9th Canadian Comedy Awards

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9th Canadian Comedy Awards
Date5 October 2008 (2008-10-05)
Location
Country Canada
Presented byCanadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence
Hosted by Alan Park
Most awardsTelevision: This Hour Has 22 Minutes (3)
Film: Juno (2)
Person: Gavin Crawford, Gerry Dee, Geri Hall, Seth Rogen (2)
Most nominationsTelevision: Corner Gas (9)
Film: Dark Rising (6)
Person: Michael Cera and Seth Rogen (3)
Website www.canadiancomedyawards.org

The 9th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, film, and Internet comedy of 2007. The ceremony was held on 5 October 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The ceremony was hosted by Alan Park.

Contents

Canadian Comedy Awards, also known as Beavers, were awarded in 24 categories. This included the first public-voting categories and the first awards recognizing Internet content. The awards ceremony concluded the five-day Canadian Comedy Awards Festival which showcased performances by over 100 comic artists. A Best of the Fest special was broadcast by The Comedy Network.

For a third consecutive year TV series Corner Gas led the nominations with nine, followed by the film Dark Rising with six. However, neither of these works won a Beaver. Seth Rogen and Michael Cera led the nominations amongst people with three. This Hour Has 22 Minutes won three Beavers followed by a number of artists and projects that received two, including Gavin Crawford, Gerry Dee, Geri Hall, Seth Rogen, and the films Juno and Superbad . [1]

Festival and ceremony

The 9th Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival ran from 1 to 5 October 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan. [2] The province and city had provided $200,000 in funding to relocate the festival from London, Ontario. [3] Fourteen shows were held in Regina, showcasing the talents of more than 100 comedic performers. The awards were also sponsored by The Comedy Network [2] which compiled and broadcast the Best of the Fest television special, hosted by Gerry Dee. The awards ceremony was hosted by Alan Park [4] at Casino Regina. [1]

Winners and nominees

The Awards were expanded from 20 to 24 categories this year, including three public-voting categories: best radio program or clip, best web clip, and Canadian Comedy Person of the Year. Winners of public-voting categories were chosen by Canadian residents through an online poll. [2]

The film Juno had been controversially excluded from Canada's industry-driven Genie Awards. Although it had a Canadian director, lead actors, crew, and had been filmed in Canada, U.S. financing disqualified it from competition. The Canadian Comedy Awards, however, were artist-driven with a mandate "To recognize and celebrate Canadian achievements in comedy at home and abroad" [5] and awarded the film two Beavers. [6]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface: [7]

Multimedia

Canadian Comedy Person of the YearBest Radio Program or Clip

Live

Best Stand-up, Large VenueBest Stand-up Newcomer
Best Male Stand-upBest Female Stand-up
Best Male ImproviserBest Female Improviser
Best Sketch Troupe or CompanyBest Improv Troupe or Company
  • Blueribbon icon.png Show Stopping Number
  • About An Hour
  • Urban Improv
  • General Fools Improvisational Theatre
  • Monkey Toast: The Improvised Talk Show
Best One Person ShowBest Comedic Play, Revue or Series
  • Blueribbon icon.png The Sean Schau!
  • Scarfarce
  • The One Man Harold
  • The Newsdesk with Ron Sparks
  • All the Rage
  • Blueribbon icon.png Facebook of Revelations
  • PET3RS – Approximately 3 Peters
  • Dreadwood: Stories of the Canadian Klondike
  • The Dead Language of Love
  • An Inconvenient Musical
Best Taped Live Performance

Television

Best Performance by a MaleBest Performance by a Female
Best Direction in a SeriesBest Direction in a Special or Episode
Best Writing in a SeriesBest Writing in a Special or Episode

Film

Best Performance by a MaleBest Performance by a Female
Best DirectionBest Writing

Internet

Best Web Clip

Special Awards

Chairman's AwardDave Broadfoot Award

Most wins

The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple awards

AwardsPerson or work
3 This Hour Has 22 Minutes
2 Gavin Crawford
Gerry Dee
Geri Hall
Seth Rogen
Superbad

Most nominations

The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple nominations

NominationsPerson or work
9 Corner Gas
6Dark Rising
4 This Hour Has 22 Minutes
3 Juno
Little Mosque on the Prairie
Michael Cera
Rent-A-Goalie
Seth Rogen
2 Cock'd Gunns
Gavin Crawford
Gerry Dee
Geri Hall
The Jon Dore Television Show
The Owl and the Man
Superbad

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Credited as Ellen Page
  2. ↑ "The Waldo Ultimatum" is a sketch by the Imponderables. [8]

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