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	Morag Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morag Smith is a Canadian television comedian, who with her husband Steve Smith, performed as a comedy duo in several television series.
		This show was produced for one season, and then Steve and Morag returned to sketch comedy with The Comedy Mill until 1991.
		Following the end of The Comedy Mill, Morag retired from active performing as Steve went on to produce The Red Green Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morag_Smith (190 words)

	The Comedy Mill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comedy Mill was a Canadian sketch comedy series, which aired from 1986 to 1991 on Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH, and through syndication on other Canadian television stations.
		The show starred the husband and wife comedy duo of Steve Smith and Morag Smith.
		After The Comedy Mill ended its run, Morag retired from performing and Steve launched his most famous series, The Red Green Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Comedy_Mill (147 words)

	Steve Smith (comedian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Steve Smith (born 1946, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor.
		Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo, and then worked a variety of jobs.
		In 1979, he began to produce, write and star in Smith & Smith, a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/s/st/steve_smith__comedian_.html (263 words)

	Stand-Up Comedy FAQ - Faq.txt [01/01] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is mostly a place where stand-up comedians, agents, club owners, bookers, comedy writers, comedy fans, and an occasional doorman, sound guy or entertainment attorney hang out and discuss performing, the state of comedy, and other issues pertaining to stand-up comedy.
		Comedy writers are encouraged to use alt.comedy.standup for that purpose.
		Comedy Periodicals The Comedy USA Guide (A must for any comedian working the road) I'm not sure which address is correct.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/comedy-faq/standup (8973 words)

	erbistock_mill
		As we arrived back at the mill, Jenny my ex-girlfriend (we had been going out together some time before, but had finished with each other and remained friends) and her best friend Jemi, had arrived there and were unloading their car.
		Even though it had been almost impossible to get her to leave the mill in the beginning, she was to scared to go back.
		She knew John was working late at the mill, and was on her way there in the first place, to see him.
	www.geocities.com /jade_key/erbistock_mill.html (5604 words)

	comedy
		Comedy is a great release for the "tension that builds up from daily life," Gay says.
		At Swarthmore, Gotcsik was a member of the improv comedy group Vertigo-Go (see sidebar) from her sophomore to senior years, traveling twice to the National College Comedy Festival.
		Executives from Comedy Central saw her performance and were taken with her "tongue-in-cheek" wit.
	www.swarthmore.edu /bulletin/currentissue/comedy.html (4540 words)

	ENTERTAINMENT / Comedy night a smash hit in Mill Valley
		The San Lorenzo native, who honed his comedy chops in the '80s at San Francisco clubs such as the Other Cafe and the Holy City Zoo (the same trenches that gave his pals Williams and Dana Carvey their start), spent 18 years in Los Angeles paying his dues.
		Stand-up comedy became something he did on the side -- until he was handed a pink slip last summer, something he takes delight in poking ferocious fun at in his act now.
		The owners of comedy clubs such as Cobbs and the Green Room at the Cannery in San Francisco have given Pitta recommendations, and he is receiving hundreds of e-mails and phone calls.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/11/NBGM2B43VN1.DTL (1333 words)

	Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management: Taking your cues from comedy - ad sales - column
		In one comedy improv game I played, we were asked to re-create how we would go about preparing a meal 300 years ago.
		Comedy improv not only teaches you how to think creatively, but also how to think on your feet.
		In comedy improv, you may have no idea what you are about to say or do, yet you must say and do it with 100 percent commitment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n2_v20/ai_9355878 (1515 words)

	Comedy Films
		Another popular comedy film team of the 40s to the early/mid 50s, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, were a variation on the Laurel and Hardy team.
		Sexual comedies were successively enhanced by the appearance of Marilyn Monroe at her prime in The Seven Year Itch (1955) as a Manhattan apartment dweller, and as the lead singer in an all-girls band in director/co-writer Billy Wilder's hilarious and subversive adult comedy
		Screen comedies declined in number and quality in the 1950s, contributing to the rise of TV situation comedies ('sitcoms') and variety shows, and stand-up comedy routines/sketches.
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms4.html (1896 words)

	club comedy improv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		CITY Improv performs lightning fast comedy competition, all improvised and unscripted...
		Comedy Sports is an improvazational comedy club, with a sports theme.
		This is the first of three nights of improv comedy around town.
	www.comedy.movies21.info /club-comedy-improv (581 words)

	Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In her 2002 comedy "Amy's O" (also called "Amy's Orgasm"), Davis plays Amy Mandell, the bestselling self-help author of "Why Love Doesn't Work", which is full of her theories on the fundamentally unstable nature of relationships--only she herself hasn't been in one in years.
		The outcome is obvious, but veteran comedy director Jonathan Lynn keeps things percolating with casual flair, especially when a lovely lounge singer (Beyoncé Knowles, in a nicely downplayed costarring role) agrees to rejuvenate Gooding's choir, which teams rapping convicts, a boozy barfly (on organ), and bible-thumping prudes.
		This amiable fl comedy, cowritten by Cusack and directed by Jonathan Demme protégé George Armitage ("Miami Blues"), has the feel of Demme's "Something Wild" and "Married to the Mob"--which is to say its humor is dark and brightly colored at the same time.
	www.kauwe.com /dream/dvd/Comedy (9278 words)

