Comedy Factory from CBC Radio

Comedy Factory from CBC Radio

CBC Radio knows that if a joke's worth telling, it's worth repeating. The Comedy Factory collects our favourite skits, commentaries and funny bits that appeared on CBC Radio over the past week. It's an assembly line of humour, safety-tested and priced to move!

6 Episodes of this Podcast:

Hallowieners "Nov. 5, 2009"

Published: 2009-11-05 03:00:00

We've got a scary piece on sexy Halloween costumes, a sexy piece on the H1N1 vaccine lineups, and a funny piece on our scary environment. The host is ambushed in the studio, not unlike our Parliamentarians who were ambushed by all those climate-change protestors. And we find out if news anchors really talk that way when they're just conversing.

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"The Podcast: Mock II" October 29, 2009

Published: 2009-10-29 04:00:00

Following in the steps of CBC Newsworld, we're ushering in sweeping changes. Really. We bought a new broom. We look at how global warming will be reported in the future, how Stephen Harper celebrated Halloween in the past, and how Diane Flacks has changed her language since becoming a mom. And we tried to find humour in an already hilarious true story: the Colonel Sanders impersonator who breached United Nations security.

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"GravitAss" Oct. 22 2009

Published: 2009-10-22 04:00:00

This week's show features the lighter-than-air comedy of the Heene family. Margaret Atwood brings her usual light-hearted approach to the world of fashion, and the randy young residents of a west coast ski resort get down.We explain how a 20-year veteran of TV comedy decided to bare all for Playboy. Patrick Ledwell gets red in the face over Facebook.

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"Kids These Days!" Oct. 15, 2009

Published: 2009-10-15 04:00:00

Kids these days do the darndest things. Like writing and performing an hilarious one-hour radio special about Thanksgiving. The kids are Hot Thespian Action, and we've got excerpts from their new CBC Radio special. Then we find out you can travel to the farthest corners of space...and still not get away from clowns. Canada's Olympic athletes find a germophobic saviour, and we revisit a bedtime tale from the 2008 campaign trail.

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Testar Talks Turkey

Published: 2009-10-08 04:00:00

Jane Testar serves up a table full of reality television, gluten-free comedy from Patrick Ledwell, a devilish treat and opens the Comedy Vault to celebrate avoiding another election. For desert, some shameless self promotion. You'll gobble it up! The CBC ban on thanksgiving puns has not yet come into effect. Turkey turkey, gobble gobble.

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"Utterly Nutty" Oct. 1, 2009

Published: 2009-10-01 04:00:00

... or perhaps "Unusual Nincompoops". For one day last week, "U.N." stood for anything but "United Nations," aad we were there in the green room, as two foreign orators prepared to make their speeches. We also found a preview of Sarah Palin's new book, and a tape of Elections Canada's new ad explaining how seriously we should take these election rumours. Diana Frances returns to the factory explain why all the good men are taken.

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