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The Second City: Improvisational Theatre, Second City Television, Edith Prickley, Compass Players, the Great White North, Eric Forsberg

The Second City: Improvisational Theatre, Second City Television, Edith Prickley, Compass Players, the Great White North, Eric Forsberg


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Improvisational theatre, Second City Television, Edith Prickley, Compass Players, The Great White North, Eric Forsberg, Josephine Forsberg, The Players Workshop, The Second City Detroit, The Second City's Next Comedy Legend, The Second City Training Center, Godshow, Tim Sims Playhouse, The Old Fire Hall. Excerpt: Second City Television (SCTV) is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. The basic premise of the show is that "SCTV" is an independent television station in the city of Melonville, in an unknown American state-though the popular Great White North skit, with its inside jokes about the government-mandated Canadian content, suggests a border town with an inferiority complex. Rather than broadcasting the usual TV rerun fare, the station produces a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming. This can range from a soap opera called "The Days of the Week" ("Monday... Tuesday... Wednesday... these are... the days of the week"), to game shows like "Shoot At The Stars" in which celebrities are literally shot at like targets in a shooting gallery, to full blown movie spoofs like "Play it Again, Bob" in which Woody Allen (Rick Moranis) tries to get Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) to star in his next film. A typical episode of SCTV would present a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout their programming day. This would mean a given episode could contain everything from SCTV news broadcasts to sitcoms, dramas, talk shows, kids shows, and/or game shows. Episodes would also feature a range of SCTV-produced promos and commercials, such as spots for "Al Peck's Used Fruit" or "Shower In A Briefcase," or a PSA which helpfully describes "Seven Signs You May Already Be Dead." Also seen fairly frequently (particularl...



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  • ISBN-13: 9781156637548
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156637546
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Improvisational Theatre, Second City Television, Edith Prickley, Compass Players, the Great White North, Eric Forsberg
  • Width: 189 mm


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