P 2014 - Great Canadian Comedians - souvenir sheet


P 2014 - Great Canadian Comedians - souvenir sheet
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : Photography: Courtesy Martin Short; courtesy Guimond Family; Edie Baskin (Myers); S. Granitz, Getty Images (Carrey); Jerry Avenaim (O’Hara)
Gum Type: P.V.A.
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.
Also available as:
Booklet of 10 Stamps 413949111 300,000
Face value P for PERMANENT™ domestic rate $0.85
Catalog code Canada post # 403949145
Stamp colour Multicolor
Stamp use Commemorative stamp
Print run 250,000 souvenir sheets
Issue date 29/08/2014
Designer Kosta Tsetsekas, Mike Savage, John Belisle (Signals)
Print technique Lithography in 5 colours
Printed by Canadian Bank Note
Perforation 13+
Height 95.00 mm
Width 130.00 mm
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