The northern equivalent of Comedy Central has announced their 10th anniversary season slate of shows, some imported (from England or from the U.S.) and some original, like:
The Jon Dore Show stars award-winning comedian Jon Dore whose flat out crazy take on life is told through an array of real-life interviews, off-the-wall tangents and wild antics. Topics include: performing as a male stripper to help cure the blahs; getting help from a Hypnotist to squash a smoking addiction; and enlisting the services of an army drill sergeant to whip himself into shape. The 13-part, half-hour series is The Comedy Network’s newest original production.
It would seem that standup comics are perfect frontmen/women for reality shows. This occurred to us as we watched Kathy Griffin‘s D-List premiere last night.
Has Comedy Central ever imported anything from our Canadian neighbors, besides Kids In The Hall? Or The Red Green Show?
We sent in our Festival Just For Laughs accreditation forms yesterday, so it looks like we’re headed north again, for the ninth year in a row. (Nine years in a row? Whatever will we find to talk about?) Note to Comedy Channel: How about you break with tradition and actually INVITE US TO THE COMEDY NETWORK JFL PARTY? We always find out about it second- or third- or fourth-hand and we end up getting in anyway. Or, if you don’t find it in yourselves to invite us, can you at least throw us out in a very public and very dramatic manner, so we at least have something spectacular to write about? (We suppose we could fake it. We could concoct a story in which Comedy Network officials discover us drinking free Labatts and eating free smoked meat and toss us out onto the concrete while shouting incomprehensible epithets in Frenglish, but that is so Hunter Thompson-ish, so 1973.)
Perhaps we could wangle an invite through our “good buddy” (and newly minted TCN star) Jon Dore (seen above with The Male Half at the 2005 Festival Just For Laughs).