“The goal was to piss on Cavendish and everything they believe,” says Mark Little. “It’s government-funded revenge.” His new sitcom Cavendish, premiering January 8 on CBC, stars Little and former Picnicface colleague Andrew Bush, also executive producers The show revolves around the adventures of Andy (Bush) and Mark (Little), brothers who return to Cavendish, Prince […]
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Everyone’s Famous and the viral payday
Everyone’s Famous New episodes Thursdays everyonesfamous.ca It was 1968 when Andy Warhol said everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes, and he died before the modern internet was invented–he never knew how true this throwaway line would become. The Halifax-produced web series Everyone’s Famous, a third of the way into its second season, knows what’s […]
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Q&A with Pat Thornton
Have you noticed Halifax feels different lately? It’s probably because Toronto-based comedian Pat Thornton is no longer walking our streets, drawing sweet Haligonian laughter from our citizens and shooting scenes for Andrew Bush, Walter Forsyth and Angus Swantee‘s new comedy web series Everyone’s Famous. With 30 minutes left in the city, Thornton, star of Bite.ca’s […]
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Good Morning Halifax
Mark Little’s contribution to the Halifax comedy scene spread out considerably with Picnicface’s TV (their woefully short-lived Comedy Network show), movie (Roller Town) and literary (Picnicface’s Canada) takeover. Since that boom, some of the members have moved on to bigger, more concrete pastures in Toronto, but home is where the heart is. Back in town […]
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Halifax comedy on the laugh track
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Monday night at Gus’ Pub is a quiet affair, though the tables are dotted with tiny beer glasses. Chairs are filled with a mostly hoodie-wearing crowd. The disco twinkle of […]
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Film Fest following
Among movie folk, there’s a ritual: Sit down with the Atlantic Film Festival catalogue and/or website, and plot out every moviegoing second (from September 17 to 26), considering travel time, crowd sizes and the chance of films actually coming back. We hoard non-perishables and determine which lanyard ribbon brings out the colour in our Vitamin […]