where my canadian comediennes at?

So, Vanity Fair is running an article on funny women. Because women can't be funny, apparently. (Vanity Fair again...)

Blah, blah, blah. Humour is so subjective. I mean, I find sassy black women high-larious, but some don't. I think Russell Peters zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........

Anyway, where are my Canadian comediennes at? Besides the women on CBC and, like, Caroline Rhea, why do I not know them like I know Tina Fey, Amy Sedaris, and Margaret Cho? (Or Kathy Griffin, or Roseanne, or Betty White, or Bea Arthur, or Amy Poehler, or Maya Rudolph, or Kristen Wiig, or...)

(I know why, silly, it's rhetorical. Someone write something about Canadian funny women, stat!)

fashion week starts monday

Fall 2008 line is coming out. Check out the schedule here. I'll be checking out Lucian Matis's show, for sure.

It's being held at Nathan Phillip Square, but do you know where it'd be even more awesome? The McLaughlin Planetarium...

how does wikipedia actually work?

So, by chance, I stumbled onto Wikipedia where I found out my dream future View Canada panel member Tasha Kheiriddin has a page up now! This is excellent news as it increases her visibility... (Of course, hearing the drama over at the real View, I can't imagine actually wanting a Canadian version now...)

However, reading the entry, I found that it wasn't that much more different from the entry I tried to put out for her that had been rejected. How exactly does Wikipedia work? It sometimes seems like just a series of random bleeps and bloops that eventually work itself out...

haiku on the bus

The man in front sits
unaware of his presence
bandage on his coat

cbc cans jpod, mvp, and intelligence

Only The Border and Sophie survive the heavily promoted winter schedule, according to the Globe and Mail.

The Border has scored in ratings and clearly resonates with anxious Canadians, although the show itself is all issue and zero characters.

Sophie has survived, no doubt, in part due to being sold to American station ABC Family.

Being shown on an American station didn't save Intelligence, although the show would arrive re-made for Fox, rather than the original Canadian version. (Uh, ick?)

MVP (pictured above) tried really hard to flash lots of Canadian skin to attract viewers but I guess this was no Canadian Footballer Wive$. (It did, however, attract lots of young viewers, a producer for the show notes.)

And poor jPod. I know someone who hated the first 3 episodes and finally recommended the 6th and 7th episodes as watchable. And now? Ka-put. I guess the show should be retitled "jWalkman."

As well, note that the cancellations were all for hour-long shows, which cost more to produce. I assume a soap opera like MVP could justify the length (more booty shots), but I'm not really sure why jPod had to be an hour long, especially when 30 Rock and The Office manage to supercondense laughs into 30 minutes.

So, now that the CBC has failed with its Desperate Housewives and Office clones, it's back to more Little Mosque, right? (Look at Canadian films like Away From Her, Eastern Promises, and, fine, I'll include Juno, where are our great Canadian TV shows?)

since the south can't use the n-word, they switch to the c-word

The C-word being "Canadian," of course. So, reports the National Post that finds bigots calling black people "Canadians" because they can't use the n-word anymore. White men can't jump, but they sure find new ways to sink low.