Paul Chato is a Canadian comedian and writer, the president of a web design company, and a former television executive. He was born in 1954 in

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, Canada, to Hungarian parents. Chato grew up in the first planned community in North America,

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. Graduating from Don Mills Collegiate in 1973, he went on to graduate from

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in Radio Television Arts. From Ryerson, he went on to become an art director with Kelly’s Stereo Mart and from there joined Rick Green to form Green and Chato, a two-man comedy team. In 1979, Green and Chato joined up with

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and

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to form the comedy group The Frantics. From 1989 to 1991, Chato was head of television comedy at CBC Television. Apart from his continued association with The Frantics, Chato is the president of Your Web Department (formerly Electramedia), an international web development company. Chato posts an IT-related comedy tech vlog on YouTube and

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under the name Call Me Chato.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chato, Paul 1954 births Living people Canadian television personalities Businesspeople from Toronto Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Canadian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Canadian sketch comedians Comedians from Toronto Canadian male comedians Canadian Comedy Award winners Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people Canadian radio writers

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