The host of this show seems harmless. He's the guy from Murdoch Mysteries (the Newfoundlander policeman) and CBC has brought him over to host this show too.
In the show he goes to a small town, meets some of the people and then does a stand-up comedy show for them with shots of them all laughing their heads off.
The problem is this show is not actually funny and I'm sure to these people he really is a cut-up and the jokes (about them and their town) are super hilarious to them but to everyone else it's just basic inside jokes.
Plus the obligatory jokes about Ottawa and how the Toronto Maple Leafs suck and all the other basic jokes we've all heard a million times before. Nothing special here.
The people all seem nice and CBC is definitely following its mandate to show different people in different parts of the country but I wish they would also have a mandate to actually give us funny jokes. After years of lame shows like Air Farce they seem to just be continuing their efforts to make unfunny throwaway garbage like this. Whatever happened to actually trying to make funny shows, like Kids in the Hall?
In the show he goes to a small town, meets some of the people and then does a stand-up comedy show for them with shots of them all laughing their heads off.
The problem is this show is not actually funny and I'm sure to these people he really is a cut-up and the jokes (about them and their town) are super hilarious to them but to everyone else it's just basic inside jokes.
Plus the obligatory jokes about Ottawa and how the Toronto Maple Leafs suck and all the other basic jokes we've all heard a million times before. Nothing special here.
The people all seem nice and CBC is definitely following its mandate to show different people in different parts of the country but I wish they would also have a mandate to actually give us funny jokes. After years of lame shows like Air Farce they seem to just be continuing their efforts to make unfunny throwaway garbage like this. Whatever happened to actually trying to make funny shows, like Kids in the Hall?