlos High School. He attended the College of San Mateo and spearheaded the comedy duo "Proops & Brakeman". Later, he took courses in improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University, though he never finished college. Career Improv comedy After college, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane. Both Proops and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. He frequently instigated jokes concerning various idiosyncrasies and differences between British English a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darcy Michael
Darcy Michael is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his stand up comedy, his viral tiktok accoun@thedarcymichaeland his role in the Canadian television sitcom ''Spun Out''."Comedian Darcy Michael stays down to earth" '''', September 15, 2014. Career Nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award in 2010 for his appearance at the |
Mark Meer
Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is known for his role in the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the player character, Commander Shepard. His voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp., notably the ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Dragon Age'' series. Meer stars as the voice of the player character William Mackenzie in ''The Long Dark'' from Hinterland Studio. He also works in animation, providing the voice for several characters in a series of cartoon shorts produced by Rantdog Animation Studios, and the voice of Horse in the Captain Canuck web series starring Kris Holden-Ried and Tatiana Maslany. Career Meer starred as the male voice of the main player character, Commander Shepard, in the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy. His voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp., notably the ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Dragon Age'' series. Meer starred as the voice of the player characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Maron
Marcus David Maron (born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, and musician. In the 1990s and 2000s, Maron was a frequent guest on the '' Late Show with David Letterman'' and has appeared more than forty times on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', more than any other stand-up comedian. He hosted ''Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater'' from 1993 to 1994, replacing Jon Stewart. He was also a regular guest on ''Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn'' and hosted the short-lived 2002 American version of the British game show ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' on VH1. He was a regular on the left-wing radio network Air America from 2004 to 2009, hosting '' The Marc Maron Show'' and co-hosting '' Morning Sedition'' and '' Breakroom Live''. In September 2009, soon after ''Breakroom Live'' was cancelled Maron began hosting the twice-weekly podcast ''WTF with Marc Maron'', where he interviews comedians, authors, musicians, and celebrities in his gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Ledwell
Patrick Ledwell is a Canadian stand-up comedian, best known as a frequent guest on the CBC Radio comedy series ''The Debaters''. The brother of musician and artist Daniel Ledwell, he is from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In 2012 Ledwell published the humour book ''I Am an Islander'', which was illustrated by Daniel.Sue Carter"PEI comedian Patrick Ledwell turns to the crowds to support his first book" ''Quill & Quire'', January 5, 2012. Some copies of the book were sold with a bonus DVD of ''Think Like a Fish'', an animated film on which Patrick and Daniel also collaborated. In 2016, he published the sequel book ''An Islander Strikes Back''. In 2017 he played John A. Macdonald in Jonathan Torrens's Canada Day comedy special ''Your Special Canada''. Ledwell also regularly performs with musician Mark Haines as part of the Island Summer Review, a music and storytelling show. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, he was one of the guest readers in The East Pointers' l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler (born October 16, 1956) is an American comedian and actor from Queens, New York. He played the character "Andy", a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', was a regular guest on '' Late Show with David Letterman'', contributor to ''The Daily Show'', and has performed on HBO. Kindler frequently performs as a voice actor in animated television series from producer Loren Bouchard, including roles on '' Dr. Katz'', '' Home Movies'', and the recurring character of Mort the mortician on ''Bob's Burgers''. Early life and education Kindler was born and raised in Queens, New York. He attended Binghamton University, and originally intended on becoming a classical musician. While in college, Kindler performed in theatre productions. After graduating, Kindler moved to Los Angeles. He began performing stand-up in 1984. Kindler is Jewish. His mother and sister died within weeks of each another someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Kimmett
Deborah Kimmett is a Canadian writer and comedian. Biography Originally from Napanee, Ontario, she was a member of The Second City's Toronto cast in the 1980s, and appeared as a stage actress in productions of Norm Foster's ''Windfall'', Lawrence Jeffery's ''Precipice'' and Don Ferguson's ''Skin Deep''. She later wrote several plays, including ''Broken Record'', ''Last Respects'' and ''Miracle Mother'', and one-woman shows including ''Dorothy Lawton: Unplugged'', ''Overboard'' and ''North of Normal''. ''Miracle Mother'' was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 1995 Governor General's Awards. Kimmett has also published the humor books ''Reality Is Overrated'' and ''That Which Doesn't Kill You Makes You Funnier''"The early bird gets the worm, but a human up at 4 a.m. isn't as useful". ''National Post'', January 20, 2012. and the novel ''Outrunning Crazy'', and is an online author of the Seven Minute Writer Tool Kit. She holds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Jones (actor)
Gary Jones (born 4 January 1958) is a British-born Canadian actor, who has worked on television and on stage both in his native United Kingdom and Canada. He is known for his recurring role as CM Sgt. Walter Harriman in ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''Stargate Atlantis''. He has also made guest appearances on such shows as '' Sliders'', ''Cold Squad'', '' The Outer Limits'', '' Andromeda'' and '' Dead Like Me''. Gary Jones was a member of the improv group "Mission Improvable", which had a CBC comedy special, before his role on ''Stargate SG-1''. He joined Toronto's Second City Improv Company in the mid-1980s. In 1986, with Second City he went to Vancouver for Expo 86, where they performed for six months at the Expo's Flying Club. After the Expo was finished, Jones stayed in Vancouver, and started his acting career with guest appearances in TV shows such as ''Wiseguy'', ''Airwolf'' and ''Dangerbay''. He was also a player of thVancouver TheatreSports League Gary Jones is known not on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles 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 Zepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Boothby
Ian Boothby (born June 8, 1967) is a multiple Shuster Award, Harvey Award and Eisner Award nominee and an Eisner Award–winning comic book creator best known for his work as the lead writer on '' Simpsons Comics'' and ''Futurama Comics'' for Matt Groening's Bongo Comics. Boothby has written more ''Simpsons Comics'' issues than any other writer. He is a regular writer for ''MAD Magazine''. He has also worked on various Canadian television series and is a well known stand-up, sketch and improv comedian working in the Vancouver area. He co-created Free Willie Shakespeare for the Vancouver Theatresports League which won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Excellence in Interactive Theatre. A writer for multiple television series including CBC's '' Switchback'', '' Street Cents'', "Big Sound" and ''Popular Mechanics for Kids''. He is the co-writer of the DVD film ''Casper's Haunted Christmas'' and screenwriter of the Cartoon Network special '' Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
