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47 Funny Guys

Terry Fallis Ontario	Ken Finkleman* Ontario	Anosh Irani British Columbia
Drew Hayden Taylor Ontario

Terry Fallis, Ontario

Terry Fallis’s stint as president of the student union at McMaster University translated into a career in politics. Working as an assistant to Cabinet Ministers at Queen’s Park and in Ottawa has provided him with plenty of material for his political satires. His new book, The High Road, is a sequel to his first novel, The Best Laid Plans, which won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Read more

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Ken Finkleman*, Ontario

Ken Finkleman is a television and film writer, producer and actor. Although he is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series The Newsroom, he also produced Comedy Central’s Married Life and, for the CBC, Foolish Heart, Foreign Objects, More Tears and At the Hotel. He is currently at work on a new television series, Good Dog, which will air on The Movie Network in early 2011. Noah’s Turn is his first novel. Read more

* We regret that Ken Finkleman will not be appearing at event 65. The Afternoon Tea.
We regret that Ken Finkleman will not be appearing at the festival.

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Anosh Irani, British Columbia

Anosh Irani was born in Bombay and moved to Vancouver in 1998. He is the author of the acclaimed novels The Cripple and His Talismans and The Song of Kahunsha. His play, Bombay Black, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2006 for Best New Play or New Musical, and his latest play, My Granny the Goldfish, performed to enthusiastic reviews at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver this past spring. His new novel is Dahanu Road. Read more

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Drew Hayden Taylor, Ontario

Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, has had over 70 of his award-winning plays produced. He has also written fiction, articles, and television scripts, as well as The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel, a novel for teens novel about an Ojibway vampire. In addition, he has published two successful non-fiction books, Me Sexy, which explores Native sexuality, and Me Funny, which looks at Native humour. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is his first novel for adults. Read more

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Host: Charles Demers
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 8:00pm
Waterfront Theatre
$19.00

Drew Hayden Taylor describes himself as “half Ojibwa, half Caucasian. That makes me an occasion. A memorable occasion. A special occasion.” Be prepared for a special occasion as four very funny fellows take the stage. Terry Fallis’ first novel about political life in Canada won The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. Ken Finkleman, best known as the writer, creator and producer of CBC TV’s The Newsroom, has now written Noah’s Turn, in which his dark and satiric humour comes through on every page. Anosh Irani can’t help but infuse his fiction and plays, however dark things get, with a healthy dose of fun. Share a laugh with these four gents as they discuss humour in writing.