Recommending comedy is always a risky business. A comedy that might leave one person rolling on the floor in a puddle of laughing tears may leave the other person stone cold. But I’m willing to take that risk. I can’t guarantee you’ll find these three recommendations funny, but if you don’t, well, that’s your loss.
To have not done a podcast with Kenneth Welsh — what an opportunity lost. Welsh died May 5 at 80 years of age. He burned so bright for so many years that 80 seems both impossibly long and way too short for such an incendiary life. You could not cover television in Canada throughout the
Welsh and Chernick, part of deep bench of Canadian talent on TBLP I had more fun than a senator with an unlimited expense account last fall in Ottawa on the set of The Best Laid Plans. The six-part series, based on Terry Fallis’ political satire, premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBC before moving