Insight Productions And The Comedy Bar Present "Pilot Week"
The Ultimate Opportunity For Canada's Rising Television Comedy Stars
Half hour comedy pilots intended for television performed live at the COMEDY BAR!
The Top 21 Submissions have now been selected! See them performed live at the Comedy Bar during Pilot Week (August 2nd to August 8th, 2010). The Best Pilot of the Week as selected by Insight Productions will win $1,000 and be offered a development deal with Insight!
There will be live performances each night at the Comedy Bar during Pilot Week - 8pm, 9pm and 10pm... all shows are FREE!
Come on out and enjoy the shows!
"PILOT WEEK" LINE-UP!
"PUNCH IN THE BOX" - ASHLEY BOTTING - AUGUST 2nd, 8:00pm
Genre: Sketch
Short Description: Punch in the Box is a sketch show about life for women in their thirties. Shot on location, this show has the esthetic of Little Britain, the heart of Sex and the City and the sensibility that is uniquely Punch In the Box.
"BIGGS N' HARD" - AMISH PATEL - AUGUST 2nd, 9:00pm
Genre: Single Camera Mocumentary
Short Description: Biggs nÕ Hard are two, hard-nose, no nonsense detectives who have been forced to go undercover as pimps to take down the biggest and baddest criminal element Toronto's ever seen.
"BOWLING TROPHY WIVES" - LAUREN ASH - AUGUST 2nd, 10:00pm
Genre: Mock Reality Show
Short Description: Bowling Trophy Wives is a mock reality show parodying the likes of the Real Housewives series of shows. However, unlike their Orange County counterparts, these women are products of their blue collar, low income, small town existence.
"IT'S SCIENCE!" - CRAIG FAY - AUGUST 3rd, 8:00pm
Genre: News Satire
Short Description: It's Science! is a satirical science and technology show that reveals the insanity and stupidity of our world through fake theories, biased opinions, crazy demonstrations and even real science taken to a humorous extreme.
"LOON FM" - EPHRAIM ELLIS - AUGUST 3rd, 9:00pm
Genre: Single Camera
Short Description: When he is unceremoniously fired from his job as assistant programming manager at a popular Toronto radio station, Mark Gibson's only recourse is to take on a position at a struggling Muskoka public radio station Ð Loon FM. In this single-camera comedy, Mark settles into his new life and does his best to revitalize the station while dealing with the station's bizarre staff.
"THE FULL BAWDY COMEDY SHOW" - SHELLEY MARSHALL - AUGUST 3rd, 10:00pm
Genre: Variety
Short Description: The Full Bawdy Comedy Show is a vaudevillian variety show that celebrates the diversity of comedy through sketch, standup, circus and song featuring original material from the funniest and raciest-gals this country has to offer.
"HOLY SHIT WE'RE IN THE FUTURE!" - RYAN HEALY - AUGUST 4th, 8:00pm
Genre: Single-Camera
Short Description: In 1987, at the peak of their fame and fortune, a hair metal band's tour bus crashes on an icy mountain peak and the band is frozen in ice and perfectly preserved. 13 years later they're stumbled upon by a climber and thawed out in what they consider to be the future, and must try to cope with life in 2010 while clinging to the decadent lifestyle they once enjoyed.
"STAND-UP SHOWDOWN" - CRAIG BROWN - AUGUST 4th, 9:00pm
Genre: Competitive Stand-up
Short Description: 4 Stand-Up Comics. 3 Topics. 1 Judge. All New Material! Come watch as 4 brave comedians face off against each other doing brand new material based on topics they were given one week before the show. Who will bomb? Who will write gold? Only one way to find out - come to the show!
"SINGLE MOM" - PRECIOUS CHONG - AUGUST 4th, 10:00pm
Genre: Single-Camera
Short Description: A whirlwind romance and shotgun wedding with a handsome (if dopey), Canadian actor, finds L.A. actress, Penelope, divorced, with a 4 year old, living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Penelope is surprised to find people are so helpful when she drops the "single mom" card, but her bubble bursts when her ex becomes engaged to Sally, also an actress and new rival to her son's affections.
"ADrageous" - TAL ZIMERMAN - AUGUST 5th, 8:00pm
Genre: Sketch
Short Description: ADrageous is a half-hour sketch comedy show, focusing on the advertising world, as seen through the highly satirical lens of Canadian Comedy Award and Bessie (Canadian advertising) Award winner Tal Zimerman.
