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This Is a Book About the Kids in the Hall

Author : Semley, John
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770909206
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book This Is a Book About the Kids in the Hall written by Semley, John and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore their history, legacy, and influence This is a book about the Kids in the Hall „ the legendary Canadian sketch comedy troupe formed in Toronto in 1984 and best known for the innovative, hilarious, zeitgeist-capturing sketch show The Kids in the Hall „ told by the people who were there, namely the Kids themselves. John SemleyÍs thoroughly researched book is rich with interviews with Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, and Scott Thompson, as well as Lorne Michaels and comedians speaking to the KidsÍ legacy: Janeane Garofalo, Tim Heidecker, Nathan Fielder, and others. It also turns a criticÍs eye on that legacy, making a strong case for the massive influence the Kids have exerted, both on alternative comedy and on pop culture more broadly. The Kids in the Hall were like a band: a group of weirdoes brought together, united by a common sensibility. And, much like a band, theyÍre always better when theyÍre together. This is a book about friendship, collaboration, and comedy „ and about clashing egos, lost opportunities, and one-upmanship. This is a book about the head-crushing, cross-dressing, inimitable Kids in the Hall.

Made-in-Canada Humour

Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268177
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Made-in-Canada Humour written by Beverly J. Rasporich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.

The Great Canadian Joke Book

Author : Glen Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894864800
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Great Canadian Joke Book written by Glen Warner and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world will end at midnight tonight -- 12:30 in Newfoundland. From poking fun at our regional differences and our cultural mosaic to joking wryly about our political culture, Canadians have a special brand of humour: * Q: How are Canadian politicians l

The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 : 9780147518149
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes written by John Robert Colombo and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a rumour going around that Canadians aren't funny. Well, John Robert Colombo has assembled a comprehensive collection of Canadian humour that is sure to dispel this rumour for once and for all. At once scandalous, subversive and hilarious, it includes a wide range of riddles, puns, and side-splitting anecdotes from the world of history, politics and culture (er, hockey). All those jokes that you share around the water cooler, that delight you in yoxur morning e-mail and that crack you up over your morning paper-they're all here, together for the first time in one handy and hilarious volume.

Canada

Author : Mike Myers
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385689268
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Canada written by Mike Myers and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this instant national bestseller, comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: "no description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian." He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland. His hilarious and heartfelt new book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian—and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explore Canada from within and without. With this, his first book, Mike brings his love for Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride. Canada is a wholly subjective account of Mike's Canadian experience. Mike writes, "Some might say, 'Why didn't you include this or that?' I say there are 35 million stories waiting to be told in this country, and my book is only one of them." This beautifully designed book is illustrated in colour (and not color) throughout, and its visual treasures include personal photographs and Canadiana from the author's own collection. Published in the lead-up to the 2017 sesquicentennial, this is Mike Myers' birthday gift to his fellow Canadians. Or as he puts it: "In 1967, Canada turned one hundred. Canadians all across the country made Centennial projects. This book is my Centennial Project. I'm handing it in a little late. . . . Sorry."

Canajan, Eh?

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773759060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Canajan, Eh? written by Mark M. Orkin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Treasury of Great Canadian Humour

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Toronto ; New York : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN 13 : 9780070776272
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book The Treasury of Great Canadian Humour written by Alan Walker and published by Toronto ; New York : McGraw-Hill Ryerson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771093977
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

Funny Sort of Minister

Author : Dominique Demers
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 071455006X
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Funny Sort of Minister written by Dominique Demers and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte - hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this - embarks on a quest to track him down. Along the way, Miss Charlotte cannot help making speeches on behalf of the country's leader and putting her own original twist on his boring children's policy, while attracting at the same time the attentions of the media and the secret service.Also in the series: The New Teacher, The Mysterious Librarian, The New Football Coach.

The Best Laid Plans

Author : Terry Fallis
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 0771047533
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Best Laid Plans written by Terry Fallis and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF CBC CANADA READS WINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose, and so on. Then a great scandal blows away his opponent, and to their horror, Angus is elected. He decides to see what good an honest M.P. who doesn’t care about being re-elected can do in Parliament. The results are hilarious—and with chess, a hovercraft, and the love of a good woman thrown in, this very funny book has something for everyone.

Me Funny

Author :
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926685725
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Me Funny written by and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn’t get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of “the Indian” dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator, Drew Hayden Taylor has spent 15 years writing and researching aboriginal humor. For Me Funny, he asked a noted cast of writers from a variety of fields — including such celebrated wordsmiths as Thomas King, Allan J. Ryan, Mirjam Hirch, and Tomson Highway — to take a look at what makes aboriginal humor tick. Their hilarious, enlightening contributions playfully examine the use of humor in areas as diverse as stand-up comedy, fiction, visual art, drama, performance, poetry, traditional storytelling, and education.

Canadian History For Dummies

Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470676787
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Canadian History For Dummies written by Will Ferguson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological research. In his trademark irreverent style, Will Ferguson celebrates Canada's double-gold in hockey at the 2002 Olympics, investigates Jean Chrétien's decision not to participate in the war in Iraq, and dissects the recent sponsorship scandal.

The Great Big Book of Canadian Humour

Author : Allan Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780771591808
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Great Big Book of Canadian Humour written by Allan Gould and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Book of Canadian Humour [by] John D. Robins and Margaret V. Ray

Author : John D. Robins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Canadian Humour [by] John D. Robins and Margaret V. Ray written by John D. Robins and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to be a Canadian, Even If You Already are One

Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550548914
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book How to be a Canadian, Even If You Already are One written by Will Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It isn’t always easy being Canadian, according to Will Ferguson, but it can be a lot of fun. Asked to write a follow-up to his runaway bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, Ferguson, who’s Canadian himself, recruited his brother Ian -- comedy writer and executive producer of the Canadian series Sin City and a Canadian too -- to create this ultimate guide to the country's cultural quirks. The result is a hilarious inside look at that unique species, the Canadian, and their thoughts on such diverse subjects as beer, sex, dating rituals, sports, politics, religion, social rules -- and, of course, their trademark death-defying search for the middle of any road.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130087
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Confederacy of Dunces written by John Kennedy Toole and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence -- Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Author : Ned Vizzini
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423141083
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book It's Kind of a Funny Story written by Ned Vizzini and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.