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CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (2010)
TV Special | 45 min | Documentary, Comedy

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CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (2010)

TV Special | 45 min | Documentary, Comedy

With a billing in 2009 as big as King Kong - the 8th Wonder of World - the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival is the brainchild of Winnipeg comedian Al Rae. A Winnipeg stand-up comic and writer, Al Rae won the Just for Laughs National Homegrown ...See moreWith a billing in 2009 as big as King Kong - the 8th Wonder of World - the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival is the brainchild of Winnipeg comedian Al Rae. A Winnipeg stand-up comic and writer, Al Rae won the Just for Laughs National Homegrown Comic Competition in 2000. A writer on the CBC comedy series Little Mosque on the Prairie, Al also contributed to the sitcoms Blackfly and Big Sound (Global). He hosted two comedy information shows for CBC Radio: the finance-themed That's Capital; and the election satire Spin Off. His eight-part comedy drama series Monsoon House with Russell Peters aired on CBC Radio in 2006. Al launched the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2002, with longtime friend and collaborator, CBC Radio's Tom Anniko. Now in its eighth year, the festival has come to include year-round outreach programs, rural tours, workshops and television broadcasts that attract more than two million viewers annually. One of several stops on CBC Television's Canadian comedy circuit, the Winnipeg festival proudly boasts the highest ratings for CBC's comedy festival series. In 2009, the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival partnered with Frantic Films to produce five television broadcasts of the festival galas. These one-hour specials were shot live-to-tape, recording themed humour, unscripted and spontaneous audience reaction, and the magic of the moment only television can capture. The five one-hour specials present comedy performances along the following themes: - Savings & Groans - The Holiday Show - Queer As Jokes - The Deadly Seven - Cradle To Grave Written by B. Sanderson See less

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40 cast members

Name	Known for
Paul Bates Rufus (as The Williamson Playboys) Rufus (as The Williamson Playboys) See fewer	The Tuxedo (2002)
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Andrew Bush Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Picnicface (2011)
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Seán Cullen Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	The Love Guru (2008)
Debra DiGiovanni Self - Comedian (as Deb DiGiovanni) Self - Comedian (as Deb DiGiovanni) See fewer	Straight Man (2013)
Don Ferguson Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993)
Diane Flacks Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	The Kids in the Hall (1988)
Glen Foster Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	That Canadian Guy (2001)
Kathryn Greenwood Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Wind at My Back (1996)
Jonny Harris Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Still Standing (2015)
Maryellen Hooper Self - Comedian (as MaryEllen Hooper) Self - Comedian (as MaryEllen Hooper) See fewer	CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (2002)
Andy Jones Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (1986)
Elvira Kurt Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Great Canadian Baking Show (2017)
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Timothy Norris Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	StoryKeeper (2009)
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Ed Sahely Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	RoboCop (1994)
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Ron Sparks Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	You Got Trumped: The First 100 Days (2016)
Tim Steeves Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	The Rick Mercer Report (2004)
Tom Steffen Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (2002)
Big Daddy Tazz Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Mixed Blessings (2007)
Peter Wildman Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	The Red Green Show (1991)
Jonathan Wilson Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Tommy Boy (1995)
John Wing Self - Comedian Self - Comedian See fewer	Winnipeg Comedy Festival 2011 (2011)