Canadian humour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Another major thread tends to be political and cultural satire: television shows such as CODCO, Royal Canadian Air Farce, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, monologuists such as Yvon Deschamps and Rick Mercer and writers, including Michel Tremblay, Will Ferguson and EricNicol draw their inspiration from Canadian and Québécois society and politics.
Another trend revels in absurdity, demonstrated by television series like The Kids in the Hall and The Frantics, and musician-comedians such as The Arrogant Worms, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and Bowser and Blue.
Mitchell, Pierre Berton and Miriam Toews are all acclaimed writers of mainstream literature who have also been acknowledged for using humour and wit in their writing.
EricNicol's wryly funny, sharply observed new book on the joys and terrors of cottage life on Saturna Island, in BC's Strait of Georgia.
Part loopy guidebook, part madcap how-to manual, part fractured history, When Nature Calls tells you everything you've always wanted to know about cottaging, and then some.
Whether he's chopping wood, soaking up the splendid solitude or shopping for vegetables in his own backyard Safeway, Nicol cracks wise and wonderful in a deliciously funny escape that may just cause you to look in the classifieds for your own piece of heaven on earth, if you haven't already bought it.
With modest bits of animal ears, tails, facial hair and the like, Jones cleverly supplants Grahame's quaint creatures with live actors.
Steve Coogan is the gentle, unassuming Mole; Eric Idle is the nose-twitching Rat; Nicol Williamson is the bombastic Badger and Antony Sher is the conniving Chief Weasel.
Best of all, though, is Jones as the plump and foolish, but endearing, Mr.
Powell's Books - When Nature Calls: Life at a Gulf Island Cottage by Eric Nicol(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
EricNicol' s wryly funny, sharply observed new book on the joys and terrors of cottage life on Saturna Island, in BC' s Strait of Georgia.
Part loopy guidebook, part madcap how-to manual, part fractured history, When Nature Calls tells you everything you' ve always wanted to know about cottaging, and then some.
Whether he' s chopping wood, soaking up the splendid solitude or shopping for vegetables in his own backyard Safeway, Nicol cracks wise and wonderful in a deliciously funny escape that may just cause you to look in the classifieds for your own piece of heaven on earth, if you haven' t already bought it.
Roll Over, Big Toben by Victor M. Sandoval, ISBN 1558854010 And When Nature Calls: Life at a Gulf Island Cottage by EricNicol, ISBN 1550172107
When Nature Calls: Life at a Gulf Island Cottage by EricNicol, ISBN 1550172107
EricNicol's wryly funny, sharply observed new book on the joys and terrors of cottage life on Saturna Island, in BC's Strait of Georgia.
Part loopy guidebook, part madcap how-to manual, part fractured history, When Nature Calls tells you everything you've always wanted to know about cottaging, and then some.
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Jim Nicol - Reviewscout.com(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Philip V. Allingham, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
In The Astounding Long-lost Letters of Dickens of the Mounted (1989) Canadian satirist EricNicol deals humorously with Canadian-American-British copyright disagreements in the chapter in which Charles Dickens's son, N. Mounted Police Inspector Frank Dickens, encounters the victor of the Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull, at his encampment on the Canadian Prairie:
Sitting Bull nodded stoically, and said: "You too are Shaganosh [British, which the chief asserts himself to be by virtue of his people's remaining loyal to the British crown in the War of 1812], Inspector Dickens.
Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Fiction (French): Victor-Lévy beaulieu, Don Quichotte de la démanche; Poetry or Drama (French): Nicole brossard, Mécanique jongleuse suivi de Masculin grammaticale; Nonfiction (French): Louise Dechêne, Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle; Poetry or Drama (English): Ralph gustafson, Fire on Stone; Fiction (English): Margaret laurence, The Diviners; Nonfiction (English): Charles ritchie, The Siren Years.
Recognizing and celebrating excellence in Manitoba writing and publishing, and intended to place the talent and accomplishments of Manitoba writers in the public eye, these include a number of prizes both for writers and book designers.
Short Fiction: Eric Greenway, The House of the Lamp; Poetry: Suzanne Longbottom, Hitler Found Grandpa; Non-fiction: Warren Cariou, Letting Air In; Children's Literature: Edward Heidt, Emily's Pencil; Long Drama MS: Kit Brennan, Spring Planting.
