Talk:Canadian Comedy Awards

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Reidgreg in topic Regarding bolding of The Beaver in lead

Untitled

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Is this limited to English comedy or does it include French comedy? --moyogo 12:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Accuracy

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This page and IMDB's page do not match with the official page for the 2002 film awards. I think this is a mistake, but if so where did these wrong winners come from?--Supernumerary 16:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Lists and updating

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Lots of lists of winners in this article. Could be trimmed or split into separate list article(s).

The formatting is inconsistent in places (winners in italics vs capitals).

The different levels don't look good on mobile (numbered vs not, not enough whitespace).

Many redlinks in the lists.

Lists and prose are missing for later years.

I'm not confident on the rules or how-to, otherwise I'd make the changes myself! Zelik the Weak (talk) 13:06, 30 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Curious about eligibility

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Are only Canadians eligible, even in non-Canadian productions and shared credits? Eugene Levy won best writing for Best in Show in 2001 and A Mighty Wind in 2004. He co-wrote both with British-American Christopher Guest. I'm guessing Guest was ineligible but it seems odd to list only Levy, implying he wrote both by himself. I wonder if there's another way to list this, or add a note, as someone may see this, click on the film, and see that each film was co-written by Guest and Levy. freshacconci (✉) 15:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Freshacconci: The awards have a mandate "To recognize, celebrate and promote Canadian achievements in comedy at home and abroad." What this generally means is that nominees for a CCA must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants, have been born in Canada or have produced the majority of their work in Canada. Additionally, the eligibility period is determined by when a work was released in Canada.
That's an interesting point. Levy can still win for best writing as a co-writer. We're just reporting who gets the award, but maybe we could make a note of that somewhere with the eligibility rules. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Lists of most wins

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I've removed the lists of 'most wins' from the article. It hasn't been updated in 10 years and it's not an easy thing to track. For example, it's difficult to source who was in a comedy troupe in the particular year that an award was won. I would applaud anyone who is willing to do the work, though maybe it should be limited to the top ten winners in any particular field. I've preserved the lists (which were completely unsourced) below. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:01, 7 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Lists of most wins

Most successful shows

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The TV shows which have had the most success at the Canadian Comedy Awards are:

Most successful groups

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The groups/troupes with the most Canadian Comedy Award wins are:

Most successful individuals

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People with the most wins (eight)

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People with three wins or more

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Many others have also won several awards. The following people have won at least three awards:

Seven wins
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  • Mary Walsh - 8 awards, including six for This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Best Female TV Performance (2000), Best Writing - TV Series (2000–2002), Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (2000 and 2003)), Best Female Film Performance for Rare Birds in 2002 and the Dave Broadfoot Award in 2009.* Cathy Jones - 7 awards for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, including Best Female TV Performance (2001 and 2003), Best Writing - TV Series (2000–2002) and Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (2000 and 2003).
  • Rick Mercer - 7 awards, for Best Male TV Performance (Made in Canada, 2000 and 2002), Best Writing - TV Series (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 2000–2002; Made in Canada, 2003), and Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 2000).
Six wins
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Five wins
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  • Brent Butt - Five awards, including Best Male Stand-up (2001), Best Male TV Performance (Corner Gas, 2004–2005) and Best Writing - TV Series (Corner Gas, 2004 and 2007).
  • Eugene Levy - Five awards, including two for Best Writing - Film (Best in Show in 2001 and A Mighty Wind in 2004) and three for Best Male Film Performance (Best in Show, American Pie 2 in 2002 and A Mighty Wind).
  • Paul Mather - Five awards, for Best Writing - TV Series (This Hour Has 22 Minutes 2001–2002) and Corner Gas (2004 and 2007), and Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (This Hour Has 22 Minutes 2003).
  • Greg Thomey - Five awards, all for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, including Best Writing - TV Series (2000–2002) and Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (2000 and 2003).
  • Kevin White - Five awards, including Best Writing - TV Series (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 2001–2002 and Corner Gas, 2007) and Best Writing - TV Special or Episode (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 2003 and 2007).
Four wins
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Three wins
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Regarding bolding of The Beaver in lead

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@JHunterJ: Hi! You recently changed The Beaver → the Beaver on first mention in the lead. I'm not a fan of excessive bold and I appreciate your good-faith edit. However, in this case, I feel that bold is justified. "The Beaver" is an alternate title to refer to the awards collectively and to the trophy. DAB pages link here from The Beaver (disambiguation) and Beaver Award. Emboldening of such terms is recommended by MOS:BOLDSYN and MOS:BOLDREDIRECT. As for the capitalization of the, MOS:THECAPS recommends to follow common usage, and I was trying to follow sources, e.g.: The Toronto Star, The Charlatan. What do you think? – Reidgreg (talk) 13:34, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

I did verify that nothing with "Beaver" in the title redirected to the awards. I've no issue with restoring the bolding to "Beaver", but I don't see any reason to capitalize "The" since the sources are inconsistent: Now, Yahoo!. Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:01, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
@JHunterJ: I guess that's fair since Academy Awards has the Oscars. (In fact, now that I look, it's lower-case in the body.) Thanks! I'll try and keep that consistent moving forward with related articles. – Reidgreg (talk) 14:49, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply