''HumanTown'' is a

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sketch comedy troupe, best known for winning the

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's ComedyCoup

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competition in 2014."Human Town takes ComedyCoup prize"
'' Playback'', December 6, 2014. Based in

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, the troupe consists of Kajetan Kwiatkowski, Jack Heyes, Liam MacLeod, Kane Stewart, Miles Chalmers, and Daniel Doheny."Local comedy troupe HumanTown unleashes offbeat brand of humour across Canada"
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'', July 22, 2016. The troupe's comedy concept is framed by an

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named Orthak, who lives in a world populated entirely by ''

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'' character archetypes; within his reality, he is a fan of a

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called ''HumanTown'' about imaginary creatures called

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s. After he is magically teleported into the game's alternate reality, linked comedy sketches depict life in the human world. The troupe members are all high school friends, whose first collaboration as teenagers was a short comedy film called ''Monkey: Dawn of the Ape''."State of the Arts: Comedy troupe HumanTown headed for CBC"
''

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'', December 18, 2014. Their ComedyCoup prize consisted of $500,000 in production funding toward the creation of a 30-minute

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comedy special. The special aired on the CBC in July 2016, and garnered two

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nominations at the

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for Best Photography in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series (D. Gregor Hagey) and Best Editing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series (Aren Hansen).

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* 2010s Canadian sketch comedy television series Canadian television specials CBC Television original programming 2016 in Canadian television Canadian comedy troupes 2016 television specials Sketch comedy troupes {{Canada-comedy-tv-prog-stub