From the Canadian Press:
From a media release:
Public voting is underway to determine funny fan favourites
at the 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards
Public voting is underway for the Canadian Comedy Awards. Fans can vote for their favourite comics by visiting www.canadiancomedy.ca and registering their vote. The awards will be given out during The Comedy Network presents the 11th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival, in Toronto October 14 – 18.
With their votes, Canadian fans have the opportunity to determine the winner of three of the Awards’ 21 categories: The XM Best Radio Comedy Clip, Best Web Comedy Clip and Canadian Comedy Person of the Year including the final five nominees Brent Butt, Colin Mochrie, Irwin Baker, Russell Peters and Seth Rogan.
To view the complete list of nominees and public voting regulations, go to www.canadiancomedy.ca and register your vote today! Public voting closes on Saturday, July 31 at 11:59pm (EST).
Nominees for the 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards were announced in June by The Canadian Comedy Awards Foundation in association with The Comedy Network. Winners will be declared at The Comedy Network Presents the Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival Awards Show on Monday, October 18 to be held at the Isabel Bader Theatre.
The Canadian Comedy Awards, now in its 11th year, recognizes and celebrates Canadian achievements both at home an abroad in all forms of comedy, be it film, television, radio, Internet, and live stand-up, sketch, improvisation and theatre. For more information visit www.canadiancomedy.ca.
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I can’t keep up with all the Pillars of the Earth press today so I’m trying to catch only the Canadian media:
From Bill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette:
From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:
From Larissa Liepins of Postmedia News:
From CBC:
Crushing Dreams At Wipeout Canada Auditions
By Diane Wild
There was a swordfight. An ex-BC Lions player. A male model. A female wrestler. An Olympic medalist. A guy in diapers. Some nervousness. And a LOT of giant egos and tight Spandex.
Thursday, I was invited to be one of the guest judges at the Vancouver audition callbacks for Wipeout Canada. I’d never want to be a contestant, but crushing potential contestants’ dreams as a judge sounded like the perfect kind of fun for me.
With 44,000 applications received, the producers had already narrowed the field. Our job was to shortlist the short list. We had to suss out what kind of character the contestant would play on Wipeout, what their shout-out at the top of the course would be, their victory dance, and what they’d do with the $50,000 they’d get as winner (“Hookers and blow” said one woman. “Bigger boobs” said an already big-fake-breasted beauty queen.)
The dirty little “secret”, of course, is that contestants aren’t chosen just for whether they have a shot at winning. We were looking for personality, people who could provide drama, or fodder for ridicule, or who represented a type like normal guy, wacky grandma, etc. Some of those who walked away from our table seemed to think they’d failed, but some had failed in a way that guaranteed a callback. Some seemed sure they’d be selected, but it took more than being a freak to stand out. You had to be an entertaining freak. (Tip: when you’re auditioning and someone asks you what your victory dance would be? DO THE DANCE. Don’t talk us through it.)
My dream of crushing dreams was crushed when I discovered we weren’t making decisions in front of the contestants that day. We discussed our yes or no vote after each one, but producers will sort through the entire results to determine who to call back – so some of our yeses might not make the cut if we have too many goofy young guys (and believe me: we do) and some of our nos might get called if we don’t have enough goofy old guys. So: my lips are sealed. And this was a one-time gig for me — bribery will get you nowhere.