"THE STRAIGHT MAN" - BRUCE PIRRIE - AUGUST 5th, 9:00pm
Genre: Single Camera
Short Description: The Straight Man is a single-camera comedy about the personal and professional adventures of one half of a comedy duo who has to start his career all over again when his fatter, funnier partner dies. The reading will feature the talents of Marty Adams, Kate Ashby, Bob Derkach, Kerry Griffin, Reid Janisse, and Bruce Pirrie among others.
"GO TRACEY GO!" - KATHLEEN PHILLIPS - AUGUST 5th, 10:00pm
Genre: Sitcom
Short Description: Six months after landing her first (and only) acting gig in a high profile spot for SOUR JELL-O, Tracey St. Sinclair has hit rock bottom. But this sputtering, cock-eyed go getter is made of rubber and with the help of a few friends and charmed young casting director, Tracey is set to bounce back in super stupid way!
"TEAM DREAM" - PETER STEVENS - AUGUST 6th, 8:00pm
Genre: Single Camera Mocumentary
Short Description: A team of dreamers set out to "save" people from their mediocre lives by forcing them to have adventures. It always ends in disaster.
"TRIPLE EH!" - BOB BANKS - AUGUST 6th, 9:00pm
Genre: Sitcom
Short Description: Some hockey parents think hockey = life, and others think of it as just another activity to distract the kids with. Triple Eh! is a sitcom about the daily life of the others!
"AND NOW, SPORTS!" - NORM SOUSA & BRENDAN HALLORAN - AUGUST 6th, 10:00pm
Genre: Sports/News
Short Description: And Now, SPORTS! is a satirical look at the culture of sports. Headlines from the week and events that shape the world of sports are picked apart and destroyed by Brendan Halloran and his team of correspondents, all played by Norm Sousa.
"SHOWGAME" - MIKE ÒNUGÓ NAHRGANG - AUGUST 7th, 8:00pm
Genre: Game Show
Short Description: SHOWGAME is a live game show where contestants are chosen from the audience to participate in games of skill, trivia and complete unfairness to take home the grand prize! Also, two local stand-up comics join the fun to compete for stage time! Even audience members can win prizes! But you can't win if you're not in! SHOWGAME: we provide the game, you provide the show.
"THE LIFEGUARDS BUDDY" - PAT THORNTON - AUGUST 7th, 9:00pm
Genre: Single Camera
Short Description: The Lifeguard's Buddy follows a lifeguard and his "buddy", a weird guy who hangs out at the pool all day and gets himself too involved in pool staff politics.
"THE PETE ZEDLACHER SHOW STARRING SCOTT MONTGOMERY" - PETE ZEDLACHER - AUGUST 7th, 10:00pm
Genre: Scripted Reality Show
Short Description: Pete and Scott, the subjects of this scripted reality show, are successful Canadian comedians who've avoided fame...until now. Two Comics, One Dream, No Clue.
"EGG ZEPPELIN" - MARCEL ST. PIERRE/ KRIS SIDDIQI FOR SHORTWEIRD PRODUCTIONS - AUGUST 8th, 8:00pm
Genre: Sitcom
Short Description: Meet Dude and Man, the owner/operators of Egg Zeppelin, a dilapidated greasy spoon in small-town-anywhere. All-day-breakfast goes electric in this comedy-music-mash-up that blends eggs and bacon and a 'Whole Lotta Love'.
"THE BULL HOOEY SHOW" - CRAIG BROWN - AUGUST 8th, 9:00pm
Genre: Sketch
Short Description: The Bull Hooey Show is a high-energy sketch/variety show, with comedy, music and video. Inessa Frantowski (Death Comes to Town, Hotbox) and Craig Brown (Testees, Harriet the Spy) present a hilarious half-hour dedicated to life and how silly it really can be.
"UP AND DOWN" - ALEX HATZ - AUGUST 8th, 10:00pm
Genre: Single Camera
Short Description: Alan, a lovelorn computer technician, and Rick, a rude and crude forty-something mail boy, are stuck on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder and scheming their way up, as they ride the elevators in, Up and Down.
Go to www.comedybar.ca/pilotweek.php to see Rules and Release Form.
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