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Each week two comedians battle it out in a fun trivia game we like to call, Fact or Fiction? If you love comedy and trivia shows like Jeopardy, then this podcast is for you. Episodes are under 30 minutes so it won't take up too much of your time. Play along at home and match your wits with our contestants on topics including, Elephants, WD-40, Movie Casting, The Pony Express, France, Insects, Lakes, Jamaica, Beer, Maple Syrup, The Oscars and Game Shows to name a few. Contestants include Superstore's, Lauren Ash, Whose Line's, Gary Anthony Williams & Colin Mochrie, Baroness Von Sketch Show's, Aurora Browne, Comedian Ali Hassan, Mr. D's, Naomi Snieckus, Bit Playas', Kris Siddiqi, BBC 3's, Lazy Susan and many, many more. Hosted by two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner, Second City Mainstage alum & Monkey Toast creator/host, David Shore. Voice-overs and SFX by actress, improv virtuoso , and voice over artist, Shulie Cowen.
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This week, David is joined by one of the top double acts in the UK, Max & Ivan. Along with having their own BBC Radio show, The Casebook of Max & Ivan, ITV sitcom, Deep Heat, they are the creators of the award winning live spectacle, The Wrestling.
Max Olesker is an award winning actor, writer and producer. Additional TV credits include, W1A, Drunk History UK, Peep Show and Gangsta Granny.
Ivan Gonzalez is an award winning actor writer and producer. Additional TV credits include, Urban Myths, W1A, Drunk History UK and The Mimic.
This week’s topics are, The Pony Express, The Pacific Ocean and Dragonflies.
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This week, David is joined by two guests who are involved with the upcoming CTV sitcom, Shelved and who are both members of The Untitled Black Sketch Project, Ajahnis Charley and Brandon Hackett.
Ajahnis is an award winning improviser, actor, writer and director. An alumni of The Second City, film & TV credits include, Station Eleven, Tokens, Topline and, Shelved. They’ve appeared at Just for Laughs, plus the Toronto, Montreal and New York Sketch Comedy Festivals. And the National Film Board of Canada produced their directorial debut short, I Am Gay.
Brandon is is an award winning improviser, actor and writer. An alumnus of The Second City Mainstage, his acting credits include, Baroness Von Sketch Show, This Art Works!, The Next Step and TallBoyz. His writing credits include, Run the Burbs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Parker Andersons/Amelia Parker, Tallyboyz and Shelved.
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This week, David is joined by two of the founders of Toronto’s Bad Dog Theatre, Kerry Griffin & Marcel St. Pierre.
Kerry is an award winning improviser, actor and theatre director. An alumni of the Second City Mainstage, film & TV credits include, Schitt’s Creek, Baroness Von Sketch Show, The Expanse and Designated Survivor.
Marcel is an actor, author, improviser and producer. An alumni of The Second City, film & TV credits include, The Kids in the Hall, Designated Survivor, Royal Canadian Air Farce and The Rick Mercer Report.
This show’s topics are: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Camel Racing and Animal Facts.
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David welcomes two of his favourite comedians, Ted Morris & Debra DiGiovanni to the show.
Ted is a veterinarian by day and one of Toronto’s top comics by night. He’s appeared at Just For Laughs, Winnipeg, Glasgow and We’re Funny That Way comedy festivals. TV appearances include, Comedy Now stand-up special, Punched Up & CBC’s Just For Laughs, Winnipeg and Halifax Comedy Festival broadcasts. Plus, he has an album out right now called, Dawn of the Ted.
Debra is an actress, writer and award winning stand-up comedian. She was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, appeared on Conan and was a regular on The Comedy Network’s, Match Game. Other TV credits include, Amazon Prime’s, Last One Laughing, Video on Trial and CBC’s Just for Laughs, Winnipeg & Halifax Comedy Festival broadcasts. Her 2019 album, Lady Jazz, was nominated for a Juno award, which is the Canadian version of The Grammy awards.
This episode’s topics are: The Victorians, The Brady Bunch & Hodge Podge.
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*Please note that there were some audio issues in this episode. Please scroll down for a full summary.
Two more guests from the UK, Dipak Patel & Kirsty Mann, join David on this episode of The Comedy Quiz Podcast.
