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The Irrelevant Show
''The Irrelevant Show'' was a half-hour radio sketch comedy show that aired on CBC Radio One. Broadcast history The show was launched in 2003, initially on Saturday afternoons during the third hour of ''Definitely Not the Opera'' (''DNTO''). Early in 2004 it was given its own slot on late Saturday mornings for a short series of nine shows, and in 2005 it returned as a recurring show broadcast as part of ''DNTO''. A further series was broadcast in the summer of 2008 on Friday nights and Saturday mornings. ''An Irrelevant New Year's'' was broadcast as a special show on December 31, 2008, featuring sketches that were not aired the previous summer. A second New Year's Eve show aired on December 31, 2009. Further series were broadcast between 2010 and 2017. It was announced in October 2017 that CBC Radio would not renew the program. Description Each episode of ''The Irrelevant Show'' consists of a series of comedy sketches. Sketches typically comment on popular culture, such as Bion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is used widely in variety shows, comedy talk shows, and some sitcoms and children's television series. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their work from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation. definition 3b, Merriam-Webster online. Retrieved 5/4/2019 History Sketch comedy has its origins in |
Ben Sures
Ben Sures (born December 29, 1967) is a Canadian roots musician who was a contributor to CBC Radio's ''The Irrelevant Show''. He is the son of Order of Canada-winning ceramic artist Jack Sures and painter and illustrator Deborah Uman-Sures. A mostly-self-taught musician, Sures discovered the music of Robert Johnson at age 15 and devoted himself to the study of blues and roots. He spent close to a decade as an itinerant street musician and more than 20 years touring the Canadian coffee house and festival circuit both as a solo headliner and as a sideman for blues musicians such as Harp Dog Brown, Rita Chiarelli and Paul Reddick. During that time, he developed a distinctive, quirky songwriting style marked by plain-spoken lyrics that often express unique takes on unusual topics. He won the folk category of the 2005 John Lennon Song Competition with "Any Precious Girl'', a compassionate-yet-unpatronizing song about a young woman with bipolar disorder. His album, ''Gone to Bolivia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Radio Programme Debuts
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Radio Sketch Shows
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 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 immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger 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 identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Randall
Jan Randall is a Canadian composer, singer songwriter and professional musician. He has had an extensive career composing sound tracks, performing original songs, and improvising music for comedy theatre. He currently plays regularly with his band Rhythm Train and teaches music history at the University of Victoria, He also releases original classical piano sheet music through his publishing company Vista Heights Music Singer Songwriter Jan's first solo concert was at Giuseppi's Pizza in January of 1972 at the age of 19 in Edmonton, Alberta. Posters of many concerts he gave at folk clubs like the Hovel, Barricade Coffee House, Room at the Top are available to view online at the Edmonton Public library archive. Across Canada, he performed at the Regina Folk Festivalin 1976 and around Toronto and Montreal after joining Second City Theatre in the early 1980's. In 1981 he joined the funk band Etcetera in Tampa Florida after meeting the guitarist Michael Marth who was playing a Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobster Telephone
''Lobster Telephone'' (also known as ''Aphrodisiac Telephone'') is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book ''The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí'', Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.Dalí, S. & Chevalier, H. (1993). ''The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí''. Dover Publications: New York. Description The work is a composite of an ordinary working telephone and a lobster made of plaster. It is approximately 15 × 30 × 17 cm (6 × 12 × 6.6 inches) in size. This is a classic example of a Surrealist object, made from the conjunction of items not normally associated with each other, resulting in something both playful and menacing. Dalí believed that such objects could reveal the secret desires of the unconscious. Lobsters and telephones had str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostly Water Theatre
Mostly Water Theatre is an Edmonton-based Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 2005, consisting of comedians Craig Buchert, Elizabeth Ludwig, Jason Ludwig, Matt Stanton, Sam Varteniuk, and Trent Wilkie. The group has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award. History Before the troupe formed, Craig Buchert and Matt Stanton were working together doing shows at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, performing in a company called Soiled Sheets Productions. Meanwhile, Sam Varteniuk and Trent Wilkie were performing around Edmonton (along with Elizabeth Ludwig, Corey Taylor and Amy Neufeld) as Mostly Water Theatre (MWT). In 2005, the two pairs met in Edmonton, as suggested by Elizabeth Ludwig, and began performing regularly as MWT along with Jason Ludwig, who shoots and edits all the digital shorts. Since then, they have produced several original sketch shows and three plays: "I’m Sticking with Kiefer", "15 Minutes", and "Gargamel". "Kiefer" and sketch show "1UP" were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Watts (comedian)
Matt Watts (born May 31, 1975) is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer, best known for his work on Ken Finkleman's '' The Newsroom''. He was a writer, executive producer and the star of the Canadian television sitcom '' Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays'', which debuted on CBC Television in September 2011."Camelot & cover songs: Inside CBC’s new fall lineup" . '''', June 8, 2011. Watts worked for , writing and performing in the dramas '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Westerholm
George Westerholm is a Canadian musician, singer, comedian and writer. He has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for his work as a writer on ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' and ''The Toronto Show''. Comedy In the 1980s and early 1990s, Westerholm was part of the comedy duo Al & George with Al Rae."Take one funny guy, add a guitar, stir and..." ''Winnipeg Free Press'', March 30, 2007. Following their breakup, he turned his attention primarily to music and writing rather than standup comedy performance. Musical career Westerholm was part of a Toronto trio called Sinphonic in the mid-1990s, which released two cassettes and two CDs. He performed on both vocals and guitars, along with John Bowker (vocals, bass) and Dino Naccarato (drums). The group was "called everything from punk/surf to 'suave-garage', with influences from the style of Red Snapper (band), Red Snapper to the recklessness of Link Wray." Westerholm has also released a self-titled 6-track EP which includes his best-known so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Pederson
Ronald Pederson (born January 8, 1978) is a Canadian ( Métis) actor, comedian and theatre director who has worked extensively throughout Canada and in the United States. He has performed with most of Canada's major theatres including The Stratford Festival, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Arts Club, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Young Centre, The Canadian Stage Company, The Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Soulpepper and The SummerWorks Festival. Pederson has also worked extensively in television and may be best known for his Canadian Comedy Award-Nominated work (Canadian Comedy Award Best Television Performance) and his three seasons on Fox Television's ''MADtv''. Career Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Pederson began working professionally at a very young age. He appeared at the Citadel Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, playwright Stewart Lemoine's Teatro La Quindicina and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Dean (actor)
George Joshua Christian Dean (born December 3, 1979 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and improvisor. He was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, where he performed in the improvised soap opera ''Die-Nasty'' and toured with improv company Rapid Fire Theatre. Career Dean worked with the comedy troupe Gordon's Big Bald Head and appeared in several new works by Canadian playwright Stewart Lemoine. He was a regular cast member in the improvised variety show '' Oh Susanna!'' at the Varscona Theatre. Dean provided the voice of Henpecked Hou (among others) in the game ''Jade Empire'' from BioWare Corp. He later appeared in several roles in Bioware's ''Mass Effect''. In 2003, he co-starred in the independent film ''Purple Gas'', and in 2006 starred in the FOX TV sitcom '' Free Ride''. Dean stars in the Martin Gero film ''Young People Fucking'', and ''National Lampoon's Bag Boy ''National Lampoon's Bag Boy'' is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Mort Nathan, starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
