Interviews with big names and up-and-coming talent from the movie, television, music, and comedy worlds.
Comedian Big Daddy Tazz hosts his 14th annual fundraiser this Saturday in Winnipeg
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • January 22, 2015 @ 5:47am
Big Daddy Tazz has been performing at comedy clubs and theatres across Canada and beyond for years, making people laugh about the mundane while also opening up about his own struggles with bi-polar disorder.
Interview: Canadian rock band Mounties (Hawksley Workman, Steve Bays, and Ryan Dahle) - Part I
Posted by: Paul Little • December 25, 2014 @ 9:46pm
Mounties is a Canadian "supergroup" (in a quaint, Canadian sort of way) consisting of Hawksley Workman, Ryan Dahle (of Limblifter), and Steve Bays (of Hot Hot Heat).
TIFF 2014 Interview: Thorsteinn Bachmann
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • October 5, 2014 @ 6:42pm
It's commonly said that actors appear smaller in real life than they do on the screen. However, such is decidedly not the case with Thorsteinn Bachmann, star of the acclaimed Icelandic film, Life in a Fishbowl.
TIFF 2014 Interview: Omar Joseph Hady
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 24, 2014 @ 2:43pm
Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage published Cockroach: A Novel, in 2008 to generally positive reviews and even snagged a few literary awards.
In a small patio nestled in a high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto, I sit across from Albert Shin. Despite the periodic sounds of honking from below and the roar of planes from above, the spot is peaceful, illuminated by the mid-morning sun. The young Canadian writer-director is friendly and informal, with a boyish face and irrepressible grin.
Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: New York-based stand-up comic Phil Hanley
Posted by: Paul Little • April 9, 2014 @ 3:25pm
Stand-up comic Phil Hanley has had a great last couple years since moving from Vancouver to New York to take his comedy career to the next level. He's appeared multiple times on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, as well as shown up on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central.
Interview: Comic Debra DiGiovanni of Match Game and Video on Trial is a "Late Bloomer"
Posted by: Paul Little • January 27, 2014 @ 10:17pm
The first thing you realize when watching Debra DiGiovanni -- whether it's on stage or during her appearances on television shows such as Comedy's Match Game or Much Music's Video on Trial -- is that she's ridiculously funny.
Interview: Billy Reid, creative force behind YouTube children's hit "Pancake Manor"
Posted by: Paul Little • January 27, 2014 @ 5:10am
In this new era of music, when iTunes downloads and YouTube views are just as important as (or, one could argue, more important than) album sales and radio plays, it's quite the feat for any musician to have their videos played nearly 30 million times on YouTube.
Interview: Match Game's Darrin Rose crossing Canada with a cast of comics for Just for Laughs
Posted by: Paul Little • November 9, 2013 @ 6:21pm
Just for Laughs is a comedy institution -- an iconic name not just in Canada but around the world.
Interview: Irish stand-up comic Tommy Tiernan talks about the role of the "fool" and why he relishes it
Posted by: Paul Little • April 12, 2013 @ 3:16am
Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan has been performing stand-up since the early 90s. Around his home country, he's achieved monster success, to the point of being considered comedy's answer to Bono (who, according to Tiernan, should be Ireland's answer to the papacy). But around the rest of the world, even places where he has achieved success, his reputation is as a controversial comic.
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