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| General Description : | Gum Type: P.V.A. OFDC Cancellation Location: Toronto ON Canadians are funny people – not odd (although some are), but humorous. And our comedians? They’re hilarious. Canada is the birthplace of some of entertainment’s most successful comedians by any measure (even for what’s trivial, like the number of times Canadian duo Wayne and Shuster appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show – 67, if you want to know). Our ability to make the world laugh is something we take so seriously, that we teach it. Two colleges, one in Montréal and the other in Toronto, offer post-secondary programs in comedy writing and performance. Comedy is also big business. Montréal’s internationally renowned bilingual festival, Just For Laughs, is a magnet for tourists. Canadian impresario Lorne Michaels’s Saturday Night Live in New York has remained on the air for decades, launching many Canadian comedy careers. For more than 50 years, Toronto’s Second City troupe has been a training ground for generations of comedians – and was where the sketch comedy show SCTV began. The funny people honoured in this stamp issue are some of the many Canadian comedians who keep us laughing. Mike Myers Mike Myers spent his early years in Scarborough, Ontario, where he learned to love Monty Python and Benny Hill from his father. In 1982, Myers began his career – as did so many others – by joining Toronto’s Second City ensemble. He was more precocious than his peers, earning an interview on the same day he wrote his final high school exam. From the Second City stage, Myers joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player and writer in 1989. There, he created characters such as Deiter, Lothar of the Hill People and Linda Richman. His Wayne Campbell, along with SNL cast-mate Dana Carvey’s Garth Algar, vaulted the TV sketch to the big screen with Wayne’s World in 1992 and its 1993 sequel. Myers also created, wrote, produced and starred in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, playing the groovy lead and villainous Dr. Evil. He reprised those roles, and played even more characters in the sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. More recently, Mike Myers was the voice behind the titular green ogre in the Shrek movies, and in 2013, he made his directorial debut with Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon. Photography: Edie Baskin Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; Austin Powers in Goldmember: TM/MC and © New Line Productions, Inc. |
| Face value | P for PERMANENT™ domestic rate $0.85 |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 3164 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 2772a |
| Catalog code | Canada post # 403949145; Yvert et Tellier CA 3038 |
| Series | Great Canadian Comedians |
| Stamp colour | Multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 250,000 souvenir sheet + 300,000 booklets of 10 stamps |
| Issue date | 29/08/2014 |
| Designer | Kosta Tsetsekas, Mike Savage, John Belisle (Signals) |
| Paper type | fluorescent frame |
| Print technique | Lithography in 5 colours |
| Printed by | Canadian Bank Note |
| Perforation | 13+ |
| Height | 26.00 mm |
| Width | 40.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
