The Kaurismäki-dry comedy that resulted from that realization is a hyper-specific creation steeped in local Canadian lore, one based on an incident that happened to the director's late ...

Universal Language follows Nazgol and Hossein in Winnipeg as they assist a classmate in retrieving an Iranian banknote. Simultaneously, Matthew Rankin leaves his job in Montreal to be near his ...

This March, Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek was renewed for a second season by American broadcasting network Pop. This is a big deal—generally, Canadian comedy doesn’t matter.

Canada dry (humor) When Dore was 23, he started doing stand-up in his native Ottawa, where he also studied broadcast television, took improv classes and acted in a dinner theater group.

There is real humor behind each of the stunts, and you'll leave the show holding your sides from laughter instead of with dry heaves. One thing is for sure, it's not your father's late night comedy.

Tragedy, Mel Brooks once said, is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. By that definition, Canadian comedy is falling into an open sewer, heading straight to ...