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Diana Frances (comedian)
Diana Frances (born Diana Frances Clent) is a Canadian comedian, writer, and business manager. She has written and performed comedy for stage, television and radio for three decades, and served as the managing director of the Vancouver-based Rock Paper Scissors comedy collective. Her writing has been recognized with a Canadian Screen Award and a Writers Guild of Canada Award, and she has also been nominated for a Gemini Award and nine Canadian Comedy Awards. Early life and education Diana Frances Clent moved from Langley to Maple Ridge, British Columbia, when she was 13, after what she later described as a "rather traumatic family shake-up". She was adopted and lived with her aunt and uncle while attending Maple Ridge Secondary School. She took drama courses and initially pursued dramatic Shakespearean acting, but was repeatedly cast in comedic roles and was thrilled by the audience response. She studied theatre at Douglas College. As she entered the entertainment business, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design For Living
''Design for Living'' is a comedy play written by Noël Coward in 1932. It concerns a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship. Originally written to star Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Coward, it was premiered on Broadway, partly because its risqué subject matter was thought unacceptable to the official censor in London. It was not until 1939 that a London production was presented. ''Design for Living'' was a success on Broadway in 1933, but it has been revived less often than Coward's other major comedies. Coward said, "it was liked and disliked, and hated and admired, but never, I think, sufficiently loved by any but its three leading actors." The play was adapted into a film in 1933, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, and starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins. The play was first seen in London in 1939 and has enjoyed a number of stage revivals. Background and first produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still Standing (Canadian TV Series)
''Still Standing'' is a Canadian television series, which premiered on CBC Television in summer 2015. The show's tagline slogan is "towns that are against the ropes but still hanging in there", reflecting the show's premise to tell the "story of small towns in Canada and how they overcome struggles". It is based on the Danish television series '' Gintberg på kanten'' (''Gintberg on the edge''). A hybrid comedy and reality series, the program features actor and comedian Jonny Harris. In each episode, Harris travels to small Canadian communities which are financially struggling but "still standing" and spends time getting to know the residents and their lifestyles. At the end of the trip, Harris performs a stand-up comedy show for the town's residents, into which he integrates some of his newfound insights about life in their community. In the television format, however, clips from the comedy show are interspersed throughout the episode rather than occurring specifically at the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunty B's House
''Aunty B's House'' is a Canadian short-form comedy series for children, which premiered in 2023 as part of the CBC Kids block on CBC Television. Designed to highlight the stories of children living in foster care Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state- certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family mem ..., the show stars children's entertainer and educator Khalilah Brooks as Aunty B, a woman who is caring for foster children Khadijah ( Nendia Lewars), Shelley ( Claire Poon) and Zachary (Luke Dietz). Inspired in part on Brooks's own experience having grown up in foster care, the series is based on theatrical shows that Brooks had already performed as Aunty B for a number of years prior to the launch of the television version.Kelly Townsend"CBC Kids greenlights preschool series Aunty B’s House" '' Playback'', April 5, 2023. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beaverton
''The Beaverton'' is a primarily online Canadian news satire publication, based in Toronto, Montreal and Whitehorse, Yukon, Whitehorse."The Beaverton makes people chuckle" ''The Medium'', March 26, 2012. It features news stories, editorials, vox populi and other formats (such as university reviews) whose structure and layout mirror those of conventional newspapers but whose content is contorted to make humorous commentary on Canadian and world issues. The publication was founded in 2010 by Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University alumni Luke Gordon Field, Alex Huntley and University of Toronto graduate Laurent Noonan (1982–2014). Reception and believability Several of ''The Beavertons articles have been reported as real news. In May 2013, a s ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corner Gas Animated
''Corner Gas Animated'' is a Canadian adult animated sitcom, created by Brent Butt. The series is a revival of the live-action sitcom ''Corner Gas'', which was originally broadcast from 2004 to 2009. The show premiered on April 2, 2018, on The Comedy Network, and was carried over when the channel became CTV Comedy Channel one year later. The fourth and final season premiered on July 5, 2021. Premise The series follows the everyday lives of the residents of the fictional small town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. Though similar to the live-action series, the creators acknowledged that the animated format gave them opportunities to do stranger and more unrealistic things that the original series could not depict. For instance, cutaway gags in the animated version include a ''Mad Max'' spoof and a gory fight between a Sasquatch and a unicorn. Cast All the original ''Corner Gas'' actors reprised their roles, with the exception of Janet Wright, who died in 2016. Actress Corrine Koslo w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
''George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight'' (originally known as ''The Hour'') is a Canadian television talk show hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos that aired on CBC Television from 2005 to 2014. As ''The Hour'', the show was so named, as it was a daily one-hour program. For the show's seventh season, the show was renamed and shortened into a daily half-hour show, ''George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight'', beginning September 20, 2010. In September 2011, the program was again extended to one hour with its current name. It returned to a half-hour for the 2012–13 season and moved to 7:00 p.m. (replacing '' Wheel of Fortune''), along with a late-night encore that moved to 11:30 p.m. due to the expansion of late local news at several of the CBC's major market stations. The show concluded at the end of the 2013–2014 season as Stroumboulopoulos moved to Rogers Communications to host ''Hockey Night in Canada''. The show had two opening theme songs during its history. Its first was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' (commonly shortened to ''22 Minutes'' since 2009) is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics with a combination of news parody, sketch comedy, and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey, and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials, and humorous interviews of public figures. Its full name is a parody of '' This Hour Has Seven Days'', a CBC news magazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the US is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials. Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series '' CODCO'', on which Thomey sometimes ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Blank (TV Series)
''Point Blank'' is a Canadian television comedy series that aired on The Comedy Network in 2002. Evolving out of the earlier ''Double Exposure'', the show starred Linda Cullen and Bob Robertson as Diane-Barbara Jane and Steele Drummond, respectively, the anchors of a television tabloid newsmagazine which covered news stories, such as alien abduction, human cloning, styrofoam mining and two-ply toilet paper, that went "beyond the truth and below the standards".Bob Blakey, "Point Blank takes aim at tab news shows". ''Calgary Herald'', March 4, 2002. Cullen and Robertson were the show's sole constant core cast, while a wide variety of Canadian comedians and actors made appearances as characters or journalists in news reports.Bonnie Malleck, "Spoofing news media; Double Exposure duo returns with new, 13-week series". ''Hamilton Spectator ''The Hamilton Spectator'', founded in 1846, is a newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucker Punch (TV Show)
A sucker punch is a blow made without warning. Sucker Punch or suckerpunch may also refer to: Books * ''Sucker Punch'' (play), a 2010 play by the British playwright Roy Williams Film and TV * ''Sucker Punch'' (2008 film), a film featuring Gordon Alexander and Antonio Fargas * ''Sucker Punch'' (2011 film), an action-fantasy film featuring Emily Browning * "Sucker Punch" (''Castle''), an episode of the TV series ''Castle'' * "Sucker Punch" (''Suits''), a 2012 television episode Music Albums * ''Sucker Punch'' (Haji's Kitchen album), 2001 * ''Sucker Punch'' (soundtrack), soundtrack album for the 2011 film * ''Sucker Punch'' (Sigrid album), 2019 * '' The Sucker Punch Show'', the third full-length album released by indie rock band Lovedrug * ''Suckapunch'' (album), a 2021 album by You Me at Six * ''Suckerpunch'' (Maggie Lindemann album), 2022 * ''Suckerpunch'', 2022 album by Chloe Moriondo Songs * "Sucker Punch" (song), a 2018 single by Sigrid * "Sucker Punch", a son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
