John Blanchard | |
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Occupation(s) | Director and producer |
Years active | 1978–2008 |
John Blanchard is a Canadian television director and producer.
He is best known for his directorial work on the sketch comedy series SCTV , The Kids in the Hall , CODCO , MADtv and the talk show The Martin Short Show for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Talk Show. [1]
He also directed episodes of the sitcoms Grounded for Life , Wanda at Large , Cavemen , and Unhitched , [2] as well as a number of television films, one of his notable films being The Last Polka (1985) starring John Candy and Eugene Levy. [3] He also directed the direct-to-video horror comedy Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth .