Edmonton’s very funny
Sometimes, when the winters are long and cold, you need to find
There's too much funny here!
ways to amuse yourself and those bundled up nearby.
Thankfully, that means there are plenty of funny people around Edmonton to keep us all smiling. (Maybe not smiling insanely like me, over there –>)
If you’re not familiar with The Gateway, the University of Alberta’s student newspaper you should get familiar. It’s a quality paper.
Oh, and twice a year they do a great issue where they skewer all kinds of things with sarcasm, wit and plenty of foul language. I’ll note that a few of the images in the newest issue of The Getaway are really, really NOT SAFE FOR WORK. But they take on the University (of course) and issues happening right now in higher learning, plus they zing us online folks so it’s good times. (Again, images are NSFW.)
The other bit of funny I’ve got to pass along today is the awesome news I heard this morning on CBC Edmonton. The Irrelevant Show is coming back to radio!
This was/is a sketch comedy show recorded live at The Varscona Theatre. (Though, future recording locations may change.) For an introduction to what you might hear, check out the Jane Austen Drinking Game.
More information on the 2010 schedule of recording from the Radio Active page. It also explains why host Peter Brown will be off the air more. Tickets will be going on sale for next year’s recordings soon.
They’ve also got a New Year’s Eve special, which will surely be hilarious.
Do you absolutely, super-a lot, love CBC radio?
And if you know stuff about said CBC Radio, do you want to show off your knowledge?
If so, have I got the event for you!
Being the media powerhouse that we are, here at the edmontonian (Now Edmonton’s 87th most popular news blog with “Edmonton” in the title.), we get e-mails and media releases and ideas coming our way all the time. Including, a lot of ideas from people who become contributors with those very ideas.
Here’s one from the CBC mothership, about a future episode of Radio One’s show “Go!“:
The show will be all about finding the Ultimate CBC Radio Family.
We’re searching for an Edmonton-area family that has grown up with CBC Radio. It is part of the Canadian experience for them. The parents love CBC. The kids love it.
Does that describe anyone you know? If so, do you think they would like to be on GO!? They would take part in a CBC Radio trivia contest. It will be a great opportunity to have some fun and show their love for CBC Radio.
The program will be taped live at 7:00 PM on Friday, November 6th at John L Haar Theatre at Grant MacEwan College University.
So…is that your family?
Do you wake up to the smooth sounds of Ron Wilson, ride to work with The Current, pick up the kids while laughing with Peter Brown and tap your feet to the best news song in the country (the intro to As it Happens)?
Then stop reading this, head to Go!’s website and get on the gameshow already. Or just e-mail us and we’ll pass your contact information along to the show’s producer.
(Side bar: If you just like trivia in general, why not grab 3-7 of your friends and come out to Thursday night trivia at Ceili’s?)
Interview with CBC Radio
G’morning, team. If you were up at the crack of dawn like I was (I went to the Starbucks on Whyte at 6 a.m. and I’m pretty sure the barista was trying to kill me, but that’s a story for another day), then you may have caught our man Jeff and Twitter-hero Mack D. Male on CBC Radio, discussing the phased closure of the City Centre airport, and the role that social networking played in the debate.
If you didn’t, GUESS WHAT?! I have an audio recording of TERRIBLE quality that you can listen to right here. I’m deeply sorry that it’s stupid quiet, but I hope you’ll understand that I have been up since 5 a.m. and have second degree coffee burns all over my hands so I was a little ALL OVER THE PLACE.
**Thanks to @Derjis for cleaning up the original god-awful mp3 we had.
