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Friday, January 06, 2006
CanCon Comedy Crisis
Be sure to read this post [ via PAVED ] about how un-funny the CBC is:
"I remember when The Newsroom came out, having discussions with CBC publicists who were...mystified! They couldn't understand why this show was good -- why it was drawing such positive audience response. They were a little giddy, and a little sad. They had a critical (and at least for that first season) an audience hit -- and they didn't know what to do."
Three things on Canadian 'humour':
1) In the summer I did a quick, secret redesign job for a Canadian humour-ish mag (the work never saw the light of day because it was sharp and the publisher didn't want to hurt their lackluster art director's feelings) and one of the things that struck me was how the mag never embraced how shallow it was intended to be. And whenever it approached off-colour, there was always an apology tacked on ...
2) Driving back from Algonquin Park the other day, Shelagh Rogers was on Radio 1 discussing the topic of "Canadian Comedy" with that guy from CODCO and Mike Bullard. The CODCO guy and Rogers were having a grand ol' time and he told stories about dealing with CBC bureaucracy and how some of CODCO's censored sketches wound up being aired the following season in a special "censored sketches" episode ...
... and Mike Bullard seemed to have some sorta breakdown on-air, sobbing about his insecurities and half-frightening Rogers and Mr. CODCO.
3) Doesn't the voice-over guy on the Comedy Network sound like one of those annoying, too-cool frat boys who never understood why anything was funny? Frat boys run the media, that's why nothing's funny.
12:22 AM
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