	American Politics Journal -- Can We Be Funny During a War?
		I am a comedy writer by trade, though many of you have written me in the past with some legitimate challenges to that fact.
		Since comedy is so subjective, with the public having a diverse composition of funny bone, the judgment must always be mine.
		In comedy there is a collective and unwritten law that "nothing is out of bounds." Even cancer has found their way into standup and film as grist for the comedy mill.
	www.americanpolitics.com /20030325Young.html (517 words)

	Situation Comedy
		There's no point in writing a spec episode of a silly, bad or derivative situation comedy, because no one who might care to hire you is the least bit interested in reading specs for that sort of show.
		Situation comedies are structured either as two-act or three-act tales.
		Again we face the surprising notion that comedy is less about laughs than about willful, perverse destruction of a character's serenity and peace.
	www.vorza.com /situationcomedy.htm (5293 words)

	Mill Mountain Theatre Homepage millmountain.org
		Welcome to our 42nd season at Mill Mountain Theatre—a season of exploration and celebration with its dramas, musicals, original works, readings, discussions, classes and touring productions.
		We continue to grow because you continue to believe in our mission to inspire and enrich the lives of children and adults in our community and beyond.
		Theatre is an essential part of the livability of any community, Mill Mountain Theatre is grateful to all of its corporate partners for their outstanding generosity.
	www.millmountain.org (384 words)

	Welcome To Mooseport Movie Review
		Politics can make for great grist for the comedy mill, particularly when the writing is sharp (see Dave or The American President).
		The new comedy Welcome to Mooseport is everything that one might expect, and that's the problem.
		This isn't to say that this new political comedy is horrible, it’s just that all of it’s sharp edges have been sanded away, which dilutes the comedy down to about the strength of Utah beer, (what little comedy there is - I hasten to add).
	www.zboneman.com /movies/749.html (735 words)

	For The Opera House, Comedy Is "All In The Timing"
		For The Opera House, Comedy Is "All In The Timing"
		The edgy comedy, directed by Brian Clay Luedloff, offers a series of six scenes in which characters struggle with a world slightly askew.
		The unusual characters include a trio of monkeys at typewriters, Trotsky facing the inevitability of his death, and a fellow trapped in a "Philadelphia state of mind" (where apparently the service is terrible).
	boothbayregister.maine.com /2004-07-22/comedy_play.html (392 words)

	SHECKYmagazine.com Standup Comedy...Seriously!
		Omnipop's T.J. MARKWALTER, comic MARGOT BLACK and comedy legend JOHN TRUESON prior to seating for the Comedy Night in Canada show at the Comedy Nest.
		The stories in Montreal's English language daily provide the native comics with grist for the comedy mill.
		It is especially irksome when, for example, Lee describes Montrealer Rick Miller as being "too good for a comedy fest." The implication is obvious and not very good for the rest of the performers.
	www.sheckymagazine.com /jfld.htm (926 words)

	Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born and raised in Los Angeles, LOUIS KATZ’ comedy career began at the age of 9 when he submitted several jokes to “The Tonight Show,” two of which were read on air by Johnny Carson.
		When Louis moved to Northern California to attend UC Berkeley, he continued to pursue comedy as a writer/performer with the Theater Rice sketch comedy troupe.
		With smart and sophisticated material, his comedy lives somewhere on the edge of the streets and the cerebral.
	www.142throckmortontheatre.com /eventcat.php?catid=12&catname=Comedy (1569 words)

	Me & Max (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Me & Max was a situation comedy produced for Canadian television station CHCH in 1985.
		Evolving out of the sketch comedy series Smith & Smith, Me & Max starred husband-and-wife comedy team Steve Smith and Morag Smith, and their kids Max and David.
		The series lasted for 26 episodes, at which time Steve and Morag Smith went on to produce another sketch comedy series, The Comedy Mill.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Me-&-Max.htm (213 words)

	Deuxième vie (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From the appearance of Maria de Medeiros in the 1998 part of the film onwards, cheap sentiment is added to the film's other sins, building up to a nonsensical and unwatchably cheesy finale.
		Talented comedy actors such as Lhermitte and Semoun are apparently present just to fill out the cast list.
		They serve no purpose in the plot and are not given the opportunity to be funny.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0216522 (225 words)

	mdb » the movie database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This run-of-the-mill romantic comedy sees loser Shaun (Simon Pegg) spend one day to get back together with girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), repair his relationship with mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton) and step-dad Philip (Bill Nighy), and still get down the pub for a drink.
		Comic relief is provided by wacky friend/sidekick Ed (Nick Frost); as with most films in this genre, most of the background cast are dull, lifeless, and frequently monosyllabic.
		While the film does contain a serious element — Shaun's bar confronation with his mother is almost certainly indicative of a history of domestic violence — it does, by and large, conform to romantic comedy stereotypes.
	rephrase.net /box/mdb?id=47 (118 words)

