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What people are saying: As usual, I am sitting at Tim Horton's sipping a coffee on a Sunday morning and grinning from ear-to-ear from the shots you take in TWAB. Too funny. I hope I never end up looking like Ted Nugent... LOL! Grinning wildly and laughing by yourself in public can be a problem, so I better stifle it. - GK, Winnipeg
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Kelly Hughes Live!Winnipeg's only live talk show, Kelly Hughes Live! brings you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities. The only difference is that you haven't heard of any of my guests, and you'll have to leave your house. So it's not that much like TV after all. For past Kelly Hughes Live! shows, click here.
Friday, February 5/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! Gets His Geek On
Friday, February 12/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! DIY
Thursday, February 18/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! Mondo!Kroetsch Friday, March 5/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! High Life
Naturally things don’t go according to plan and the unfolding catalogue of disasters that confronts Dick is enough to test any friend’s loyalties as the lovable losers bungle their way toward a pipe-dream of quick riches. Alternately tragic and hysterical, High Life’s perfect plan ends up anything but when one of the bank’s employees double-crosses them all. Set against the nostalgic back-beat of Three Dog Night, Creedence Clearwater Revival and a raft of April Wine, High Life’s highwire tension unfolds with calamitous results.
Friday, April 9/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Fest
Friday, June 25/10 7pmKelly Hughes Live! Director's Cut
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Kevin McDonald is a comedian and actor best known as a founding member of Kids in the Hall.
Nick DiChario's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. He has been nominated for two Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award. His first two novels were published by Robert J. Sawyer Books: A Small and Remarkable Life (2006) and Valley of Day-Glo (2008), and both books were nominated for the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Lovern Kindzierski's colours have appeared in many comic books, magazines and animation, including The X-men, Star Trek, Dr. Who, The New Yorker, Wired, and Sesame Street. He has been nominated as best colourist for the Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, and Schuster Awards. He has won best colourist in the Wizard Fan Awards (twice), as well as the Comic Buyers’ Guide Fan Awards. As a writer he has worked on many titles, such as Spiderman, Wolverine, and The Victorian. His writing on Tarzan garnered him a nomination for best writer in the Harvey Awards.
Chris Rutkowski is a science writer with degrees in astronomy and education. Since the
mid-1970s, he has been one of Canada's leading UFO experts. In addition to publishing eight books on the subject, Rutkowski has appeared on numerous TV programs, including Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings,
Undercurrents and The Unexplained.
Al Conroy has been making a racket under the guise of not half since 1983, using nearly everything he can get his hands on to make a sound. He is also the lead synth-blaster in local Space-Rawk legends Breath Grenades. Al has appeared on a few records, a few CDs (real, burned and even imaginary), many cassettes and has done quite a few remixes for quite a few people from quite a few countries. He composes soundtracks for local filmmaker Nik Nova and is responsible for the weekly radio show Wrongly Wired on CKUW 95.9 FM (Wednesdays, 8-10pm). Otherwise, he lives quietly in a house with his wife and three cats.
Al Simmons is a creative genius whose highly original performances of profound wackiness and off-the-wall inventions take the arts of Music and Comedy to unparalleled heights of hilarity. Something’s Fishy at Camp Wiganishie Al’s first album became an instant hit. Al’s 1995 release, Celery Stalks at Midnight won a Juno Award and his 1997 CD, The Truck I Bought From Moe earned a Parent’s Choice Award. In 2005 Al created a one-hour DVD movie called I Collect Rocks, which the Los Angeles Times describes as combining “…education with off-the-wall humor and a New Vaudevillian sense of the absurd.”
Natalie Pollock was a '60s recording star, and the host, with her brother Ron, of the classic VPW public access series Pollock and Pollock Gossip Show. She gained further fame running for mayor of Winnipeg, and for her unsuccessful lawsuit against actor Larry Linville (MASH's Frank Burns). Natalie has appeared on Donahue, Jenny Jones and the Joan Rivers Show.
Set in 1983, just after the birth of Automated Teller Machines, Winnipegger Gary Yates' High Life is a story of kinship, loyalty, and honour among thieves. In a busy downtown hospital, a visit from his former socio-pathic cellmate Bug (Stephen Eric McIntyre) has just gotten Dick fired from his job as a hospital janitor. Unemployed and in need of fast cash Dick gets the idea to rob one of the day’s brand new ATM machines, to “buy a little self-respect”, announces Dick to Bug and the team. Enter the charismatic, criminally-minded Donnie, (Joe Anderson) and the front-man, the sexy, sleepy-eyed charmer Billy, (Rossif Sutherland) and all of the pieces are in place. “It’s a precision job,” says Dick the night before the heist: “No violence.” You think?
Stephen Eric McIntyre is an actor/writer/improviser born in Regina, raised in Winnipeg and happily spending altogether too much time in Toronto. In addition to his theatre and comedy work, his credits include the films The Innate and Small Town Murder Scenes. Stephen walked away with Gary Yates' High Life as psycho ex-con Bug.
Nicholas Burns is a Winnipeg writer and artist. He has storyboarded many locally shot music videos, independent shorts, TV movies, and feature films including: The Stone Angel, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Lookout, and High Life. In addition to film work, he has written and done colouring for comics publishers such as DC, Kitchen Sink, and Marvel Comics. He has also created educational comics such as: Super Shamou, Arctic Comics, New North, and You Can Do It Too! Currently, Nicholas is creating an online educational graphic novel and several graphic novels for print.
The Paperbacks are Doug McLean, Jaret McNabb, Kevin Andrechuk, Corey Biluk and Kevin McLean. Lit From Within was released in January 2010.
Noam Gonick's film and installation work has investigated street gangs of Winnipeg, queer hippie cults, TV psychics, apocalyptic stockbrokers and prison semaphore. He has presented work at the Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, the Museum of Modern Art and the Serpentine Gallery in London.