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The Video: SUNdefreude

06/01/2014 by the editor

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, CBC, comedy, internet, Sun News Network, television, youtube

Sun News finally gets it

05/29/2014 by the editor

A BoB Short: It took half a week for Sun News to pick up on the joke, but the right-wing news network has finally managed to have comedian Scott Vrooman’s blatantly tongue-in-cheek interview with correspondent Adrienne Batra pulled from the Internet. Or not. According to Vrooman, who honed his hyper-conservative alter-ego on CBC’s This Hour […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, comedy, internet, Sun News Network, television, youtube

Buddy’s back and the Kids never really left

02/21/2014 by the editor

By TJ Dawe “The Colbert Report”‘s decision to send Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole character to Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics was perfect, not only because it’s been great to have Buddy back — on Wednesday night he almost got arrested while “protesting” that he couldn’t get a drink — but because it reminds us […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, comedy, Kids in the Hall, Olympics, Scott Thompson, Sochi, Sochi Olympics, television

The Video: Rob Ford: The late night talk show round-up

11/16/2013 by backofthebook.ca

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: comedy, David Letterman, Rob Ford, television, The Daily Show

Canadian Comedy Awards: Who knew?

10/09/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten The Canadian Comedy Awards came and went again this past weekend. You’re probably thinking, or saying out loud (maybe you talk to yourself, I don’t presume anything), “Those exist? I’ve never heard of ’em.” And I would respond (out loud, because I do talk to myself), “That’s no surprise. They’ve only been […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, comedy, entertainment, Ottawa

Canadian humour: Deadpan, or just dead?

01/11/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Vanity Fair devotes its January issue to celebrating comedic geniuses, and more than a handful of the spotlighted actors and writers have Canadian roots. But before all that celebrating begins, an essay by Bruce McCall ponders the dearth of Canadian comedy, and wonders whether it even exists. McCall, an ex-pat Canadian author […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Britain, Canada, comedy, magazines, U.S.

TV the way Lucy likes it

09/26/2012 by backofthebook.ca

Sit-coms have never exactly flourished on Canadian TV, but the success of YTV’s “Mr. Young” may be about to change that ~~ By Emily Olesen ~~ Sitting in the Mr. Young audience is like watching a live action cartoon. Props from past episodes adorn the walls of the studio, including oversized products from “Cyclops Wholesale […]

Filed Under: TV the way Lucy likes it Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, comedy, television, Vancouver

Joe Bodolai’s final hit

12/27/2011 by backofthebook.ca

A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy Channel, apparently intended the post as a combination suicide […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, comedy, Comedy Channel, television, writing

Gervais’ Gay Joke Goes Awry

01/17/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachel Krueger I don’t think Ricky Gervais is a homophobe.  But in his Golden Globes opening monologue he delivered a right zinger that was entirely predicated on “gay” being an insult.  Referring to Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in I Love You, Phillip Morris, he quipped,  ‘Two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay.  So […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: celebrity, comedy, entertainment, LGBTQ

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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