	Edinburgh 2002: Jason John Whitehead: Immigrant
		BBC Comedy Award winner and festival regular returns to Edinburgh with his first full-length solo show.
		For this is an easy-going anecdotal meander through the life of the be-dreaded Sideshow Bob lookalike.
		Tales of his time in the remoter parts of Nova Scotia and more populous regions Scotland, working in a skate rink, trying to promote tourism in Dundee or trying his hand at snowboarding - all are grist for his comedy mill.
	www.chortle.co.uk /edfest2002/immigrant.html (286 words)

	GENERAL MEMBERS' CONFERENCE
		His television career started with Smith and Smith, a sketch comedy series starring himself with his partner and wife, Morag.
		The show is seen on CBC in Canada, in the U.S. on over 87 public television stations, in Australia on the Comedy Network and in Israel on cable.
		The lure of performance was too great and soon he had created a citywide comedy contest, and Ottawa's first homegrown sketch troupe.
	www.actratoronto.com /conference2/bios2.htm (1146 words)

	Eye - COMEDY: `Don't give up your day job' - 01.18.96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Torontonians, or at least that fraction of society that is enamored of make-overs and home furnishings, will recognize 42-year-old Steve Brinder from his days as a personality on CITY-TV's CityLine and Breakfast Television.
		The comedy rumor mill is churning heavily about Andre-Philippe Gagnon.
		It appears David Mirvish was impressed by the talented impressionist's three shows at the O'Keefe in November.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.18.96/ARTS/co0118.htm (589 words)

	Comedy
		The Divine Comedy is fascinating, incisive and reads like a real adventure.
		Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
		Comedy 10 Movie DVD Box Set with stars like Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, and many more!!!
	www.growinglifestyle.co.uk /uk/j235939 (385 words)

	Steve Smith (comedian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH, and syndicated to other television stations in Canada.
		After just one season, however, Steve and Morag went back to sketch comedy, creating the new series The Comedy Mill, which ran for four years.
		He also writes a syndicated newspaper column as Red Green, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Steve_Smith_(comedian) (243 words)

	KNOCKOUT COMEDY
		The Mill At The Pier, Wigan 2004
		Buzz Hawkins takes time out from his new Bradshaws theatre tour to perform at the Knockout Comedy night at The Mill at The Pier, Wigan.
		Smug Will do for Comedy What De Niro did for Taxi Driving...
	homepage.mac.com /smartr/Personal1.html (58 words)

	The Newsroom - Season III
		Peter is an eight time Gemini Award nominee and a three-time winner in the category of Best Performance in a Comedy Program or Series for his roles as Jim Walcott, as well as for his role as Alan Roy in Made In Canada.
		He still dabbles in stand-up comedy and can be occasionally seen around Toronto.
		Of her experience on Ken Finkleman's comedy with a cult following, The Newsroom III, Jarvis notes, "it was a blast." When she's not putting her keen eye and nimble hand to test, she can be found gallivanting with friends, refurbishing her penthouse apartment and living each day to its fullest.
	www.thenewsroom.ca /cast.html (1639 words)

	cbc.ca Interact chat with Steve Smith, host of The Red Green Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Steve has had a comedy series on the air for over 20 years.
		What are your thoughts about Canadian comedy versus US or UK comedy.
		US comedy comes right across the room, sits down beside you and slaps you in the face.
	cbc.ca /interact/chats/steve_smith.html (3345 words)

	Welcome to Men On Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was during her time with Comedy Mill that Mag developed a passion for working in a creative atmosphere that is playful, intimate and expansive.
		Mag's credits were pointing her toward a career in comedy when Kevin Sullivan stepped in again and cast her in the dramatic role of Olivia King in what was to become Canada's most-loved English-language program in the history of Canadian television; The Road to Avonlea.
		In addition to the mistakes, Mag's comedy background provides surprising relief in the staid world of do-it-yourself television.
	www.menonwomen.com /who.htm (570 words)

	Ben's Mill
		The face behind the evil Lord Voldemort is finally revealed, and it's the devilishly handsome Ralph Fiennes.
		Ben Thresher runs his old-time water-powered mill just the way it's been done since the mill was built in the nineteenth century.
		Local farmers use his mill for tubs, sleds, and tools that they need, and this pioneering piece of old technology is part of New England's folk history.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/bens_mill?rtp=1 (260 words)

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