Dipak is a writer, director and editor who worked at BBC Comedy on both their broadcast and digital platforms, as well as BBC Worldwide as a digital comedy producer. Plus he was the story producer for the West End run of the popular international stage show, Mortified Live.
Kirsty is an actress, character comedian, producer and writer. Her stage credits include, Nick Helm’s, I think You Stink, Emma & The Prince and The Gym. TV & Film credits include, BBC’s SAS Survival Guide, E4’s Mad on Chelsea, and Lady Brently’s End. Plus she was a Funny Women Awards Finalist.
This episode’s topics are: WD-40, Cycling & Animals that Fart.
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It’s a Monkey Toast reunion, as David is welcomed by two of the best improvisers in the world, Lisa Merchant & Jan Caruana.
Lisa Merchant is an award winning improviser, actor and teacher. She has taught improvisation all over the world and was a regular on the nightly improvised TV show, Train 48, where she portrayed Brenda. Other film and TV credits include, Murdoch Mysteries, TallBoyz and Private Eyes.
Jan Caruana is an award winning improviser, actor and writer. An alumna of the Second City Mainstage, her acting credits include, Mean Girls, Kim’s Convience and Baroness Von Sketch Show. Writing credits include, Sunnyside, Next Step and Because News.
This episode’s topics are, Sidney Poitier, Beer and Hawaii.
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David is once again joined by guests from across the pond, Brendan Murphy & Sadie Clark.
Brendan is an award-winning actor, writer and voice-over artist. He’s toured all over North America in the stage show, Potted Potter. His solo parody shows include, Friend (The One With Gunther) and Buffy: Revamped. Film & TV credits include, Man vs. Bee, Broadchurch and Spiderman: Far From Home.
Sadie is an award winning actor, writer and improviser. Her debut play, Algorithms, won the TV Foundation’s Stage to Screen Award in 2020 and had sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, and in London at The Pleasance & Soho Theatres. It was commissioned by Audible to be adapted into a six part audio comedy-drama series which is available now (I can’t add a link, as Audible is subscriber only).
This episodes topics are, The Clash, Arcade Games & Jamaica.
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This week, David is joined by two contestants involved with the CBC Gem, Hulu & Nickelodeon family comedy, Overlord and The Underwoods, Darryl Hinds & Anthony Q. Farrell.
An award winning actor, writer and improviser, Darryl stars as dad, Jim Underwood. An alumni of The Second City Mainstage, he’s known in Canada for his recurring roles on Odd Squad, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and the Royal Canadian Air Farce’s New Years specials.
Anthony is Overlord’s co-creator and showrunner. His writing and producing credits include, the US version of The Office, The Parker Andersons/Amelia Parker and the Bafta winning, The Secret Life of Boys.
This episodes topics are, Canada & The United States, Airports & Tableware.
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This week, our contestants join David all the way from across the pond, where they have their own BBC3 sketch show. Individually they are, Celeste Dring & Freya Parker, better known as, Lazy Susan.
Celeste is an actress, writer, producer and sketch artist whose Film & TV credits include, The Bubble, The Windsors, Wanderlust and This Country. Freya is actress, writer, producer and comedian, whose film & television credits include, The Mash Report, Jurassic World Dominion and Wonka.
This episodes topics are, Japan, Maple Syrup and Rats.
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It’s Couples Week, as host David Shore, welcomes Aurora Browne & Kris Siddiqi.
Kris is an award winning actor, writer/producer, comedian and improviser. An alumni of the Second City Mainstage, he’s one of the creators and stars of CBC Gem’s hilarious, Bit Playas. Other film and TV credits include, Molly’s Game, Baroness Von Sketch Show and Titians.
Aurora is an award winning actress, writer/producer and improviser. An alumna of the Second City Mainstage, she’s also one of the creators and stars of CBC’s hit, Baroness Von Sketch Show. Other film and TV credits include, Run The Burbs, The Ron James Show & Lars and The Real Girl. Topics on this episode are, Henry Ford, Lakes & Lady Gaga.Snow White, directed by Aurora Browne, runs from, Nov. 7, 2022 – January 7, 2023. For more info or tickets, click here.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
