Buzz (TV series)

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Buzz
Starring Daryn Jones
Mista Mo (Morgan Smith)
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original network CTV Television Network
Original releaseJanuary 31, 2000 (2000-01-31) 
2005 (2005)

Buzz was a 2000-2005 Canadian comedy television series that aired on The Comedy Network. The show was hosted by "Mista Mo" (Morgan Oliver Smith) [1] and Daryn Jones. The show originally aired in the mid-90s as a community channel show on Rogers Television [2] before getting a network deal in 1999. [3] [4] In 2001, the show won a Gemini Award in the "Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series" category. The 2003 season saw them take the show to New York, London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. The show ended in 2005.

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Created in Toronto, the show found a place on the Comedy Network when The Tom Green Show left to MTV. The show uses sketch comedy, non-sequiturs and guerrilla comedy. The two hosts, Daryn Jones, a geeky theatre major, and Mista Mo, an "almost real rapper" often riff on the racial tensions between them. [5]

Recurring sketches and characters

Notes

  1. "Buzz Online - Hosts - Mista Mo". 22 October 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-10-22.
  2. "Rogers Television - Shows - BUZZ". 15 December 1999. Archived from the original on 15 December 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  3. "Buzz - TheComedyNetwork.ca - Online Time Well Wasted". 15 January 2006. Archived from the original on 15 January 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. "NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Search Results | Story". National Post. 11 November 2000. Archived from the original on 2001-03-09.
  5. Brown, Jonathan (2002). "What makes it Canadian television?". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2019-10-07.

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