Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director and writer. He is best known for co-creating, co-writing and acting in the British television mockumentary sitcom The Office (2001–2003). He has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and the Rose d'Or twice, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007, he was placed at No. 11 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, and he was placed at No. 3 in their 2010 list. In 2010, he was named in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,788 (2016). The city's economy is based on natural resource extraction and is supported by industries related to lumbering and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel and silver. Timmins serves as a regional service and distribution centre. The city has a large Francophone community, with more than 50% bilingual in French and English.
Charles Joseph Angus is a Canadian author, journalist, broadcaster, musician, and politician. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Angus has been the federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Timmins—James Bay since winning the 2004 election. He is the NDP critic for Ethics, Federal Economic Development, Initiative for Northern Ontario, Indigenous Youth, Income Inequality and Affordability, and Deputy Critic for Labour. and ran as a candidate for leadership of the federal NDP in 2017.
The Sudbury Wolves are an Ontario Hockey League ice hockey team based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Sudbury has had a hockey team known as the "Wolves" nearly every year since World War I. The Sudbury Wolves, the senior men's AAA team, have twice been chosen to be Canada's representatives at the Ice Hockey World Championships. They were Canada's team at both the 1938 and 1949 World Ice Hockey Championships, winning the World Championship title for Canada in 1938, and the silver medal in 1949.
Derek Kevin Harvie is a Canadian TV and film writer and producer. Harvie grew up in Ottawa and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature.
Ron Sparks is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer and producer. He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario and lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known as an alternative comedian and frequent guest on CBC Radio's The Debaters, and on TV as a regular and favourite juror on MuchMusic's highest-rated show, Video on Trial, also starring as The Judge in the Stars on Trial Christmas special and various other VOT spin-offs.
Derek McGrath is a Canadian actor and writer.
The Canadian Comedy Awards (CCA) is an annual ceremony that awards the Beaver for achievements in Canadian comedy in live performance, radio, film, television, and Internet media. The awards were founded and produced by Tim Progosh in 2000.
Harry Doupe is a Canadian stand-up comedian, producer, and writer from Fort Langley, British Columbia. He has performed shows at clubs, theatres, and arenas across North America. He was the first comedian to perform three times at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, MC-ing shows for The Tragically Hip on their New Year's Eve 1999 and New Year's Day 2000 shows, as well as opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic on his "Running With Scissors" Tour. He began his stand-up career on December 7, 1982 at Punchlines Comedy Theatre in Vancouver, choosing the date carefully. "I figured no matter how badly I bombed, historically it would be greatly overshadowed". Over the years he would perform alongside the likes of Jim Carrey, Sam Kinison, Louis CK, Jerry Seinfeld, Margaret Cho, Howie Mandel, Paula Poundstone, Norm Macdonald, Maria Bamford, Rick Mercer, Samantha Bee, Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, Todd Barry, and others.
Yuk Yuk's is a national comedy club chain in Canada, founded by former stand-up comedian Mark Breslin and established in 1976 by Breslin and long-time friend Joel Axler. The company is currently run by Breslin and his long-time partner and President Jeff Silverman. The head office is located in downtown Toronto. Currently there are 9 Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs in three provinces across Canada.
Life with Derek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on Family Channel (English) and VRAK.TV (French) in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. Reruns aired on Family Channel and multiplex sister channel Family Chrgd until September 2016. The series stars Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the two oldest children in a stepfamily.
Elizabeth Whitmere is a Canadian actress working in the United States and Canada. Born and raised in northern Canada, she draws on her experiences there in the development of her characters and her stand-up comedy.
Jeff McEnery (1984) is a stand-up comedian and actor born and raised in the small town of Acton, Ontario, Canada.
Steve Patterson is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television and radio host, and television producer known for his satire and observational comedy.
Pete Zedlacher is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor and television writer. Originally from Wawa, Ontario, he has appeared at Just for Laughs and the Halifax Comedy Festival, and won the 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up. He has also performed for the Canadian Forces on several Canadian Forces Show Tours, entertaining the troops in such places as Alert, Nunavut, the Persian Gulf and Kandahar, Afghanistan. As an actor, he has appeared in the movies American Pie: The Naked Mile and Survival of the Dead and on TV in The Jon Dore Television Show.
Jake Edwards, also known as Bro Jake or Brother Jake, is a Canadian radio personality based in British Columbia. Edwards has been best known for his fictional comedy character "The Champ". For his skill, Edwards won the 2001 Canadian Music Network Radio Personality of the Year Award. For the same year, Edwards' show on Rock 101 was among the highest-rated in the BBM Canada ratings. Vancouver's Classic Rock 101 (CFMI) had been the home of Bro Jake for over 17 years. In 2013, Corus Entertainment declined to renew the contract of its veteran radio personality. All-sports, CKST-AM, jumped at the chance to pair Bro Jake with veteran sport broadcaster, David Pratt, for a more entertainment oriented morning show. The duo debuted the new morning show to the Vancouver market in September 2013. August 31, 2019 marked his last day on terrestrial radio and TSN 1040. Edwards was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame in 2019.
The 4th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2002. The ceremony was held in 2003 in London, Ontario, concluding the three-day Canadian Comedy Awards Festival. The ceremony was hosted by the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
The 6th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2004. The awards ceremony was held on 22 October 2005 during the five-day Canadian Comedy Awards Festival in London, Ontario. The ceremony was hosted by Bruce Hunter as Rocko the Dog.
The 7th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2005 and was held on 27 October 2006 in London, Ontario. The ceremony was hosted by Debra DiGiovanni.